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translate the emotions, the longings, the loves, and the hates
even, of the human soul.
Perhaps there has been no time in human history when the
stimulating and inspiring power of music has been so evident
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battles
of
the
Great
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feel
that
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is this strange looking immigrant?"
to
the
hearts
and
souls
of
men.
What is the
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to
asked the officials.
We believe that the institution of Music Week will go far matter with this man?" many a by-
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the
to accord music its proper place in the scheme of things. It
view expressed by the writers.
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I3 droetriglilt' iunitri(; dihr court of inquiry,
TishreT12, 5682 is because of this that all schools and churches should be sta
heartily glad to co-operate with those who. are responsible for interpreters and reporterscrowded
October 14, 1921
around the peculiar - looking passen-
the establishment of Music Week in Michigan.
ger, eager to learn and to report the

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The Symbolism of Succoth.

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(Copyright, 1921. By Chas. H. Joseph.)

Page Mr. Bryan. A Mr. Kitson of England says: "I maintain that

the gold standard is the great and most insidious fraud that has ever
been peep d on the human race and it is • weapon which, in the
especially German
hands of unscrupulous people like the Germans,
Jews can he used for the destruction of their rivals." This is • new
one. And 1 shall leave to Mr. Bryan to answer. He might take h.
Sixteen-to•one off the shelf where the great American people put it

away back in 1896.

mystic significance of the immi-
grant's apperance. To the great
surprise of the court, the stranger
Succoth is usually recognized merely as a harvest festival.
ces of
did not require the servianswer
As has been frequently said in these columns, the Com- interpreter.
zany
But it is more than that. The frail booth which is the central
Ile could
mushy Fund Drive deserves and ought to have the whole-
symbol of the festival reminds us of the wanderings of our mushy
g.
m
t hi tojylealy ant
heluestlns

The Community Fund and the Jews.

hearted support and co-operation of every man and woman intelligently , and
lie
other languages,
in this community. Upon the success of the drive depends the lish, but in nine
he was
wewhat
said that hld,
as ahJ,
possibility of some seventy or more organizations carrying on 28 ye
came
that from U-
o that
ti,s,
their educational and philanthropic work in this city.
lf al fu l S i k K (aRmuisns&i, a z 1), i , that
and hhits came to
To the Jews of Detroit, the Community Fund Drive should
America for a short stay only tu
particularly appeal for support. Though they ask no more propagate his ide as. A nd what are
than by right they should for the support of Jewish institutions, tht
ur,a sel lurdeititalisor f n, 17,,retutz tRoban ini:
it is none the less a fact that organizations doing important and
donment of all artificiality, hyproc-
nec ssary work which are now dependent upon the Community ri sy, greed, lust, falsehood e
and de-
generation.
We must never believe that we have arrived at a condition Fund, would have to be supported by the Jews as Jews should
.
ce it Surely,
a
strange
mission
this. To
this
organization
fail
in
its
endeavor
to
raise
the
necessary
'
in which we may rest entirely satisfied. We must never have
the immigration authorities he up-
reached a definite and positive goal save as it points to a greater funds.
as abnormal and they ques-
But
and better one for the morrow. Thankful for all the blessings
But this year in particular should the Jews be open-eyed tinned his right to be admitted to
con-
i
that the past has brought to us, we must ever be open-eyed to the fact that upon them rests the responsibility to give even this
aely could not
evecLur' Th
neo human
sane
more generously if possible than heretofore. Not only will
to the larger promise which the future holds.
alros
es
ac
3,000
mil
travel
3,000
Morally and intellectually as well as in a material sense more by giving to the fund be relieved of the constant calls of being could li a
t the hope
the Atlantic, lure d, not f by
must thisbe true for us. On and on and on we must go. The local charitable organizations, but they will also be freed from
he golde n
nt
taking advaage
o
r,itters in
c country
o
truths of today may be the fallacies of tomorrow and we must the tremendous responsibility of sharing in the drive soon to of
.sis m
otantun itfirm
be prepared if such prove to be the case, to take up our tent— be instituted throughout the country for the vast sum of four-
u
oy nge, ab P y ea in-
g
rating
on
the
stock
exchange,
Y
o
it were—and under the signal of progressive thought to go teen million dollars for the support of our fellow Jews in the
venting c
as
war
stricken
countries
of
Europe.
Detroit's
quota
for
this
great
,
nstructingg
railroar
o
on to a higher station.
, by
Atn h e itsji
bte
As with intellectual truth, so with moral truth. What is
es inbg, Ili t r ryi n go ifn politics — but
good today may be comparatively base in the light of the ma- Fund. This alone should make the Jews of this city conscious
'. to live in accordance with na-
on and ' people
to thi s
purses
turing conscience of the race. There must be growth. There o f their trem endous indebtednr ess
re
anizatipossible ta
orgwidest
in the
must be development. There must be onward moving. This, s hould impel them to open thei
If , however, to the l'hilistines .on
Ellis Island Kaminezki appeared as
we take it, is at least a possible interpretation of the symbolism generosity.
e unbi ase d and well in-
to thent
new justification, too, for the position
All this does not imply a lack of appreciation on the part of ,
of history he did
of the frail booth. It is a
ed stud
the Jews to their bounden obligation to support in the full „ i
taken by progressive Judaism.
f san e at all abnormla. The fact that
educated
measure of their powers the non-sectarian organizations and seem
lj For r ,
Jew' — explains
the other sectarian organizations, too, that are linked up with ht Lij:i na g j7e.,:a

expected that Judge Mack would decide that imin,
It was to be
received in this country in excess of the monthly quota
grants who are
If you are here
could be sent back by the immigration •uthorities.
the child arrives and it is discovered
■ and you send for your child sod
that by admitting him it will create an excess over the quota allowed
It's just about
for this month, that child of yours will be deported.
the most inhuman act that was ever placed upon the statute books
be
able
to sleep at
author of that bill I wouldn't
And if I were the
night. Everybody's "passing the buck." The President says it's the

dishonest steamship company's fault and others blame the immigra•

tion authorities. The bill ought to be repealed.

I have made several resolutions for the New Year. One of them
I was prompted to include this
is not to lake anything for granted.
resolution in the list by reason of Samuel Untermyer's confession.
light way. The fault with so
I
say
that
I
do
not
mean
it
in
a
When
good in us behind a
many of us is that we conceal so much that is
bushel. I have been rather sharp in my comments on Mr. Untermyer;
probably he never read them, but that doesn't relieve my conscience.
The reason for the change of front on my part lies in the statement
made by the distinguished head of the Karen Hayesod at a Jewish

fathers in the desert, when they passed from the land of their
bondage on to their land of promise and during which time
they were compelled to dwell in frail tents or booths.
The Succah was never intended as a permanent dwelling
place. Its very construction indicates its temporary character.
The tent is the abiding place of him who comes today and
takes up again his march on the morrow. In this fact must
lie the meaning of the Succoth festival for our own day and

Jewish prophets of old
the Community Fund. Charity knows no creed as suffering, were not the men"
becaus of their
called "mad
has no sectarian or denominational bounds. Each should give p ure ide alis m? Did not the Jew n
expatriation
Middle
Ages
accept
for
the
salvation
of
all.
The
Community
Fund
through
its
lv
Beginning on Monday of the coming week, Music Week
he d expulsion rather than let go of
will be celebrated throughout the State of Michigan. During generous and broad-minded organization makes such brotherly , and
his idealism? Does not the Jew, even
in this materialistic age, submit to
this entire period, music centers will be opened in practically giving possible.
ostracism and social disability rather
every public school in the state and in other educational and
than surrender his idealism?
church buildings. It is the purpose of Music Week not to turn
It is certainly no mere accident
the whole people into musicians but rather to stimulate in them
that the world's great movements
It has been a source of frequent and grateful remark dur-
ide alismarx manated
an appreciation of good music as a social and spiritual force.
on
basingJew
e
e, M e, Bloc h,
s ur
p Lassall
Music, so named because it was the first of the arts over ins the past week that the possibility of harmonious co-opera- . fi,F,T,''
which the Muses presided, is of all of them the very highest tion between church and synagog has found a new exemplifi-
If the outside world, the misin-
and, in some sense, the most human, certainly the most uni- cation in our city this week. Situated some three blocks from formed, the crimina lly thoughtless,
versal. Painting, sculpture, architecture and literature could each other, stand Temple Beth El and the First Unitarian - Who have COMO t use the word
"driving
d
artistic plane only after Church, each the leader in the liberal thought of the denomina "Jew" as a term denoting
from their very nature develop to an
bargain," only knew of what
man had passed through mighty spiritual struggles and after tions represented by them.
h
idealism
the Jew
re a and unselfish
re
possible for the Unitarian a p u hard
By happy coincidence, it w
always was and still its capable, a
soul stirring experiences—glad and sad—had left their mark
-
Church,
as
it
has
done
several
times
before,
to
place
at
the
dis
man of so strange an appearance
upon his inmost being. In some sense this is true because how-
even as Kaminezki would be revered,
ever noble their achievements, they are yet in the last analysis posal of Temple Beth El its splendid church edifice for the respected and honored.
holding on Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur of the services of
man-made and insofar artificial.
But music, in the sense of harmony and spiritual beauty, the Auxiliary Synagog and for Temple Beth El to put its fine AN EXAMPLE OF PREJU-
DICE
music in the sense that it is the natural medium of expression place of worship at the disposal of the American Unitarian
(The Hebrew Standard.)
for the highest and the deepest emotions of the human soul, Association for a number of its important meetings during the
is the very voice through which man primitive and man cul- past week.
in
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So m e time since we referred,
Neither house of worship sacrificed an iota of its denomina- approp
tured seeks communion with the highest. It is the language
ri ately laudatory term s, to the
. tinsel character by this interchange of brotherly courtesies. On
of passion and emotion, of love and of hate, of war and religion
i s oAfmg--
a aitri'iscth p theejal inirige hta
ninpll ifgenongw
The man had learned to call God by His name, ere he had the contrary, both congregations must have been greatly en- ica
lumbus have just embarked. As if
riched
by
the
experience.
Truly
it
is
good
and
beautiful
for
to give point to the attitude of this
builded altars and consecrated shrines, ere his soul had out-
. great order in the matter, and our
grown its native crudeness and the world had ceased to be a brethren to dwell in harmony together.

Music Week.

Church and Synagog Co-Operation.

baffling mystery to him, man heard and somehow understood
the voice of nature hymning her countless melodies. And in this
voice he recognized the manifestations of a power divine.
For who shall say that babbling brook and sighing breeze
and moaning wind do not sing praise and adoration to the God
of all the earth and by their anthem hold in the fascination of
religious trance the spirit that hears them with reverent under-

newspaper dinner held last week in New York.

the Jewish faith by his mother, "one
He said that he was reared in
of the most devout and orthodox women I ever knew." Up to the age
rabbi and it was only because of neces-
of 13 he was destined to be a
subsequently became • lawyer. At the age
sity he went to work and
was formally converted
of 22 he married • non•Jewess, but his wife
were reared as Jews, "although,"
to the Jewish faith and his children
"like other children of Jewish parents in this city (New York),
he says,
they have been rather loose in their observance of outward forms. -

Mr. Untermyer is a member of two synagogues; was instrumental
active support of the Y. M. H. A. and the Y
in the organisation and
all his life he has been identified mi a Bulistan•
W. H. A., and said that ■
all Jewish charities, "and there has been no Jewish
tial supporter of
I have not done my part,
movement in the last 30 years in which
work has been done in the ranks rather than in the lime.
though my
light." All these statements were made as • result of the criticism

voiced against Mr. Untermyer by Henry Morgenthau.

Jewish world ought to know these things about Samuel
I think the
give them the widest publicity
I am more than happy to
Untermyer.
I am even happier that Samuel Untermyer
within my power. And
a Jew
a different kind of Jew than I thought; that he is not merely
that as • result of
by birth but that he is • religious Jew. I am sure
be ma-
these "confessions" that the muse for which he stands will

terially strengthened.

the New Year greetings of
By the way, did you happen to read
ep cannot too often
the President? Among other things he said: "We
rendered
remind ourselves of the great service the Jewish le have
that we live
and are still rendering to the world. It is good to know
that the
in • day in which prejudices are fast being obliter•ted, and
in•
usefulness of the Jewish people to all mankind is being constantly
this
message
of
d by reason of this fact." Coming at this time,
hate
the President's will do much to nullify the miserable campaign of

that is being conducted by • fanatic.

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The question of granting leave of absence to Jewish employes of
holi-
public service corporations or governmental institutions on Jewish
days is • difficult one to solve in some circumstances. I have in mind
the controversy now engaging the attention of the employes of the
New York postoffice. Over half of the entire number of employes
are Jews. The postmaster issued a notice that all regular employes
of Jewish faith who desire Imre of absence on New Year and Yom
Kippur should file their applications before • certain date, but that
substitutes, who
these I of absence would not be granted to all the

take the places of the regular employes. The postmaster
would have tq
alo stated that even all the regular employes would not be permitted
s
leave if the service would be seriously crippled by so doing.
to

Times,
One substitute clerk complained in • letter to the New York
which was also sent to President Harding. There is not the
a copy of
slightest indication that the postmaster is in any way prejudiced or
convic.
that he desires to work an injury to any employe's religious
tions. On the other hand, to tie up • mail service such as clean
through • center like New York for two whole days would result in
great inconveniences and possibly great injury to those who depend
clerk who
upon prompt mail facilities. I think the tone adopted by the
was inexcusable under the circumstances, regardless
filed the protest
of the fact that he wan justified in making • protest against the ruling.
granted
It pays to consider these matters reasonably. Mr. Morgan

own remarks thereon, come now the
disclosures about the notorious Ku
Klux Klan, with its anti-negro, anti-
Catholic and anti-Jewish program.
. These disclosures, which are made
•
i by our enterprising contemporary.
the New York World, are intended
placards, but many of them were to, and we may hope that they will,

a miserable, ignorant, rejudiced
WARSAW JEWS ATTACKED beaten by members of the Polish fire such
succeed in ridding American life of
standing?
We may look down disdainfully sometimes upon the ages ON ROSH HASHONA DAYS department and by Polish passers-by. miscegenation, battening on the
Many of those who attempted to de- worst side of human nature and em-
of man's crude, untutored ignorance. But let us not forget that
by the Pioying hocus-pocus to cloak its ne-
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—The two stroy the signs were arrested
ari o us designs.
if we have climbed the heights of scientific knowledge that to
g toe reana sAi mnerfircoamn f Here
days of Rosh Ilashona were marked e p iotliraceen.. .Act horinsetiapnlac
we should be content to
him were inaccessible, in that process we have been compelled by numerous anti-Semitic disturb-
a post to which it had been nailed leave the Ku Klux Klan, were it not
to sacrifice much of the glory and the grandeur, much of the ances which brought with them ac- and was thereupon attacked, but de- that the so-called grand chief of staff
of its woman's division has seen fit
beauty and the inspiration which kindly Nature, more intimate tive fear of a pogrom. At t le in-
of the well known anti-Semitic fended himself with his revolver.
to attempt to rescue this organiza-
with him than she is with us, was wont to accord him. Ile stance
society, Roswoj, whole sections of
tion from the attacks to which it is
heard the music of the spheres. Ile could talk with under- the city including the Jewish quar-
LONDON.—(J. C. B.)—The leader- rightly being subjected on the spe-
standing of the stars that sing together. He could proclaim ter were placarded with signs which ship of ICA is negotiating with Dr. cious plea that it "is no more anti-
sentiment that does not stir us when we speak the words showed large fat mice with Jewish Nansen, High-Commissioner of the In- Catholic than the Knights of Colum-
with a
faces and marked with a Mogen ternational Relief Society for Russia, bus are anti-Protestant, and no more
"My strength and my song are Jehovah."
David, eating at Polish grain bins
Unfortunately for us, we have lost in some measure the and scattering at the sight of a Po- with regard to starting relief work in anti-Jew than the Sons of Israel are
ia in conjunction with that So- anti-Gentile." We shall disregard
meaning of words like these ; and the warbling of the birds and lish gendarme. Jews in the Jewish c Rieutsys.
the covert charge against the
Knights of Columbus, for that or-
the whispering of winds as they sing their love songs to the quarter attempted to remove these
ganization can and will answer it
bashful trees budding with maiden beauty are lost to us before
properly in its own time and place;
the roar and the clatter of our engines and the hum of our in-
we shall deal only with the insidi-
ous calumny that our Jewish fra-
dustries, and what to some is the sweeter, jingling of the gold
ternal orders are anti-Gentile.
of a generation of money changers.
Our Jewish fraternal orders have
We have gone onward but who shall say that our progress
inscribed high on their banners the
has not been at the cost of our appreciation of many of the
ideal of Americanization. By this
they purpose to bring all whom they
higher and the better things in life.
can reach within the sphere of in-
That the cultivation of music was originally very closely
' fluence of American ideals, customs
associated with the practice of religion is borne out by records
and standards. They, neutrally,
Lovely grapes and apples,
as far back as those unearthed in the Egyptian tumuli and
must confine their activities to mem-
And such pretty flowers,
, hers of the household of Israel, for
by the mythology and the traditions of ancient India. The
they can neither affect, nor attract
Blooming in the Succah
Bible, you will recall, ascribes the origin of musical art to
such as are not Jews or Jewesses.
That in the backyard towers.
Jubal. a near descendant of Cain. The Greeks obtanied their
Not only are our Jewish fraternal
music from Egypt and by means of association and conquest
orders not anti-Gentile; their chief
Given leaves for the ceiling
object is to weld the Jew, especially
passed it on to Rome. But wherever we find music in the
he who is a recent arrival on these
Sift the sun and shade
earliest days, its relation to religion is very close. It was the
shores, into the amalgam of Ameri-
To a pretty pattern
natural language of adoration and the surest means of soul
can life while retaining and main-
As in forest glade.
taining his religious traditions.
stimulation. Thus the Prophet Elisha calls for a musician ere
The Ku Klux Klan operates on and
the spirit of prophecy can descend upon him. The boy David
among Americans who presumably,
Cool retreat and dainty
with his harp calms the troubled spirit of the maddened king.
require no education in Americaniz-
For a little child,
To be sure, music has not always been recognized at its
ation. An attempt to accentuate
Toddling in, by prospect
Americanization in such connection
true value by the teachers. Delitzch, the foremost student of
is on the face of it a pandering to
Of
its
joys
beguiled.
Babylonian culture, holds, for instance, that music and poetry
abjectly crass, un-American preju-
are growths in the field of worldliness, that they were con-
dice. The history of this country
Round he casts his blue eyes,
ceived and born in sin. But this is a view to which the deeply
and official actions and utterances
Stretches
hand
in
haste;
of our national government confirm
spiritual man can give little sympathy. It was only when the
the views we here ventilate.
Darling baby, all this
soul sat mourning that the voice of the singer was stilled.
Just is to his taste.
When, for instance, in ancient Babylon a band of exiles, for-
MACHNO ALIVE, PLANS
saken, as they thought, by their God, had in the despair of
MORE ATTACKS ON JEWS
But soon his eyes brim over
their souls hung their harps upon the willows and when their
As with sudden tears,
captors in mockery demanded of them the words of a song,
DANZIG.—(J. T. A.)— A report
from Warsaw states that Machn",
Ah, he learns the lesson
their psalmist broke forth in the words of despair, "0, how
leader
of pogrom bands, who was re-
Of the coming years.
can we Sing the Song of the Lord in the land of a stranger?"
ported killed by the Bolsheviks, has
And yet they did sing, for it was only through the voice
appeared
in the Podolier Government,
ISRAEL ZANGWILL.
of song that the soul could give expression to its deepest trage-
and is marching his bands to join
forces
with
the Ukrainian pogromist,
dies and to its highest joys. Music then, as now was the one
Petlura.
humanAiWy which to plumb passion to its depths and to

A Tabernacle Thought

leave to 2,500 Jews.

time,
Mme. Bertha Kalich, one of the really great actresses of our
has returned for the time being to the Yiddish stage, appearing in a
Yiddish play, written in Yiddish by a Jewish author. A writer in the
that
Hebrew Standard of New York is authority for the statement
ap-
never appear on Yom Kippur, and when she was
Mme Kalich will
in "The Riddle Woman," Yom Kippur occurring on Saturday.
pearing
she flatly refused to play, but payed all losses sustained by her fellow
actors and the management, which were unusually heavy by reason of
two performances on that day. Mme Kalich is a Jewess in the fullest

and best meaning of that term.

When 01' Man Autumn comes a-stealin'
As frosty mornin's chill your sou!,
Ain't it a grim' an' glorious feelin'
To know you've got your winter's coal,

Fall is here.
So are chilly north winds, light overcoats,
landscape effects beautifully painted by
Mr. Jack Frost, woolen underwear, winter
tops on Fords, football, and furnace fires.
Of course, everybody hasn't yet started the
furnace on its long winter shift—many
finding grate fires just as comfortable and
more hospitable.
Which reminds us that the 1921-22 model
U. F. & S. BRITE-LITE cannel coal is ideal
for the fireplace. It is exceptionally clean,
burns very brightly and easily, lasts well
and costs no more than the ordinary kind.
And everybody knows United hard and soft
coal are the best obtainable, and reason-
ably priced.

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