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: some dangerous and misleading state-
he has never forgiven the Jewish
mentswhich they attributed to him.
race for this insult. He is par-
interesting
nteresting explanation is found
ticularly fond of claiming that, the
in Captain Goodhart's diary as to he
Old Testament and the Talmud
reason wily M. Niemojewski had
are essentially immoral books.
Come the most violently anti-Senn tic
The anti-Semitic agitation carried
editor in Poland. He says:
on in Poland for years, encouraged
Niemojewilsi is a small, rohnd-
particularly tinder the czar's regime
(Being a review of Arthur L. Good- and the comic sides of the incident.
faced, good-natured-looking man,
for the purpose of inciting one op-
hart's "Poland and Minority Races" Ile .writest
whose little eyes blink through a
pressed nationality against ;mother
(Brentano's) written by Herman
He was a most venerable-look-
pair of large spectacles. He had a
has given rise to numerous strange
ing old man, with a long white
Bernstein and appearing In a recent
varied career. Although he was
legends.
number of the New York Times lit•
beard which reached almost to his
once philo-Semitic, radical and
Captain Goodhart describes ;Min-
vary section.)
waist. We was dressed in his
anti-church, he is now the oppo-
ner at the house of Count Potocki,
.
.
finest silk kaftan, which his son
site of all three. George Brandes,
one of the most famous families of
IN the summer of PAO. reports of
whispered to me was only worn
the Danish critic, ridiculed one of
old nobility in Poland. The cream
on the greatest occasions. Be-
It uish massacres ,iii Poland reached
his works some years ago, and
of the Polish aristocracy had come to
fore he went in to see Mr. Mor-
th, outside world, and meetings of
genthau and the general he -took
States
protest were held in the
a little comb from his pocket, but
and England. Premier Paderewski,
his hand trembled so from excite-
who was at the Peace Conference in
ment that he could hardly fix his
sid,iii Wilson to au-
l'aris, asked
point a committ, e to investigate the . -'beard with it. When he met Mr.
s Morgenthau he bowed low and
pogroms, stating that they had been
then recited a long speech which
grossly exaggerated. In fact, the Po-
he had apparently learned by
lisp officials at first denied that there
heart.
had been any pogroms, admitting that
On thy salmi day members of the
only certain anti-Jewish "excesses"
had taken place in l'oland. President, American mission called on Professor
Wilson appoint, d Henry Morgenthan, • Szymon .Nskenasy, the foremost his-
Brig.-Gen. Edgar Jadwin and Homer torian in Poland. Professor Ashen
II. Johnson as a mission to investi- asy has always been regarded as a
rate the pogroms. Captain Arthur itqlish' patriot, and from the Jewish
I. Goodharljellow of Corpus Christi e i e w point, as .assimilationisr. In his
College, Cambridge, was appointed. views with worsts:titer men he
trieukto minimize the anti-Jewish dint
counsel to the mission.
'Elie report of the American mission rag, ;slot explained that they were
to Poland was made public through but a temporary phenomenon. A
of hiss pr„ii.„„r
the department of state long ago. It
pleased neither the Jews nor the of Lemberg, all his• life also a l ' 0111, 11
l'OICS. The Juiss declared that the_ patriot, denounced the Poles after
American mission bad whitewashed the terrible massacres that occurred
the Poles, and the l'oles were dis,at in Lemberg. Profsssor .Sskenasy, of
isficil because the report contained vs.,„ aw , tits one of the very icw
the facts about the pogroms called Jewish professors in Poland, and re
"excesses" even though the rull'h (culls. he was linable to continue at
government was not held re•ponsible the Warsaw University because of
the intense anti-Semitic campaign
for the outrages.
I was in Poland at the time the conducted against him iti the Polish
American tWssion arrived thrt v. I press. Curiously enough, this same
had the opportunity to.see the meat- Professor Askrnasy has been appoint-
tiers of the American mission at work. ed by the Polish, government as one
There is no doubt that they set out of Poland's representatives in the
uitli the best of intentions to investi- League of Nations. The other retire-
gate the reported outrages, and to de- •entative is M. Ignace Pailerewski.
sise ways and means of bringing Captain Goodhart gives an int•rest-
:Jima a better understanding between ing resume of Professor Askenasy's
the Poles and the Jew:. But as the Om, on conditions in Poland as ex.
inellIbefi of the mission were not suf- pressid to the American mission.
kciently familiar with the problems • Professor .Sskettasy said that he
of the Poles and the Jews, with their thought that Poland had a bright
conflicts and frictions in the Pagb ' future. It had the three elements es-
ti ith their differences and their aspira- ■ I'1111111 to the making of a stable cowl-
lions, their literature and their lives, Icy. First, numbers; second, a virile
it was evident eNcn then that the Ant- population; and third, a long and
crican mission could not succeed. noble history. He thought that the
Captain Goodhart's dairy, kept due- sudden development of nationalism,
big his stay in Poland, published re- both on the part of the Poles and the
rently in book form, is a most inter- • Jews, was only a temporary result of
„ling account of the life and mail- • the War. The Polish Nationalists es-
had confused nationalism
nets of the people after the storm that l with
followed the first few months of lib- . d patriotism. He e defined patriot,•
city and independence. Captain Good-. ism as the love for one's country, ita-
1:art recorded incidents he saw and tionalism as the desire to limit that
witho"t prejudice, as a keen country to one race. Only a small
• oh-wryer, with a line 'sense of humor proportion of the Poles were really
and of fairness. •Ilis diary is a verY nationalists in this Mil., Their Icad•
readable little book, coptaining much iers, however, were noisy and danger-
information that is quite valuably and mix, as their position depended upon
entertaining. He holds no brief for the amount of trouble they could
either side. Ile simply relates a num- stir
was
bur of episodes and impressions gait-
f ,.,1 ( 1,.„f \\111 ,f, at the
crest in the COLIC , C of Ilk IIIVCSI11.1a - “ 1 , 1 „,;„1,-,1 1,, p
without giving his cotirlusions request of r Paderewski, the
or suggesting any remedies. He eon- tif„tio, pe e ., was extremely unfriendly
clods.% his little book with t h e follow- toward the 111;-,1011 1111011 it.: arrival
ing charactcr'stic paragraph: iu Poland Uu ibis point Captain
(......lhart writs
^ Sept . 13—At 7:30 we drove
/ novas to- the station to take the
All of the papers are writing
train for Paris. The vice minister bitter articles against the mission.
They say that President Wilson
of foreign affairs, Count Zoltow-
had no right to interfere in the
ski, and other members of the
internal affairs of Poland. None
Polish government were there to
of the Polish papers have pub.
see us off. Dr. Grynbaum, Mr.
lisherl the statement of good-will
Farbstein and Dr. Gottlieb, the
which Mr. Mongenthau and Gen-
leaders of the Zionists, were also
eral Jadwin drew up on the train.
at the station. As our train slow-
l'he Jewish newspapers, of which
ly drew away from the platform
there are four in Warsaw, all pub-
they were standing in one group,
distance
the
Poles
were
lished this statement and have
while at a
also sent representatives asking
standing in another. It seemed'
to me emblematic of the condi-
for further interviews.
The bitterest journalistic oppo-
tions existing at present in Po-
nent of the mission•at present is
land. All that evening I kept
M. Niemojewski, the editor of the
wondering whether it was pos-
leading Polish weekly.
sible that these two groups would
join into one. Theo lie tong, from N winsoewski
Ehr American iiii•• on lirriesdl ill
We summon the widest Polish
vrsaw on Ifil ∎ 13. 1 0 19 Captain
public to enter a strong protest
down the
Ow hhi
Goodhart
following not,s onion: ofliri•:
against the attitude of Mr. Wil-
After luncheon we called on
son. Odd, indeed, do appear in
Minister Gibson at his temporary
the light of this fact the declama-
headquarters at the Hotel Bristol.
tions of Mr. Wilson on ideals,
This hotel, which is the best in
justice and fairness. In fact, the
Poland. is owned by Paderewski.
League of Nations proclaimed by
The entrance hall was filled with
him ought to be feared. ''', • •
French officers they are training
We have stated that we are on
the new Polish army which is to
the eve of a civil war with the
fight the Bolsheviki. • • •
Jews. In sending such a provo-
cative commission to Poland,
When the people saw our
strange uniforms. a crowd began
President Wilson is throwing a
to gather, and we were soon fol-
blazing torch into accumulated
lowed by over a hundred men
powder. We are told that Amer-
and children. The Polish officer
ica is not much alive to our con-
ceptions of honor. But a poli-
• told us that the lapidity with
tician ought to know what nation.
which large crowds are now
formed in Poland is one of the
al honor is and what the danger
signs of the tragic lack of work
is of offending the same.
Thais u rota the foremost Polish
from which the people are suffer-
mil's-i-t concerning the mission that
ing. No one in the cities has any-
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was 'ant In Poland at the specific re-
thing to do and as a result the
fined of Premier Paderewski.
least incident will gather the men
The I, wish press, on the contrary,
like a swarm of flies.
The follow mg day, the national hot- flu ot, 1 a great deal of attention to
'.1„, of France, was declared a boll- the mission, declaring that the Jews
Po!and, as a compliment to the welcomed a thorough investigation
of the pogroms.
If mission.
It was Nen that Mr. Morgenthan
r, was a military parade in
\\
on that day'. and in the even and General Jadwin decided to invite
II, I hi. various allisd missions were
representatives of the roli,111,re•S for
ins ited to attend a gala performance a conference. Captain Goodhart says
of lionfe of the French mission at the that about twelve reporters came to
\%arsaw opera Ionise. The chief of the meeting. They were suspicious
date. Gen. was also there. at first, but Mr. Morgenthau zawceed-
After scenes of "Samson and Delilah" ell in establishing friendly 'relations.
had been presented, and seserat pa- Ile told them that the American thus-
trimic poems read by the jorrninst sion bad conic to help Poland and
Polish artists, the dancers in Polish was desirous of building a bridge
Peasant costumes u ommencrd to rem- across which the l'oles and Jews
der national Polish dances. Captain could meet. He pointed out that it
was in the interest of the allied coun-
I;uodhart writes:
tries that there should be a strong
just as they started the mazur-
ka all the lights in the opera
Poland which could keep Russia and
Germany apart, and that l'oland could
house went out. The whole build-
never be strong as long as there was
ing was left in total darkness.
a rift between parts of the population.
After a moment a man in the sec-
ond balcony struck a match, and
1Ie added that Poland reminded him
at the flash of light a shiver ran
of a pessimistic lady he knew. One
through the audience. A few peo-
day she gave birth to a fine boy, and
ple half rose in their seats, when
when they said to her, "Aren't you
happy now?" she replied, "No, I have
suddenly the orchestra struck up
the national anthem of Poland—
a toothache." Poland after years of
the famous Dombrowski march.
struggle had given birth to a new
freedom, and now was complaining
In a moment the whole audience
desperately about her Jewish prob-
had joined in the chorus; there
was something magnificent in the
If., General Jadwin then told the
fervor with which this song rang
following story:
out in the darkness. After a few
In America we have a cake
minutes two large candle-holders
called a doughnut, which has r
were brought on the stage and
hole 'In the middle. We call a
placed near the footlights. The
man an optimist who sees the
music played again while the per-
cake, and a man a pessimist who
formers danced in this weird il-
, sees only the hole.
He advised the Poles to stop
lumination. • • • Later in the
evening we were told that the
looking at the hole.
The
Polish ors ss then became more
workmen at the electric plant had
•
friendly to Ilse mission. The Jadwin
cut off the power at the opera
•
dory made a hit and was quoted
house so as to show the govern-
Rut Captain Goodhart fails,
ment the strength of the work-
in
mention
that
Mr
Morgenihau
was
ing classes.
The chief rabbi of Warsaw, Peri- !so misquoted on that occasion in the
mutter, called on the American mis-1 Polish press about the League n( Na-
sion. In a few words Captain Good- I tons an d p res ide nt \\Ikon that he
Some Facts About Pogroms
in Poland
meet the members of the American
mission. After dinner, the mission
was taken to a reception at the
Countess Wielopolska's.
I he charges made by ..the Poles
against the Jew. ill P0131111 were that
the hells sympathized is•itli the Rol-
sliee!ki, and this was given as the ex-
cuse for pogratos in most cases. Cap-
tain Goodhart has an interesting en-
try in his diary on this point:
In the evening we went back to
General Czeptycki's headquar-
ters. General Czeptyski said that
he did not believe that the ma-
jority of the Jews were Bol-
. sheviki or were in sympathy with
Bolshevism. Some of the very
young men, however, were ardent
preachers of Bolshevist doctrines,
and it was their actions and
speeches which caused the gen-.
eral idea that the Jews were com-
munists. I asked him whether
there were no young Poles who
were also communists. Ile said
that was quite possible, but that
they were not as noisy about it.
General Jadwin, a member of the
American mission, made a profound
impression at a great meeting of
Poles and Jews by getting the crowd
to repeat after him. "What is good
for the Jews is good for Poland, and
what is good for Poland i. good for
the Jews."
Men Poland realizes that ntither
by pogroms nor by economic boy.
colt: can the Polish•Jssaidi question
be solved, but by mutual understand-
ing and tolerance, then the Jews of
Poland will help Poland develop and
prosper in her new-won (r•f dole
—
DR. NORDAU IMPROVED
PARIS.—Dr. Max . Nordau, who
has been spending some
weeks in
the south of France recuperating
from his recent severe dim s s, is now
reported to have fully t,c:itrd
his
health.
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The Commission wishes to buy and oper-
ate certain parts of our system, amounting
in total to 25 miles.
The standard, double truck cars with
which we' serve these lines today, cost
$15,000 each.
, They cannot do so without your consent.
This they hope to get on Election Day.
Even ten-minute service over these 25
miles of track would need 6 cars to the
mile—a total of $2,250,000 more.
Through the newspapers the Commission
informs you that this purchase will cost
you about $1,000,000.
Why, your Five Million is already almost
accounted for, and there are many hun-
dreds of thousands more waiting to be
added.
The amount is grossly under-stated.
Purchase of these lines would cost you
much nearer FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
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way Commission tells you will cost you
approximately ONE Million Dollars!
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The Commision has no power to set the
price of this purchase. That figure must
be reached by arbitration.
We believe in nb cause which cannot win
favor ON ITS MERITS.
And the arbitrators would surely want
facts on which to base their award.
We consider any cause weak and sure to
fail, when it is harked by Untruth and
Mis-statement.
They would find that, even the inferior
type of track which the city has built on
certain streets costs about $100,000 a
mile—a total at this rate of $2,500,000
you would pay for tracks alone.
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by agreement tc ■ buy—if it buys at all—
all cars, shops, yards, and power facilities,
used to give service on any of our tracks it
takes over.
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the Street Railway Commission a growing
fear that your verdict, April 4 will he an
endorsement of the Service-At-Cost Or-
dinance which ensures for you, under the
direction, of your own public officials
"One Complete, Unified Street Railway
System, - charging ONE FARE to any
part of the city, and in which we take
from your shoulders all burdens of ex-
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