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spoken in no uncertain terms in behalf of the Jew, the Jew will
not fail to answer that voice not merely with his words, but with

his life.

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January 21, 1921.

Shebat 12, 5681.

The Spirit of America Asserts Itself.

\'e believe that the importance of the subject warrants us in
speaking once again of the splendid course of lectures on "Jewish
History" which has been begun under the auspices of the Men's
Temple Club by Dr. Henry Englander of Cincinnati. These les-
sons represent a step in the right direction. We believe that the
greatest sin that may be justly charged against the Jew at this
time is the sin of ignorance—ignorance, we mean, of his own past
and of the tremendous and heroic part that he has played in making
civilization what it is.
We are entirely convinced that if the average Jew knew more
than he does about the past of his people, if he understood more
clearly his own religious philosophy as it has developed through
the centuries, there would be born in him a new dignity and a
greater pride in his religious heritage.
The particuiar period which is being studied under the direction
of Dr. Englander is that very important five centuries just preced-
ing the birth of Christianity. It may be said without hesitancy
that without a knowledge of the outstanding events of this period,
one cannot understand either the forces out of which Judaism came
to be, nor the vital conditions that gave birth to Christianity. In
making it possible for our community to acquaint itself more fully
with this period of religious development, the Men's Temple Club
is rende-ing a real service. And it is gratifying to note that both
the number and the enthusiasm of those who have attended the
opening, lecture by Dr. Englander indicate that there is a real appre-
ciation of what the work stands for.

Those %vim understand the American spirit are not surprised at
the pronouncement made this week by some one hundred and twenty
red-blooded American citizens in regard to the campaign of Anti-
Semitism that has been ruthlessly Ivaged by certain groups and
In the little town of Aurora, Mo.. there is published a miserable
individuals during the past year. The protest signed by Pres.
Wilson, by Ex-I'res. Taft, by members of the cabinet, by college screed that calls itself "The Torch." But despite the fact that on
presidents, by dignitaries of the Christian church of many denomina- its title page appears twice a reproduction of the Statue of Liberty,
tions. is less significant because it collies to the defense of the Jew it is a torch that gives no light.
A recent issue of this paper has reached our desk which no
Who has been basely libeled than because it gives expression in
definite and concrete form to that sense of justice and fair play doubt intended to arouse our admiration, has only called forth our
which the American spirit demands and upon which the Jew has disgust. "The Torch" like "The Menace" of unhallowed memory
and like "The New Menace" to which we recently called attention
with full justification put his dependence.
So far as the Jew is concerned, this present campaign of villitie in these columns, speaking supposedly in the name of Americanism,
cation is not a new thing in his experience. Throughout 'his cen- has for its sole and (nil>, purpose the vilthication of Catholics and
tury long history and in almost every country of the world, he Catholicism.
In the issue referred to, practically the entire first page is
has had to be upon the defensive. Hut it is a new thing that in
America, men should be found who would be willing not only to devoted to a discussion of the problem of Anti-Semitism, which
with
characteristic unfairness, the writer lays at the door of Catholics
spend vast fortunes but to prostitute their powers and their abili-
ties in creating class hatreds among the people and thus undermine and Catholicism. It is a bait thrown out to the Jew to join with
the foundation of that democracy which is the pride and the glory those who would undo and undermine a great religious organization,
but the Jew will not take the bait. The Jew knows from bitter
of our country.
If it were thinkable that this misrepresentation of three million experience what it means to be the victim of constant misrepresen-
loyal Americans could continue indefinitely without calling forth tation of this sort. And we assure our Catholic friends—and in
some such protest as has just been made, we would have to confess doing so, we know that we speak for the overwhelming majority
in sadness that all the sacrifices that had been made in the World of Jews—that we will never align ourselves in any manlier or in
War had been in vain. If the thinking men and women of America any degree with those who are banded together for the sole purpose
had been content to sit in Silent indifference at a time like this, of undermining any faith or any church.
And we believe that in saying this, we speak not only for the
where would have been the tokens of our victory? What would
have become of that spirit of brotherhood, of justice, of democracy, Jews of America but for the best minds in Christianity as well. \Ve
that we. went forth to champion and in behalf of which hundreds believe, as we hope, that the time cannot be distant when papers
and thousands of brave boys, Jews and Protestants and Catholics like "The Torch" and others of the same ilk will be debarred from
alike, laid down their lives? No, this voice of America has spoken the mails. They are simply masquerading under the cloak of Am•ri-
canism. But their disguise is easily pierced. For the most part,
and in no uncertain way.
\Ve . do not of course for a liniment believe that the tin-Ametican they foul nobody but themselves.
sponsors of Anti-Semitism will because of the protest he silent.
Nay, , even as they have pilloried that staunch and unflinching
American—William Howard Taft—because in an address delivered
recently in the City of Chicago, he dared to champion the cause of
the Jew, so may they be expected to call into question the sincereity
of Woodrow Wilson, of Cardinal CrComiell, of Bishop Charles D.
,ur lynchings and other national
Williams, of Robert E. Speer, of Nicholas NIurray Butler. and of
shortcomings.
that hundred and more other Americans who giving voice to the
And at that scraping together in
American spirit, have dared to tell the shame of America. Nay,
the Ford paper everything pos-
sible that could be brought or
they will go further and they will claim again that the fact that
imagined against the Jew, the
the protest has called forth editorial comment of an unmistakable
showing isn't a had one.
(Continued from Page One)
character in the newspapers in every part of the land, prates that
It has required a great deal of
It is as follows:
the Jews control the press.
pumping" to keep the sub-
\Ye did not just casually happen
ject alive week after week.
And incidentally, may it be said that of all the newspaper com-
to print the article elsewhere in
Nor it that due to a lack of ef-
ment called forth by the protest, none that has come to our desk
this paper on "The Romance of
fort to get something concrete on
seems to sense the situation more keenly than the paragiaplis which
the Jew."
the Jew.
we quote from the Detroit Free Press of last Tuesday. Under the
The article is so complete in it-
The writer doubts very much
self that it could be printed with-
that Mr. Ford knows this, but here
title "Too Itad It Is Necessary," the editor of this pap's writes:

A Torch Without Light.

FORMER EDITOR
OF FORD PAPER
LAUDS THE JEW

TOO BAD IT IS NECESSARY.

Organized protest against anti-Semitic propaganda in the
United States ought not to he necessary. It is almost incredible
that it can be necessary. The first impulse is to say that those
behind the protest are giving undue dignity and recognition to
a movement that deserves only silence and contempt. Yet if
it is necessary—and a good many fairly well informed people
seem to feel convinced that it is—then it is a shame to this
country that such a movement must be started in order to
protect the honor of the United States of America.
However, even at the worst, we do not believe any anti-
Semitic agitation can get very far in America. It is too absurd
for enlightened New World consumption. It is too obviously
a throwback to narrow, semi-savagery to obtain any foothold
in a land where the mass of the people are educated, enlight-
ened, habitually tolerant and able to recognize what is crudely
called "Jew-baiting" as a residue from the muck of the dark ages.
The anti-Semitic movement is nothing to be worried over,
but it is something of which we ought all to be a little ashamed.
Or perhaps it will be held by the organized forces of Anti-Semi-
- tism that the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
is in the pay of the Jews, because at the quadrennial meeting of
that organization, held in the City of Boston on Dec. 6th last, it
passed the following ringing resolution:
"WHEREAS: For some time past there have been in circula-
tion in this country., publications tending to create race prejudice
and arouse animosity against our Jewish fellow-citizens and con-
taining charges so preposterous as to be unworthy of credence;
BE IT RESOLVED: That the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, impre,sed by the need at this period of our
national existence for unity and brotherhood, deplores all such
cruel and unwarranted attacks upon our Jewish brethren and in a
spirit of goodwill extends to them an expression of confidence in
their patriotism and their good citizenship and earnestly admonishes
the people to express disapproval of all actions which are conducive
to intolerance or tend to the destruction of our national unity
through arousing radical divisions in our body politic."
In all of these utterances that arc appearing in the press, that
have been formulated by church councils, that arc being spoken
from the pulpits of Christian churches by men of the stamp of
Charles E. Aked and Samuel W. Purvis, and our own Gaius Glenn
Atkins, the voice of America is being heard. And this fact should
be sufficient to the Jew. Earnestly, we suggest to our co-religion-
ists that they can well afford to be silent in the face of the further
attacks that may be made upon them by the paid minions of a man
who does not understand what is being said in his name and by
those other reactionary groups whose attempts to arouse class
hatreds inevitably and definitely stamp them as un-American, and
whose utterances seem to hear the stamp "Made in Germany,"
where Anti-Semitistn of the subtler sort has long been upon its
native heath.
There is only one thing for the Jew to do in times like these.
It is to be worthy, fully worthy of that good opinion and of that
confidence which his fellow Americans have expressed in him.
Let him leave nothing undone that shall lift the character of his
citizenship. Let him continue to work as he has in the past. for
the realization of distinctly American ideals which as has been
shown many toes, are in close accord with the ideals of the Jewish
faith. Let him do what in him lies to educate those of his fellows
in faith who have tome to these blessed shores in recent years,
to an understanding of the American spirit, so that as America has
been to them a land of opportunity, they may be to America, an
added source of strength: Today, if ever, the Jew must recognize
that here is his Land of Opportunity. But where there is oppor-
tunity, there is duty. Surely now that the voice of America has

out any further . mention, but
everyone would know the reason
for our printing it and the reason
why the article was written in the
first place is the attack bring
made on the Jewish rare through
Henry Ford's paper, the Dearborn
Independent. There is neither an
inclination to, nor any nerd of our
being anything Inn frank about
the matter.
The writer of this was the first
editor of the Ford paper under
the Ford ownership, holding that
position for a year and a quarter,
and while the first of the Jew ar-
ticles were under preparation.
We did not agree with the Ford
notion regarding the Jew before
going on the paper, we did not
agree with it while on the paper,
and we have not agreed with it
since.
A writer on it New York Jew-
''h daily paper came to interview
the writer of this and asked about
}kitty Ford.
We expressed our opinion.
"You are the first Detroiter I
have met to say a good wool for
Henry Ford," he said, and later
staled that he interviewed 32 men
in Detroit.
There are so many good quali-
ties in Henry Ford, that we can't
let even the Jewish articles that
go out under his name blind its to
them, differing with him as in-
tensely as we do on the Jewish
matter.
We would have preferred to see
him use the hundreds of thousands
of dollars—and it costs hundreds
of thousands—now spent in mak-
ing life harder for the Jew, to
making life easier for some of the
many who could be benefited by
the expenditure of money for pub-
licity along other lines, helpful
lines, and we still feel that way
about it.
One of the easiest things to do
is to attack any race on earth.
You could take England front
beyond the time of the burning of
Joan of Arc down to the recent
devastation of Cork and the bunt-
ing of the homes of innocent
householders in Ireland because a
crime was committed in their
neighborhood; go through her
treatment of our own people in
the days of the Revolution. read
the spirit of our Declaration of
Independence, consider India, look
to the conditions of some of her
own home toilers.
We could find much to criticize
in English history and yet the
English race is a wonderful race.
Within that race is a continual
fight for democracy and human
liberty. a fight being fought with-
in England by Englishmen for
Ireland itself.
If we were to marshal all the
bad and forget the good we could
make a strong case against Eng-
land.
Likewise we could make a show-
ing against France, or Italy or our
own treatment of the Indian and

is an instance of what actually was
attempted by those about 'Mr.
Ford to place the Jew in a bad
light. It is something that took
place since we left the Ford pa-
per, so we are not violating any
confidence in stating it.
Leilfold, Mr. Ford's secre-
tary, tries to make good on what-
ever he thinks will please Mn.
Font. and hoped to bring into the
articles information that would
prove damaging.
The United States Department
of Justice maintains an office in
Detroit. In it was a man of the
name of Ferguson. \Alien the
government had some left-over
war materials to sell, Ferguson
would investigate both the ma-
terials and men who (lid the buy-
ing to sec that there was no
"shenannigan" about it.
It would naturally be inferred
that Ferguson would knew about
it or could find out if there were
any Jews in questionable deals
over war materials
Licliold hired Ferguson away
from the government at a consid-
erable increase of pay, and pot
hind at it to get something on the
Jews.
Ferguson went to New York
and Msashington, used his years of
experience with the government
to find something, but found noth-
ing, and finally gave it up and
quit, going hack to the govern-
ment service.
Mr. Ford no doubt knew that a
man of the name of Ferguson was
in his service, but knowing Mr.
Ford, we doubt very much that
he knew the details of the employ-
ment and return to the govern-
ment.
The incident shows how easy it
is to make general statements and
how hard it is to find something
definite with which to hack it up.
Every forest has its bad trees
in it. and there are some had trees
in the forest made up of Jews,
just as there are had trees in the
forest made up of Englishmen or
Irishmen or Frenchmen or Ital-
ians or Americans. but they are
all splendid forests just the same.
In fact, the Jew is a very ma-
terial and good part of all the
forests as you will realize by read-
ing the article by Dr. Z'un'is print-
ed elsewhere.

HEADS ELECTED BY
SOCIAL CLUBS FOR
SEASON OF 1921-22

Recognition

(Continued from Page One.)

rectors. Other new members on the
Board are Jesse F. Hirschman, Mel-
ville S. Welt and Morris A. Enggass.
Andrew Wineman was named to head
the greens committee.
The club is now in possession of
the once jointly-owned property—an
IS-hole golf course, clubhouse and
tennis courts situated northwest of the
Village of Redford. fronting on both
the 7-Mile road and Grand River ave-
nue.
Many improvements h a v e been
made on the temporary clubhouse at
present on the property. A new din-
ing room was built, new locker rooms
were installed and extensions made
to the kitchen and ladies' rooms. The
building will he completely re-deco-
rated and refurnished before the
spring season.
Manager to be Engaged.
Considerable work has been done
on the golf course. 31r. Godwin, for-
merly with the Oakland Hills Coun-
try Club has been installed as greens-
keeper. 'rho Club is planning to en-
gage a manager who will perform the
duties of steward and secretary.
During the year the Redford Coun-
try Club became a member of the
M'estern Golf Association. It was al-
ready a member of the Slichigati Golf
Association and the Detroit District
Golf Association.
The secretary's report indicated that
there are 255 names on the member-
ship lists, divided into three classes
of members: active, intertnediate and
junior. The club membership is
limited to 251) active members.
For the purpose of squaring out
the property on the 7-Mile road, a
group of members purchased eight
parcels of land at the corner of the
7-Mile road and the Berg road, in-
cluding the Redford Township School-
house. The land will be held in
trust by the members until the Club
is in a condition to take it over in-
dependently.

BLUE LAWS WOULD
IMPERIL JUDAISM

(Continued from Page One)

Opposes Restricted Immigration,

"But," he continued, "we take this
occasion to express our opposition to
a general restriction of immigration.
The interests of our beloved Amer-
ica can he safeguarded by means of a
selective immigration. Vie do not ad-
vocate promiscuous admission of all,
the mental, moral and political un-
desirables. The existing immigration
laws if enforced are adequate to meet
the situation."
'Flue center of Judaism, starting in
Palestine is now coming to this coun-
try, Dr. Solomon asserted. "There is
no thinking Jew outside America
whose eyes are not turned toward this
country," he said. "The freedom en-
joyed by the Jews in America is not
the outcome of emancipation pur-
chased at the cost of national suicide,
but the natural product of American
civilization. The idea of liberty as
evolved by the Anglo-Saxons does not
merely mean the privilege of selling
new clothes instead of old, but signi-
fies liberty of conscience.
"The true American spirit under-
stands and respects the traditions of
other nationalities, and on its vast
arcar numerous races live peaceably
together. !midi immigrants in the
past brought iciesa shores the en-
ormous resources of the Ghetto and
presented American Jewry with a
variety of types which will be of far-
reaching significance in its develop-
ment. In short, this country has at
its disposal all the materials necessary
for the uphuilding of a large, power-
ful center of Judaism, and it only de-
pends on the American Jews whether
these potentialities will ever become
realities."
Dr. Solomon referred to Jacob H.
Schiff as "that Prince in Israel, who,
though not directly connected with the
United Synagogue, nevertheless was
regarded by all Jewry as the cham-
pion of Our "

OPPOSE ALIEN LIMIT

East Side Immigrants Meet ■ and Pro-
teat Against Bill.

NEW YORK—A mass meeting to
protest against the bill restricting im-
migration was held recently at Public
School No. 4, Ridge and Rivington
streets. The audience was composed
almost entirely of east side immi-
grants. Nathan D. Perlman, who as-
sisted in the preparation of the minor-
ity report on the hill in the House of
Representatives, also spoke, urging
that if restriction was imposed even
for a year hundreds of relatives of
American citizens in Eastern and Cen-
tral Europe would die of starvation
and persecution.
The National Security League has
announced that it would start a cam-
paign of educational propaganda on
the subject of "quality immigration"
and the need for careful selection of
the immigrants.
The United States Independent Or-
der of Free Sons of Israel has issued
to its seventy-two branches of the
order an open letter calling for im-
migration based on the selection of
those willing and able to become use-
ful American citizens and likely to
help in the preservation of law and
peaceful prosperity in the country of
their adoption.

VIENNAA large number of Ga-
lician Jews interned by the Hungarian
government expressed their willing-
ne s to leave the country, but were
re used a vise by the Polish consulate,
ac ording to a Budapest report.

So—you have "recognized" the Jew?

Then—just perchance—you may have noticed, too,

And "recognized" the hills that pierce the sky

And hold your heads in pure, star-studded blue

Whose heights command your plains which dully lie,

And dare not dream. You "recognize," perhaps,

The dark, thick shade of forests, aeons old;

The mellow splendor of the moon that wraps

The night in glory, and the ruddy gold

That lies deep hidden in the pregnant earth

Perhaps you "recognize." The liquid mirth

And tender passion of a mountain stream

You "recognize ;" the potence of a dream

Nlay still be "recognized"—who knows?—by you,

Since wisely, now you "recognize" the Jew.

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Credit one for Ireland. Here's a paragraph lifted from testimony
given before the "Nation's" American Commission at Washington, by
Miss MacSwiney:
Q. By Mr. F. P. Walsh: What is your history in Cork, and
what per cent of the people are Catholic?
A. By Miss MacSwiney: The population that would be non.
Catholic is about 10 per cent. The Jews, the Protestants, etc., all have
their churches just like the Catholics. • • • We are the only nation
in the whole world that does not show in its history some early per.
secutions for religious heresies.

Q. By Commissioner Addams (Jane): You never have had an
anti-Semitic movement in Ireland?
A. By Miss MacSwiney: We have never had a religious persecu-
tion of any kind whatsoever.
Another interesting bit of information is that the largest number
of business houses in Cork, containing only 10 per cent non-Catholic,
are controlled and owned by Protestants—but, running true to form,

they employ only Protestants.

"The Allied Supreme Council has at last agreed to a settlement of
the northern frontier of Palestine." I wonder how many Zionists
realize what that news item means. If that settlement had not been
agreed upon it would have meant that Palestinian restoration would
have been in serious difficulties. Now the use of the waters of the
Upper Jordan and the Yarmuk have been guaranteed, upon which
depends afforestation and the construction of irrigation works and
storage reservoirs. In other words, it makes possible access to the
sources of a "vigorous economic life."

Herbert Hoover came to Pittsburgh the other day in behalf of the
starving children of Central and Eastern Europe. The local commit-
tee arranged a dinner at the Duquesne Club, noted for its fanatical
attitude against the admission of any Jew regardless of how worthy he
may be. As a result, all the Jews who were invited to attend this

dinner refused. But the cause didn't suffer, because they sent in their

contributions anyway.

It is noteworthy that in Pittsburgh no self-respecting Jew will
cross the portals of the Duquesne Club, regardless of the occasion.
The Union Club is another organization that has fenced out all the
Jews in the city. The late Rabbi J. Leonard Levy was invited to an
intimate luncheon at the Union Club with John Wanamaker, the late
H. J. Heinz and a former Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh,
but he declined and gave as a reason that he would never accept hos-
pitality in a club that did not think any member of his congregation
worthy of membership.

Here is what we would call "a subtle rebuke." George Sineberg

is the author of it. In a satirical tabloid biogrophy of Ole Swanson,
he remarks: "Swanson was a Swede. On emigrating to New York he

took up as his life-work the manufacturing of pants. He soon learned.
however, that he could not compete with the ancient race, givers of
law and religion in the Old World, who expressed their ideals in the
New World through ferocious industry in garment manufacturing."

News headline: "Al Jolson visits Hebrew Orphans' Home" and
he presented the home with a player-piano. Oh, yes, Al is one of us.
even though his features are concealed most of the time underneath
burnt cork.

Of course one doesn't expect United States Senator-elect Tom
Watson, the Georgia demagogue, to be a George Washington; that's
why there is no much difference in their public utterances. Watson
has tried to stand for everything that Washington would never stand
before, which, of course, emphasizes the reason why Watson will never
be the father of anything but class hatred.

Washington, in a letter written to the Hebrew Congregation in
Newport, R. I., took occasion to say: "May the children of the stock
of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the
good will of the other inhabitants; while everyone shall sit in safety
untied his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him

afraid."

Edwin E. Slosson, writing for the "Independent," has a good time
discussing the "Anti-Semite Scare." He assures us that a returned
traveler from Switzerland solemnly asserted that "all Europe kn.•,
that the Vatican, the Soviets and the Sinn Feiners are linked toge–Tr
in a conspiracy to overthrow British Protestantism and Russian Or o-

doxy. The Pope, Lenine and De Valera are the ringleaders, of cow - e.
Quite an interesting combination, to Say the least.

I think that a great many of us could cool our fevered brows

reading Everett Martin's "Behaviour of Crowds," dealing with crowd-
madness, not in times of war, but, what is infinitely worse, in times of
peace. In view of the crowd hysteria which is so quickly developed
in this country under the influence of fakers, the book is of special
interest to Americans. The Blue Law campaign is another evidem.e
of trying to rush through by mob tactics and mob thought fanatical
legislation.

I like the courage of the Seventh Day Adventists, who, through
their committee, have boldly announced that "Sabbath-keeping is not
civil but a religious duty, and therefore Congress has nothing what -
ever to do with the question of its observance." As if that wash':
strong enough, the same pronouncement expresses the belief that the
present strong organized efforts to obtain blue law enactments "are
destructive both to the Church and the State, and, however innocent
they appear, if successful, they will destroy the pillars upon which our
government is founded."

Gilbert K. Chesterton is the latest of Europe's literary ami.

Semites to visit these shores to exchange his ideas for American

lays. Chesterton seemed to pay especial attention to Lord Reading a ' I
his career and to have missed no opportunity to meanly criticize ar. I
to hurt him in the public eye.

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to test the Austrian Socialists for
their policy of anti-Semitism. Strucker
declares that it is chiefly due to their
instigations against the Jews of East-
ern Europe that one now frequently
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