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

Hem! Hear! "Yet I dare st.Ind here and declare in the name of
truth that it is unfortunate that the theater today has fallen almost
ntirely in the hands of a small group of Jews. It is very unfortunate
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for any one race to have control of the whole of the theatrical business.
It is not merely bemuse they are Jew.. The American people ought
to have an American theater. Judaism and Christianity are ...mimed
by many ties, and the deplorable fact today is that these Jews
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re not only men who are utterly alien to CI•ristian ideals but they are
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men who are not even loyal to the teaching, of the synagogue."
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Those interesting remarks were deli •ered 13) our sensational friend
Dr. John R. Straton of New York. I am willing to agree to just one
s tatement, and that is there are Jews who are not loyal to the teach-
i n ce of the synagogue. But, my dear Reverend, you have an many
millions of Christians who are not loyal to the teachings of Jesus that
the matter of • few Jews being disloyal .o their faith should not annoy
you so much. But what I am particular iy interested in is the as to n ish.
an American
tatement: "The American people ought to have ■
in s
theater." So Jews are not Americans, doctor? This is news to me,
as it must be to every intelligent perso . in this country. Since when
are Jews not Americans? I invite Dr. Straton to answer.
Here we have an example of Christi .nity up to date:

A patron walked into the store of George Cantos, Charles-
ton, W. Va., this (Sunday) afternoo,i and requested a package
of chewing gum.
"Sorry, I can't," said Cantos. "Blue Sunday, you know."
"But," expostulated the customer, "I've indigestion and
simply must have some gum."
"I can't," said Cantos, "but I will."

The sale was completed. Later a patrolman arrested Cantos on

the charge of violating the Sunday law. If there is a hell for sinners

the man who deserved to go there was not Cantos but the man who
appealed to Cant.' sympathy to relieve his suffering. How little do
some men know the meaning of religion.

I grow weary reading the many interpretations of Shylock. This
professor reads this into him, that student reads something else into
the character, and this actress or actor has something else to say of
him. One sees Shakespeare making of a Jew a devil, while some try
to defend Shakespeare's characterization and intimate that Shylock
has some fine qualities, and that the study of "The Merchant of
Venice" in no wise is prejudicial to the Jew. All this is speculative
piffle. Every time Shylock appears upon the stage it intensifies preju-
dice against the Jew; every time he is introduced into school or college

the Jewish students writhe under it.

•

Why not speak the truth? You and I know and the man on the
street knows what the name "Shylock" has come to mean in the speech
of men the world over. And all the professors and students in the
world can't scrape with idle phrases the black spots that Shakespeare
put on "Shylock" when he pictured him. Only this week I noticed a
heading in • magazine: 'The 'Shylock Strain' in Uncle Sam." What
did that mean? Here is what it meant: "Shylock strain seems to
predominate in the cross-breeding of Uncle Sam," say French writers
who look with ill favor on the refunding bill, which provides that the
Allied debt to the United States may not be extended over a longer
period than 25 years and at a rate of interest not less than 414 per
cent. But here is the most significant statement: "These figures do
not agree with the most elementary notion of justice, which demands
of the debtor no more thah he has ece
rived." That is the world's
real opinion of the meaning of • Shylock. And we object to the stag-

ing of Shylock because it is unfair and libelous in relation to the Jew.

This may be necessary, but I doubt it, even if the Smart Set writer
thought it added spice to his article: "Faces. Strreams of faces
lighted by the cold sun that pours into the canon from above the
East river. Faces of young girls, painted, Jewish, hideous. • •
Faces of fat Jews in closed motors. Faces of insolent chauffera. Rat-
like faces of news vendors. Dark, Spanish faces. English, Scottish,
Irish, German, Slavic, Italian faces. Every manner of Jewish face."
It •II helps to keep us farther apart, brother. Why add fuel to the
flames of prejudices, which are already burning too high?

The erection of a synagogue house in connection with the Free
Synagogue of New York, for which a qu f a million dollars is
being raised, revives interest in Rabbi Wise's projects in New York.
He states that his congregation will continue to worship for many
yellrs to come in Carnegie Hall, and that the "home" about to be built
will be used •s • seminary for the training of Reformed Jewish Rabbis,
or rather students for the Reform pulpit, • child adoption bureau and

other activities.

Most folk outside of Dr. Wise'. Synagogue have the idea that the
term "Free" means free seating. I have • very vivid recollection of
how and why Rabbi Stephen Wise started a Free Synagogue in New
York. For several yea,s he had been Rabbi of • "conservative" con-
gregation in Lexington avenue, and when he left I think he was suc-
ceeded by Rabbi Hertz of England, an Orthodox. Dr. Wise resigned
his pulpit and went to Portland, Ore., and I was with him the day he
tendered his resignation, which is more years ago than I care to re-
member. He had been five years in Portland when an agitation mom
concerning the selection of • new Rabbi for Temple Emanu-El in New

York, the largest and richest in the

city.

Dr. Wise was considered for the pulpit and then all at once some
very interesting correspondence developed between him and Louis
Marshall, one of the dominating spirits of Em•nu•El. It seems that
Dr. Wise took the position that a pulpit should be "free" so far as the
Rabbi's opinions were concerned, and that whatever subject he chose
to speak about and whatever manner he chose to discuss, it should be
the Rabbi's right, and that his ideas and his subjects should not be
submitted to the board of trustees for censorship. Mr. Marshall ap-
parently had other ideas on the subject and for ■ time the Jewish

pre. was able to publish some very interesting correspondence.

In the end Rabbi Wise would not go to Emanu-El unless it was a
"free" pulpit, and Ertunu•EI did not want Rabbi Wise if it had to
take his "freedom" with him. The answer is easy. As a result Dr.
Wise came into New York and started • Free Synagogue in the sense
that it should be a "free pulpit," untrammeled and unhampered in any
way by any trustees. And those who have heard or read Rabbi Wise's
lectures know that he has kept his pulpit "free" in the fullest meaning
of the term. He deserves the greatest credit for the remarkable place
he has made for himself in the Jewish pulpit of America and for the
commanding position he has achieved in the greatest city in the coun-
try. At least he has conviction and has the courage to fight to main-

tain them.

I must thank the writer of "Personalities" in the Hebrew Standard
for supplying some very interesting information concerning Rosa
Reim, the remarkable soprano of the Chicago Opera Company. I knew
something of her history, but I did not know that she had been sympa•
thetic with the Russian revolutionaries in the days when Csardom was
at its height, though I fancy she could not have been of much help
to the cause, because she was so young—a mere slip of • girl. But
her brother menu to have been one of the active enemies of the mar's
regime, which naturally brought the whole family under suspicion,
and we are told that Rom had to hurriedly leave the country. When
she came to this country the writer tells an that A. Cohan, the editor
of the Forward, the greatest Yiddish radical daily in the country,
espoused her muse bemuse she had been sympathetic with the revolu-
tinctions. I do not wish to violate • confidence, but the editor o fthe
able to so quickly command such an important position in the music
world of New York. She is married to Giacomo Rimini, an Orthodox

Italian Jew.

The Hebrew Standard of New York criticizes Rabbi David Philipson
of Cincinnati because he refused to serve on the mayor's committee
to welcome Sokolow to that city. The editor says: "The mayor is ■
Christian and presumably does not know that there are chasms and
cleavages among Jews. And for • Jewish appointee on • civic corn•
mittee to refuse to serve to honor • fellow Jew is ungracious indeed."
This is • debatable question and one that cannot be settled an easily
as our editorial brother would have it. It is true Sokolow and Weil-
mann and other notable Jews should be honored and recognized as
such, yet when they come to • community on • special mission and
are avowed spokesmen of • movement with which other Jews do not
sympathize, it becomes • question whether these Jews should place
themselves in the position of giving the public the impression they

are Zionists.

We must not forget that the public is very careless in making dis•
linctione. I do not wish to violate • confidence, but the editor of the
Hebrew Standard may be interested to know that I put just such •
question to • very distinguished Zionist whose name I will not mention,
and he told me that he felt • certain Jewish leader was justified in not
becoming • member of • reception committee, because he said that if
an anti•Zionist leader were to go abroad he would not feel comfortable
about being • member of • committee to receive him. I can go even
further than that—a leading Zionist in this country refused to accept
an invitation to dine with • Jewish organization composed of young
men interested in cultural pursuits—and the membership comprised
Zionists and non•Zionists. He would not sit down socially with • Jew-
ish group that wasn't Zionistic, and he certainly would not speak for
them, I know what I am talking about because I extended the invitation
to the Zionist in question. So the editor will note that there seem to
be several sides to these matters. And furthermore, all the discrimin•
lions are not on one side. When I discuss this question I em not by
any means endorsing the attitude of any of them men, Dr. Philipson
or the others. I merely point out that Dr. Philipson had good grounds
for refusing to serve on the committee. As to what the Mayor thinks
or doesn't know that there are differences and clearances is probably
an to the intensive., propaganda that is being used to make the nation
believe that all Jews are of one kind on the Zionist question when such
ien't the truth.

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Two Jewish Representatives
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Immigrant a.

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Siegel, Sabath and Cochran
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House Debate.

WASHINGTON.—(J. C. B.)—The
bill extending the operation of the 3
per cent quota law until June 30,
1923, was passed by the House of
Representatives with an overwhelm.
ing vote of 280 to 36. The bill now
goes to the senate, where a alight op-
positino is expected before its pas-
sage.
Chairman Johnson, after the pas-
sage of the bill, introduced a resolu-
tion to permanently admit all aliens
in excess of the quota who had been
admitted temporarily under bonds
since the quota law went into effect.
This resolution, he said, he expects
to report from the committee at an
early date and to rush it through
under the suspension of rules. In the
future the law would be enforced
with the utmost stringency, Chair-
man Johnson said, closer operation
between the state department and
the consuls in various lands being
provided for. The practice of issu-
ing surplus visas will have to stop,
, Johnson said.
Predicts Stricter Law.
Chairman Johnson also made the
important announcement that the im-
migration committee will continue its
labors looking to a permanent meas-
ure for restriction of immigration to
be ready for presentation in the
House by next winter, the law to be
then adopted, he said, would be even
more severe.
As forecasted, the debate was lim-
ited to 4 minutes, which is the pro-
ceedure under suspension of rules re-
quiring a two-thirds vote. In expla-
nation of this haste, Chairman John-
son stated that he feared the immi-
gration legislation would get caught
behind the bonus and tariff acts and
since the existing law expires in June
it Was necessary to adopt this meas-
ure without delay.
In contrast to the debate last year,
when immigrants were mentioned
with great frequency in the course
'of the debate, no reference to them
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Siegel and Sabath Speak.

Chairman Johnson used 15 of the
minutes for presenting his argu-
ment for the adoption of the bill,
Representative Wilson of Louisiana
speaking five minutes. Representa-
tives Siegel and Sabath both spoke
five minutes, yielding their combined
remaining 10 minutes to Representa-
tive Bourke Cochran of New York.
That the bill was susceptible to criti-
cism was asserted by Chairman John-
son, who maintained that it had more
than justified itself, however, in the
reduction of immigration. During
the year before the per cent law was
put in operation the average number
of aliens a week was 15,000; the num-
ber now admitted is 1,600. Ellis
Island is today more nearly deserted
than at any time in the past 20 years,
Johnson said, after informing the
llouse amidst applause that "never
again will the people of the United
States return to the old custom of
free immigration."
Scoring the quota law, Representa-
tive Siegel declared he did not know
of any single New York newspaper
or a magazine of standing in any part
of the country which favored the
present law. The unfairness of the
present regulation is best illustrated
by the fact that while Japanese and
Chinese students are admissible un-
der a gentleman's agreement, other
students were not no favored, he said.
Siegel read a letter from President
Butler of Columbia protesting against
the failure to provide for the admis-
sion of European students, saying
that the country's educators will not
stand silently by and permit that sort
of barbarism to be perpetrated by
Congress.

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native Sabath's Attack.

Representative Sabath of Illinois
boldly branded as false Secretary
Hughes' report to Congress, in which
drastic restrictive legislation was
asked. The state department said
that "Two million Germans were
coming to the United States within
six months, but since peace with Ger-
. many had been signed eight months
ago only 6,000 actually arrived,"
Sabath said. It was also predicted
that "10,000,000 aliens would seek
entry to the United States." That,
too, has not materialized, these ex-
travagant statements being founded
on neither facts nor truth. It was
easy, Sabath insisted, to amend the
law so as to eliminate the harsh pro-
visions from its operation.
Representative Cochran confined
himself to the claim that immigration
was productive of unemployment, as-
' serting that in the history of this
country immigration, far from harm-
ing, saved the country from indus-
trial depression.
Of the Jewish representatives in
Congress two voted for the bill. They
are B. L. Rosenbloom, Republican, of
Wheeling, Va., and Milton Kraus,
Republican, of Peru, Ind. Repre-
sentative Kahn of California was ab-
sent, while Bacarach of Atlantic
City, who last year voted for the
bill, now joined the opposition of the
rameining Jewish representatives. in-
cluding Nathan D. Pearlman, Volk,
London (Socialist), Rossdale, M. C.
Ansorge.
At Representative Isaac Siegel's
request, a record was made of the
vote taken, showing that only one
representative from New York, Og-
den Mills, had supported the measure.

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JERUSALEM.—The Railway Ad-
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plating the introduction of various
changes which will take effect not
later than April. Special express
trains will run between Haifa and
Jerusalem and between Jaffa, Jerusa-
lem and Kantara. It is expected that
the journey between Haifa and Je-
rusalem will take four and one-half
hours.
The Railway Administration has
arranged with Messrs. Cook & Sons
to convey to their various destina-
tions the 4.000 tourists who are ex-
pected in the coming months. The
passengers will disembark at Haifa
and will be conveyed by special trains

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