Tits biLTROtYJEI OROS WM PAGE FOUR jstboit otf5-ti to Federation, and they found that many more contributed an- nually to the ninety-two New York Jewish philanthropic . Bill! (Our tutions less than a year's dues to their respective clubs." The same paper continues to caustically comment on the situation MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Olutitrinporttries and contends that "A Jew who pays to a country club not alone tsmociaacitsw Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. his dues but makes expenditures that go with country club Joseph J. Cummins, President. sports, but does not contribute to organized charity is hardly INTOLERANCE OF OPIN- IONS t Postoffice at Detroit, fit for membership in any social club." This situation is not Metered as second class matter March , 3 1918, at he peculiar to New York. A year or two ago Julius Rosenwald Mich under the Act of March 3, 1879. (American Jewish World.) s. took the same position, as have many other well knownJew "Who is a wise man?" asks an old General Offices and Publication Building But usually the governing boards of these social organizations, rabbi. And he answers: "Ile who either for personal reasons or because of influence brought to learnt fursomnoetveryone." 850 High Street West erpret s words Cable Address: bear by the suggesters of the names, men like these are admit- misinterpret Telephones: say that, according to him, every Chronicle ted to the clubs. We are not inclined to spend other men's and one, be he ever so stupid or ignorant, Glendale 8326 money for them, and that is a criticism usually leveled at those can teach us something. That is pal- LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE who suggest the contributing of money to charities. But there pably incorrect. Those who know LONDON, W. L ENGLAND is a general appreciation of just about what a man can afford very little or nothing, can teach us $3.00 Per Year to give. For example, it requires no investigator to discover nothing. There is a deeper and better mean- labocription, in Advance that a Jew who belongs to a social club and spends $500 or ing to the old rabbi's words. What To Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this $1,000 a year directly through membership dues as well as he really means to tells us is that dice by Tuesday evening of each week. wisdom consists in hearing all additional expenses, is in a position to give something to Jewish , true opinions, in discovering whatever Editorial Contributor philanthropies. And it would be utterly ridiculous for such RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN truth there is in each one of them, be man or his friends to insult the intelligence of a community they ever so violently opposed to each The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to the a by saying that he could not afford to belong to or to contribute other or to one's own pet ideas, and Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an Indorsement of the view by a synthesis of the fragmen- properly to the charities. We are inclined to think that the then expressed by the writer.. tary truths in all of them, arrive at remedy suggested by the editor of the American Ilbrew would the one safe conclusion that the prag- Ab 15, 5681. not meet with popular approval, namely, that a by-law should matic truth, the truth we need for August 19, 1921. be incorporated in the regulations of such organizations pro- our own daily guidance, is the golden between all extremes, the rec- viding that no one shall be eligible to membership who does mean onciliation of opposites. Turlock, California. not contribute to Federation a sum at least equal to the annual The first step in this process of at- wisdom, or the first requisite, Turlock is a small farming community about 125 miles dues of the club. This seems to be fair, but it would be re- taining the conviction that in every opinion south of San Francisco, in the rich Joaquin valley. It is the sented by those who believe, and unquestionably with some is held by a group, or a certain number center of a prosperous melon district, and farmers for many degree of justice, that the amount one should contribute to of people, there is a measure of truth, miles around bring their canteloupes to Turlock, from which charity should not be fixed but belongs properly to voluntary no matter how objectionable such may be to us. Every such station the fruit is shipped to the east. Aside from men in the giving. But the thought is good and we hope that some Jewish opinion opinion can be argued by its holders produce business, not one eastern person in a hundred thousand club in the country will be strong enough to put it through. and exponents with a certain degree argued Le ever heard of Turlock a month ago, yet today its name has It does happen that the leading officials of a club and who are g eo nd pl arurtid,c ec uoenVinced orthodox believerba a m been heard in every quarter of the civilized world. Why this men of wealth do not do their share in proportion to their that the opinions of the anti religion- - means, which, of course, creates, to say the least, an embarras sudden prominence to a hitherto unimportant town? ist contain a measure of truth. Let Has it given some new inventor to the world, a second Edi- sin g situation. the anti-religionist, the atheist or ma- terialist learn that the attitude of son, who has likewise added to the enrichment of life? Or a the orthodox believer is also based on second Luther Burbank, who also discovered new forms of Lord Northcliffe Visits Nathan Straus. a large measure of truth. No group fruits and berries? Or, perhaps, its citizens include another of men can long hold to an opinion Wesley Lewis, who invented the most death-dealing poison the . This was one of the headlines in the newspapers recently. that is wholly false No group of world ever knew? No such man evr lived in Turlock. Its bid And why did Northcliffe honor this man? Because he was in- men wish to do that. Let the ortho- believer realize that his beliefs for publicity was made along lines of lesser importance. The strumental in building up a big store; because he had made a dox or . else i there wh population of Turlock came into intrenational notice when its fortune in speculation; because he lived in a fine home, or be - couldnollyu citizens, last month, rode 90 Japanese out of town, and com- cause he was socially prominent? None of these things. He sition to him t'rO fromt7e eoWen re ext (t r ignd Let the anti religionist learn manded them never to return. did because he regards Mr. Straus as one of the leading philan- party. t hat his negatives are not wholly con ' I. thropists of the age who has saved the lives of thousands of re4„he h: same reason. c for satm What do 90 souls mean after all, foreigners at that? In infants through his pasteurized milk plants. Mr. Straus can - said of all ex- ma y the late war, 11,000,000 were killed or wounded and 50,000,000 not receive too much honor, because if ever there was a man treme opinions in all the different fields of thought. The socialist or are said to have suffered indirectly. In Russia, this very day, who lived in accordance with the highest precepts of religion, ishould real ize that his 6,000,000 Jews are said by the none too friendly "Chicago that man is Nathan Straus. Ile has lived and is living a good mhlillectivist ntildi e. t rt ue it,,,ts wo hp oso ry Tribune" to be on the point of slowly starving to death. Come life; he is the soul of honor • he commands the Into and esteem philosophy of n opponent ilia vidualist, wholly false. There are closer to our own homes. One hundred thousand victims of and respect of his fellow men. He has not lived for himself meaning and clear- pellagra are suffering in the rich cotton belt of the South, and a lone e but for others Ile has a good name, and when one has many honest, well • tel among the athoca at least one in ten will perish. Almost nothing is said or heard that one has just about all that s ' wor r in this world , of e ind i v id ualist • th v i ng f for philosoph y. An about this pest at our very doors. Yet, when 90 yellow men Then God takes care of such in the life hereafter. And this let your exponent of the individualist same. All social- are 'driven from Turlock, the whole world was told of it. The visit of Lord Northcliffe throws light on his character, too. doctrine l earn the dre n ot scounls and fools. governor of California threatened to call out the state militia. Because one who in the midst of such a busy life, especially en ists h are d h step on the is, its, the Th United States Senator Iliram Johnson wired his indignation at tour, who finds time to pay a visit to show his respect to a road to wisdo m s the truth. rho first this unlawful act, and even the White House, which is so out- good man, indicates that he, too, has something in his make-up step on the road to unmitigated folly and conceit born of ignorance is to wardly calm and placid, allowed word to reach the newspapers that is entitled to respect. see nothing but error and falsehood that the President was deeply concerned. We ask why? i in the other party's opinions, and to liffRORJEIVISfi (ARON 104 v 1:11r — GiAs. I+. JOSEPH- - (Copyright, ' an intelligent consideration of the subject. The publishers will make • special campaign to have the book n _ widely distributed among the clergy of all denominations in this coo try as well as among other leaders of thought. Now I would like the readers of this paper who are interested in encour•ging the publics. has shown the keenest lion of such • work by a non-Jew, one who who is in • posi- understanding of our people and our problems, sad tion to render us an immeasurable service, to send him an order for am so convinced of the value of this service and of the the book. I obligation the Jews of this country owe to Mr. Hurt that I feel privi- my leged at the opportunity to bring this matter to the •tention of readers. The book will sell for $3, and I specially urge you to mail West Lake street, Chic•go , • er ■ postal or • letter to yingi "Enter my order for • copy of 'Truth About the Jews: 111., s• Told by a Gentile.'" Send no money. If you should forget the ad. dress, send the order care of this paper. I had finished writing the pre• By an unusual coincidence, just ceding paragraph I received • letter from the Hon. Josiah Cohen, the distinguished Pittsburgh jurist and one of the best known Jews in the United States, who writes, among other things: "The nearest approach of literary 'Justice to the Jew' is to be found in the very recent, learned series of articles pub- lished in your paper from the pen of Walter Hurt. That author emphasises truthfully every historical phase in Jew- ish history, and almost every trait of the Jewish character and their individual peculiarities—mental, moral and re- ligious; he properly condemns where condemnation is de .. served, eulogizing him only as his national and individual traits of character justify. In my humble judgment, his articles, as a whole, with but few exceptions, constitute a very valuable contribution to its subject matter, and present one of the fairest and most exact statements of Jewish life and character that the public press has yet submitted. These letters should be printed in book of pamphlet form and circu- lated as one of the most faithful portrayals of 'Jews and Judaism,' and which promise to produce a clearer conception of that justice which the world yet owes to Jews and Ju deism." - In New York Jewry the deadly investigator is busy. He is now investigating the Jewish sports, who, he says, are not sportsmen. They belong to fashionable country clubs, pay a good fat fee for the privilege—and besides pay for the important incidentals that go with club life. But 40 per cent of the merbership of these "swell clubs" do not contribute • cent to the Jewia charities of New York City. And a large percentage of those who do contribute pay in less The "American Hebrew" is quite than a year's dues at their club. indignant over the situ•tion—and properly so. That paper takes the position that every social club should incorporate in its bylaws that no one shall be eligible to membership who does not contribute to the charities a sum at least equal to the annual dues of the club. - - The first and simplest answer is that the Jap has a home government Which takes notice of insults to its subjects abroad. If Jews are killed in Russia, what homeland will protest? Negroes are slain in race riots, not only in the South but even in the North, as witness Washington, D. C.; Chester, Pa.; Omaha, Nebr., and Chicago, Ill., state of Abraham Lincoln, yet who protested on behalf of the innocent and unoffending victims? Neither the Jew nor the colored man has a govern- ment of his own. Yet, when 90 sons of fair Nippon, not one of whom is an American citizen, were rode out of Turlock in auto trucks, an international controversy was in the making. No wonder the 90 workmen were returned the next day by a wise sheriff, and the incident is closed for the present. The Jap has a home government. Will not that give pause to many Jews who are uninterested in Zionism? The plight Of Jews in Eastern Europe are at their very worst. Perhaps— we use the potential mode—a home government in Palestine might save some of the horrors of pogroms and bestiality to the 6,000,000 Jews living in the war and plague-ridden zone. We are not positive, we merely throw out the hint. Regardi ng Maxmilian Harden. 1921. By Chas. 11. Joseph.) Walter Hurt, the most competent non-Jewish writer on Jewish sub. has been discovered to the Jewish reading public in years, j eels who hm written • book, "Truth About Jews." Anyone who has been foi- Hurt'sarticles in this paper knows that he doesn't waste 1 owing Mr. Hu time or space in idle flattering of our people; that he discusses intelli- gently and exhaustively questions affecting us, in • manner that has created the deepest interest and respect for his opinions. So in this forthcoming book, "Truth About the Jews," we have • right to expect become violently intolerant of them. In fact, that in itself is the very like tarLfoonitl ,y, i no s f sftoolrl o f the to the common good and is retarding' progress. For progress, freedom and all o soxcc ital n doevolottrouell , rlultronfr, omt The fault lies in the governing bodies of these social clubs, not alone in New York, but all • over the country. There are so many strings and angles to the application for membership that have been considered by the average committee that it will take sterner stuff than one finds in the governors or trustees of the Jewish clubs through- out the country before such procedure will be initiated. Of course, everyone has his own idea of the kind of folk he wants to make his social companions, but personally I don't think I would care to spend a man so selfish that he wouldn't give • cent to much time with charity. I knew that the President would receive protests because of his visit to Ford. It was inevitable. It was hardly likely that several Maxmilian Harden, the celebrated German publicist, is com- millions of people who have been deliberately •illified would relish the ing to America to lcture. He is a Jew and was one of the few spectacle of the President of the nation becoming the guest of the men in Germany who had the courage to attack the Kaiser's man who was responsible for the villification without speaking about it. The fact that the President of the United States spends the week- policy throughout the war. He is hated as man was never the end with • man of Ford's type simply makes him more important in t hated by the Junker class. Therefore it is interes ing to hear of minds, frie free clash of opinions the public mind, and gives to the lies he utters more value. The sec- that the Hohenzollern crowd (there are quite a few still left be they ever so divergent. Let us be retary to the President, Mr. Christian, in reply to • protest, said that tolerant. Let us learn and become the President was not Mr. Ford's guest but simply went to the camp- in Germany) in one of their newspaper organs have said: "The ing place where he was. Such an explanation is absurd. It would be notion that a man like Harden of ALIEN race (we emphasize wiser. better if he took the stand that the President had • right to visit whom alien) without national feeling could create a favorable im- he pleased, rather than to evade the issue in such a weak way. I think THE BIBLE AT HARVARD pression for Germany in such a piece of political stupidity as it was an error of judgment on the part of the President. tl (The Union Bulletin) . One sees how could only have been conceived in Germany. Of interest to the Jews of this country was the statement made by the Jew-hater and the Jew-baiter still sticks out all over the, A knowledge of the Bible is now for a degree at Har- Lord Northcliffe in an interview that he could not understand the average Junker. Anti-Semitism is bred in the bone. Harden a vaor prerequisite social prejudice against the Jew in this country. Thta they should rd nnivderry4 The Harvard Cot.] is one of the few men who made out any kind of a decent case recent nthe be indiscriminately barred from clubs, hotels and the like was incom- nets version Ki ng for Germany and if they had an ounce of world-feeling in! the fhe a score prehensible to him. In England the Jews move in the very highest U gae t head of "English pure is the fountain social circles. Anyone acquainted wtih modern English history, espe- their make-up they would appreciate the need for men of the and undefiled." Any other version cially its intimate phases, knows that Jews are received without the Harden type. But the Germans foozled and bungled and made Ilsirectl oy itntenc ed ibiey thoe fKi ogo slightest prejudice in the best social circles. And it is amusing to themselves ridiculous in the field of diplomacy; they misread e ir: accept notice how the kiiierican millionaire crowd—that has edged itself into n uwouldadmitot t James version. l" This p English nobility—acts toward the Jews of England when they get public opinion; they misread public sentiment; they were stupid the recent translation of Scripture by ' there. Far different than they do in New York, or Philadelphia, or everything but the arts of war and the ability to organize. the Jewish Publication Society, which What is the trouble with the Japanese, after all? Is Cali- r Chicago, or Boston. Here they are intensely prejudiced, but when it is hardly likely that they have improved their diplomatic inetarin asso toluf. A mustft r i ourni sz leadtivo en rsaionnd except, they go to England and live there and see how the Jews of that coils- fornia so steeped in race prejudice that she has lost all sense So since the war—it would be too much to expect of them try are a part of the social life of royalty itself, then they change of fair play? Is it possible that 3,000,000 white people in Cali- sense terpretation. The Bible is the sr: their faces and their feelings. What snobs so many of us are. Therefore they are running true to form when they put Harden fornia are afraid of 100,000 Japs who also reside there? The outside the German pale and make him an alien in their cepted classic of the English lan- guage. To be ignorant of it handl answer is quite apart from figures and surface facts. The white • I have read • lot of truth about "God's visitation" on Russia be- caps a student. While Harvard's in- cause of the atheism of Lenin and Trotsky. It shows just what chit- workingman of California admits that he cannot stand with thoughts. terest in the Bible is purely and sole- dress we are despite the fact that we have lived so long—and have so the Japanese in open competition. This does not mean that ly literary, let no one forget that a many centuries of near-civilisation behind us. All these "visitations" the Jap is a better laborer or that the white man is less re- reading knowledge of the sublime Ford for President. which are attributed to God are usually man-made and the present passages of Scripture is bound to im- sourceful. It does state, and very plainly, that the white man famine in Russia is no exception. As I understand it from one whose Mr. Ford wants to be President. So says Mr. Pipp. He press the plastic mind of youth. In knowledge of the subject is sufficient to command my respect, there simply cannot and will not, lower his level of living to that the last analysis the Bible stands for is generally more or less of local famines or food shortages. That is, which the Jap has maintained in his own country, and con- seems to have Ford's "number"—peaking slangily—on nearly. those ideals of liberty, justice, fair and others one district or two districts may be affected this season ■ eve thin else. So we are inclined to credit his statement ry g tinues here. The Jap brings over from his fair island a much nantioono, no!n to men- filoany,4eolfin doertuepliu, next, and so on. But heretofore there was never much trouble in get- lower idealism and method of living with which we would not that Ford wants to be President. If he wants to be President ting aid from those districts of Russia that had more foodstuffs than with man, "whe a Venlig they needed. So it never became such an acute problem. But Lenins wish our American laborers to measure in competition. There- then he needs some new advisers. Why he does will all be! relation foundations of civilization in EN/ - and Trotsky are in • measure responsible, not in a religious or • super- fore, when yellow workmen are brought to a farming section, explained when he comes to seek the nomination or the elec- countries. ti Thrintth, l, hn et count stitious sense, but because of a political failing. say as Turlock, the white men are speedily forced to go else- tion. He tried to end the war by blowing a tin whistle; he light of it o w o e g ib nd sue um nes our 1 c i v il iza t ion. and th e Chi ca go T r une i where. They simply cannot, nor would we wish them to, live tried to get a erdict age nst The peasants at the beginning used to produce all the foodstuffs ceeded in winning a verdict from the people that he ought to , possible. But the Soviet leaders after a while refused to let the farmer on such low wages as those paid to the Japs. e ena e an d ik en into the Senate ret•in any more than was absolutely necessary for his own use. And go to night school; he tried to get in o • the excess was commandeered by the Soviet government for the use We may as well conclude with a brief reference to one of he couldn't he tried to put Mr. Newberry somewhere else—, JEWS SAY POLISH in the cities. When the peasant realized what he was up against, he NEGOTIATIONS ARE the stock arguments of the Jap followers an d defenders. They but Mr. Newberry will stay in the Senate and Mr. Ford will stopped raising any more than he needed because he didn't propose tell us that the Jap enters into menial forms of industry, where stay very much out; he is trying to create a class feeling against FOR BUSINESS ONLY to have the fruits of his labor taken away from him willy-nilly. So, added to the natural causes that made this an unusually famine, the white man will not work. They add to this argument that th e Jews—another of his peculiar mental excursions—and has1 was this shortage of crops deliberately brought about through the the white man is lazy and cannot be depended on. To which suceeded in doing nothing but make himself still further dis-1 WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—In the short-righted policy of Leninn. The result is easily seen. There was reply that the sooner,we face the crisis, so much the better. liked. And now he wants to be President. Up to date he has Seim debate on the government bud- no surplus that the cities could draw on. It's the worst famine in gene we ;Jewish d to p odreg z , spokesmenper u, If the white residents of this country do not wish to work, done nothing successfully except to build a good cheap auto- ' 1 get, rations. It compares with the great famine of India ■ and China. But mitted let us not attribute to "visitations"—that sort of propaganda is fit employing outsiders is merely delaying the day of doom . If mobile. And he should keep that fact in mind when he starts pste. They had declared their inten- for children who still believe in hob-goblins. Anyway, it makes • Americans refuse to do manual labor, the quicker this fact is for the Presidency. If he figures that the Jews figure only 3 tions of attacking the government for good eineme for the emergence of "Holy Russia"—th•t was some holy fearlessly faced, so much the better. Of course, any man will percent of the population and that he has nothing to fear lite attitude to the Jewish problem. In Russia in the days of the czars. shirk disagreeable tasks and leave them for the unwelcome from that source, then that statement gives the lie to his own a written declaration made in lieu or the oral, one deputies states cast I bad put Houston Stewart Chamberlain among my forgotten un- statements that the Jews are a national menace by reason of foreigner. If this is to be a white man's country, as the over- the Polish government purposes to when I came across an an item in one of our Jewish papers welming majority of its inhabitants are, the best thing is for the tremendous power they wield. As to the power they wield, enter into negotiations for an under- pleasant calling attention to the fact that this arch-Semite, who married into iii( to know just what our people will and will not do. If Tur- we will say nothing at this time, but Henry will think they standing with Jews only because it is an anti-Semitic family (Richard Wagner's), and who let all the poison !desirous thus to impress favorably of his mind escape in the book "The Foundations of the Nineteenth lock, California, is the immediate cause of this inquiry and wield a mighty po'ahful one, Marse Henry, when you comes ' democratic elements in Europe and Century," has been excluded from sharing in the legacy of an uncle— searching investigation, it will have served the nation most to runnin' fer de Presidency. America. The announcements as to because he is one of "the most notorious of British renegades" and usefully by this illegal deportation of Japanese. We are not negotiations were for foreign con- as the "Kaiser's pet Englishman." During the war this infamous char- sumption only, declared the deputies, objecting to Japanese within our borders, but we seek to ex- 1 aster renounced his allegiance to England and became ■ subject of since they are convinced that the Germany. It takes • pretty miserable sort of a man to engage de• plain the causes of the unwarranted act which startled the , cabinet has no real and sincere desire liber•tely to create class hatred and to set one group of people against Country last month. Not white men opposing yellow foreigners of arriving at an agreement and un- much more than • mere excuse m ■ nother. And Chamberlain was clashed in Turlock, rather, two differing civilizations, two forms derstanding with the Jewish inhabi- for • decent minded man. tants of the country. of living ideals contended for supremacy. The result was a draw. The ultimate decision is merely postponed. But such clashes will continue as long as the Japanese increase in popu- _..._ N ORDER for United Fuel & Supply lation on the Pacific coast. Did we say on the Pacific coast? Where in the whole world Company coal, to be delivered dur- They tell me thou art rich, my country; gold today is the Japanese welcome? Hawaii complains bitterly. ing the ummer and early fall, is quite In glittering flood has poured into thy chest; st: Korea is crushed. Shantung is overridden, the Philippines ob- e a bit like an insurance policy. retLy Thy flocks and herds increase, thy barns are pressed ject strongly, and so the Jap has become an international prob- The policy insures your life; the full coal With harvest, and thy stores can hardly hold lem. Meanwhile, his own native land is overcrowded and no AN MIN L bin insures your comfort for a long winter. Their merchandise; unending trains are rolled 41.1. land wishes him. In conclusion, we shall blame Turlock citi- hr. - _ Along thy network rails of east and west; III kw maki f zens for lawlessness, but were conditions the same in our city, Roth cost more the longer you wait, and, -