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perhaps 30 Christian Jews, he might
tian Jews or 300 Christian Jests or
have put it over, but when he speaks of 30(1,0(10 Christian Jews he has
really bitten off too big a mouthful. One can only sit back and laugh
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A Soliloquy.

and from dear ones,
Ire railed from home

We dwelt on each look and each sigh.
We lingered azehile on the threshold,
And dreaded to utter good-hue;
Powerless to turn from the threshold-
L'nable to utter good-bye.

Ire passed from our youth into manhood.
Who dwelt on each day and each hour,
on the threshold,
1 171 . , lingered awhile
And gathered thus manifold power!
it' lingering azehile on the threshold,
To girVle himself with its power.

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Much publicity has been given to the little tempest that has been
brewing in the Free Synagogue, New York City, since the gifted occu-
reach pant of its pulpit—Dr. Stephen S. Wise-recently expressed in no un-
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must
certain way his opinion of Judge Gary and other industrial leaders who
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Ediforial Contributor agree with hint in his social theories. Rumor has it that so bitter was the
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resentment among some of the supporters of the -Free Synagogue that
of interest to they immediately handed in their resignations, while Dr. Wise himself
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects
of the
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement
suggested that if his freedom of speech was to be curtailed by the will
the
of anything approaching a majority of his members, he himself •was
views expressed by the writers.
willing to step down front the pulpit that Ise had occupied since the
organization of the congregation.
Undoubtedly, there is a vast difference of opinion as to the matter
of freedom of speech in the pulpit. It goes without saying that no self-
In another part Of this paper will be found the memorandum of a respecting preacher of religion will permit himself to be muzzled in his
conference called jointly by the President of the Ct1ntral Conference of utterances by those of his constituents who are afraid of their own
American Rabbis and the official representatives of the so-called "Chris- shadows. If the pulpit is to be effective at all, it must be free in every
tian Americanization Department of the Protestant Episcopal Church," sense of the term. If it is to take its place as On opinion-forming
series of resolutions presented as a result of that con- agency, it cannot frame its words to suit the convictions or the preju-
together with a
ference and unanimously adopted by the House of Deputies and the dices of those to whom it addresses its message. The pulpit must lead
House of Bishops of the National Episcopal Convention now in session. and not follow. If it does less than this, it cannot lie said to be efficient
And yet, few will deny that freedom of speech should be limited by
The importance of the action taken by the General Convention in
ma
this matter can scarcely be overestited.
In itself, any effort that good judgment as well as by good taste. There is a suspicion that some
ganization to Christianize the Jew men—unquestionably honest its their convictions—are given to ex-
might be put forth by a church or
would be of comparatively little significance. As has been pointed out pressing extreme views bearing upon social, economic, and political
io
time and time again, with very few exceptns,
tose whom the church problems, in a manner that is utterly misleading. Without knowing
of people whose departure whether this has been the case with Dr. Wise or not in the particular
has won from Judaism have been the sort
instance cited, we have a notion that resentment on the part of his
represents no loss to us.
Of real importance, however, was it to make clear not only to the members was due less to what he said about Judge Gary than to the

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We parted from truth and from virtue.
Why Medi WC On sorry:), and sin,
Not lingering awhile on the threshold,
Ignoring the rush and the din?
To linger awhile on the threshold,
stranger to sorrow and
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The death scene is shrouded in sorrow;
We dwell on each look and each sigh.
They linger awhile on the threshold,
They whisper, they gasp and they die.
Their lingering is vain on the threshold,
As rain is each tear and each sigh.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919—TISHRI 30, 5680

A Step Toward Unity •

Episcopalians but to the Christian world in general,

that Americaniza- manner in which he said it.

'Tis seldom we pause at the moment
When caution should mark every tread;
Unwarily crossing each threshold
Till hope of retreating has fled,
Continuing to leap every threshold
Till Sope and redemption are dead.

ENOCli

melts.

1, 1918. 'rile Jews were in a quandary.I one of the leaders of Poland's ties-
Ideas, as those which guide the po- tittles, organized the boycott against
the Jews. Only in this way can We
litical views of a new country like ,
the United States or of a country understand the unparalleled brutality
On a Jewish
where the citizenship has in course of of the Pinsk pogrom.
time become homogeneous like Italy, I Sabbath, April 15, 1919, a number of
are not applicable to eastern Europe. respectable and peaceful Jewish citi.
There religion, language and historic zees were assembled in what in
antecedents form a distinctive nation- American language may be called a
neighborhood house, to discuss the
at character. The Jews could neither ,
be l'oles nor Ruthenians without be- distribution of relief - furnished by the
ing considered allies of the enemy American relief committee. A major
by the other side, and without bring- of the regular l'olish army raided the
vengeance upon their brethren in place, arrested all assembled, march-
ing
he ed them
t t h behind the Catholic
, ( 1 1 e i t! . to
.cti spot
flri. o
i
1 i ie , g y t a
a i '1: 1 to
church and shot 35 of them. This
r n
ta oiin lie neutral,
t remain
parties, Poles .and Ruthenians, the number is in some reports raised to
recognition as such. Guided by offi- 37, in others to 56. The names of the
errs who were seasoned by four years 35 were transmitted by cable. Most
of experience in the Austrian army, of them have near relatives in this
they staked off a neutral territory, country who are known as peaceful
organized a police force for the pro- citizens, so that the claim of a Bid-
tection of this neutral zone against shevist plot to overthrow the present
is but a thin excuse for
maurauders, and observed strict neu- government
trality in the fight between- the two wanton murder.
in-
nationalities, in spite of numerous
A Tricky Defense,

disturbance, it is un-
in all fairness be
In these days of social unrest and economic .
it said, the delegates to the Episcopal Convention, and in particular the questionably the duty of men who have the public ear, to consider their
words very carefully, and to weigh all sides of a question in which the
representatives of the Christian Americanization movement were only
too ready to grant our every contention along this line. Indeed, so common weal is intimately wrapped up. All of this we say with no
thought either of criticising or of justifying Dr. Wise in his position.
eager were they to set themselves right in the eyes of the Jew, once his
case had been sanely and dispassionately presented to them, that not He is amply able to take care of himself. But we do believe that the
only did they pass the resolution cited, but they arranged to eliminate incident, regrettable as it is, should serve as an admonition to younger
men in the pulpit to heed the advice of that ancient teacher its Israel,
from the handbook containing "The General Survey of the Needs and
Activities of. the Episcopal Church for the Year 1919," that chapter who said: "Ye wise men be cautious of your words."
bearing upon missionary activities among Jews. More effective in this
as in other matters of similar purport, than hundreds of protest meet-
stances of suspicious "misunderstand-
ings in which, as a rule, emotionalism drowns out sanity, is a calm,
The claim that the victims of the
The drive for funds for the Patriotic Fund and the Community ings" of which Jews became the vie-
well-reasoned presentation of the facts at issue to men who mean to
Union will soon he upon us. As citizens proud of Detroit and wishing tims. Filially on Friday, Nov. 22. the slaughter of I'insk were Bolshevists
, rep -
Poles became masters of the sittia- is refuted by Baruch Zuckerman
be just in their attitude, however mistaken they may have been.
Rel f
to do our full share in support of every civic movement making for the tion, the Jewish guard was disarmed, resentative of the American
ie
We feel that the Central Conference of American Rabbis in adjust-
betterment of the community, we should need no urging to participate and a regular massacre began which Committee, who called this meeting
ing this situation so speedily and so amicably, has rendered a real
to the fullest extent of our ability in the gathering of the live and a was continued on the next day. Mur- to devise means for distributing local
service to the cause of American Jewry. The fact that the Episcopal
quarter million dollars which is set as the minimum required to carry der, pillage and arson were the sport relief. It is admitted by the bishop
Church has gone on record not only as understanding that the processes
with which the victorious troops were of the diocese that a "mistake" has
on the social and philanthropic activities of our city until the end of entertained. "The boys were to have been made. It is admitted that be-
of Christianization and of Americanization are very different, but as
a good time" after three weeks of tween the arrest and the actual kill-
being appreciative of the splendid patriotism of the American Jew, will o the year 1920.
But as Jews, the Patriotic Fund this year has a special call to us. hard fighting. The most atrocious in-I ing of people, who were unarmed and
have a tar-reaching influence upon other Christian denominations wh of
resistance, only 70 ruin-
\Ve are asking for large sums of money out of the funds to be gathered cident was the setting on fire of a offered no e.
ski, a Jew-
lapserd of N
t
have made the conversion of the Jew, tacitly or avowedly, a part
oah
PrilutParliament ,
for specifically Jewish purposes. Undoubtedly, these funds will be synagogue filled with worshippers. I testa
he
Polish
who
believed
that
the
Poles,
proud
of
ish
em
their program of Americanization.
forthcoming from the general community. But what Jew who is self-
their Catholic religion," was hissed and dragged from the
However, as stated its these columns last week, the very action of
to
their loyalty
of his people; what would
respect this place. Members platform when he tried to discuss the
respecting; what Jew who cares for the good name
the Episcopal Church is a challenge to the Jew himself. \Vhile the Jew
of
the
leading
classes
of the Polishatrocity in open session. A commis-
Jew to whom duty is a sacramental term, would care to take out of the
• sion was appointed to investigate the
in most of our great cities has not been remiss in doing what lay in his
general funds of the community for purposes essentially Jewish, more population, including many women.' case on the spot. but Jewish journal-
enjoyed from a distance the beautiful
power to speed the Americanization movement among our immigrant
than the Jewish community as a whole contributes to those funds:
spectacle of the fire and the enchant- ists who joined the commission were
co-religionists, the fact now stands out that there rests upon us an
Ott the contrary, we wish to give more—much more—than we take ing music of the cries of the agonized denied passoprts. Under these con-
unquestioned obligation to direct our efforts its no uncertain way to the
victims. The Nettes Wiener Journal ditions it appears that Padereswski's
out of the ttal
o budget, for as others not of our faith shall help to of Feb. 14, 1919. gives the number of offer of a commission, appointed by
deepening of the spirit of Americanism among those of our people who
institutions through their gifts, so we shall want to do
dead as 73 and the number of wound-, President %Vilson, is not made bona
come to these shores, seeking here to build a tune for themselves and maintain our
for organizations other than our own and especially for those great ed as 443, of whom 71 are children.
tide.
,The Case of Vilna and Other Cities.
their children.
non-sectarian, humanitarian organizations which are among the bene-
The Ruthenian Side.
Indeed, it seems possible that in a national campaign, looking to the
As Poles clashed ten t L'krainians
ficiaries, our full and whole-hearted duty.
Speaking broadly, the Ruthenians ill Lemberg, so they clashed with
Americanization of the foreign-born, Jew and Christian may well link
In a sense, the Jew is on trial at this time. Will he measure up to are more friendly to the Jews than
Lithuanians in Vilna. The details are
hands. Unquestionably, the Jew can do most effective work among his the full heights of loyal and unselfish citizenship? We believe he will.
the l'oles, although the Jews, repre- - as yet unknown. Some reports give
fellow Jews. The tittles challenge him to leave no effort in this three- I le who does not do so will deserve the scorn and the contempt of his seating the merchant and profession the number of victims as over 2.000,
' tion untried. If we lie down at our task, we shall have no right to fellow-Jews that will undoubtedly be visited upon him.
al classes, were in Galicia siding with others place it at 200, adding that
the l'oles and in Russia with the Rus- 3,000 were exiled. A conservative re-
criticize the non-Jew for attempting to do that which was our duty to
sians, even in Ukrainian territory. port says that 55, most of them chit-
do and which we neglected or in which we failed.
The Ukrainian leaders, however, feel dren under 12 years of age, were
Altogether different is the question of the attempted conversion of
the need of a merchant and proles- buried in the Jewish cemetery, while
the Jew to Christianity. After all, it is the business of the church, as
sional class, and therefore arrived many were buried on the spot where
from Si,.- start at an understanding they had been killed. Numerous other
its devotees put it, "to win souls for Christ." None the less, we are
f
with the Jews to whom group rights cities are mentioned as theater
entirely convinced that as a result of the conferences that have been
were granted and who individually atrocities on a smaller scale. It is
held between the representatives of the Central Conference of American
were trusted with prominent posi- useless to give names which are un-
Rabbis and of the Department of Christian Americanization, the efforts
tions in the new republic. The masses known to an American public, but of
are evidently not equally broad, as the fact there can be no doubt.
along this line will be very greatly minimized, if not abrogated alto-

tion is one thing and Christianization quite another.

The Patriotic Fund

gether.
But here, too, is a challenge to the Jew. If there are Jews—and
who shall deny the fact—who have altogether broken with the synagog
and with Jewish tradition, it is our duty either to win back their alle-
giance or to hold our peace, if others—honestly convinced that they can
make self-respecting human beings out of them—try to win them to

other allegiances.
Indeed, we hold that to win the Jew back to Judaism is our first
duty if we wish to save him from moral anarchy. To this our Christian
brethren are fully agreed. If any work along church lines is to be done
by them, it will not be among those who are true to the traditions of
people, we need have
our faith. If we do our part among our OW11
little fear for the missionaries of any faith. All in all, the threatened
misunderstanding between our Episcopalian friends and ourselves may
have had in it the germ of great good. In the first place, it may have
awakened the Jew to a sense of his own responsibility to the Jew ; and
in the second place, it may have helped forward, by a step at least, a
better understanding of the Jew at the hands of his Christian neighbor.

AN HISTORICAL REVIEW
OF THE JEWS IN POLAND

would appear natural in a backward
people. This accounts for the massa-
cres in Ukraine, notably in Prosku-
rov. Feb. 15. 1919, where 400 families
are said to have been exterminated.
Similar reports come from Stryj.
Tarnopol and other cities of Galicia,
as well as from the Russian province
of Podolia.

BY DR. GOTTHARD DEUTSCH.

Of Philadelphia.
(Written for The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.)

(Continued From Last Week.)

Under severe mental stress people
cannot be expected to he accurate in
figures. The town of Austin, I'a., was
flooded by the bursting of a dam, Sep-
tember 30, 1911. On the first day, fol-
lowing the catastrophe, the papers
reported "900 of the inhabitants are
known to have perished." On the
fourth day we learned, the total
number of known dead stands at 38."

Another Fairy Tale

A second Baron NInnchausen has arisen its our very midst. Scarcely
was the ink dry on the complimentary resolutions passed by the General
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, referred to in another
before the Women's Home Nlis-
editorial in this issue, when, speakims
b
sionary Society of the Methodist Church,
one \I r. Einspruch, an Aus-
trian sprung from Jewish stock, made some very remarkable statements
to an audience of women assembled in the Central Methodist Church

of this city.
Reading his words, some might say that he was gifted with a glorious
imagination and that he was a romancer of the first order. Others not
prone to use fine rhetoric or to indulge in euphemisms, might charac-
terize him by a shorter and uglier word. Influenced no doubt by the
sane declaration of the Episcopalians. \l r. Einspruch was careful to
speak only of those Jews who had definitely broken with the synagog
made the statement that such Jews, unless they affiliate with the
when he
church, one and all, become leaders of Bolshevism and anarchy.
Even this statement might pass with those who are not critical of
the truth, but when the gentleman begins to quote figures, even the
most callous must surely be staggered by them. Someone has said that
figures never lie but men who figure may be awful liars. Of course,
make no personal application of this remark, but we call attention

One must not forget that murder
on a large scale will create a notch
greater excitement, and therefore the
occasional exaggeration in the num-
ber of victims is not due, as the apol-
ogists of Poland like to make it, to
an intention of blackening the repu-
tation of a nation struggling for in-
dependence. An Associated l'ress dis-
patch of Nov. 29, 1918, reported that
in the course of pogroms perpetrated
in Lemburg, Nov. 22 and 24, 1,100
Jews lost their lives. A correspond-
ent to the London Times, Dec. 23,
claims that these figures were greatly
exaggerated and he presents the
whole incident as a political contest
due to the demand of the Jews for
recognition as a separate nationality
and to their hostility to the inde-
pendence of Poland.

we

to the fact that Mr. Einspruch—according to newspaper reports—made
the astounding statement that in Austria, his native country, there are
21'5,000 Christian Jews, while the city of Chicago harbors 300,000 of

the sante sort.
One would scarcely expect even one of the ilk of converted Jews
represented by Mr. Einspruch to give quite such free rein to his imagi-
nation. Had he said that in the city of Chicago there are 3,000 Chris-

Lemberg.
The city of Lemberg, the capital of
the former Austrian province of Ga-
licia, is the center of a Ruthenian
(now usually called Ukrainian) ter-
ritory. As the capital of the prov-
ince, and because of its importance
otherwise, the population is predom-
inantly Polish. The Poles, possess-
ing the political control, filled the
city with Polish officials, and, be-
sides, they stand culturally higher
than the Ukrainians and therefore
predominate in professions, commerce
and industry, even in Ruthenian dis-
tricts, possessing further, owing to
absentee landlordism, dating from
feudal times, the control of the land-
ed estates.
So the city of Lemburg has 50 per
cent l'oles, 50 per cent Jews and 20
per cent Ruthenians. The latter, with
the support Of the surrounding coun-
try population, occupied the city Nov.

What Are the Facts.

Eastern Galicia is Ruthenian. The
Ruthenians arc a Slavic race, speak-
ing the Little Russian language, a
dialect akin to the Russian, and most
of them belong to the Greek Ortho-
dox Church. although one section, the
Uniats, recognize the supremacy of
the pope. They are both in language
and religion different from the Poles.
and, to some extent, from the Rus-
sians. The poles suppressed them,
and for centuries they were lighting
for their independence. On such oc-
casions, notably in the Cossack rebel-
lion of 1648, the Jews were the main
victims. History repeated itself after
270 years in a remarkably accurate
manner.

Testimony.

Pinsk.

The most convenient excuse of the
Polish leaders is that excesses are
apt to happen in times of excitement,
that they happen in the United States
in days of political strife, in times of
labor trouble, and even independently
in race riots. Without wishing to ex-
cuse any act of lawlessness, the mat-
ter is different because in Poland we
are confronted with a policy of ex-
termination which uses mob violence,
if not as direct means for that pur-
pose, then at least as a method of so
intimidating the Jews that they will
emigrate. It is a policy of the Czar's
underlings with a democratic pose.
The proof was furnished by Roman
Dmovsky, who said in a conversation
with Louis Marshall that there were
not enough crumbs to feed both the
Jews and the Poles, and so the for-
mer will have to be forced out, for
which purpose Mr. Dinovsky, now

Neutral countries, like Sweden and
Holland, where the means of obtain-
ing direct and reriable information
are much better than in this coun-
try, have voiced protests; so has the
city council of Stockholm and the
Pre,i,lelet
First Chamber of Holland.
as-
Wilson found it necessary to pi,e
surance that the treaty with Poland
would contain guarantees "against
discrimination on religious and is-.
cial grounds, especially with reference
to the Jews." (Associated( Press, May
27, 1919.) Colonel Wedgewood mad,.
of Nil
the incident of Vilna the subject
interpollation in the House of Oen-
'not
mons (May 28). Ex-President

said in the Philadelphia Ledger:
"Philadelphia.—The earnest el' .,t
of the Jews of the United State. •
r •
induce our executive to reined ,'
intolerable condition of their co-r
,
ionists in the backward countrn

Europe has often been met and
feated by the argument that our
ernment can not interfere with
domestic affairs of another na,
This argument has little if any s;
cation to the present situation.
"There is notch evidence acs''
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