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Cable Address:

Another Word About Sacrerrental Wine

Those who have read the last installment of I lugh \Viley's "Wild-
LONDON OFFICE
cat" stories in the Saturday Evening Post, will indulge its for recurring
14 STRATFORD PLACE
once again to the subject of sacramental wine of which in recent times
LONDON, E. C. 2, ENGLAND
iv have frequently spoken in these columns. So far as we know, Mr.
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upon the good name of the Jew or upon his spiritual leaders.
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this
Yet in the last of his stories, unwittingly he does so, when repeatedly
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
throughout his tale he refers to a negro bootlegger under the title
'
rabbi"
and to the emporium in which he dispenses his poisoned liquor
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
Editorial Contributor
as a ginagogue. How does this happen? There is only one possible
The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of interest to the explanation for it.

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Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the views
expressed by the writers.

Protocols a Myth.

The "Protocols," he thinks are a
myth, but there is a Jewish conspiracy
—not an actual physical one, but a
iubconscious, psychological one. This
lie considers perfectly natural. It is
the national, or racial streak in the
few. fa times of a crisis it would he
true of any other nation. That is his
reason why the world looks with sus-
nlcion upon the Jew; and that is why
n a time of crisis the Jew is a danger,
in his opinion.
I asked hint if he had heard of
Henry Ford. Ile had. Would he ex-
press an opinion? No! Ile had
enough to du to defend hims e lf with-;
out attempting to pull Henry's chest-
nuts out of the fire. •
And there you have one of the "so - I
per-intelligences" of England!

The Disappearance of Mr. Potter

Mr. Spargo Gives Answer

Mr. John Spargo, who recently took it upon himself without solici-

tation front any source, Jewish or non-Jewish, to gain an expression
of opinion front leading Americans as to their re-action to the cam-
paign of villification that is being carried on against the Jew, was made
. (as has been every other defender of Jew and Judaism), the butt of
• a malicious attack at the hands of the Dearborn Independent. It was said
in that paper that previous to his signing and circulating the protest
against the vicious attacks that the Ford organ was making on the
Jews, he had a number of secret consultations with a group of New
York Jews who had to overcome several of Mr. Spargo's scruples
before they could persuade him to come to the defence of the Jewish
people.

CHESTERTON WAVES
ANTI-SEMITE FLAC

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which this republic has been strongly builded.

Books of Jewish Interest

on his return yesterday to this city
from a brief trip to Palestine and
Egypt, this noted financier warns
British traders that Germany is look-
ing strenuous efforts to obtain a
niononoply of the Palestine market..
Sir Alfred emphasizes the necessity of •
developing binding trade relations.
with the people in the Near East.

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To the Editor: Articles have ap-
peared in Mr. Henry Ford's organ
The Dearborn Independent" in which
the charge of an unholy conspiracy
between Jews and Freemasons in
elaborated and 1Vorld Domination is
characterized as a movement.
Mr. Ford is employing his great
This whole charge. Mr. Spargo, whose word no man has reason
to doubt, denounces as "a senseless lie," which he says is quite char- wealth in scattering broadcast his at-
tacks of extraordinary virulence
acteristic of the organs of Anti-Semitism. To show the viciousness of against the Jews. These assaults up-
the Ford attack upon Mr. Spargo and the manly, forceful and decisive on the honor of the Jewish people
way in which he comes back at his accusers, we quote from the Dear- are founded on forged documents and
protocols of Russian anti-Semitism,
born Independent as follows:
"discovered" by au ex-henchman of
"As to John Spargo, whose name is beginning to appear prominently the late Czar and inspired by the
' as a Gentile defender of the Jews, this much is known; he did not minions of Autocracy. Charges that
can only appeal to the credulity of a
undertake the Jewish defense without several secret consultations with stunned intelligence. Charges long
a group of New York Jews, who had to overcome several of Spargo's since conceded to be unfounded by
scruples before they could make much headway with hint. Spargo's all fair-minded men.
And yet such documents are made
attitude was something like this: 'Gentlemen, they've got it on you.
the basis of an indictment against an
It is not a matter than can be whitewashed.' Spargo told a lot of truth entire people by Mr. Ford.
in that New York room. The Jewish conferees knew it was truth. If
When the Jews of the United States
Spargo should speak one - twentieth as much truth on the platform
first learned of . these malevolent prints
, his
'
they
deemed it beneath their dignity
lecture engagements would dwindle in number."
to take notice of them, because they
To this, Mr. Spargo replies in the following words:
regarded them as a mere repetition
"So far as it concerns me, this story is untrue in every ix-Articular. of medieval bigtoetry f aent d osettur piudtittey;
I have never presumed to undertake the defense of the Jews, either , 10)rwti ii
sos n t iiiir, a !
publications
willingly or otherwise. It never occurred to me that my Jewish fellow s,1,iii.g,,,t,i,o
. have, however, been put in circulation
citizens needed defense. I never attended a secret gathering of Jews to such an extent, that it is believed
humiliating
t,
li ot ,in o
at which such defense was discussed. I have never attended any kind that the time has
tl inenj
of conference or consultation of Jewish leaders, secret or open, large ,
l ( kai• answer to these libels and to
or small, in New York or elsewhere, in my life. The whole story is a I In ia
t h e
e unworthy insinuations that have
senseless lie. quite characteristic of the organs of
been whispered against them.
anti-Semitism.
Here is only another illustration of dm lengths to which the defam-
Prom the
njteert?sfatthe met destruction of
tilei time
Titus,
t us, t he
t
of Jews and Judaism are willing to go in their conscienceless attacks thet°Zili ave had no po liti cal
e. Forr
P
upon those millions of American Jews w
who have contributed and are Jews
statwande
ce nt ur hies they were f orce d to
. contributing day. by day, their full share to the uplatilding and the front land to land, to flee for refuge
wherever they night toil it against
maintenance of our American institutions.
bitter persecution.
.
But the very fact that they must resort to measures of this kind
years
it is a little more than 50 ye
ecr Europe
i t ttdte ,t1itt e - t
proves the hopelessness of their cause. Let the Jew hold his soul in since the
of tw;e tsttf
i
came
po
li
tically
patience. Attacks of this sort cannot prevail against him. And sooner
e" oil i ' 11,111 -e2 11 - d • 'it :. N1P;ndil war the
or later, the manhood of :\ merica trill rise in indignation against this s , e ws of eastern Europe, constituting
sort of thing and in no uncertain terms, proclaim its disdain for those
t he
un-American men who are
rlil ohtis,ct
a ti sorie
fn esi
j tit•iyl%
r en titi ( st ht' e l i ipl t ie
' no
seeking with might and main to create race ae 1 sMall'Illi 111Yhlre of

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hands
x
whe
by t re
rt
e . thi l; and their ancestors

hail dwelt for generations. The great
mass of Jew's were hampered in every
way to earn a livelihood. Far from
erring to govern the world they were
content with the opportunity to live.
Numerically
eri
they constitute
ute ess fh
than
per , cent t i, to
of r e The population
eartn.
l P
o nnia
ci e-
fof ahem
m e
are onthc verge of starv a tion. a
The suggestion that in their feeble.
mess, they have been planning in
secret conclave to seige absolute pow-
er and dominate the 99 per cent of
non-Jews upon the globe is a ndicu-
tons i nvention, which even mag,nteesrs
o
cans . con jure nothing more p ,p

and quite as great a lawyer as Lord V .
Reading—a man of a far finer char-
acter."

d

Does Not Know Morgenthau.

Pith WAtt.
emporarits

il t
Q Q: 0

fJ

"What do you think of Mr. Misr-
ganthau?" I asked.
----sass_
"Ile is an American, I believe.'
11'111.11 I answered in the affirmative
he told me he had no opinion.
Do you know Oscar Straus?" I ven-
tured again.
Nm lurk
"I heard of him, but I do not know
hint."
"And Herbert Samuel?" I contin-
Henry Ford, dreamer and maker of
ued. His answer came quick and automobiles, made it plain in the in-
snappy: "No 1 don't know hint, and terview published yesterday in The
I don't care for' hint. I don't like the 1Vorld that his "campaign of educa-
Samuels. I don't care for millionaire , tion" directed against the Jews is to
Jews."
him merely an effort to avert war. "I
"Is there, Mr. Chesterton. one Jew am convinced," Ii, states. "that nearly
about whom you might have a good all wars were caused so that some one
word to say?" I ventured to ask.
would profit, and those who have
"I mentioned Lord Ilirschell," he profited and are profiting now are the
answered.
international tinanciers—the Jews,
"Can you possibly think of another • with possibly among them a few Gen- .
one?" For a moment he took the . tiles with Jewish connections."
question seriously. He tried to think
It is difficult to combat a thesis so
of another Jew for whom Ile might manifestly absurd, yet a few guess
have a good word. It took- him sev- lions :night be propounded to the
eral minutes, during which time he sage of Michigan. Has it been proven,
appeared to he racking his brain for a for example, that any class or race of
Jewish TIM', Finally he got one.
men came out of the late war better
off than it went in? Sonic individuals
Zangwill—"A Fine Man."
"I know Zangwill. Ile is quite a made money and some lost It. 11'as
not Henry Ford among the manu-
fine man."
In the course of our conversation facturers who benefited? Did the
Mr. Chesterton explained that he went bankers of Europe gain as much be-
to Palestine for two reasons, First , t weer 1914 and 1921 as they might
because his publisher thought he could have gained without international
gather material for a book, and sec- hostilities? What banker now living,
ond. because he was always interested in Europe or America, Jew iir Gentile-
in the Holy Land. He came to Pal- would expect to make money on an-
estine about the same time Herbert other conflict? 1Vhat banker with
Samuel did. The 1=1 impressed him the slightest knowledge of economics
very favorably. Ile visited some of would not throw tip his hands in de-
the colonies, found the colonists a spair at the suggestion of fresh
declarations of war? What race has
thr.fty, industrious group.
While he claims to be a Zionist-- suffer.' more since Germany broke
into
Belgium than the Jews through-
nd Ile reminded me of it several times
in the course of our conversation, out Middle Europe? Above all, what
incredible
logic lies behind a cam-
which lasted almost two hours—Ches-
terton thinks the only sail feature paign for peace which begins by res-
urrecting
the
discredited protocols of
about Zionism is that it is centered
about Palestine, or as he put it, about Zion and adding fuel to an ancient,
smoldering
racial
antipathy?
Zion. To him the fact that so many
Mr. Ford's lack of historical per ,
other peoples are interested in this
spective,
so
frankly
admitted, leaves
country is sufficient reason why the
Jew should keep away. In fact. if it him open to old wives' talcs. Let him
believe
with
Voliva,
if he likes, that
were given to hint, he would take the
Jews from all the countries where the earth is a pancake, or go further
with
the
geographers
of antiquity and
they now reside, and of which they
have become an integral part and par- imagine the antipodes peopled with
tire-breathing
monsters
and headless
cel and move them away to some
other parts of the world. His plan men wearing eyes between their
would hr not to have them all to- shoulders. For the majority it remains
gether, but scattered here a bit, there true that human beings are pretty
a hit. If it is absolutely necessary much alike everywhere, mixtures of
they might maintain a center in Jeru• good and had, humor and pathos,
calm. But they must not become too s trength and weakness, and without
supermen, either angels or demons,
numerous there.
among them.

HENRY FORD'S JEWISH
"CONSPIRACY"

Very frequently, th
m
e writer
of this column is asked to recommend
to the readers of the Jewish Chronicle, books of Jewish interest. Among
those recently from the press, lie would min ion two, neither of which
can be . . disregarded by those who arc truly interested in understandin
e spirit of Judaism and the problems of the Jew.
Some months ago, there appeared under the title "Hungry I learts,"
a series of essays by
Anzia Yezierska, which all must read who would
gain any real understanding of the soul and spirit of the imm igrant
Jew. In this book, there is voiced the soul cry of those who, hungry
League of Jewish Dominions.
for an opportunity
to live their lives, come to what they know in the
"Then do you mean a sort of
Evidently Mr. Ford and his intelli-
land of their persecution as the "golden country," only in toe many gent odvisers know nothing about Jo- League of Jewish Dominions?" I
instances to have their dreams shattered and their bleak doomed to claim, its history and culture. It will ventured, to make sure I understood
bitter disappointment.
be worth while to impress upon Mr. him correctly.

Hillier they come with hearts yearning for knowledge, only to find
one door of opportunity after another closed to them. Here they come,
believing to find every man a brother, only to be soon disillusioned by
in those who encounter them, foe and exploiter. Here they
tome, dreaming their dreams of high ambition, but destined to grovel
for a mere existence,

Ford's mind that
wasting tie
and money, and that
be s in his viciomu s
campaign against the Jew aimed liet
to
folrecwets Prob
I l em" hae cuatnnaot aas - ucceed
b n eoct ause one cannot discuss what does
exist. There is no Jewish prob-
lem in America. There will be no
Jewish people
Jewish

The
And yet, beneath all the new suffering and the hard disappoint-
never
ments that they are doomed to encounter here. America does remain tatorship, of
a e ems —
t ru catti oan joef‘‘riealhi giloi e'
n ,
the "golden land" and what to the parents is impossible of realization, of an interference of industrial pros-
becomes through their sacrifices and their struggles and their thrift and Perity or of an overthrow of Myth:a-
their decent ambitions, realities for the children. The hunger of the
h ce
y. the a ge o f
heart is somehow satisfied here and America is indeed a land of destiny. "'This is the ZOt
reason and co mmon sea
sense. There i s
As stated above, this book must be read by those who would know the no room for anti - Semitism. and a
spirit of the immigrant Jew.
Spanish Inquisition or a Kishinieff
Pogrom are a little out of date.
A • second hook worthy of mention lets lust snore to
us from the
ARTHUR STOCKHOLD,
Oxford University Press. It is entitled "A Book of Jewish Thoughts"

3971 Garland Ave.

"Exactly," he said. "While I am
not a practical statesman. I think that
would be the best way to solve the
Jewish problem."
To him the Jew is a problem insofar
as he ought not to be where he is.
It makes little difference whether he
is a Chief Justice of England or a
Viceroy of India or a Justice of the
United States Supreme Court. if he
is a Jew he ought not to he there.
While the few is unmistakably a
nation, he said, the Jew did not pro-
duce national manual labor. The Jew
is too intellectual and that. in his
opinion, is the reason why Zionism
will be a failure.
I told him of the National Farm
School. where Jewish young men are
trained to be scientific farmers. and
how successfill this school has been.
Ile was interested in the experiment.

Naught is there in life worth living,
Save it flavored be by love;
Naught is there in life worth
giving
Save it sanctioned be above.
Who in evil mood bestoweth,
In his heart the canker groweth;
He who gives in truth and love
Shall a thousand pleasures prove.

lie seen from its effort to make the
Sinn Feiners Jews.

Scattered throughout the country, there may be some half dozen
conscienceless and law-defying Jews who call themselves rabbis, but
February 25, 1921.
Adar 17, 5681 have no legal or moral right to do so. These fellows, who are nothing
more nor less than criminals have issued to their supposed congregants
permits for the purchase of sacramental wine such as the government
contemplated could be issued only by regularly ordained rabbis in DAVID BROWN WILL
The disappeaiance of NI. Henry ('otter, editor of the Philadel- charge of legitimately organized congregations. These few—and they
AID EUROPE'S JEWS
phia publication "Facts" at this writing is still unexplained. One of sore very few indeed—have served to drag down into the dust. the good
name
of
the
Jew.
And
they
will
continue
to
do
so
unless
drastic
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three theories must ultimately explain the mystery. Ilas Mr. Pot-
ter himself "framed up" his disappearance for publicity purposes? measures to suppress their activities are taken. The only way in which 000 for child care to supplement with
this
can
be
accomplishes)
will
be
by
the
repeal
of
the
ruling
dealing
with
There arc those who believe that this is the case. Has some onyx
more permanent measures the tem-
plained accident befallen him? This is intssible. Ilas he been the the matter of sacramental wines so far at least as the Jews are porary relief of the European Relief
concerned.
Council, which aims to tide the chil.
Victim of foul play? This is possible but not likely.
dren Over the next harvest; $1,000,000
We have repeatedly stated in these columns that the Central Con-
All sorts of rumors and reports more or less self-contradictory
for schools and religious institutions.
as to the circumstances of Mr. Potter's disappearance and of events ference of American Rabbis has definitely set itself on record to the And $2,000.000 to cover a deficit exist-
subsequent thereto have been rife. Where and how these various effect that unfermented wines or grape juice are permissible for all ing from present appropriations."
Members of the reconstruction con,
rumors arose is as mysterious and unexplained as the mystery of Jewish ritualistic purposes. So far as the Reform Jews are concerned,
mission will pay their own expenses.
his disappearance itself. It will naturally be to everybody's interest therefore, there is obviously no need for fermented wines at all. Nor
do the Reform rabbis stand alone in this opinion. Many of the leading
to have this matter quickly and definitely cleared up. •
The date on which the committee
We ourselves have no theories to advance in the matter. This Orthodox authorities stand ready to endorse it. And we believe that , mentioned will leave for Europe is to
much, however, we wish to make clear. We hold no brief for Mr. in view of the fact that a few have abused the privilege granted under be set at a meeting to be called with-
Potter or for the publication of which he is the editor. We have no the ruling referred to, the vast majority of our Orthodox co-religionists in the next week or so, Mr. David A.
interest direct or indirect in the man or in his publication. This fact will endorse a plea that should be made to the government to wipe off Brown said following the announce-
ment of his appointment.
we stated as clearly and as strongly as we could in these editorial the statute books the permission given to rabbis to secure permits for
Mr. Brown also explained that it
was not yet known whether a formal ,
columns the moment that "Facts" appeared upon the streets of the purchase of wines for sacramental purposes.
invitation
will be extended to the
Detroit and see expressed our own view as well as that of the Jewish
After all, the Jew has always stood by the mandate "The Law of
commission by the respective govern•
community as a whole when tve commended Prosecutor Voorhies the Land is Law." Let the special permission be taken off our statute
ments to be visited, but it was hoped
for his suppression of the paper here. We still hold definitely to books and the law of the land so far at least as national prohibition is that an agreement will be reached for
the opinion that it is highly desirable that such a publication as enforced, will be that fermented wines may not be bought or sold. co-operation with government forces
"Facts" and other similar hate-spreading publications should' be Even those who are most literal in their application of the traditional in the reconstruction of war-torn com-
munities. Mr, Brown said that a spe-
kept off the streets and out of general circulation. They only tend law will therefore be fully justified in using unfermented wines for cial attempt will be made lip the com-
to deepen racial, religious, and group antagonisms. If there is no ritual purposes. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished that mission to reach a better understand-
existing law by which such publications can be prohibited, the more the possibility of defaming the good name of the Jew in this particular ing between the Jew and the Pole.
speedily such a law is put upon the statute books of state and nation, will be speedily done away with. That this may be accomplished, all
WARNS BRITAIN AGAINST
the better it will be for all concerned.
Jews must work together in their appeal to the government. We fully
GERMAN TRADE CAPTURE
For this reason, we repeat that whether or not the mystery of believe that such action will be opposed only by those whose interests
Mr. Potter's disappearance is cleared up, as we tort it may be very in the matter are not unselfish.
LONDON—In the course of a
soon, his publication and others of similar tenor ought not in our
statement issued by Sir Alfred Mond
opinion be sold upon our streets,

and religious hatreds and thus to overthrow the foundations upon

WHO GIVES IN LOVE

We commend both of these books very heartily to our readers. Each acterized as a paper telling a, half
truth, which is easily turned into a lie.
will give to them a new insight into the heart of the Jew. Both of The Post dies not understand the
these books, we believe, are worthy of a. place in every library.
Jewish question, This, he says, can

ISIDOR WISE.

1` 1/ ISC•li

GiAS.

Competent

8Y-
JOSEPH-h-

brains applied to the immigration question would
avoid such stupid bills as has just passed the senate limiting immigra
tion to 3 per cent of the population of foreigners in this country
based on the 1910 census. Nohting is quite so itlumingly indicative of
politicians' inability to handle this all-important question as this
extraordinary Dillingham bill.

Consider, if you please, how utterly
trapped our Eastern
peon brethren are who want to come to
Euro.
this country, not for eco•
nomic advantage alone, but to escape the horrors of persecutions
from unsympathetic peoples. But, according to the senate bill, some
50,000 immigrants are
permitted to come during this year from Rut-
sia; from Roumania, a
country notoriously brutal to Jews and in.
different to Jewish rights, less than 2,000 are permitted. It is time for
intelligence and not politics to take care of this question.

A great many good folk are wondering why England
many Jews to
selects so

look after her affairs in India. Some think that per.
haps Hinduism is more friendly to Judaism than to Christianity.
The London Morning Post, that has some queer rare-bit dreams,
goes to
the other extreme—naturally anti-Jewish—and can't under.
stand the
blooming thing at all, this bally business of making Read.
ing Viceroy,
don't you know. Particularly, can't you see, old chap,
that the Moslem really hates the Jew, don't you know, more than any
other religionist. That shows the sort of brains that has made the
Morning Post an anti-Jewish newspaper and a joke among intelligent,
fair-minded Englishmen.

After all, there is no mystery about the thing. England frankly
says—and the representative press of England frankly says—that
England wanted to select those men who by temperament and train-
ing were best fitted for the job at hand. And it happens that Mon.
tagu and Reading are the two who, in the judgment of the govern-
ment, are able to handle the Indian situation
to England's and India's
best interest. So

the mystery is solved.

I wish that some day the publishers of Turgenev's books would
eliminate that short story called the "Jew." It simply helps per-
petuate hatred and prejudice. There was no reason on earth why
Turgenev had to choose the worst of type of Jew and man. I am
quite sure there must have been some good Jews in Russia that a
man of Turgenev's keenness and wide knowledge could have dis-
covered. Instead he needs must give to the world the cringing,
cowardly, immoral and traitrous character—Girshel.

After reading the report of the missing' editor of "Facts"—the

paper that has bitterly attacked
Henry Ford—who went to Detroit
to interview Ford and is now rumored to have been
I de•
cided to mail Ford a copy of the book I mentioned last drowned,
week in these
eolumns--"The Power of a Lie," by Johann Bojer. If
the guards
around Ford will permit this book to reach him—and if he
will have
some one read it to him—then I think he
will begin to see the fate-
ful, evil consequences that will continue to
result
from
his
"The
Great
Lie of the Present Day."
0
Sort of jolts us out of our feeling of complacency when we hear

Teddy Roosevelt the Second tell us that wars are apparently inevit-
able in the development of civilization, and that we ought to beware
of the pacifists who are abroad in the land or we shall again be un-
prepared when the great strife comes. Makes one feel rather creey
to say the least. And I think that Roosevelt knows what he is talk-
ing about.

If we escape war with Japan we can write down another miracle
in the history of man. But those foolish folk who talk about Japank
inability to cope with this nation fail to understand that Japan data
not necessarily have to fight us alone. This might be a good point to
keep in your mind the next time you
discuss the subject.

I have been asked by the "Literary Digest" to give an opinion
of the apparent immodest tendencies of present-day women—young,
near young and others not quite no young. (I have long learned that
the word "old" is taboo in connection with the subject "Woman,"
so I go about it the other way.) I am not a reformer. We are really
being reformed almost to the point of discomfort,
but our young
women are really—what shall I say?—entirely too intense in their
up-to-dateness.

There is a lot of loose, smart-Alec whisky drinking among young
girls, exactly as there is the same sort of cigarette poseurs—not
women who really enjoy smoking, but those who in their provin-
cialism think they are quite Bohemian and desperately devilish when
they do it. Jewish girls, as well as non-Jewish girls, are included in
the sweeping criticisms that are going from one end of the country
to the other. And it looks very much as if an old-fashioned slipper
is required by parents for this emergency. Or perhaps an EX-
.
AMPLE by the parents—that
is, the ultra-modern ones—would
be even better. ;

Both synagogue and church are beginning
to take cognizance of
this extreme laxity in the character of dress and dance innovations
on the part of the young folk. "Parking" corsets on the part of the
girls before entering the dance hall and boys carrying hip-pocket
flasks suggest the need of common sense restraint from some outside
or inside source. Stamford, Conn., is the scene of the latest break-
ing out of this sort of rather common business. It isn't even vulgar
because occasionally there is an attractive vulgarity, but this is lot
common and ordinary.

That's a splendid idea to send twenty-five Jewish men across to
the devastated areas of Austria, Poland and other countries where
Jews are particularly sufferers, in order to survey the situation and
report how best to aid in the rehabilitation of those areas and the
practical helping of our co-religionists
to get on their feet. Louis
Marshall is directing the undertaking,
and twenty-five of the most
representative Jews of the nations will go over
this summer. In pass-
ing, it might be mentioned that $14,000,000 will be asked for this ye
ar
to meet the needs of the suffering Jews of those countries.

Ben Welch, the famous Jewish comedian, is, to our way oh
thinking, made of hero stuff. Stricken with total blindness, he is
continuing his work on the vaudeville stage. And just to show that
he didn't want sympathy or charity, he destroyed a $10,000 accident
policy that would have assured him $75 a week without working far
a number of years. He wanted none of it. His philosophy of life is
unusual and his act should be an inspiration to others who, while
unfortunate, are not nearly so unfortunate as he.

If we lived in an ideal age we wouldn't have to tell the world that
225,000, or more than 4 per cent of the total Americans engaged in
the war, were Jews. And what is vastly more interesting is than
40,000 enlisted—a larger percentage of enlistments than
front any
other class in this country. That
makes us feel good.

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