fitsPattorelt.Itun acw wag. c fp Cori;EWISR fiR01•41CLII fiE PAGE FOUR as executive leadership at the College. e)ne perhaps to act head anti the other as dean of the faculty. We realize that thisl Ili is no new suggestion and that undoubtedly it has received or may perhaps at the present time be receiving the consideration MICHIGAN'S JEWISH 110MR PUBLICATION of the Board of Governors, but we suggest it at this time as a possible means of meeting the difficulty by which it is likely Jonic le ublishing Co. Inc. Published Weekly by The swish Chr that those charged with the selection of a President will find THE POPE AND THE JEWS n t. Joseph J. Cummins, PresideP (The American Hebrew). themselves confronted. Of course the matter of additional Dismay must have struck the POIll0Mte at Detroit,' second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the expense may be involved in a choice of this kind, but we be- hearts of millions of Jews and Cath- Metered as __— lieve that it would not be an insuperable task to obtain front olics in America last Tuesday when Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879. they read the Assixiated Press report General Offices and Publication Building t he Jews of America, who are so vitally interested in this mat- of Monday's secret tonsistor) in ter, sufficient funds to meet the comparatively small additional Rome. To quote the report: 850 High Street West Cable Address: expense that would thus be entailed. , The Pope's allocution, delivered Telephones: before the Consistory, expressed 1.• anxiety over the situation in Pales- I tine, toying to the activity of the urged n and an J ws in the ents y L ad, - e --_-_,- Preparations are being made throughout the land, espe h e governm Holof the Chr isti Per real daily by leading Italian societies, to celebrate in a manner tiros to apiwill to the League of Na- 13.00 Per to insist upon the definition of Subscription, In Advance befitting so significant an occasion, the six hundredth anni - tires British mandate in Palestine. ail correspondence and new. matter must reach this, versary of the birth of Dante, the greatest, perhaps, of the the "The allocution charged that Jews To insure publication, world's poet - philosophers. In very truth, while it is eminently were "taking advantage of the suffer- slice by Tuesday evening of each week. to the roper that those of Italian birth should take particular pride ings of the inhabitants due rivileg Editorial Contribute' e. I deplored the p - . war," and RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN in this celebration, the annivehsary of the birth of their great enjoyed by the Jews in Pales- iub j ecto of interest to the est literary son, the event is really one of world importance. position on is dangerous fur Chris- The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence i" Indorsement of the view Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an For Dante was the spokesman of a universal philosophy of tt, which the Pope charg- expressed by the writers. life. His was indeed what a biographer called The Voice ju lT ris incredible that "taking in advantage tews J with of of the Ten Silent Centuries." His great work, "The Divine (81he habitants the the suffering due to the war" unless the head of the Comedy " is in fact the first literary voice of Christian civilize- of year 1300 in the most corrupt city in a world catholic church received his infer- t i on. n the e y 'nation from the same sources as do full of corruption, where the two opposing powers of anti - semites. • and Empire, stood, each, in its rapacious greed ready to swallow the One need but visit t he war areas urope : we n and Central E, The Atlantic Monthly, a magazine which no student of anti devour the other, Dante thunders his message of warning of h,. shambles left by the All-R ussian affairs should fail to reakregularly front cover to cover, has into the ears of the struggling combatants, fearless alike of the forces in the Ukraine and the Crimea, disdain anti the Pope's anathema. witness the result of the horrors per- in recent months had a number of art icles dealing with the the politicians' The Divine Comedy is a double allegory, depicting on the , ietri ed ( the Jewish bourise bers in particular the Boas Jew and Judaism. One remem lilheviki, to stamp this RC- ov article, upon which, in a recent issue of this paper, we "' It h and the political life of Italy and Europe, but on the other I cusittion as. the fruit of misinforma - occasion to comment. The July number of the Atlantic con- hand anti above all, it is a presentation of the origin, growth tion, passed on the scheduled Vati- can by those . whio. d esiret to spf,:ustti ht,hcr- tains an article under the title "Assimilation of Israel," by Paul and development of the moral consciousness in man. t he op,- i r In form, the poem is neither lyric nor an epic. It has no ,ite..111,suarti?,nsest: o Daily Glendale 8326 July 8, 1921. 1■ 110,141 0<9÷114-1 ill) (Our (Ilautriuporapiro Chronicle Dante's Anniversary. LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND Tammuz 2, 5681. Papacy The Assimilation of Israel. GiAS. 1-1-. (JOSEPH- - (Copyright, 1921. By Chas. H. Joseph.) The Joint Distribution Committee sent $450 for • Moist man to piets Poland and by reason of the fluctu•tion in exchange the reci as it obtained •ctually only $250, so he entwearesdtraiued n Re' din ' - the t tjhued g and n. h Committe• in this coun y. missed it because he decided that the Joint Distribution Committee had used its best efforts and done 01 within it• power and cert•nly difference in the rides of ex- could not be held responsible for the change. This sort of thing does not leave • very pleasant taste in an effort would be made to one's mouth. I can understand that • through friendly correspondence, but to take obtain the difference the matter into • court of law is to my mind an impertinence that one cannot consider with patience. There is one word that covers the situation, and that is Chutzpah." , the ide a I scarcely like to even think of it, let alone put into prin ntAmerica n that the d•y is coming when there will be a division i ost of us think possi Jewry deeper •nd wider leanly The so-called German Jew, which in it it coming very ce•r I is • see a misnomer these days—but in the larger sense we desig- sense ubmerged, merged with, c ompletely s nate .4 Reform Jews—will be assimilated by the so-called Russian Jew—there is no doubt about that. And those who are not assimilated with the Russian Jew or his children eventually with will assimilatewith non-Jews and they will be found s Ethical Culturists and other advanced religous roups, the Unitarians, not Christian in the orthodox sense. Not • bad idea to make a note you will live long enough to have •• chance to check of this up the statement. ___ 1 _ I am indebted to Frank Ceence for this bit of doggerel of Bishop the inhumanity of McIntyre's that voices in • crude bet formal way sorry that the members of the immigration committee m have man. I am utheim migration law c Id responsible - for the passage of been supplied with • copy. Her it i Dago •nd Sheeny and Chink, Grauer and Nigger and Jap- The Devil invented these terms, I think, To hurl at each hopeful chap Who comes so far o'er the foam To this land of heart's desire Chicago Scott Mowrer, the Par i Jews, single hero about whom centers its most striking incidents, but tzt News. Like most writes rs who deal with the subject of To rear his brood, to build his home e ge. and Judaism, we regret to say that Mr. Mowrer seems to have without such tedious processes, it teaches the universal truth Furth know wherein And to kindle his hearthstone fire. Jews in hil- joy are blurred, o ,ition enjoyed by t he While the eyes with oscine' is dangerous for Christians. Lo, we make the strong man shrink oes it; that whatever man does, he does to his own self. erness, he seeks to fit his facts. Obviously such a process d The great privilege granted the Jews And stab the soul with the hateful word, never quite satisfactory to the scientific student of history. Of all world poems this has been the most grossly rnisin- the British Mandate consists of Dago and Sheeny and Chink. Moreover, such a procedure is invariably fraught with the very terpreted. Critics have busied themselves with the difficulties by the ght ri ( ,f,f iirnigra)thnuilvid the insidious danger of accepting at their face value many half- of the text, but the spirit of the work has escaped them. Corn- "Dago and Sheeny and Chink— habitable. For. giin ) (1 n miztic't) . n i s t thabitahle7 These are the vipers that swarm truths. A half-truth, it needs scarcely be stated, is always mentators have analyzed the external structure of the poem, county the present the gates o f Palestine Up from the ledge of Perdition's bring but the deeper spiritual meanings in many instances have been• ad, immigr at o are sh u tight more dangerous to combat than an outright falsehood. To hurt and dishearten and harm. ( se In saying this we do not call into question the sincerity of lost to them. Some, misunderstanding the poem, and some out wileiithe 0 shame when their Roman forbears walked that haltlheha".l4 1:.eehnasuli) ; ti et'eSS , can ; gf Mr. Mowrer's motives in the preparation of his article, but he of religious prejudices, which we need not here discuss, have snail Where first the Caesars trod. le, deprive the battered,. in his heart tic 0 shame when their Hebrew fathers talked Eastern' .lews of is apparently a •man who upon this particular subject sees , even maintained that its spiritual meaning has become obsolete, ruined, honie With Moses and he with God. privilege of fin din g through one eye only. This must be apparent to those ac , and that therefore the poem is its own best commentary. How EuruPe " f g the These swarthy sons of Japhet and Shem quainted with the history of the Jew in ancient anti in modern ever, they know not what they say, for the Divine Comedy amt n maki homes for themselves i n Gave the goblet of Life's sweet drink To the thirsty world, which now gives them times when one reads what Mr. Mowrer says about the cause not only reflects the spirit of its own age, but it reflects the "is d a ngero s What is it Dago and Sheeny and Chink." . . . . Whether we study it in the remote past or heart of the spiritual universe ac it beats anti pulsates to the for C hristi" Tuhe . thatleste in ? Pa ans thenin of an i ptl , t.ni ntghe that in the today; whether in Germany, France or America. Ile measure of life, in each and every age. It is s t L. result of a , ; 1 111 thin Now its out. The London Morning Post will surely come out with "Z etglgh Jii.t• igious, as is often averred, nor profound and deeply earnest meditation on the effects of a an editorial lead explaining why Lloyd George has become so pro- l holy places may be endangered says: "This cause is neither re tiara Semitic, or perhaps always was no pro-Semitic; why he uttered such elieve. It is political. ' It Is based on the . spiritual world. Its theme is the progressive development of under the Mandate. That is ground- ic, that the Jews, through innumerable transmutations' good and evil and the evolution of the moral ideal is central econom vehement protests against the anti-Jewish propaganda in England; observation su,oirt, iortir.itali liif 1.,illIdstheisana tti)ivais, li er ssth r,, why he appointed Reading Viceroy of India; why Herbert Samuel time anti place, not only have kept their identity as people, • tee it. "Man is free. Man is responsible. The universe is just. was made High Commissioner of Palestine. Now it's all explained— h . - ' niost conglomerate peoples of tI of because Sir Philip Smsoon is engaged to Lloyd George's daughter, most diversified faiths; and we have a vigorous if passive resistance to most at- God is love. But just because this is so justice demands the thy but have opposed •and they do say that the young man will one day succeed to his future tempts at assimilation. The Jew in short is regarded as a return of the deed upon the doer, he is a free and responsible yet t to hear of any British fail ures tee o any father-in-law's eminent position in the British Empire. plaf foreigner whose 'laws are diverse from all people,' and as such agent." It is reiteration, in substance, of the Jews' insistence 1. uard properly the holy ces — - in their law of retaliation, "Eye for eye and tooth for tooth," of the-se faiths. Smsoon is only 31 years old and comes from • family that has he is considered to be an enemy to the state." g liut there is a h uinerous side tin to , that our deeds strike inward and as they are evil or good, they , an well as in England. Pm- m this unexpected andmist disq uie That there is truth in the statement that the Jews are re made itself felt in the affairs of India ■ whTe o h i5arch messed not alone of enormous wealth but an uncanny aptitude for tramf)me. ica h a people whose life anti whose laws are different' crush us or exalt us, 1, ,T ) ri.outii,(iiii neinnt tram , garded as diplomatic life, he has played an important but unismuming part in This basic philosophy of the great Italian sounds a note that' f from those of the peoples among whom they dwell, anti that : d . ii.cnoramus o many of the conferences that have been held by the Allies. He is at acknowledge' t, accordingly they are looked upon as foreigners by a few igno-1 needs to be heard by the men and by the nations of our time worh1;v Irish (h-scent, held in men present Lloyd George's secretary. This union reminds me of the mar- Protestant ramuses in the various countries anti communities, no one! It is strangely in accord with the spirit of the Jewish doctrine, ta estant Prussian by riage of Hannah Rothschild with Lord Roseberry, related to the great a world Prottells t ciously un rrrallauda e . Lord Salisbury, and Roseberry was an outstanding figure in the would deny, but that this cause is basic to the hatred of the whieh taught that the permanence and the prosperity of the Jhe that the Pope is controlled by the cal life of Great Britain. Jew and the discrimination against hint that so darkly stains, peoples can be assured in no other wise than by obedience to lows! the pages of world history, is a contention that can find no the laws of God and r ight eousness. "The Home for Hebrew Infants, formerly the Hebrew Infant By all means, therefore, let the six hundredth anniversary A ylum," of New York, was founded in 1895 "to receive •nd take support at the hands of those who know the truth. It is not ' HONORING ROGER WILL- ' charge of children under 5 years of age, made orphaned by the death comment to attempt to point out the of the great Italian poet be celebrated with the dignity and ; our purpose in this brief % IAMS of one or both parents; chidren left without proper gu•rdi•nship; and condition that had made the life of the Jew eclat that an event of such importance deserves. But above , to care for them properly. real cause of a (New York Evenng Mail.) children whose parents are too d let it be hoped that through the celebration the worth all that age:old and world encircling project that it is, but we may On decoration Day, in the circular It is never intended to take the place of • guinea pig in • dietetic • whiteness Ofd philosophy that teaches the return of the deed Statuary Hall of the National Capi- simply suggest the fact that, in exact contradiction to Mr. Mow laboratory. s who does it, vvill increa ingly emph asize col , where each state has placed rer's contention, it may be stated that the cause is in part re- upon the head of hint that appears in one of the fore- statues of two of its most distinguish- itself to those who because of their wealth or their power or Th' ' the astounding statement ■ ligious, anti in part economic, and in part political. Moreover, (lead, the Theta Tau most weeklies Beta of the nation and is written Frater- by Konrad Bercovici, . position believe themsees entitled to violate every law of lv pity, composed of college men of the the causes for anti-Semitism have not, as he avers, been always well known social worker and author of the book "Crimes of Charity." the God and man and to hold themselves secure from the penal- Jewish faith, placed a wreath at the Mr. Bercovici charges that "scurvy and rickets ware induced in infants and everywhere the same and if anti-Semitism is to be over- ties which wrong doing inevitably carries with it. We can foot of the figure of Roger Williams, to prove that certain diets were responsible for those ," and come, the solution that seemed to be adequate in the Middle "in commemoration of the fact that that the medical profession of the country has known of this since Ages or in the Russia of a later time will not at all suffice in conceive of nothing that would be more helpful than at the he was the first to preach the doc- the year 1914. This is imaging in view of the fact that Jewish are usually accorded the utmost consideration and America in the twentieth century. Above all, Mr. Mowrer's proper season in the early fall a Sunday be set aside in every trine of religious liberty on the Am- orphan children ■ hemisphere." care and treated far better than the homes they usually cone from. contently that the Jew. must become an out-and-out assimila- church and in every synagogue throughout the land as a tribute erican Roger Williams, whose memory to the memory of Dante for the preachment of this doctrine. tionist, by which he implies that he must give up his religion, richly deserves this honor, was never- Says Bercovici: "Needless to say, the physicians who carrie on for which, through uncounted centuries, his fathers dared to It is a lesson which our modern world needs to be taught. us to preach religi- theless not the fit he Hebrew e rew Or p hen Asylum are dietetic experiments on the infants of t liberty in America. When Wil- die and dared to live, is utterly untenable. Nor will his plea ons of the highest standing in the profession and devoted to sere- pers d t h Mhtt hams first enters e assac use s But no devotion to science, no thought of the g Judge Taft, h u manit y for intermarriage on a wholesale scale between Jew and non- colony he was fully as intolerant as good to the greater number can for an instant justify the experimen any of the Puritans with whom he Jew as a step in that direction, accomplish the end in view. Mg on helpless infants, children pathetically abandoned by fate and The appointment of Judge William Howard Taft to the sriated. This is frequently 70arsgotatst It is just because Judaism is a religion and not a racial con- intrusted to the community for their safeguarding." cept, a fact which he with many another writer upon the sub- bench of the Supreme Court of the United States will un-' it was not until the Puritan perse- with a practically country wide chorus d dbted y l e b receive ou ject fails to grasp, that his diagnosis is false and his projected of dissenters began that Rog- of approval. Judge Taft is not only a man of wide judicial cottons changed his ideas in this er Williams a cure of the evil that exists inadequate. 1_3 His implication that a Jew sincere in his faith, by that token experience, pr e-eminently fitted b y his calm judgment for no respect. Nor was he the first or only of these persecutions. There :7÷ 7: scruples to give to America or to any other "gentile state" his important a place, but he is as well a man of broad vision and victim were many before hint whose names full allegiance, is little less than an insult to that vast body of of deep sympathies. He is one absolutely unswayed by preju- have becoree les;ii famous. Had thie not on ortunate enough t American Jews in whose loyalty he asserts he has great faith. dice and partisanship. He will not be moved by the appeal of by Ev - -- - - n made his escape to Rhode Is- g Mr. Mowrer need have no fear as to the continuance of that mere emotionalism nor by the clamor of the crowd, nor %- land he might have suffered the fate, the murmur of the rabble. Every, case involving the rights of loyalty. It is born and bred within the soul of American his friends, Anne Hutchinson and Israel. The Jew in this country will continue to be as intense individuals or social groups will be justly dealt with and calmly , of B Barry harry ,),Ji ane botfh o:d whom died as as the best of his fellow-citizens in his loyalty to our Flag and decided. This is no small or insignificant ass urance to the t he res t oi en ore ex e. Over lonely moors and barren rocks, But Roger Williams was the first to our Country, but for that reason he will not be the less faithful American people in a time of social and economic unsettlement found I wend my weary way. an Amercian commonwealth 0_ such as this through which we are living. Moreover, Judge to his faith and the religion of his fathers. The assimilation (i ireaslyli urotn itliati heprrinctipol attil atitterer rp: My weighty burden, all effort blocks, Taft is, par excellence, an American; a man who embodies as of Israel is not the solution of the problem of anti-Semitism. only a few- overtowering figures in our history do, the spirit of , tr In Life's unequal fray. ' o f sg. prerequisite abs solute "' the y oaund More nearly true would it be to say that it lies in the christian- --2: America because of a deep appreciation of its ideals. In se-' civil freedom. This principle has - ization of Christianity. And my skies are grey and hung with dread, ng h as since been engraved upon the mar S B h enc President 11 ar di lecting him for or t the eSupreme , ■ Me C And fitful sheets of flame, vindicated vindicated the judgment of those who hold him to be a man ' land l'inid t ' Providence Plantations, rt1=1e at! L- -7 .* In blinding rents from overhead, to whose hands the destinies of our country may be safely it has become the very keystone of The Presidency of the H. U. C. Crash out their spiteful game. democracy. American democracy. The appropriate memorialization 0- Considerable regret and disappointment has been expressed entrusted. by Theta Beta Tau is a splendid There's not storm but what leaves its path in some quarters that at the meeting of the Board of Governors tribute to the quality of that demo- M Louis James Rosenberg Honored. All filled with grief and pain. the Hebrew Union College, held in the city of Cincinnati cracy and the grandeur of its mean .3 Of Though bright the sun in its aftermath, last week, no definite steps were taken toward the election The many friends of Mr. Louis James Rosenberg of this Meng for mankind. '.% of a President of the College, in succession to Dr. Kohler, the city will be greatly gratified at the honor that has been con- Caress dead joys in vain. - _ -_ = whole matter being postponed for decision until the coming ferred upon him in having been made a life member of the ZANGWILL ATTACKED autumn. While details of the meeting have not yet been given French Academy of International History. Mr. Rosenberg has Still if I live for a hundred years, BY MORNING POST W_ The joys I feel today, • to the public, only two men, it is understood, have up to this for many years been an ardent student of international his- .' The Morn (J. T. A.1 LONDON time been seriously considered for the office. Both of these are tore and law and but recently co-operated with the sub-tom- Though crushed and torn betwixt a thousand fears, vigorous attack againmotsrap,r,int prints a ing Ps men of eminent qualifications and both of them have enthusi, matey of the American Societ y of International Law in draft-I On memories throne shall stay. 1 gwill for his recent t---- - astir admirers and supporters. Certainly no mistake could be ing additions and amendments to the present body of interna- speech in which he censur Great ed ts and '_:-• .. made if either of them should prove to be the choice of the ' tional law. lie has lectured anti written upon the subject and Britain f or limiting the ri g h ENOCH MEBS. -- io s it ranted to Jews and '-_ r Board of Governors. is regarded as an authority upon it. In common with his many concessions But for our part we do not entirely share a sense of regret friends, we extend to him our hearty congratulations upon the not taking more drastic measures against the Arabs. The Post accuses .=- L that thos9,,who are charged with filling this important office well merited honor that has come to him. Zangwill of being "inhumane, unlib- I I I era an.I ungrateful to England." find it desirable to go slowly in making their choice. It would be literally impossible to exercise too much care in a matter of such great significance not only tee the College but tee all +1 1•50+51 115-lilifl'A fi e- T-1 Israel in America. We believe that the President of the Col- 1 1- 1 +1 W1 1 11 1 +1 fiT11- 1 11 .-1-1 lege today represents the most dignified nad perhaps poten- tially the most influential place within the gift fo American Jewry. The man who shall stand in the place of Isaac M. Wise and of Kaufman Kohler as the head of the College will ANTI-KEREN HAYESOD The leaders of the local Zionist fed- are much incensed against MOVEMENT IN GERMANY eration be largely responsible for shaping the ideals and aspirations this action on the part of the "Bin- and the outlook upon life of the men who are to hold steadfast yan liaaretz" memlwrs, and threat- to Judaism—the children of the coming generation. In his BERLIN.—A movement very simi- en to expel them from the organiza- to the anti-Keren Ilayesori move- hands, therefore, it will lie, in a great measure, to maintain and lar tion. ment in America has developed in They are made of paper board with wood handle, printed to to strengthen the traditions built up through half a century Germany where the "Binyan Haar- imitate a palm leaf fan. One side is entirely devoted to scripture and more by those men who, valiantly fighting a battle of etz" Palestine Construction) Soc- NEWARK GETS SYNAGOG NEW YORK.—The Newark Free texts. They have practically no advertising. Furnished free to liberal religion within the ranks of Jewry, have made sacri- iety declines to support the Keren Synagogue, which was organized ex- Ilayesod. Several days ago leaders fices beyond our power to measure. Ile must, therefore, be of churches in any reasonable quantity. Apply to actly a year ago and has from its be- the "Binyan Hearth' Society, not only a man of scholarship, but as well one of keen under- among whom are Dr. Klei, for sever- ginning lx•en under the leadership of Dr. Sidney . Goldstein, has our- standing of the affairs that are shhping the life and the thought al years president of the German -me, which is to serve Zionist Organization, Alfred Fried- chased a large of our young men and our young women today. The mere man and Dr. Kaleshner, held a sec- as its center community service. , book-worm will not suffice for this place. 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