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Baptist," was not the full measure of the Jewish congregation's gener-
osity. A second congregation desirous of obtaining the property., made
a proposition to pay $85,000 for it, an advance of $10,000 over the
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
sum offered by the negro congregation. Although the option given to 0
the last named congregation had expired, Congregation Anshe Mayriv
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
of its own accord extended the option at a clear loss to itself of $10,000.
Joseph J. Cummins, President.
This action is indeed worthy of appreciation but to us it occasions
Eutered as second class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoilice at Detroit, no great surprise. We cannot understand a Jewish congregation true
Mich . , under the Act of March 3, 1879.
to its inherited ideals, taking any other attitude than that which was "THE JEW AND THE
taken. It is interesting, however, that the action should be subject DEARBORN INDEPENDENT"
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Cable Address: often and especially in recent times, been painted
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Timely Resolutions

The Chicago Rabbinical Association at its meeting held on Feb

To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this
7th, stirred to action by conditions which have been repeatedly repute('
office by Tuesday evening of each week.

RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN

Editorial Contrlbutou

The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on,subjecte of interest to the
Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an Indorsement of the view
expressed by the writer..

Adar 24, 5681

March 4, 1921.

Dr. Kohler's Retirement

in this column, unanimously adopted the following resolutions in regar('
to the issuance of permits for fermented wine for sacramental purposes
"Whereas, it is a well established fact that according to the Jewish
ritual law, unfermented wine may be used on all occasions for "sacra ,
mental purposes.," and
Whereas, in the spirit of the laws of our country, the Central
Conference of American Rabbis has recommended the use of unfer
mented wine for all religious purposes.
Therefore, Be It Resolved, that we, the members of the Chicago
Rabbinical Association, refuse to sign any and all requests for the use
of fermented wine for "sacramental purposes."
These resolutions are timely and to the point. We believe ilia'
similar resolutions should he adopted by all rabbinical groups in chi
country and that in their spirit, every rabbi should ad. Concerted action
in this matter nn the part of rabbis, Orthodox and Reform, would g(
far to preventing a scandal which is almost inevitable unless decisive
action is quickly taken to prevent it. And the only one sure way it
prevent it, is for the rabbis not to avail themselves of the privilege give'
them by the government to sign permits for the purchase of wine for
so-called sacramental purposes.

The ammuncement that Dr. Kaufman Kohler, President of the
Hebrew Union College, has definitely decided to retire from his high
office at the end of the present school semester, will arouse mingled
feelings of gladness and sadness in the hearts of his pupils, his col-
leagues, and his friends. We shall be glad that his withdrawal from
active service at the head of the College will give Dr. Kohler that merited
leisure necessary to the pursuit of his literary labors, for Dr. Kohler
stands out beyond question among the foremost living Jewish scholars
Of our time Ile is by nature the student. His published works and
especially his great book on "Jewish Theology" attest this fact beyond
the peradventure of doubt. Relieved from the routine duties of the
presidency, we may well expect that Dr. Kohler will further enrich our
Jewish literature with contributions from his pen. God grant him many
years of useful activity!
And yet rejoicing as we do in the fine opportunity for a sort of
service highly congenial to a scholar of his type, we cannot but feel a
deep sense of regret that advancing age makes it necessary for Dr.
Kohler to retire from the active management of the affairs of the UPMalt TALKS
college. Upon the death of the beloved founder of the college—Isaac Thrl "L
M, Wise—there were many of us who had sat at the feet of this master
who felt that his place as teacher and administrator could never be The Moral Duty the Tuberculosis
Patient Owes to His Neighbor.
adequately filled by another. It is no idle tribute, therefore, to Dr.
, 1■ , .it hot Ph
Kaufman Kohler to say that during the •years of his occupancy of the
.
the f"'lo
Molosenistec mesitect
exalted office of the presidency of the college, he has won the whole-
The greatest danger to the com-
hearted respect and love not only of his pupils who have been privileged
to come into intimate contact with him day by day, but as well of the music} are those suffering with pul-
t i loon,,arny tuberculosis, more popularly
older Alumni of the college who have found in Ishii a true friend and
as consumption in the lungs.
an exalted leader.
The sputum, or any of the excretions
The question of a successor to Dr. Kohler naturally now presses of the body, contain the germs which
seaseu. . Whn a person
to the front. And those charged with the high responsibility of filling c
cause thew
onih
tu rculo i s s
Ilse place will be called upon to use the utmost wisdom and courage in frp it no g r a t eist di h pulmonary
•
the s i dewalk,
making their choice. The Hebrew Union College is the heart of Judaism . person is co. usciously
sa
oruncons httislast-
in America and the man chosen to stand at its head must be one equipped Is. according to the degree of his ig-
whh ripe scholarship, with excellent executive ability, and with the gift norance, the cause of disseminating
ediseaseaal:li dong
withie people in fwhiclis
of a rich personality. Ile must understand the psychology of leadership ,
Ile must know what thoughts are stirring the thinkers among the people'
he 'Cain g euvettY1
smtlicg!
whO sit in our pews and what sort of men are needed to inspire and to matized as a murderer.
instruct these people and what sort of training must be given them to When the sputum dries . and is
' ground into dust, every gust of wind
fit them adequately for their task.
. carries the very tine particles which
Ile must be a man who shall know men as well as books. He are laden with germs. far from being
must be one at house in Jewish literature and lore but at the same time, dead, into the air, to he breathed into
he must be a man deeply touched by the American spirit. Ile must .11.' hogs sit unsuspecting
so o nod one person
remember that he shall stand at the head of an institution that is to lwiLe,rse, t
r n e I ls for their growth
he
train religious leaders for American Jews and that mere book knowledge and -Ace-,elet-ponsenst. f the person is in
will not suffice to prepare them for this very respussible ditty.
excellent physical trim. that is to say,
There are not many men who can measure up to these requirements.1 that Isis resistance is above par, then
e thral proteestive forces of the
But it would be a confession of great poverty to say that there are among
none. ! the .. in
ii %es tuct
t I swii ltchs,tnrirt)y
, I,firrsi,sntist!
Indeed, we believe that there are such nit., to be found even
clue
the graduates of the Ilebrew Union College. Frankly, we feel that the lei,, conscious' that anythinig has
!pan to be placed at the head of the College should 1w one who as student. happened. On the contrary. the per-
has passed through its halls and whose love for the institution as well as .011 that enhales thew dried germs
',ay have in some way undermined
for the larger cause of Israel may not be doubted.
!I', health, and there are a thousand
Whoever the man shall he whom those charged with the selection ...Is in which this is being clone every
shall decide upon, lie may Ise sure of the whole-hearted loyalty mill co- 'Id,. and his ill health may in some
operation of the Alumni body of the Ilebrew Union College. To make war be associated with an hereditary
tendency to the disease, and he read-
less than this pledge would be to stamp the graduates of the college as ily succumbs to the tuberculosis that
unappreciative of the inspiration that has been laid upon them by Isaac Ice would otherwise have escaped. In
1St. Wise and by Kaufman Kohler. With such co-operation, the Presi- this latter case then we have supplied
dent to be chosen will be able to continue the splendid traditions of his the really two essentials for the pro-
duct:on of tlie disease, namely, the
honored predecessors and to carry the college to ever-growing height. 'arson who is proper soil, and the
Of usefulness. With the college in a position to attain its maximum trite germ to grow thereon.
lu liner with both of these factors
of efficiency, it is fair to say that a generation of spiritual leathers will
go forth from its halls who shall leave upon the lives and the hearts eliminated, tuberculosis should be-
come a rare or even extinct disease.
of their people, a growing influence for good.
and we are giving to posterity man-

kind's greatest blessing, when we of
Imlay start to develop a virile, healthy
race of people on the one hand, and
suppress awl eradicate the organism'
Stop the cry of martyrdom! This is a word which with all earnest- of disease nn the other hand. This i.
ness and with the deepest sincerity, we would speak to our colleague's the whole problem, the whole scheme
in the pulpit and to our writers in the press. :\ !though the Jew has of preventive medicine, wherein lies
a.ioni that an ounce of prey, tot. 'It
suffered many times beyond the measure of endurance, it would seem, the
is worth a pound of cure.

The Cry of Martyrdom

and although in every land and hi all centuries, he has been the victim
of oppression and of persecution, he is not in any true sense the martyr
that most persons writing about him would picture him to be.
Martyrdom, es-en though it carry with it heroic suffering in a noble
cause, implies failure, and the Jew has not been a failure at any period
of history. A people that has left its mark upon civilization as has the
w —a fact that is conceded and held against us even by our enemies—
is not a failure. A people whose laws are basic to every code by which
civilized man is guided, is not a failure. A people whose sacred books
are the inspiration of the churches of all denominations, whose psalms
are sung in every tongue, and the words of whose prophets are text
words for the preacher of every faith, is not a failure. A people that
has been the spiritual teacher of mankind and that has led uncounted
multitudes to the waters of righteousness is not a failure. A people
whose sons and daughters have made the hest possible use of every
opportunity, however limited, that has been given them for intellectual
achievement and for moral accomplishment, is not a failure. A people,
in short, that in the face of unequalled opportunity, has gone from
strength to strength and despite slander and malignment has won the
respect and the esteem of the thinking men of every time and every
nation, is not a failure.
This cry of martyrdom about the Jew therefore., is ill tinted anti
unseemly. Iet the Jew regard himself as lie is, a triumphant and in a
spiritual sense, a conquering people. Our own sons and daughters are
tired, as well they may be, of hearing themselves described as martyrs
to a great cause. They do not like to link themselves with a cause that
has failed and is failing. If we understand psychological processes at
all, we will see that our cause will be heightened and strengthened when
we cease to key the story of the Jew to the minor scale as though it
were always a dirge or lamentation. On the contrary. let its sing it
forth as a song of victory and high achievement. Again then we say,
"Stop roe cry of martyrdom!"

JEWISH HOME INMATES
ARE WEDDING GUESTS

Couple That Never Had a Quar-
rel Celebrate Anniversary 2
Months After Arriving
Here.

N EAV YORK—Tam months after
their arrival in America. NIr. and Nies.
Hirsch N. Shapiro, who live with their
son Sane at 7114 Fast 17501 street. the
Bronx. cs Is Israted their golden wed-
ding atoniersary last week. They em
t•rtain•il at dims, r MO inmates of the
House of the S011 , and Daughters of
Israel and a few score it( friends, and
they were married again. according to
Jewish custom. The dinner was held
as the institution, 232 Rawl Te n th

street.
The Shapiros. once wealthy resi-

dents of Brody. Austria. were. brought
to New York by their son after they
had lost all th, ir possessions in ante-
1st ne tic uprising.. I ill y reviewed
these experiences at the dinner and

dspite their seventy yi ars each par-
ticipated in the dance that followed.

Never in their fifty years of mar-
ried life had the Shaptros had a quar-
rel, they said. Throughout his ca-
reer as a banker and distiller, Mr. Sha-
piro relied entirely on his wife's ad-
vice and was always unsuccessful when
he failed to do so. They liked Amer-
ica, and were only sorry they had nit
immigrated sooner.
Attending the "intch"
a were Judge
Aaron J. Levv, Alderma n Louis Zelt-
Tier. Rabbis NI. 7... Margolies. David
The current number of "The Baptist," a Chicago weekly publication, Frankel and Abraham G•rlanter, who
devoted as its name implies, to the interests of the Baptist Church.' alici ,"ed at use wedding ceremony
a nr of
it,,,I,n‘ ;Y,
acne ” tra te.ros;, was
publishes in its current issue, a splendid appreciation of the action
given at the
the Congregation Anshe Mayriv of Chicago, of which Rabbi Tobias son's expense. Resides he gave his
Schanfarber is the minister. It seems that when this congregation narents a check for $2.000 and elonat-
decided to dispose of its magnificent place of worship at the corner •d $250 In the Daughters of 'seal.'
of Indiana Avenue and 33rd Street, a business house offered to pay Hoene. and $1 50 to the Home of the
')anglstrrs of Iamb.

A Generous Attitude

for the property the sum of $75.000 in cash, giving to the congregation
the right to use for its own purposes, its pews, carpets, organ, etc.,
valued conservatively at about $25,000.
In the meantime, a negro congregation hearing that the property
was for sale, offered the same in cash and the Jewish congregation
accepted this offer but gave gratis to the negro congregation all the
equipment which, had the property gone for business purposes, would
have reverted to its original owners. But this, according to The

MUSIC OF ORIENT
TO FEATURE PLAY

Cantor A. Miokowshy Preparing New
Compositions for Play of United
Hebrew Schools.

pill! (Our
Contritiporaries

which contains an installment of
Ford's foolish tirade against the Jew.
I read the criticism of the Jew with
interest. \Vhile the article was full of
falsehoods, it was well written and
.howed a degree of information nut
possessed by Henry Ford. Ford has
no information. The suggestion that
the Jew wants to control America and
'make this country a New Jerusalem"
is so ridiculous that a man of sense
would not have permitted such a
thing to be published in his paper.
hiy judgment is that these articles are
written by some little, sharp, rather
well informed "apostate Jew, who is
working solely for Henry Ford's
money — a shameful prostitution of
money raised by the sale of a

Lizzie.

It is funny to see to what extremes
certain stupid, ignorant men will go
for notoriety. One would naturally
suppose that a man capable of con-
structing a Ford car would rather
'avoid the sensational and the notor•
ions. But Mr. Ford seems to be a
sort of grotesque fool who when se
discards his overalls and gets out of
Iris factory leaves all sense behind.
Ile knows nothing of the racial his-
tory of the Jew; in fact Mr. Ford does
not know anything about the history
of Isis own country or any other
country. He is as ignorant as the av-
erage Mississippi cornfield negro, and
I doubt if he knows from reading
whether Ike Nazarene was crucified
or killed by Colonel Lamar Fontaine
in the Battle of the NA'ilderness. It is
the ease of a good mechanic chang-
ing front a useful man to a pernicious,
sensational fraud. The truth is there
is no better man or woman beneath

ihe stars than will be found among

the _Jews. They are kind fathers, de-
voted mothers and friends, whose loy-
alty knows no variableness or shadow
of turning. Really they arc the chosen
For the first time its tire history of people of God.

Detroit, there will he presented a

Biblical play in the original Hebrew,
on Sunday evening, March 27, at
Orchestra Ifni!. The play, "Saul and
David," is to be given under the aus
picas of the United Hebrew School
of Detroit, of which B. tsaacs is su-
perintend( nt, and the cast is to bt
made up of the pupils of the various
Hebrew schools in the cute.

CANTOR A. MINKOWSKY.

The outstanding feature of this Ile

brew play will be the Oriental lie
brew music that has brew prepares
for the occasion. The music prepare,
for this play is very much unlike the
late Jewish music that has borrowers
so melt of the modern composition
and has by virtue of that necome He
brew only by outward technique ano
coloring.
Cantor A .11inko•sky, of the
Thaarey Zedek congregation, is de

noting a great deal of time at preset
n filling the needs of the Haire%

•onuminity for a purely Heine%
nusir, which will for the first time b
log during the Hebrew play or
March 27. Cantor Minkows•y ba
.iken the religions aspect as his hack-
;round, and based his melodies or .
;armies religious customs and core
monies.
Cantor Minkowsky, at one tins,
president of the Cantors' Association
of America, came to this country ii
1914. Ile was graduated from the Ins
'trial Conservatory of Music in Mos
cow. where he was a prize student
statolying tinder the direction of Chai
kowsky. Arensky and Safonoff.
In the music Cantor Ntinkowsk•
' composed for IHe Hebrew play, le
. laid emphasis on the notes of the
bugle on the Hebrew New \'ear, a.
I well as the variations of the Ilebrev
soo t when it goes out in deep long
' roes and supplications over she trage
. sites of the past. and the hilarity an,'
the enthusiasm for the hopes of the
future, these esnlmelied in the tradi
, tional interpretation of the "Italian
jab s "
Additional features of the play will
be the sceneries, costumes and pas
toral amusements that are aimed Ic
take the audience back to primitive
times \lore than 1511 children will
partnmate in the play.
.
The coac nog of the p as i is !rear,
by the stage manager of the New
dish Theater, NI. Honigman. fey cone

lesy of the Recreation COI111111,10,1

A DEVICE OF CORRUPTION.
(Niqv York American)

John Spargo, speaking theeother
night in Boston on the anti-Jewish
campaign, said one thing which is
true and worth repeating:
"Everywhere throughout the cen-
turies anti-Semitism, when it has ap-
peared, has been closely inter•ined
with every other corrupt reactionary
and brutalizing force."
AVIsereever you find Jew-baiting you
will find sonic powerful minority en-
joying unjust privileges which the
mass of the people are beginning to
question and challenge, and for which
the privileged class is beginning to
entertain serious fears.
Almost always at such a juncture,
when it is possible, this privileged
class raises a hue and cry against the

In the middle ages the exactions of
the kings and barons •were blamed on
the Jewish money lenders. In modern
time, a corrupt and treasonable
French military cabal brought lately
the most hideous charge that can be
made against a soldier against the
Jew, Captain Dreyfus. In Russia a
weak Czar and his drunken grand
dukes, the corruption of whose gov-
ernment kept the Russian people in
ignorance, poverty and misery, had
to have Jews to blame to divert frosts
themselves the wrath of an ignorant
population.
To-day Polish landlords are trying
to preserve an economic system which
has been destroyed by the people of
other countries on all sides of them.
They foment war between the Polish
masses and the Jews. This accounts
largely for the war against Russia.
That these Jewish outbreaks are not
spontaneous or natural, are not based
upon real grievances, is proved by
the fact that wherever there is no
reactionary privileged class there is
no Jew baiting.
Russia under the Czar was shame-
less in its Jewish progroms. But Jew-
ish progroms ceased entirely as soon
!as an end was made of the Czar and
the. system of the landowners who
squeezed out of the peasants the
money needed to support the ruling
autocracy and aristoetacy in idleness
or waste.
The Jews are not the only victims
of those who raise false cries against
others in other to divert attention
from themselves. The practice is as
old as the Bible. Early Christians
suffered from it even more than the
Jews. The privileged classes sought
to keep the people absorbed in strifes,
internal or external, so that they
should not have time to think of
their own economic condition.

ROTHSCHILDS TO REBUILD
POLISH LOCOMOTIVE SHOPS

LONDON—The Rot hschilds of
Frankfort, Germany, have informed
. he Polish government that they are'
srepared to rebuild their locomotive
shops in Poland, according to a War-
aw dispatch to the London Times
lust prior to the war the Rothschild ,
, •ad completed the largest railway en-
' uine shop in Poland, right outside of
W • Daring 1915 the Russian
semi, completely destroyed it The
' Rothschilds now offer to rebuild it
and to hand over to the Polish u •
mom nt after 15 years if they will be
Perth teal to build and repair become,
ives and other railroad materials fur
the Russian government.

the city of Detroit. Miss Lillian Levsn
director of recreation of the Jewiss
Institute, Hight street east, has rest
dered all her services to the peace
lion of the various fancy dances em
bodied in Ole operetta.

50,000 JEWS FACE
VIENNA EXPULSIOlv

PA RI S.—I t was learned that there
are $0000 Jews in Vienna who are
officially registered as aliens and are
threatened with expulsion. The er
pulsion, if effected, would resemble
the historic expulsion of the Jews
from Spain. The matter of these ex-
IEWS GIVE MULLION
pulsions is now before the meeting
TO PLEBISCITE FUND of the Council of the League of Na
tions. and Austria's contentions are
WARSAW—The Polish Plebiseitc• defended by the local representative
'"nrnmission for Unoer-Silesia en! Eichcff, and the Austrian Minister
from members of she lesrsh Tarnocsy, the author of the expulsion
S freel.snW A. ,inciati ,91 of this ate movement, who came nere for that
one million marks within two days
purpose.

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NATURE AND THE POET

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My Rabbi was Nature—she set use to learn,

She taught me to sing and she taught me to play;

She taught me to think and to feel, day by day,

And all that is beautiful, swift to discern,

The heart must be fresh, and the brain clear and steady,

The scales and the measure be waiting and ready,

And I, after all, have become—why you know it;

A poet, my brothers, a poor Jewish poet.

S. FRUG.

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Cardinal Gibbons, on the eve of the birthday of Washington,
sends this thought to the American people: "I fear no enemy with-
out. The enemy I fear is he who, forgetting human nature and the
history of Europe, would raise the question of another's religious
belief and introduce strife and discord into the life of our country,"
0 --
One of the boldest expressions uttered in years, through the
medium of a widely circulated journal, on the subject of church de-
cadence, is found in the article of William T. Ellis, who in the "Sat-
urday Evening Post" touches the subject of the present-day church
on the "raw." He thinks the church must be very "weak in the
knees" if it confesses that it cannot compete with "the comic sup-
plement, the golf course and the automobile."

Underneath it all there runs the current of criticism that the
church has become too professionalized, too much of the seeking
after "wholesale" rather than "retail" business. Too many "engi.
neers" who attempt to herd millions into church-going. And the
lack of vitalizing messages that answer the spiritual yearnings found
in the heart of the average normal person is characteristic of the
pulpit today. There is too much attention given to cigarette smok-
ing, short skirts, movies and not enough to great problems and is-
sues that are rocking the world to its very foundations.

Mr. Ellis is right. There are too many "professional" leaders
who are busying themselves with blue laws and doing everything
to give the world the impression that religioniats want to deprive
persons of all the sunshine there is in life. And that is why the
real religionists, the big-minded spiritual men and women realize how
utterly futile and how mischievous are these efforts to clamp the lid
down so tightly on Sundays that the most natural, normal, innocent
and healthful exercises and recreations are to be prohibited.
CO-- -
Religion has not failed, but the church has in its interpretation
of religion. And these hectic movements looking toward the re.
vival of church attendances through enormously financed advertis.
ing campaigns are resultless. Persons are sufficiently interested in
religion, in religious problems, in questions of the here and the here.
after to seek eagerly from all sources capable of giving it to them,
information that will help them in striving to answer those ques-
tions. Consider the multitude of unorthodox religious meetings of
all kinds held in halls and the crowds attracted, and you will un-
derstand that interest in religion is not dead.
0
The pulpit is too superficial, too shallow. It deals with surface
manifestations instead of fundamentals. Spencer i n his "First
Principles" points out that religion is not a priestly invention to de-
lude mankind, but that it is universal, so deeply seated in the minds
of every kind of people on the face of the globe that it is either a
special, directly-created faculty, or it has grown out of accumulated
human experiences. But it is present nevertheless, and, while err.
tain theological conceptions may be proven false, yet the religious
instinct itself remains untouched and must be respected as one of
the greatest of all forces that influences the life of mankind. But
the thirst for religious inspiration and guidance cannot be satisfied
with such froth as the church and synagogue give out today.

Last May Rabbi Coffee, of Toledo, told me that Ford was launch-
ing a series of attacks against the Jews because he felt that the in-
ternational bankers were responsible for wars, and, inasmuch as
most of the international bankers are Jews, he wanted to warn the
world against this enormous Jewish power and to prevent its being
used for the continuance of war. Last Saturday Henry Ford, in the
first interview given out since he began to run amuck in his paper,
virtually corroborates the statement.

But unfortunately Mr. Ford, in his anxiety to combat what he
believed was an enemy of peace—international banking cliques—
was led far astray, and men in his employ, either afraid of their jobs
or because they are sycophants and want to please their master,
began to hire every man they could lay their hands on who might
dig up a nasty story against individual Jews. So while Ford in his
sublime ignorance may assert that he is not anti-Semitic, that his
campaign is not anti-Semitic, the facts are, as has been pointed out
repeatedly, he has been duped and made as big a fool of as any man
in modern history.
-
One of the most fascinating autobiographies I ever read was that
of Prince Kropotkin, who died a few weeks ago. His "Memoirs of
a Revolutionist" is the story of a great and interesting life. But it
would be very educational to those who, through their ignorance
of Russian history, have imbedded in their heads the thought that
the only revolutionists Russia ever had were discontented Jews.
I recommend Kropotkin as an interesting writer.

Now I wonder if it isn't time that we lifted this thought out
of Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies" and gave it light once more: "And,
indeed, if there were to be any difference between a girl's education
and a boy's, I should say that of the two the girl should be the
earlier led, as her intellect epens faster, into deep and serious sub-
jects; and that her range of literature should be not more, but less,
frivolous, calculated to add the qualities of patience and seriousness
to her natural poignancy of thought and quickness of wit. I enter
not now into any question of choice of books; only be sure that her
books are not heaped up in her lap as they fall out of the package
of the circulating library, wet with the last and lightest spray of the
fountain of folly."

The immigration problem threatens to become the most acute
now before the American people. The latest suggestion, and one I
am sure will be adopted sooner or later, is to take the whole mat-
ter entirely out of the realm of politics by authorizing a federal
commission with full power to act. Requisitions will be sent to our
consular agents in Europe that certain men are needed for certain
occupations. Their work is ready for tt:em before they come. One
hundred thousand a year shall be allowed to enter the country. No
more promiscuous segregation will be allowed; in other words• it
will be strictly an economic problem.
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