PAGE FOUR yr Ron; /r.% is n ORM ICLE /, ItEDETRO1T EWISRRON ICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. Joseph J. Cummins, President. Inured as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 850 High Street West Telephone: Cable Address. Glendale 8326 Chronicle LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND lubseription, in Advance $3.00 Per Yea' To Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN..._ Editorial Contributo, The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest t, the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the view expressed by the writers. January 13, 1922 Tebeth 13, 5682 Has Ford Changed Front? Who is Henry Ford that he should set himself up as the one living man to dictate a change in the economic conditions under which we are living? And by what right does he appeal to the Jews to assist him in bringing about that change? Since when has he come to realize that the Jew has vision and genius for the economic reconstruction of the world? Is his latest out- break not only another sign of the unreliability of a man who changes front with the shifting of the winds? In the light of the malicious and libelous article printed in his Dearborn Independent under date of Jan, 7, and in which every wicked lie that evil genius could conceive and every half- truth which a man with a mind of a Torquemada could distort into disparagement of the Jew is repeated, his interview pur- porting to have been given at Dearborn to Allan L. Benson and sent broadcast through the International News Service on Jan. 6 is but insult added to injury. Containing as it does a left-handed compliment to the Jews as the creators of the present monetary system of the world and as the one people with genius and vision sufficient to change that system so as to bring about a happier and saner world, the interview implies what the Ford articles have repeatedly stated and what the whole world knows to be untrue, viz.: that the Jews control the money markets of the world. In effect, Mr. Ford says that the Jews as the international bankers have in their power the shaping of industrial and commercial condi- tions; the lifting of the economic burden under which humanity is presently staggering and the power to stabilize conditions so as to relieve the suffering and the woe that prevails in the world today. Now this theory which is obviously founded on nothing more stable than Mr. Ford's imagination, carries with it another implication, viz.: that if economic conditions are not improved ; if the human family shall continue to bear a weight of suffer- ing that is already far too heavy, none will be to blame for the situation but the Jew. In other words, the interview given to Mr. Benson contains no less ignorance and no less malice than all the articles that have been printed in the Dearborn Inde- pendent and which are again reiterated in the latest issue of that sheet. If Mr. Ford has a grain of sincerity' in his make-up and if he honestly desires—as he implies in his interview—to regain even a modicum of respect at the hands of Jews or to invite their aid in any plan that may be suggested by him in the mat- ter of economic reconstruction, there are many things that he must do and say. In the first place, he must prove himself to be an American in spirit. The American is fair minded, just, and honorable. If the American has wronged his fellow, he is man enough to acknowledge the fact and in the measure of his power to undo it. We maintain that by his misrepresenta- tion of the Jew, Mr. Ford has not only sacrificed the respect of Jews but as well the confidence of every man of every faith who is fair minded and in spirit a true American. The mere assertion on the part of Mr. Ford that he wished to attack only a small group of Jews and not the masses of them, or what is still more absurd, that he wished to help and not hurt the Jews by his libelous attacks, can only be accepted as the driveling of a man who has not sensed the evil he has done. Granted, however, that he is sincere in these protestations, we insist that there are certain declarations which, definitely and under his own signature, he must make and give the widest possible publicity: (a) He must state in unambiguous terms that no evidence of any kind or character has been brought forward to indicate the existence now or at any previous time, of the international Jewish conspiracy that he has charged has been responsible for practically all the evils that have beset the ancient and modern world. (b) He must make clear beyond the preadventure of doubt or question that he knows—as indeed the whole world knows— that the so-called "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," upon which most of his accusations were based, were forgeries and not to be taken seriously by any honest man. (c) He must acknowledge in clear, plain language that de- spite his own claims that he wished to attack none but a few unscrupulous Jews in high places, his hireling writers did ma- liciously attack the good name of all Jews and that he per- mitted himself to finance the publication of their wicked lies. (d) He must retract without reservation certain definite charges which from time to time the writers financed by him have made; for instance. the charge that the Jews were re- sponsible for the World War; the charge that the Jews were responsible for the Civil War; the charge that the Jews were behind and responsible for the treachery of a Benedict Arnold; the charge that Jewish women are sensuous and inclined to immorality; the charge that the Jew has debauched the morals of our age; the charge that the Jew has sought to undermine the Christian religion, and other charges of similar purport. So long as Mr. Ford lacks the courage and the manhood and the common decency and the intelligence to come out fairly and squarely under his own signature acknowledging that he has been misled into publishing statements that have besmirched the good name of the Jew and which he knows to be false, he cannot expect the forgiveness of Jews or his rehabilitation in the respect of Jews or non-Jews to whom the square deal is the sign of the American spirit. There have been times when Mr. Ford has shown himself to be a man of courage. Even in his most glaring mistakes, the element of courage has not been altogether wanting. But now is his opportunity to assert a real moral courage by telling the world in unmistakable terms that he has made a mistake in maligning the Jews as he has. He may lay the responsibility where he will, either upon his own ignorance of facts or upon the fact that he has permitted himself to be played upon by those who would serve their own interests at any cost. His protestations that all along he has meant to help the Jews and not to hurt them is folly incarnate. The Jew is too wise to be fooled by "the Greeks bearing gifts." Mr. Ford has at this moment the chance of his life. Will he make good or will he persist in a course that shall compel the historian of another day to write him down not only as the fool but as the coward? Rabbi Blau's Pharisee. Rabbi Joel Blau of New York City contributes to the current number of the Atlantic Monthly its leading article. It is en- titled "The Cry of the Modern Pharisee." To many readers this article will be their first introduction to Rabbi Blau. By some, however, he has been known for a considerable time both as preacher and writer. That he wields a facile and trenchant pen, none will deny. Words fall trippingly from his lips. His which false conclusions are drawn, is a specious plea for po- phrases are well rounded. lie is par excellence an epigram- litical Zionism ; a plea that we had thought in this last year matist. lie enjoys most of all setting down as a paradox what had been fairly well silenced by facts, for the restoration of is really no paradox at all. This is clever, but it leads to con- the Jew to statehood in the land of his fathers. If there re- clusions that will not always stand the light of critical analysis. mains any considerable number of avowed political Zionists Rabbi Blau's contention that the real menace to the Jew in America today, it is quite obvious that they require so able oncisessocccsonoo-so.o.cc000. conies from within rather than from without may in part be and so clever a spokesman as Rabbi BI auto voice th i ( au. • •: c. • i their well taken. His enemies and persecutors brutalize themselves For let it be said without disparagement that political Zion- AN OLD COLUMBUS CON- TROVERSY BOBS UP without much hurting him, but it is the breaking down of the ism has been discredited. So keen and so able an exponent of Jew's spiritual life which is most to be feared. This breaking Zionism and so ardent a lover of Palestine as Dr. Silver of Cleve- (Detroit Free Press) down of the inner life of the Jew, Mr. Blau lays more or less land said in this city but a few weeks ago that political Zionism Mgr. Antonio Rey Soto, personal squarely upon the shoulders of the modern Sadducee, whom, as such is not a goal to be sought today. Nay, he went further chaplain of Alfonso of Spain and who strangely enough, he identifies with the modern Reformer, and asserted with considerable stress that all the boasted is visiting New York, has stirred up ac- an while he himself, speaking from the conservative standpoint, complishments of Zionism that during the past five or six years old story and a point of perennial calls himself "The Modern Pharisee." Needless to say that have never ceased to ring their changes, were in fact without controversy by remarking that new evidence unearthed in those who know the part that these two sects in Israel play warrant. And he made the plea for that economic restoration documentary Galicia proves conclusively that Chris- upon the stage of history, will scarcely follow Mr. Blau's con- ! of Palestine which we trust will be shortly so arranged entirely topher Columbus, in spite of his first tention that the spirit of the Pharisee is that of modern con- I apart from any Zionistic or political implications as to merit the name, was a Jew, not a Genoese, and that he lied about his origin when servatism. support of all Jews of every shade or religious opinion. seeking aid from Ferdinand and Isa- The article itself is worthy of serious study. For it attempts because the Jews were in disre- But this is not at all the thing for which Rabbi Blau is plead- bella in a rather ingenious way what so many others in these days ing in his article. Ile wants the Jew to go back to Palestine, pute in Spain at the time, and had been exiled by order of the king, are striving for, viz.: a diagnosis and a solution of the problem there to live in segregation because there and there only, ac- Naturally there no way of reach- of the Jew. Rabbi Blau approaches his problem from a rather cording to his claim, call the soul life of the Jew be developed. ing a Judgment regarding the weight unusual standpoint. In the prevailing anti-Semitism, he finds We maintain that this claim is absolutely unfounded. And we of the new evident, to which Mgr. Rey Soto refers because it is not a sort of solace. His very opening sentence reads: "Being point to the fact that through the ages the Jew in Egypt, in available here; but unless it is singu- hated, despite its obvious inconvenience, is really a high dis- Babylon, in Spain, in Rome, in Holland, in France, in Germany, larly convincing, there is unlikely Ist tinction." Perhaps, though he does not mention it, he had in in England, and in America, yea and even in (lark Russia and be any general change in the preva- mind, when he wrote this, the phrase of the writer in Exodus, Poland and Roumania, has developed a spiritual life as deep lent opinion that Columbu was just what he professed to be, a Genoese, who, describing the hardships of the Jews in ancient Egypt. and as high as could possibly have been dreamed of in little this particularly as Jewish historian tells us that the more the Egyptians oppressed the Jews, the Palestine. Mark this: not in Palestine, but in Babylon of the are by no means inclined to adopt s him aft hand as a member of their stronger and more numerous they became. Exile did the greatest of Israel's prophets proclaim their mes- The fact is that the Jew has always grown spiritually self- sages and the noblest of the Psalmists sing their songs that ' Nevertheless what the Spanish prh. Irtit'1' a ; ' says, does bring into the conscious under oppression. The Midrasch speaks of this when have inspired humanity through the ages. (round a piont that is of sotnew hitt it compares Israel to an olive, the oil of which can be extracted Isolation, which is but another name for political Zionism, interest because of a pre,::- only under very high pressure. But this philosophy, however is not the salvation of the Jew. Consecration is the secret of present lent tendency in certain quarters to it may fit in with certain historical incidents, is by no means a his permanence. Scattered to the corners of the earth timid question the Ja p osition of the Jew in satisfying one. Read in the light of the principles it enunciates, strange surroundings, he has found himself to be the God-con- America. Whatever may have been ancestry and religious faith of the the sufferings of the Jew would be the only mark of his success secrated messenger of a truth which brought to the peoples of the discoverer of America, it is certain and the Hamans and the Pharaohs and the Torquemadas and the earth, has made their lives fuller and richer and more worth that both before and after he made the Fords of other days and these would have been his only while. But in giving of himself, he has enriched himself. his voyages he benefited greatly from the friendship and help of Spanish friends. Rabbi Blau has said that hate has brutalized the hater Jews. If he had lacked their assist. It is true, Jewish history has been something of a paradox. more than the hated. We reverse his theory, which must be ance, he might never have been able But becaue the Jew after all is a human being subject to the equally true at least, that blessing bestowed upon the nations to set out on his first enterprise. For is a matter of record that a learned same influences and creature of the same emotions as all other has been a benediction to him who has bestowed it, quite as it Jew, Abraham Ben Samuel Zacuto, human beings, his story is not altogether paradoxical and he much as to him upon whom it has been given. was one of the first influential men in can thrive in the light just as well as his fellows and he can be Spain to favor the schemes of the Let the Jew find his task in the world. Let me give of the dwarfed in his soul life by darkness and by desolation just as God-spirit unto the peoples with whom he is brought into con- great discoverer and that on his fa- vorable report Ferdinand and Isa- they are dwarfed by it. tact. Let him lift them out of the mire of their materialism bella first took him into service in 1487. Don Isaac Abarbanel, a provis. Let us concede, as we well may, that Rabbi Blau is right and in doing that he will exalt and ennoble and uplift his inner of the Spanish armies in their when he says in effect that the supreme tragedy of Jewish life own life and, wherever he may be, he will be safe. In conse- conquest of Granada, was among the is not in the fact that he has been the anvil upon which the ham- cration, not in isolation, lies the destiny of the Jew. This is our men who gave Columbus his earliest mers of the world's hate have been beating through the cen- answer to the cry of the modern Pharisee, if Pharisee he be. financial help; and it was Louis Is turies and that the anti-Semite is mistaken if he believes either For our part, we also claim that title, for to us the Pharisee is Santangel who finally arranged things Ferdinand and Columbus that he can "seriously disturb the miraculous poise of the that Jew in our day who would democratize our faith and find between when the latter threatened to go to Semite" or that he can work his destruction. Says our author : its soul and center in the synagogue. France, and who also in the end ad- "If no other shadow lay athwart the path of the Jew than this The cry as voiced by Rabbi Blau has been heard by many. vanced the money to finance the whole of discovery. Rey Soto is grotesque, contorted, ridiculously exaggerated shadow of anti- It is to be hoped that the spirit of the answer to that cry will project crow on one point. The expulsion of Semitism, the Wandering Jew would pass on with the wan smile also be heard by those who would solve the problem of hte Jew. the Jews from Spain did not take of those who have captured the secret of eternal life. But place until the day before Columbus set sail from Palos. there are other more familiar, yet more menacing shapes dark- Columbus wrote the first account of ening the way of his pilgrimage. Therefore the modern Phari- his voyage to Ile Santangel and Ga- see would at last actively engage in the solution of the Jewish briel Sanchez, who incidentally were two of his most faithful comforters problem. He would cry out not so much against the world that and champions when he filially fell wrongs the Jew as against the Jew who wrongs himself. He into disgrace with royalty. We might would save the Jew ; and in saving the Jew, he would save add, incidentally, that some accounts the world from the nightmare of anti-Semitism. For anti- to give their names to Mrs. Adolph say the first mum to set foot on San Semitism endangers not so much the Semite as the anti-Semite; Sloman, Charlevoix Hotel, chairman Salvador was Louis de Torres, a bap- tized Jew; and it is certain there were of the hospitality committe. and the modern Pharisee would redeem the world from the e several members of the race in the age-long curse of a hatred which has brutalized the hater more three ship companies. Professor Freehof's Lecture: than the hated." Altogether it is highly probable Professor Solomon B. Fret-hot will that the first legends giving a He- resume his Friday night lectures in Now what is the wrong of which the Jew is guilty against his series on "The Rise and Develop- braic origin to Christopher Columbus himself? In answer to this question, our author, tells us nothing Sunday Services: ment of the Synagogue." Professor had a part of their inspiration in the startlingly new. In holding, as he does, that it is the manners In keeping with the spirit of the Freehots lecture last week was post- farseeing and open handed help the annual Students' Day to be cele- discoverer received from Jews, some rather than the morals of the Jew that make him distasteful brated by Temple Beth El and its poned because of the appearance of of them of the ancient faith, others to his neighbors and that it is an aesthetic rather than an ethical affiliated organizations Sunday, Jan. Judge Lindsey. The public is cor- Maranos, or persons ostensibly, 1 M. Franklin has chosen dially invited to these talks. flaw in his make-up that puts others ill at ease in his company, • 15, Leo though not always actually, converted '1; the subjectse m,1:"legin 1 e - to Christianity. Mr. Blau is but repeating what Professor Boas and others have 1 1 nings of Wisdom." The services, Junior Young People'. Society: written time and time again. Whether realizing this and desir- which will mark the beginning of the The Junior Young People's Society JEWS ARE NOT CLANNISH Temple Beth El held a special ing to strike an original note rather than to repeat what others day's program, start at 11 o'clock. of meeting in the vestry rooms of the have said before him, we do not know, but it is a fact that, hav- All are cordially welcome. (Jewish Review and Observer) Temple Jan. S. Following the busi- ing said thus much, Mr. Blau decides that, after all, the man- Sabbath Services: ness meeting, Miss Mary Caplan, edu- Thee Jews are frequently accused cational director of the United Jewish of being clannish, which is an error ners of the Jew do not constitute his chief offense and that we Leo M. Franklin will preach Charities, spoke of the exhibit and in every sense of the word. must look elsewhere for the grievances which the world holds at Rabbi the regular Sabbath service this pageant to be presented in•February Our enemies believe us to be an iso- against him. week. Services begin as usual at at the Jewish Institute. The pageant, lated and exclusive people, and this 10:30 'oclock. Miss Caplan explained, to be called is the reason that we are hated by And so rather abruptly he strikes a new tact and says (page "The Jew Through the Ages," will re- the outside world. 8b) : "Most grievances against the Jew may be traced not so Sabbath School: quire a large cast and she asked the Our enemies in Persia many cen- much to racial shortcomings as to historic causes and the chief Harry Scheinman, in charge of the co-operation of the organization. In turies ago made this charge against of these causes is that Jewish individuality has come in contact tenth grade, has donated a silver cup, the name of his society, the president us to the king of that country, and pledged the support of every mem- sonic of them to this day still believe with other national individualities in every land on the face which will be given as a trophy to ber. that we are averse to mingling with class that has the best record for of the globe and thereby become warped, distorted. "This," the Following the meetine the mem- our non-Jewish neighbors. promptness and attendance. The cup, he says, and in doing so he uses italics, "is the heart of the which will change hands every four bers adjourned to the gymnasium for Those who hold these opinions are entire problem." weeks, when it will be given to the two hours' dancing. Miss Selma ignorant of the fart that the ghetto leading in promptness and regu- Lightstone entertained chain. , the af- life was forced upon us during the In a word, Mr. Blau holds that all contact that the Jew class Middle Ages by the non-Jews, who larity, will serve to stimulate the ternoon with vocal selections. has had with other peoples has been to his own hurt, or, as he classes to enter into competition with despised us simply because we dif• fered from them in religion, and in asserts: "If the anti-Semite charges that the Semitic spirit mon- one another in securing and keeping GALICIA SUPPRESSES the cup. their ignorance and superstition they grelizes his national culture, the modern Pharisee complains ZIONIST ACTIVITIES were ready to trump up any accuse- LEN1BERG.—(J. T. A.)-11olding o tironnoat.gainst us, whether it was true that the mongrelization is quite mutual." Thus, complains Mr. Student Day: that Zionism is a "separatist move- Blau, if as a matter of fact Jewish contact with other nations Temple Beth El will celebrate its ment," the authorities have been re- There is no class of people in the has been hurtful, it has been more so to him than to them. seventh annual Student Day, Sunday, stricting Zionist activities. Several who can adapt themselves to Now this idea fits very exactly into the framework of Mr. Jan. 15. An elaborate program con- meetings have been dispersed and a world through the day has been number of Zionist institutions closed. surrounding conditions as well as the Blau's basic proposition, to prove which is ulitmately the pur- tinuing Jews. and so anxious are they to planned for the entertainment of the The Zionist Executive of Eastern pose of his writing. What that purpose is, is obvious, but be- student guests and includes services Galicia, on intervening against the mingle with other people not of their faith, they are willing to make sacri- fore turning to it we want to be perfectly clear upon this point: at the Temple, noon dinner at the suppression, was told by Governor fices to do so. that to hold that contact between peoples of differing instincts homes of congregation members, an Grabo•sky that if the law was too There are no people who become in the afternoon at the strictly interpreted, Zionists might and endowments is essentially hurtful to one or both, is to close entertainment Temple, followed by a supper and take their case to the government. more rapidly imbued with the spirit one's eyes to certain facts which students of race psychology dance. Those who desire to offer the In any case, he said, the "felling of o f the country of their adoption than the Jews. There are many countries, hospitality of thir homes are asked trees necessitates splinters." hold to be axiomatically true. unfortunately, that force on to lead Pure racial stock is the inheritance of none but savages. t he isolated and exclusive life of the z. hetto, but in lands of liberty and Unmixed racial blood is less a cause for pride than it is for pity. freedom we willingly enter into so- Just as in the case of individuals, consanguineous marriages are cial relations with our non-Jewish frowned upon by medical authorities and within certain degrees p n re eigseh nb tos rs its whenever the opportunity prohibited by law in many countries and in the majority of If anyone is to blame for the Jew- states in our own country, so the national blood stream that is ish clannishness it is those who mani- not unmixed with foreign elements is looked upon by ethnolo- fest the desire not to associate with gists as a thing that makes for weakness and not for strength. us. When Jews move into non-Jew- What is it, for instance, that makes the American the su- ish neighborhoods it is frequently shown that they are not wanted, or perman among the nations, a distinction which I believe he dare How shall we use, 0 Lord, some neighborhoods in their narrow- rightly claim. It is that to his making there have contributed Our precious heritage; mindedness exclude them altogether. the greatest number of racial and national elements. He is The wealth of Holy Writ, Thy Word No self-respecting Jews would force themselves where they are not want- the world's cosmopolite. Even those who would shut the gates ' Bequeathed from age to age; ed. of immigration to this country temporarily because of economic How hall we use the garnered store The fact that Jews as a general reasons, recognize the fact that the strength of America would Of Israel's sacred song and lore? rule discourage marriage with non- soon be sapped if it had only itself to feed upon and could not Jews is one of the reasons why they are regarded as clannish, and another be reinforced by elements that are brought to it from the virile Shall we like misers hoard is their preference usually to asso- peoples of other lands. The jewels in our care, ciate with their own co-religionists, Now this has been universally the case. And what Mr. 1 The precious gifts by sages stored which is nothing more than natural. Blau refers to as the mongrelization of the Jew, that is to say, I For all mankind to share; This fact holds good not only with , but with many other classes of the weakening effects of his contacts with other peoples, has The Law, from Sinai's summit hurled, people. really been the condition of his permanence. We would hesi- To peak in thunders to the world? The Jews are always willing to co- tate to think what might have been the portion of the Jew had operate with others in movements for Thoseof humanity, not only he never left the shores of Palestine. An unmarked hermit's Shall we not sow broadcast Personally, but with large financial grave might perhaps be his. But his lessons would be all un- The seeds that shall endure, donations. taught ; his ethics all unlearned; and what the Jew has wrought Those deathless flowers, that in the past Those who call the Jews clannish Burst into fragrance pure, for truth, for justice, for humanity, for brotherhood, would be are either imbued with a spirit of anti-Semitism or fail to understand perhaps undone. (Whose roots were nourished through the years the Jewish character. If non-Jews By martyred Israel's blood and tears. But Mr. Blau is pleased to close his eyes to these recognized would only make a greater effort to facts. for, shrouded beneath his massive words and his cleverly understand the Jews they would never regard them as clannish. The ingenious phrasings, is the spirit of the propagandist who sums 0 let our fathers preach trouble is that they have formed ad- up his theory in one of those sentences that stick to the mind Thy glory and Thy fame; :en:. opinions concerning them and 0 let our tender mothers teach but will not bear an honest scrutiny: "The cure for all Jewish they are not willing to change them, Their babes to lisp Thy name; ills lies in geography." What does he mean by that, other than so that in their estimation Jews have all the bad qualities and no good That Israel, in the coming age, this—to use again his own phrase—that the cure for all Jewish ones. ills lies in the repatriation of the Jew in Palestine. May share its precious heritage. And so the whole matter is clear before us. Air. Blau's pur- JERUSALEM—IJ. T. A./ —The death sentence has been pronounced pose in writing his article, scintillating as it does with brilliant —IDA GOLDSMITH MORRIS. upon the Arab who was convicted of phrases and lighted here and there with a truth that catches the murder of Rabbi Zalmon Rubin the imagination, but withal built upon false premises from during the disturbances on Nov. 2 (Our Tuntruipararirti irmpir ?Sall Eli Notes Israel's Heritage last.