PAGE SIX THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE THE VOICE. a' second place to the average Yankee. For statesmanship, he has so marked genius despite the prominence of an occasional Disraeli, MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Lord Reading, or Henry Morgcnthau. It is true in some of the Published Weekly by The Jewish Chrbnicle Publishiiie Co.. Inc. nofessions, especially medicine, the Jew stands well in a place of leadership, but this is scarcely related to any specifically Jewish . . President - JOSEPH J. CUMMINS inheritance that may be his. Secretary-Treasurer NATHAN J. COULD Where the Jew stands foremost among men and where his Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, peculiar genius finds its signal expression is in the sphere of re- ligion. There he has been leader and teacher. By his guidance, the Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. is orld has been brought to God and righteousness. His ethics have Offices, 1334 Book Building become the foundation stones upon which the m u ral law of civilized nations is builded. Ile it was who first taught men of the father- Telephone Cherry 3381 hood of God and the brotherhood of man. He it was who gave $3.00 per year mankind its Golden Rule. He it was who proclaimed "Justice, Subscription, In Advance justice, only shall he pursue that ye may live." Ile it was who To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach taught "One law shall there be for the native born and the stranger this office by Tuesday evening of each week. among you." Ile it was who dreamed of the time when "swords Editorial Contributor RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN shall be beaten into plowshares, and spem-s into pruning hooks and The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to nations shall learn war no more." Ile is was who summed up the the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the meaning and message of religion in the prophetic words "to do views expressed by the writers. justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with God." the Jew may accomplish in other realms, it is always Sivan 25, 5680. in the Whatever Friday, June 1 I, 1920. sphere of religion that his genius as a Jew shall of necessity express itself. It is well for those who would give the Jew his proper place in life to understand this. Henry Ford and the Jews It was inevitable that the publication of the series of articles on The End of Education the Jew in the Dearborn Independent—the Ford International Weekly= At this season of the year, when many thousands of our young should have called forth as it did, a country-wide storm of indignant men and %WWII arc graduated from the colleges and universities protest. in every corner of the land, it is well to consider thoughtfully the real purpose of our schools and colleges. Are they intended to give Jews—unfortunately accustomed to misrepresentation and malign- our young people merely an ample preparation to secure a bread • ment and all too frequently made the scapegoat for the sins of the whole and butter livelihood, or should it be their purpose in addition to world—were none the less shocked beyond expression that once again open before them the gateways of a larger, fuller, more serviceable life? Should they nut at least lead to a complete measure of self- upon their shoulders should be laid the responsibility for all those realization ? iniquities that in the last years have turned the world into a seething hell Undoubtedly the tendency to utilitarianism in ()or schools is of suffering and wretchedness. well marked. Perhaps this is inevitable in an age as materialistic as ours and when the competitions of life are so keen. Only the man All the greater has been the shock occasioned by these articles be- or the woman who has been adequately trained to some particular cause Mr. Ford has been regarded as a man of broad humanitarianism task can expect to keep in the race and not be hopelessly left behind. and he has been respected for his sense of justice and his practical good But the constant effort at perfection in some one particular sphere, while it may lead to a high degree of excellency there, is nu t without works. its counteracting evil. The specialist may be an expert in his own Air. Ford insists that he is not an anti-Semite. Ile says that his domain but he is likely to be strangely unfamiliar with even ele- • mental things elsewhere. Ile collies to think in the terms of his whole record is evidence of that fact. trade or profession. He reads the magazines of his craft and However, it is plain that Mr. Ford is the victim of the set idea that associates chiefly withr those who think his thoughts and are inter- ested in the same pursuits as himself. The result is that his outlook a group of Jews with representatives in every part of the world, forms is narrowed. His interests become cramped and his enthusiasms a "hidden empire" through which it controls the finances, the press, and stunted, Life itself becomes one-sided and he sees things out of focus. even many of the governments of the world. It is because of this that the world holds today so many "edu- This altogether ridiculous fancy is not unique with Mr. Ford. cated" men and women and comparatively such a few who are really Every 'avowed anti-Semite from Pastor Stoecker down has sought to cultured. While the new education has relegated to the rear the spread it. But Mr. Ford actually credits this charge and claims to have man who was "Jack of all trades and master of none," it has created in his stead the persons in whom specialization has run to seed to evidence in support of his view. His claim is serious or merely foolish such a degree that they see through one eye only and so are in- as one chooses to regard it. His interest in this fictitious "hidden empire" capable not merely of judging adequately • of the larger issues of roots in the fact that he holds it to be to the interest of its constituents life and the world, but even of appreciating the finer things that to foment wars among the nations, and since he wants wars to cease, an lie just a bit outside the sphere of their customary activities. Anti end must be put to this group in whose hands he claims it lies to make when this happens, education has missed its destined end. True education will put the glamour of romance upon even the common- and to maintain war or peace. places of life and . open to the student avenues of happiness and We stand ready, as the writer has already assured Mr. Ford, if his unsupported 'statements can be proved, to assist bins in the name of all Jews, to bring the guilty individuals to speedy justice. But such proofs I sometimes think the burning Bush that Moses Saw, and heard Jahveh speak in, was the Spring: Daemonic fire then burns in everything, And bursts in glory through flaming skies and roses; Beautiful is the sight the Spring discloses! Beautiful is every new thing on the wing; The winds, the stars, the cities all must sing, While Heaven redeems the soul from wintry losses. And can you hear through all this Beauty, rising One single strain. one strain that in all tunes Combines them somewhere; runs through suns and moons, Omnipotent, intensive and surprising; Listen! be still; even the winds must hush, Hearing God's voice speaking within the Bush. -- Edwin Justus Mayer. —v-,-- q • Platinum Wedding Rings Set with Round or Square Cut Diamonds mmigrfra". 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But is Mr. Ford so blind that he does not sense the fact that in the meantime, he is poisoning the minds of the American people against the Jews and that he who loves peace and is a friend of humanity, is by the repetition of these slanderous charges against the Jewish people, actually preparing the minds of the unthinking masses for just the sort of pogroms and massacres that have turned the Jewish sections of Rus- sia, Roumania, and other countries into shambles of blood! For let Mr. Ford and the publishers of the Dearborn Inde- pendent bear well in mind that whatever may be the discrimination that they make between the so-called international group of Jews and the Jews in general, the masses who read their articles will apply every charge—true or false—that they make against some special group, to all Jews everywhere. Under these circumstances, it is asking too much for Jews to sit passively by and calmly await the end of a series of articles, each one of which is a new incentive to class hatreds and to the wretchedness to which such hatreds inevitably lead. "The Great Jewish Conspiracy" Those who are interested in Jewish affairs will do well•to read the article by William Hard which appears under the above caption in the June issue of the "Metropolitan Magazine." Written in part facetiously and with a goodly sprinkling of keen satire, the essay makes clear to every reasonable mind how ridiculous the thought of a world conspiracy among Jews is bound to be. But it does more than that. It indicates that politically, socially, and religiously, the Jews have always been divided into discordant groups and classes, and that every attempt to unite them into closely knit organizations has been doomed to failure. Even such a movement as national restoration, commonly known as Zionism, in which, Mr. Hard opines, one would expect to see all Jews united, finds them hopelessly at odds with each other. The evidence of the"world-conspiracy" which has recently been "discovered" in Poland and latterly in England and elsewhere, Mr. Hard shows to be the result of the machinations of anti-Semitic propagandists. Apparenly, Mr. Hard, with keen foresight, sensed that the manufactured evidence against the Jews would somehow find its way into this country and so whether he thought it serious enough to require refutation, or whether in it he saw only the material for a good laugh, he used it as the foundation for a read- able essay, which in the light of present circumstances deserves careful and thoughtful perusal by Jews and non-Jews alike, The Genius of the Jew Despite all signs to the contrary, the genius of the Jew is not for finance, nor for commerce, nor for governmentbut for religion. Individual Jews may rise to eminence in practically any sphere, but their achievements are personal and not characteristic of the re- ligious group of which they are a part. A few Jews have of course done great things in the domain of finance but they are after all exceptional. In business cleverness, despite the fact that his wits have been sharpened by ages of persecution, the Jew must take N. Y. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ISSUES 8 RABBINICAL DEGREES Louis Marshall Urges More Jewish Erin. cation — Blames Institutions for Shameful Neglect. New York.—At a graduation of vigil students from the Jewish Theo- logical Seminary of America at Aeo- lian Hall, Louis Marshall, Chairman of the Trustees, declared the Jewish education of the youth of this coun- try to be shamefully neglected, blam- ing this state of affairs partly on par- ents but principally upon the nature of the institutions and their instruc- tors. "While we boast of the great num- ber of Jews in this country and look with pride upon our synagogues," said Mr. Marshal!, "we have not enough synagogues nor have we suffi- cient schools. We have not begun to deal with any sort of vision with regard to education." Mr. Marshall said that in many communities the schools are not worthy of their name and that the hildren, accustomed to modern peda- gogic methods in their public schools, laugh at their incompetent teachers in the religious schools. Dr. Cyrus Adler, !'resident of the institution, conferred rabbinical de- grees upon the following: GEORGE ABELSON, Master of Arts, New York University. PHILIP REIS ALSTAT, Master of Arts, Columbia University. NATHAN HERMAN COLISIL Bachelor of Arts, College of the New York. With merit. ISAAC ALFIE HADAD, Master of Arts, New York University. MAX KADUSH IN, Bachelor of Ssienee, New York University. With merit. HYMAN J. LANDAU, Master of Arts, New York University. NORMAN SALIT, Bachelor of Arts, College of the City of New York; Doctor Juris, New York Univer- sity. MORRIS SCHUSSHEINI, Master of Arts, Columbia University. With merit. Following are the seminary prize winners: The Laemmlein Buttenwieser Tal- mud Prize to Joseph Miller; the Alex- ander Kohut Memorial Prize to Alter F. Landesman and Louis M. Levitsky; the Alumni Association Prize to Ben- jamin Plotkin and Theodore Shab- shelowitz; the Robinson Memorial Prize to Max D. Davidson; the Lam- port Homiletic Prize to Benjamin Plotkin and Solomon Grayed; the Irving Lehman Prize to Morris Sil- verman and Morris Schatz; the Abra- ham Berliner Prize to Dr. Louis Kin- kelstein; the Junior Prizes to Nach- man S. Arnoff and Louis Resnikoff; the Junior Essay Prize to Isadore Sig- nor. Cash scholarships were awarded to Benjamin Plotkin, Max D. Davidson, Goodman A. Rose, Louis Levitsky, Louis Schwefel„Alter F. 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