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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

The Jew and the
Christian After the War

By HON. T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.

OIL first thing for the Jew to do
in order to reach everywhere
his proper plane among the
races of the world, is to get himself
understood and realized. I know no
more grotesque or stupid contrast in
the estimates of the world than the
ordinary and outside portrait of the
Jew, and the Jew as he really is. This
is the popular estimate: Every hew
is rich; ever , Jew is hard; every Jew
is avaricious. every Jew is clannish
and sectanan. The realities are
First. as a race. the leiws are poor;
secon dl y , nn..t Jews are sympathetic
to every steer of suffering and wrong;
and third, Jews are the most gener-
ous givers to all good causes in the

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world; and fourth. no Christian com-
munity is so free from the spirit of
sectarianism. All these qualities of
the real Jew were symbolised and
epitomised in one great Jew, \I r. F.

D. iIocatta. •
A rabbi told me that once he went
to \1 r. Mocatta for a subscription to
a Jew ish charity. NIL \lot. alta 1(1111
of
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his income every year to charity—
half to Jewish and half to n o n Jew-

Sectarianism in nationality ought
also to perish with this war. You
may be surprised to hear that I, who
have all my life been an ardent
Nationalist fighting for the nation-
ality of my own country, should at
the same time claim to be, and have
always been, an Internationalist as
well. I stand still by nationality as
one of the greatest and hest forces of
the world. livery nation, like every
individual, has its own qualities and
hip...yin:rash's, and the freer play
given to the development of each,
the hotter not only for the nation
itself as for the individual itself, but
also every other nation and every
other individual.. There are two
conceptions of the universe, which,
in order to avoid party terms, I may
describe as reactionary and progres-
sive. In the reactionary conception
each nation lives for itself, should lie
surrounded by a wall of exclusion
from the other nations of the world
—a wall of tariffs or a wall of arm-
ies and fleets—and should be all-
sufficient tubs itself. The progres-
s ive conception of the universe is
that difference of soil and climate
have coven to each nation special
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tain prthinct..n.: that each nation is
doing its •lie , ,t f by concen-

ish organizations; that already he had
exhausted the half entitled for the
Jews, and that he could not give any
more without diminishing the halt trating its ate I e,•!,o u the develop-
have
for the Christians: awl he asked the ment of these I, .e•, s which
rabbi to postpone his demand till the been bestowed lift,. It by the unerr-
ing hand of inot.. , • . , m1 that each
'lest year.
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" \Vhat shall I give"'
tell hint what I thought, but he III
sisted, and then- haying enter.,1 lo-
office with the intention of • • '
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something like

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as Inv °syn. Sal el etl the words
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to rue. 'The lady did head the solo
scription list with the money I
for her, and every penny of tha•

money was Jewish.

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the cause of Ireland, the . 1 ,
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but
me large subscriptions.
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Mr. Julius Rosenwald, ; i lthoujjli al- 1111011V • 11 111 , '
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ready Ile hail given literally hundreds .1111.' 1,i thi-c nio uis that
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world
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of thousands of pounds to charities
all the
(had out
in connection w ith the men of his the
crimes ,
oche! a ti, horrors and
own faith.
war.
I have rarely seen a Jewish will If the

that did not contain large subscrip-
tions to Christian as well as Jewish
charities. The Jews keep up their
owyn charities entirely nut of the
funds supplied by their ow i people.
and yet that does not prevent them
from giving largely to the charities
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MOST MODERN FACTORY
IN WORLD FOR CADILLAC
SAYS R. H. COLLINS

as rapid as the development

of other creeds.

how many Christian kills contain
any bequest for a Jewish

It is to be regretted that
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like Zangwill and Samuel
give to the outer world the picture ot
Jewry front the inside and to make
other creeds realize all the splendid
qualities of your race; and I hope
that new newish writers will arise to
help inn this work. I am a Mall of
letters, ;mil regard literature as the

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of enclosed body types has
been, Buick designers have
not lost sight of the fact that
some owners still prefer to
drive Buick open cars the year-
'round. The Buick interpre-
tation of their needs is seen in
the Buick open models for
three, five and seven passengers.
The durable, weatherproof
top, overlapping curtains that
open with the doors, and the
rain-proof windshield offer pro-

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greatest of all weapons in the en-
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richment of mankind.
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are just and impartial, and ii once n .
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you get your race before that tribunal
then its real finalities ‘‘ ill be under -

stood by all mankind.

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I want to make a plea against sec-
tarianism, and sectarianism under its
three different heads: the sectarian- ,
ism of creed; the sectarianism of
class; and the sectarianism of na-

(ion. The p o int I h ave a l ways trfrd

in all I hate said—to keep insisting
on—is that different religious com-
munions should concern •themselves1
more outside their owls
on religious life,1
and, while adhering loyally to their ,
own religious con lions, to dwell
more on the points of agreement •
Uo
than on the points ..t .thierenee.

unto others as you would they should
do unto you, is, after all, the slim.
ming up of all morality, and that is
a dm- trine which is held firmly by
every Christian community and ht
How can s ectarianism
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in creed survive this war? Volt •
know that great story of the rabbi
who held up before the eyes of a
dying Cadmic soldier the cr.. —
which symbolized his f a ith, .and to

tired prayers to ease the passage of
the poor soul from time to eternity
I have made inithrics, and I find
that not only is the shay alisolutels
true, but the very name of the rabbi
who did this work is identified. It
is that of Id. Mull. Chief Rabbi of
Lyons. The tragedy of the great
lesson was consummated by the fact
that the rabbi himself died through
the shell of an enemy wlvile he was
doing this great deed. Sim ly sm.)
a lesson cannot be lost to the .rld

Sectarianism of class again ought
to receive a deadly blow from the
lessons of the war. \\'e have in o ur
own countries seven millions of nom.
all in One way or another connected
I do not want to
with the war.
make any distinction of class. hitt. ■ 4
course, the majority of the fighting
men necessarily came from the
tnasses of the people. \Vint is the
psychology of the returned soldier
of the working classes? I have, he
saps to himself, one, two. or 0 . 111
five years stood in Stenches in win-
ter with the water 'reaching to in
waist. every second whir I was at
the front or passing over the top my
life was in danger. I did this, of
course, primarily to defend the honor
of ..my country and my home, but
simultaneously I defended the funds
of the banker, the business of the
merchant, the acres of the landlord.
Have I no right to a larger share
than I had before in all these things?
Upon the side of the democracy and
of its new claims and new comb-
s. I beg you of the Jewish race
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red.

Buick Valve-in-Head Convenience

tection from inclement weather
in such way that perfect vision
in all directions is not sacri-
ficed, nor the removing or
adjusting of curtains made in-
convenient. These conven-
iences With Buick in-built
quality, backed by an efficient
service organization, atibrd the
owner of a Buick open model
comfort and satisfaction that
is only excelled for year-'round
use by one of the more expen-
sive Buick closed cars.

R. H. COLLINS
Pres. & Gen. Mgr.
Cadillac Motor Co.

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In one wing of the Assembly Build
ag will be located a Welfare to
part sent, with first aid futons, in
which doctors and nurses will he in
attendance during all wnrk:nq hour,
In general. every provision is he fie
made for the comfort and safety of '
I the Cadillac workmen.

Starkweather-Buick Co., 2845 E. Grand Blvd.

Telotte-Buick Sales Co., 700 Woodward Ave.