PAGE FOUR PIE PcrRon; li_t_E ETROU ['WISH (ARON ICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Published Weekly by Ils< Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. Joseph J. Cummins, President. Entered se second-clam matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 206 High Street West Telephone s : Cable Address: mit (A Komaz larly contemporary history, severely alone. Of course, The Detroit Saturday Night like hosts of Detroiters who know the Keena family and their staunch loyalty to the Catholic Church, have found a world of amusement in this faux pas of the editor of the Dearborn scandalmonger. But really, the writer of the editorial above (muted has missed the point. For he fails to point out to his readers the fact that the Keena reference is only typical of hundreds of similar references in the pages of the Dear- born Independent. When it happens to suit the convenience of the gentleman in charge of the anti-Jewish screeds that fill two pages of his paper each week, he dubs the first man who comes into his mind, a Jcw. Whenever to prove his point that the Jews are seeking world dominion, it becomes necessary for him lit find a Jew or any number of them in high governmental positions, without a qualm of con- science and by a stroke of his pen, he converts the requisite number of good Christians into faithful Jews. Whenever it becomes essen- tial for him to prove the criminality of the Jews, he takes a selected bunch from wherever he may find them and marks them Jews and criminals in ipse dixit fashion. That they are not Jews and that they are not criminals, does not matter at all to him. We know that it has always been easy for certain Christian clergymen to claim tremendous success in their campaigns to con- vert the Jew to Christianity, but so far as we know, this is the first instance on record where one reputed to have been a clergyman at one period of life, finds it to his interest to convert by the wholesale Christians into Jews. But w h en a man like the editor of the Dear- born Independent is willing to prostitute his abilities as this man is doing, why should he hesitate at a perversion of the truth ? The Keena incident is as we have pointed out, only one example of hun- dreds of such perversions that till the columns of the anti-Semitic Dearborn sheet. Practically every accusation that is made against the Jew in its columns is made of wh o le cloth. There is a short and ugly word that some are accustomed to apply to one who regards the truth so lightly. But then after all, one must make a living and it is not every newspaper that pays its scribblers more than eight thou- sand dollars a year. ZIONISTS TO ACCEPT STATUS OF ZIONISM LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE LONDON, E. C, 2, ENGLAND Chronicle Giving While Living. An Indictment. real self-sacrifice to share what he has with others. Are we over- optimistic in believing that more and more, this fact is dawning upon men's minds and that an increasing number 1)f human beings are coming to recognize the fact that wealth is of value only insofar as it becomes a medium of human service? When one appreciates the stupendous sums of money that in these last years, have been distributed to relieve suffering in all its manifold forms, sums beside which the wealth of a Croesus is but a bagatelle; when, moreover, one realizes that continued calls upon the purse of the people during these last times, have not soured the great majority or made them unwilling to give sums that entail great self-sacrifice, lid must be brought to feel that after all, the hearts of men and women are for the most part right and easily touched by the appeal of suffering humanity. It•is for this reason that we have faith that coming as it does, even upon the very heels of the Community Fund Drive, the I louver campaign for funds for the three and one-half million suffering chil- dren of Europe will meet with a. ready and generous response at the hands of the people. There is no cause perhaps that so touches the heart of humanity as the cause of childhood that suffers. It is in the name of the innocent children of decrepit and starving Europe. that Mr. Hoover addresses his plea to the people. Surely they will be glad to give to such a cause. Better for them to give now than to leave it to their heirs. I.et us know the joy of giving while living. themselves—"tens of thousands are selling their birthright for a mess of pottage." But the synagogue itself is also guilty— guilty, as the church is guilty, of compromising with evil, toy- ing with tradition, and surrendering to the enticements of wealth. Dr. Wise's own great following, not only in New York City but throughout the country, is all the evidence we need of what would happen to American Jewry, if he and his Free Synagogue were multiplied an hundred fold. Let the synagogue and its leaders be faithful to its prophetic inheritance, and it will not languish." Dr. \Vise has made a severe indictment of the synagog. Rut the western paper, it scents to us, has clearly indicted Dr. \Vise. We are as concerned as anyone can be at the fact that there are some Jews, indeed, all t(so many of them, who stand beyond the influence of the synagogue. But we do not believe that Dr. Wise or any- body else has the statistics available to justify him in saying that less than ten per cent of the Jews in any community. or in any district are unaffiliated with the synagogue. In making such a statement, we fear that the learned and somewhat aggressive rabbi has not taken the pains to verify his facts. Such a statement as he made can be justified only after a careful house to house census has been taken, a thing which to the best of our knowledge, has not been (lone. Benefit to British Empire. The men who are running the Brit- ish empire are not insensible to the appeal of high emotion and moral ar- gument. No material cause was ever any worse off for such support. If it is going to strengthen the hand of Great Britain in the near east to have a wealthy:, intelligent, progressive Jewish European population express- ing in word and deed its gratitude for the (Walsh, so (moth the better for the British empire. At the same time, if is not to be expected that the British government is going to antagonize deliberately the large Arab popula- tion, Christian and Mohammedan alike, which has been settled in the Holy Land for many centuries. The moderate Zionists recognize this. I was talking. to one yesterday, a brilliant Oxford man who did well in the war, and who has sacrificed much of his private career since to serve the Zionist cause in London. He said to me: "Of course we don't expect to make Palestine pay in a decade. It might pay, but it probably won't. When you are dealing with a national ideal, why should you think a hundred years long to wait for your realization? 1Ve know that there are among us those who will say that Palestine can al- ready support a huge population and pour out its wealth into the markets of Europe. These men served their turn in working for the achievement of the mandate, but they are only gas bags. and no one takes them seriously now. Palestine is a high adventure demanding a patient, silent enthusi- asm and involving the necessity for a philosophy which shall accept disap- pointment as part of the day's work. "'here are parts of the country which are fertile, ot her part s which are arid. You cannot make a desert into a gar- den by calling it pleasant names. On the other hand, the greatest of all Russian engineers has worked out a plan whereby the Jordan, with its steep fall front the mountains to the Dead sea, can be harnessed into the provision of water power to supply Palestine with the comforts and roll- VellillICCS of modern social life. This will take time and money, and we shall not see any return for it just yet. NVIty not accept the situation and wait for the return? Haifa can be made into a great modern port, but only by the aid of money and patient labor. Let us count up its harbor dues when tie get them and sot before. 'four- ists will bring revenues to the Holy Land when there are enough houses and hotels to accommodate them as well as the residents. At present there are not enough houses for any- body. Let us fall to building." And if the situation is as Dr. \Vise describes it, then is he not as much to blame for the condition as anyone else? Ile is a man second to none in the ministry in the ability to inspire, to persuade, and to cajole people into doing his will. Than he, there is no man "The New Menace." in America, perhaps, gifted with greater natural gifts as an ora- We can conceive of no name more appropriate than this for the tor. Than he there is surely no man in the ministry of any de- sheet published under that title in a little Nlissouri town that reached nomination more constantly in the public eye. If he has not suc- our desk this week. We presume that it is the heir and successor ceeded in reducing the 90i/o of the unaffiliated in his community, to the "Menace," an organ that in our opinion should never have sylio then shall succeed? May it be that he has spread out his seen the light of day, much less have been permittvd circulation efforts over too wide an area so that the influence in any one through the United States mails. listrict is after all very thin? "The New Menace" is just what its name implies. a new menace It requires courage to speak as Dr. \Vise does, and yet he must to civilization and to humanity. It is conceived in malice and nur• ',ear in mind that the "mess of pottage fur which tens of thousands tured upon bigotry. Its whole and sole purpose is to paint Catholics Ire selling their birthright" may take other forms than wealth. and Catholicism in the blackest colors and in its effort to do so, it Panic, applause, jorpularity,mre always forms of "pottage." We do appeals to the vilest and the basest passions of the non-Catholic not believe, howtver, that the writer of the editorial quoted had community. this in mind when he wrote his rather bitter words about Dr. \Vise • As Jews who have themselves so often been the victims of mali- and his Free Synagogue. cious attacks of this same sort, we can deeply sympathize with our Hut whatever may have been in his mind, be certainly pro- Catholic friends against whom such miserable and unscrupulous claimed a pregnant truth when he said ''I.et the synagogue and its assailants are accustomed to array themselves. But let its in all leaders be faithful to its prophetic inheritance, and it will not earnestness say to our Catholic friends, that they need have no fear languish." of the ultimate results of a campaign of vituperation such as this. If as Jews we may judge by the effects that such base methods of The Printed Word. attack have had upon ourselves, we may say that not only will Scarce a day goes by but WC reeelee through the newspapers Catholics and the great religious cause they represent not be hurt by them, but they will be strengthened by them and a new and more particularly in pamphlet form, reprints of One or more determination will be born in them to go steadfastly and straight- sermons delivered by preachers of all denominations to their con- gregations. Perhaps we may as well confess that 11111St of them forwardly ahead in the pursuit of their ideals. There can be no question about it but that since ignorance and remain unread. And for good reason. Comparatively fete of the bigotry and falsehood and malignity have recently arrayed them: men who speak several times a week to their congregations give selves against the Jew, there has come to us a new sense of self- utterance to thoughts so inspiring or t0 sentiments SO worth while respect and our purpose to realize our right ideals has been Intensi- every time they speak that they are worthy of preservation in fied in the great majority of our people. Bigotry always re-acts printed form. Only now and then does any man in addressing his upon the bigot. Falseho o d eventually uncovers the liar. There- pethde, rise to the heights. Even the greatest of orators . repeat fore, let those who are attacked have 111/ fear. "The New Nlenace" themselves constantly in one form or another. It is therefore we believe, ill advised for any preacher to pub- FORM PRESS AGENCY will do no harm to those against whom with its poisoned weapons TO FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM. it arrays itself. But it is a pity that in free America and in this lish all of his pulpit discourses. Ile nay interest, he may instruct, The Board of Deputies, which dis- twentieth century, it should be possible to spread broadcast senti- he may even inspire the people who sit b•fore him week by week, cussed last Sunday the details of for- ments so subversive of the :\merican spirit and which by that but hack of his address is the personality of the man who delivers rnation of a press agency to fight anti- token, do constitute a real menace to our country's well tieing as it. This is lacking when the message is reduced to cold print and Semitisni, expected what they got, do those contained in the sheet bearing the title of this editorial. so cannot carry with it the same weight or the sa ute inspiration as some strong opposition to the inclu- sion of the League of British Jest's 011 it does when spoken from the pulpit. the representation of the press com- Still, we may conceive that Men mature 111 experience whose mittee. The league, which was formed The "Jew"—Leo Keena. intellectual reslources due to reading and studying are very great, more than a year ago on lines not The Detroit Saturday Night, commenting upon the Dearborn may frequently give utterance through their pulpits to sentiments very tactfully devised, took upon its shoulders the duty of explaining that well worthy of reSeeVali(m. But these are seldom the ones who there were "Jews and Jews," and Independent's reference to Leo Keena, American Consul at War- rush into print week after week. What strikes us rather grotesquely saw, as a Jew, writes as follows: hinting that the voluble and some- is that :1111011g the See111011S that come to Ile from . week to week with times mischievous foreign-born ele- It will surprise anybody who has ever enjoyed the Irish wit unbroken regularity, are those of men fresh from their college halls, ment (lid not express the typical Jew- and humor that is the inheritance of Mr. James T. Keena of men who have never had the opportunity of delving very deep into ish attitude towards the duties of this city to learn that his son, Mr. Leo Keena, is a Jew. We the real problems of life and whose discourses are naturally super- citizenship. Ten of its hailers, arro- know it"Ivas a surprise to Keena, Sr. We heard him say so; gating to themselves, with perhaps ficial when they are nut entirely encyclopedic. an inkulicious alacrity, the right to and ••e might add that anybody else who would like to hear Happy the man who once in a long time call produce a him say so will find it worth while. We have reason to believe sermon speak for the community as a whole. or alt essay or a poem that is worthy of putting into print. It wrote a now-famous signed letter to that it will be a surprise to Keena, Jr. Neither of them has strikes its as rare conceit on the part 1.f any man to believe that everything the !doming Post in which they ac- ever suspected it. But there they are. right in the middle of cepted that engaging journal's Ma- he says is worthy of perpetuation in printed form. the great Jewish conspiracy for world domination that Mr. chiavellian invitation that, in order to Henry Ford discovers every week in the columns of The Dear- born Independent. The Semitic role that Editor Ford assigns to Keena, Jr., is this: Thanks to Jewish influence at Washington, Leo Keena, a • Jew, has replaced Mr. Rankin as American consul-general at Warsaw. Keena says he is ready to vise 1,000 passports a day if necessary. His predecessor apparently did not vise Jewish passports rapidly enough to suit Mr. Warburg and Mr. Baruch. Editor Ford apparently has not yet heard that Mr. I.eo Keena is a fello•-townsman of his who has for ten years served with distinction with the consular department in the Argentine, Chile, Italy, Switzerland and Washington. fl it present appoint- ment is amply warranted by his exceptional record. • Editor Ford apparently has not yet learned also that Mr. Keena came of South Irish ancestors, and is inclined to think he does yet. If Mr. Keena is a Jew, then by the same kind of genealogy, Mr. Ford himself is a Jew, for Mr. Ford's father came•from Cork. But this conclusion, as Mr. Euclid would say, is absurd. \Vhat becomes of the great Jiwish conspiracy when its dis- coverer can't tell a Jew from an Irishman? Every time we read his paper we think how much more useful Mr. Ford would be if he followed his original resolution, and left history, particu- correct a wide and unfortunate public misapprehension. it was necessary fur ♦ . JEWISH FARMERS CONVENE JOINT NE \V YORK—The convention of Jewish harmers which is to meet lucre next Sunday will deal with quite a number of vital topics, apart from those immediately effecting the farm- ers interests. The Federation of Jewish Farmers which is calling the convention an- nounces that it expects close to 200 delegates who will represent no lets than 10.000 Jewish farmers who arc scattered throughout the Eastern and Midwestern states. Mr. Louis Mar- shall will preside at the opening ses- sion of the convention and the speak- ers will include Congressman Isaac Siegel, the lion. Cyrus Sultzer, Dr. Nathan Krass, N. Phillips, president of the League of Foreign-Born Citi- zens, B. Zuckerman of the Peoples Relief and others. NEW DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE IS SHORT YORK—In the course of a statement issued by Felix N. War- burg, chairman of the Joint Distribu- tion Committee, he declared that the committee "faces a deficit of nearly $3.030000 with which to meet the ap- propriations it had already made." Mr. ‘Varburg added: "Unless this deficit is at once made up and additional contributions are speedily made by the Jews of the United States, the committee's entire future work will stop and demands received from all parts of Europe for the aid of war orphans, pogrom vic- tims and for relief in general will have to be refused. The funds in hand to- tal $7,677,000." (Fidei Defensor) AM a Jew! These words I write with pride. I To me they are the badge of supreme worth, For they denote God's Chosen upon earth, Though some who follow Christ that name deride, Forgetting Christ was Jew and nought beside. Jew was He from the day which gave Him birth Until He died; and in that time, no dearth Of Jewish teaching does His Life provide. England's Position in Egypt. Let us be practical minded. Great Britain has for some years past felt her position in Egypt to be dependent too much upon force, and too little upon good will. The immense bene- fits laffiich her government, under Subscription, in Advance $3.00 Per Year great pro-consuls like Cromer and Kitchener have brought to the To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this Egyptian peasant, are forgotten by office by Tuesday evening of each week. that stnnewhat ungrateful gentleman RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN Editorial Contributor in these (lays of his prosperity, espe- cially when Ile is led by- the use by native extremists who want him to The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subject. of interest to vote them into administrative jobs to the Jewish people, but disclaim. responsibility for an indorsement of the views which no British administration would expressed by the writer.. ever appoint them. There will always be trouble in the Nile Delta, and trou- December 17, 1920 Tebet 8, 5681 ble means expense. If the British army is to hold the Suez canal, it is going to be a very difficult -matter when a hostile and sullen population stands at its back. But the Suez There are some men who are always gener(ms with other people's canal, like all other questions, has two money. One must have a very limited experience in dealing with sides. \\'hat about holding it from the other side, with au army stationed men not to understand this. Whether one gives with lavish hands in Palestine for the purpose of pro- of public funds of which he happens to be the administrator or tecting a new, progressive and int- whether out of the fortune that should go to his heirs, one bequeaths mensely powerful European popula- to charitable and educational causes, the treasure to which in his tion which is pro-British all the time? Surely that is a better proposition al- life he has clung tenaciously, the principle is very much the same. together. The Jews, for their own To be sure, we do not say this in disparagement of large bequests • sakes, will see to it that the British to public causes. Very often it happens that a man in his lifetime is Dr. Stephen S. \Vise of the New )(fork Free Synagog is reported army in Palestine is not endangered not able to give to the support of public institutions what he believes to have said recently in the course of an address: "There or weakened by sedition. Nay, more; Were can be spared from his estate. All honor to those who out of their more Reform synagogs in New York in my youth than there are they Will not see the slightest objec- life's accumulation are willing even at the last to share with the today. There are :i0,000 Jewish families between r)Oth and 120th tion to paying for the maintenance of that army as a business proposition. unfortunates 14 earth rather than merely hand down to their lineal Streets and I dare say not In% of them are supporters of synagogs." If part of the duty of the British army descendants, the fortunes they have gathered. Commenting upon this statement of Dr. \Vise, a Chicago non- in Palestine is the protection of its But far finer is the spirit of him who gives while he lives, who sectarian contemporary writes as billows: nearest southwestern frontier, the Suez canal, who will begrudge the bill knows not only the joy of giving but who is moved by a spirit of "Dr: Wise is right in laying much of the blame on the Jews of costs? Certainly not the Jews. Glendale 8326 DEFENDER OF THE FAITH (COW/lilted from Page One) But what about Lord Milner, that stiff. unyielding construction engineer of empire? Ile, feu, reported in favor of Egyptiadindependence. Excellent: except that no man in his sane senses would ever believe that Lord Milner would say or do anything that could possibly imperil the British control of the Suez canal. )/ I I Christ returned to earth, both He and I I F Would worship the same God in the same place, For He and I are sons of that great race Which God has sealed to immortality. Then why should any Christian hate the Jew Unless he is prepared to hate Christ, too? RUDOLPH DE CORDOVA. I em to dissociate Judaism from Bol- hevism. The foreign Jews never for- got either the pretentiousness or the oily of this letter, which certainly did accept by implication the suggested consonance of Jewish and Bolshevist ideals., To have induced their repre- sentatisses at the Board of Deputies to consent to working hand-in-hand with the league in the common cause of fighting the anti-Semites of the Press here and in the rest of Europe, is indeed a victory for common sense and an augury of future good. port. There would be no tra.o..b in history so sweeping or so of those who can deserve no ,11 "England, France. Italy and other western countries of Europe not only do not ask for our help, but arc th•m- selves helping in these regions to the cast, making sacrifices far beyond what we call 1111011 Americans to mike. U. S. Must Not Fail. "America has not failed in the past in great heartedness. She had never had a more poignant call than this. And it Note—The article by Israel Zang- must not be forgotten that it is to out will, which appeared in the London interest to establish order throughout Jewish Chronicle and which is alluded the world and win the good %nil of to by Mr. Spero, will be found on an. these nations with whom we niu.t lie` in close intercourse in the future. Con- other page of this issue. tributions should be turned over to th e local committees which are now being formed for this national collection, or sent to Franklin K. Lane, Treasurer, Guaranty Trust Co., New York City. ALL CREEDS UNITE IN DRIVE TO HELP EUROPE'S CHILDREN ((Continued from Page One) and Central Europe. Children Suffering. "W'inter is closing down. The money of many nations is valueless outside their own boundaries. Economic and crop conditions, aggravated over con- siderable areas by actual warfare last summer, make famine, with its ter- rible train of disease, a certain visitor moil next harvest. Inevitably the helpless children will suffer most. No child can grow to health and sanity on the pitiful make-shifts for food with which millions of European adults must content themselves this winter. It is obvious that the remedy can come only from outside. "America saved 6,000•000 European children winter before last. Normal recuperation cut the need nearly in half list year, but unusual conditions have resulted in scant shrinkage of child destitution during the twelve months just past. ,The response of America must now decide whether 3,500,000 of these charges, in acute distress, shall begin to he turned away in January from more than 17,000 asy- lums, hospitals, clinics and feeding- stations dependent on American sup- ALL PREJUDICE MUST BE ROOTED OUT, SAYS WISE NEW YORK—The National Com- mittee for Constructive Immigration Legislation at its session yesterday listened to addresses by Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the lion. II. W. Welty of Ohio and others. Dr. Wise is reported to have said in the course of his address: ",There can be no brotherliness un- less native Americans root out of their hearts every prejudice, every antagon- ism, every ill will, all those tendencies of the spirit which raise barriers be- tween man and man. 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