PAGE SEVEN THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE NATHAN STRAUS HEADS THE JEWISH CONGRESS THE NERVOUSNESS OF THE JEW play of somatic activity, in which blood vessels, glands, great viscera, and skeletal muscles all take part. Au emotion may disturb the functions of the organism, or perhaps it had better (Continued from Page One.) (Continued from page 11 be stated that a pathological emotion mercantile life as a sort of usury, the is a pathological function—as a loss of tenure of a permanent American Jew- ■ Jew shifted to mercantile life, and if appetitie, a spasm of intestine or ish Congress, and that before this Con- not the greatest factor in establishing bladder, a drying up of milk ducts, gress do adjourn proper steps be taken !41.1 international banking, was at least etc. Fear emotions especially bring to effectuate the intents and purposes of exceedingly prominent. As time went about disorders in function of a per- the resolution." on, with the rise of the kings into sistent type, such as those seen in Judge Mack Defends Ruling. power and the crumbling of the the psychoneuroses, and may, so far The basic principle referred to by feudal system, the Jews became the as Ak e know', produce little by little fudge Mack was read hater by him from tax collectors of Europe, and thus, permanent structural changes in the a booklet setting forth the principles of while exceedingly useful to the kings, organism. That That the liability to arterio- the congress. The paragraph is as fol- became their scapegoats. What I wish sclerosis and diabetes that exists lows: to emphasize in this is that here was amongst the Jew can be related to o No resolution shall be introduced. + a factor that tended to make a race hiS unfavorable emotion-engendering Er of inferior physique, in that all those environment may he a far-fetched as- considered or acted upon at the con- .; occupations that tend to develop sum p tion which I believe , neverthe- gress which shall in any way purport tend to comma the Congress as a or strength of body and hardihood were less, to be to the adoption, recogni- !y. forbidden. The Jew became a sort of Now eve very race--all human beings, l''(1). sedentary adventurer, living by his 'n fact-- may be classified roughly "t u Wits. Having a full share of brains mio two groups--the extrospective theory or philosophy of Jewish life, or nil he was quick to see his t advantage and and the introspective, the objectively any , theoretical principle of its racial, g% political, economic or religious charac- ep to form a dislike for occupations minded and the subjectively minded. , ter, or which shall involve the perpetua- :4 14 front which he was excluded. It is conceded on all sides that to be th in of such a congress." This brought about another factor 4ijectively minded is healthier froml 149 lodge Hartman appealed from 11w psychological standpoint, though in the life history of the race and that of the chair. 1/r. \Vise imme- its urban character. Until the nine. this life is not, perhaps, so rich in teenth century became distinguished genius, in artistic and creative ability. 1 watelY took the place of Judge Mack 24-; by the great urban movement, all of \Vhatever introspective Iendcucy ,„. and gave the fluor to Judge Hartman,, . who made an impassioned plea for the ei the races of Europe have av been largelt adoption of his resolution. rural agriculturists and peasants. Tile and in its individuals was exaggerat- Dr. \Vise then called upon Judge . $ cities Were small and inconspicuous. d by the exclusion from play, sports, comparativ e ly s p ea ki ng , an d li n• vas , tiplitary life, and from occupations \lack to defend his stand. 'Die judge ,„. ,i „ 1„, j reiterated his objections, adding.that the p: bulk of the people lived on the land. , .,;. 11 as the handicrafts. adoption of the resolution would mean That urban life develops neurasthenia'' 'l to be introspective became Dr. \Vise and this Introspection was deeply dis immediate resignation. and the like conditions is an old story.' an effort to put the question Eli Any nervous organization that stands . ipprehensive and melancholy. .\ country life may go to pieces when as.. i—ensity of character developed, an as to whether Judge Mack's rulingt 4; ■• sailed by the extraordinary stimuli of , d ..traurdinary eagerness and over. Ishould be sustained or not to a vote, . but it was impossible. Groups of dele- the city. Now the Jews became ex- sdrioustiess of purpose which led elusively an urban people. I hey lived It t, o directions in so far as the fate ' gatse jumped to their feet in various .. Wi in small towns, perhaps, but in crowd- of each individual was concerned. It corners of the room. s a. wi ed, dirty, disagreeable towns. In this led to great success, and I need not Dr. Wise and Soldiers Aid offint out IMW urban life, not only Was a sedentary Fez marvelously successful I Finally Dr. \Vise shouted: life neces4ary, but the race developed iti many directions the Jew- has been.' "Vim will sit down and come to or II a curious antipathy to exercise and In our own profession, since the Jew : d i,,. or I w ill „ i i .i iiiirii thi s „,i0 „ and even to play. For centuries the Jews h" been allowed I° participate in i t ■ abandon the coneress for all time." were a race that despised sports and within t he last hundred years, there 1 'Ilielt the Jewish veterans of the Pal- discountenanced play. 'The importance have arisen the commanding fi g ures lestine campaign jumped into the breach. of basal movement—i. e., the large of Heine, Cohnheint, \Vcigert, Ehr- Thesoldiers rushed to the delegates j, movements of sport, and play—has Itch. Freud and Barany, to say notn- who refused to stop shouting Cr to sit CV b een wonderfully emphasized by Stan- ing of the Rombergs. Flexners, Loebs, , do „„ .„‘, a 1 pushed , . them tnem their seats. ley Hall. They form an incomparable and the innumerable lesser light: .. Their persuasion was effective with all avenue of discharge for nervous ten. without whom no medical account of , of them except a dozen, who fought sion. They breed confidence in one - the nineteenth and twentieth, centuries , ,.,,, ti sou . ners. These were carried bodily self. Being extensor in their charac_ would be complete. But while the out of the ball. ter, they allow for the rise of pride intensity led to great succors, it also Dr. Wise then put the question to a and courage. Circumstances excluded led to poignant failure. The Jew who , "Meet Friedberg Wear Diamonds" „, „1,2 5 H. & B. MARKS 212-216 Michigan Ave. [ Maloney-Campbell Realty Co., Inc. 504 FREE PRESS BLDG. General Real Estate, Insurance, Choice Homes, Two•Flats, In- vestments and Store Property PHONE CHERRY 1195. • GOLDMAN & ULLIAN CIVIL ENGINEERS SURVEYS—Land Subdivisions, :Hunt Opal l.a3outs. STRUCTURAL DESIGNS—Plans. Es- timates. Reports. Supervision. 225 Farwell Bldg. Tel. Main 2043 Surveying within 24 hours. Miss Detroit Cigar 8c Each the Jew from their wholesome influ. has not succeeded or who is strug- .vote, and. to the surpi:e of many, ince, and the children of the race gling feels his situation the more : lud ize Mack was sustained. 14' votes grew up to be v ery serious, very earn- keenly because of the intensity of against 60. The temper of the meeting also reversed itself, becoming again est, too early devoted to mature ef- purpose that has been frustrated. How quickly racial characters can I P l easant and peaceful. As if by com- forts, and not sufficiently strenuous mon impulse, the assemble broke forth physically. In other words, the Jew, be changed under a fostering environ- into the singing of "flatikwali," the na- through his restrictions, was cheated ment may be exemplified by the de- velopment of the last generation in Bona! anthem of of Palestine. out of childhood. It was 5 :10 o clock when Mr. I\ far- countries of 'rids urban, sedentary trend would Jewish life in the free l ntermarriage Europe anti America. , shall came forward and, amid silence. in itself have sufficed to change the his report, as he had been called especially in Germany, Scandinavia character of the Jew. In addition, be- and France, are so extraordinarily on to do two hours before. and the con- cause of their exclusion from friendly prevalent that, unless checked, the gres , Prweeded with ils appointed pro- and wholesome contact with other Jew will disappear in these countries, gram. races, the Jews became more clannish. to be merged into the general popula- The ghetto life was not only unwhole- lion. The intensely religious charac- some physically, but unwholesome mentally, emotionally and spiritually. ter of the Jew disappears in America Living in constant dread of massacre, in one generation. He gives up his kosher, his Sabbath, his traditional exposed to ridicule, degradation, and more serious disaster, the race devel- religion in general, as if by magic. What persecution could not do oped an apprehensiveness and ac- quired a lowered threshold for fear throughout the centuries, toleration stimuli. The ghetto life developed does in a generation. The alleged stinginess and miserliness of the im- an over-intimate and close family life. On its plus side, this family life was migrant Jew can certainly not be characterized by devotion and purity, charged against his children. Of all the prodigal spenders in America, the and on its minus side was a re- verberating emotionality whiCh In- American Jew stands foremost. Noth- . is too good for hint or his and tensthed the neurasthenic trend of the ing Jewish, child. There was little rest he is a sport of hue first water, totally weeress• ' ,NT molten. Rosen's Bakery Hot Rolls - Poppyseed Horns Begel - Rye Bread - Pumpernickel This is the same Rosen who formerly owned the Warsaw Bakery. This Is my new establishment. Bread baked here three times a day-8:30 A. M.-2 P. M.-5 P. M. — SHIPMENTS MADE UP THE STATE — 408 HASTINGS STREET (Opposite Robinson-Coben's) WEEKLY USED CAR BULLETIN SULPHUR MINERAL WATER The Same its Xt. Clemens Pat in Detroit At Wayne Bath Holm 2nd and Front Sts., adj. 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Dee. 22 54180-1020 There., J... 1 Fast of Tebelb Itoeck-•lsodemb Jam Si Hosch-Chodesek Ader•.Thure., Feb, 1• Purim (reset of Esther),Tbure.. Dier. 4 iloselt-Cliodmeh Klemm— get, Dior. SD remoter (remelt) Set., April S•t.„ April 10 Pismo., (Eighth Day) April 15 no.eb - Cbode.eii Th•re., thy g Leg 'Omar Day ss Reeeb - eboeleseh Phabnoth (Comansostioa Day) Su.. Way SS flosell-Clhodemeb Teems' Wed. Jams 111 Sea., Only 4 Fast of Tama. ■ Frt. J ■ ly 111 lioseb.(11 nde.el Ab Rua., July MS Fast of Al —PO. Aug. 24 Tleseb-Chotleeelt 1621-1•111 or quiet in the small dwelling crowd- and eolunietvlY different from Loss bather. The dislike of the lett. he- eil with children watched user by ap- athletics, and especially for all ctnt. preliethdve parents; guarded so well, , batant forms has been supplanted by indeed, that the Jewish infant and the the surprising phenomenon of the child death rate for centuries has been Jewish prize fighter, who in the the lowest of any race, but with the weights, front the lowest up to die evil result that this intense care and light-heavyweight, outclasses propor- solicitude inerza3ell the fea; attitude tionately to his numbers any race. of the. Jew. Thus we may add to ttb; urban, sedentary, cerebral character The race that produces no many Phi Beta kappa scholars likewise pro- of the Jew an apprehensiveness and duces the champion prize fighter. Nor an emotionality that arise from the can any lack of gameness he charged conditions of life to which his Chris- to these representatives of Israel. tian neighbors subjected hitn. Shrewd, scientific, and powerful, the I need not go into detail concerning yellow streak is surprisingly uncom- the persecution of the Jew. Every mon amongst the boxers of the race untoward event that occurred in the that once wore the yellow gabardine. town or country in which he dwelt The dissolution of Jewish life that was in part. ascribed to him, often has taken place in America is also re- directly to his evil and even magic's sponsible in part for the psychoneuroses efforts, indirectly because God was that we witness amongst the American angry that Christ killers lived and Jews of the first generation. A stir- were prosperous. For example, the prising change in ideals and in life- black plague was a pestilence that oc- governing notions works havoc with cured as the result of their evil ten- the less stable of the race. But the dencies, and they were accused of second generation, broughtlp in Ameri- starting the great London fire. The can methods, learning early to fight most disastrous accusation of all was physically, taking part in athletics in the infamous blood-ritual accusation. ever-increasing numbers, discarding the Some day historians will follow the Intensely communal life of the past, lead of the anthropologists such as coming into contact with the less emo- Frazier and correctly ascribe to super- tional, more controlled life of the stition the leading place in the de- neighboring gentile, is being changed in velopment of ideas. That historian character, has much less liability to the will trace a good deal of the character psyclioneuroses. A lover of his race of the Jew and much of his unhappi- will counsel control of emotion in the ness to this superstition of his neigh- family and the bringing of discipline bors that the Jew's required the blood Into the home, participation in sports, of a Christian child to celebrate the less intensity upon scholarly and finan- Passover ritual. In addition, of course, to the per- cial success, more handicraftsmanshin, secution that was expressed in mas- and more manual motor effort. The sacre and instill and restriction of urban life of the race is now fostered occupation, there was the liability to by the urban trend of the entire world, expulsion from the land of his birth and it would be impossible to make the at any moment. The Jews were suc- Jew into a rural dweller except, per- cessively expelled from England, haps, in his own home land. But it France and Spain in the years 1190, seems to me possible, as well as emi- 1291 and 1492, and they were expelled nently desirable, that the steps which I from various cities in Italy at dif- have outlined above will bring about a ferent times. Gold, cash, became the new social heredity for etc Jew, one only stable goods of the world to the that will not rob him of his great vir- Jew because he had no other property tues, but will lessen his liabilities to that he could be sure of. The hate the psyclioneuroses.—Mental Hygiene. of his Gentile neighbor for the Jew was fully returned. He did not wish to be like him in any way. lie re- jected his learning, his art, and his sports together with his food and his At the annual meeting of the Young religion. But the feeling of hate and con- People's Society of Temple Beth El, Sunday night, May 30, the following tempt was not the main emotional trait that arose from the centuries of officers and directors were elected: President, Arthur Manshach. persecution. Apprehensiveness I have Vice-Pres., Rose Edloff. already spoke of, but in addition there Treasurer, Herbert Kohn. was a melancholy which expressed it- Rec. Seep., Dorothy Weinstein. self in motto, in song, and in the Con. Sec'y., Rose Samter. Jewish literature, "Der Yid hat kein Fin. Sec'y., Mildred Nadle. maser —"The Jew has no luck"—was Miss Marion Weinberg, Miss Francis the opinion of the Jew himself. De- Netzorg, Miss Rose Benjamin, Milton spite an occasional ephemeral pros- perity, the bulk of the race was un- Aronheim, Harvey Vehon, Frank Elie!, dernourished, underdeveloped and Dr. Harry Kohn and Chester Schwartz overstimulated mentally and emotion- were named on the board of directors. Plans for the ensuing year are now ally. Here it is well to emphasize what is well known, yet commonly in the process of development and the most ambitious program ever under- overlooked. Emotion is not a matter of mind; it is something that concerns taken by the Temple Y. P. S. is prom- the whole body. It is an intense dis- iced by the new board. TEMPLE Y. P. S. 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