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PAGE TEN

7i1E9erRonfEIVISII CARONICIL

\i‘ .\ ■ .1 61 LI 0 1 N al I I MN LI 00 L ■
Minister can do anything with such Constituent States, and as always, the
reactionary party comes before the
The Good Old D•ys Have — i
proposals?"
revival
of
anti-Semit-
a
people
with
Used Anti-Semites.
Come Again at
PA
ism. The reactionary program of this
Bismarck's insight, however, in re- party,which is directed against the
By WALTER E. ROTHMAN
TT CAFE %
By DR. PAUL NATHAN, Berlio.
P MARQUEE'S
gard to the anti-Semitic agitation did interests of the common people, is to
not deter him from making full us e be made acceptable, if not to the
Ever since Emerson flung his essay We shudder! How abhorrent for such n
Strictly American
I A '
(Copyrighted, 1922, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)
of the anti-Semites for his political people, at least to the mob by means on "Culture" out of his chilled ,New a nice poet to make such an uncouth
Roadhouse.
PA
remark. !low are we going to keep &
purposes. lie used the anti-Semitic of the infusion of anti-Semitism.
England
mind,
we
have
been
proudly
t
(Perhaps no one is more competent to discuss this question than
our polite cultural societies from
movement in order to cause an in- Anti-Semitism has been and is the
Frog and Chicken Cooked in
/
A
t
Dr. Paul Nathna, a leader of German Jewry, a close student of Ger-
ternal conflict in the ranks of, the cloak under which the reaction seeks trying to take our place as a nation I coming in contact with the vulgar?—
Genuine
Roadhouse
Style
by
&
man history. He traces the political vicissitudes of the Jews in Ger-
1 I A '
men without wealth or college de-
ening parties with a view to weak-
eak- to hide its anti-popular policy.
in the dress-circle of life.
Cook formerly at Arduasis. P
many and arrives at the important conclusion that in the new German
E
grees
and
unvassarized
women?
With
A
ening them. He furthered the devel-
nation
sensitive
to
taunts.
Being
a
Sees Modern German State. .
state "anti-Semitism will be reduced to insignificance."—Editor.)
instinct as a standard, any one, re- t
opment which eventually drove Ed-
t
It Is highly improbable that the re- and accustomed to proving our worth
NOONDAY
LUNCHEON
80e
gardless
of
clothes,
position
or
table
uard Lasker and Ludwig Bomberger actionary forces will succeed by their by advertising methods, we were net-
,t
t
11:30.2:00 p. m.
The Jews have for 2,000 years been Napoleon I., who was in the eyes of out of the National Liberal Party, exploitation of anti-Semitism in exert- tled by Europe's haughty refusal of manners, shall possess the "Open Se- t
t
persecuted, maltreated, robbed and German feudalism no more than a and made the Party completely sub- ing any influence on the broad masses admittance. At best our art and tan-1 same" to our Monday evening clubs t Five-Course SPECIAL Dinner t
killed because they are Jews. They revolutionary upstart, a successful versive to his will, so that it became of the people. The masses of the gunge were considered illigitimate and literary endeavors. How un-
5:30.8:00 p. m.—$1.00
t
adventurer.
aesthetic!
I
am
sure
most
of
us
would
offsprings of English culture. Surely,'
have managed to endure it all and
a vehicle of the reaction, and even to
Once again reaction won in Ger- a certain extent amenable to anti- people are .far too enlightened and thought our financiers, it should be have refused to consort with Shelley,
survive till the present day. There
SUNDAY DINNER $1.25
educated and the working-class mass-
many
after
1848,
and
again
the
Jew-
since
he
was
perfectly
callous
to
pic-
are other peoples, too, who have had
Semitic influence. Anti-Semitism es, in particular, have in the Social any easy to lead in art as in money.
A i Bert Williams' Dance Orchestra 5'
O
to undergo periods of terror and suf- ish question was brought up in order raised its head again boldly in Ger- Democratic Party and the trade union The entire affair must be run in a tures and architecture. Was Mr. r
Every Evening.
fering. But there is no parallel in to make the liberating, progressive many when the reaction condoned by movement become too well disciplined more business-like way. So, Wall Untermeyer serious? We are a little
movement
distasteful
to
the
German
uneasy;
but,
goodness,
we
may
still
Street,
not
satisfied
with
exploiting
the whole of history to the develop-
Bismarck became anew a power in politically, not to recognize that anti-
black-ball. There is a hope that the
oil
fields,
began
the
importation
of
Phone
Hemlock 1740
ment of Judaism. We have never people.
the land.
Semitism is what the Austrian Par-
VA
t
Then followed the years when un-
had to record anything similar to the
At that period, the spokesmen of liamentary Deputy Perneradorfer, pictures, vases, furniture, books and virus of the masses shall not con-
For Private Dining Room
endurance which kept a people alive der Bismarck, Germany and espoci- vulgar anti-Semitism in Germany that spirited orator, has defined in abeliska—ad nauseam—to its beloved taminate.
as
women
consider
culture
So
long
and together, not merely temporarily, ally Prussia, gradually rose. In his were the Court Chaplain Stoecker, the following words: "Anti-Semitism country. Alas for such commercial
but for centuries, and enabled it de- early years, Bismarck belonged to the who sought to spread anti-Jewish is socialism for fools." Actually, reasoning and unfortunate bourgeoise merely as an escape from the kitchen
spite all calamities to emerge from feudalistic reactionary party in Prus- feeling in the circles around the Em- anti-Semitism is the bait with which interfreence. The treasure ships ar- (see "Autumn," by Jean Starr Un-
them all, and continue its life and sia. He was, however, not merely a peror Wilhelm I., and the Rector Ahl- the reaction in Germany has ever rived but culture forgot to take pas- termeyer), and so long as men con- PA
t
W. Y. Young, Proprietor
maintain its place among the civilized reactionary Junker, but a statesman wardt, who worked together with strived to win the masses. They have sage. I am afraid that our wealthy sider it as a relief from the more t
t
of genius. He recognized early that Strecker to inflame the wildest in- never entirely succeeded and in the bourgeoise class shall only see the worth-while duties of business, I t Six.M:l• Road and Woodward t
nations of the world.
Avenue
With the commencement of the the Prussian state could be developed stincts of the mob. At the time, these German Republic of our day they will out-skits of culture. They shall never worry about the future. Culture,
even reach that sacred out-post. Be- then, is like education — merely a F
nineteenth century and the influences to be a leading power in Germany closely related and conscienceless agi- assuredly not succeed.
passport—enabling us to penetrate ! i L N M■■ ,N I W 0
which the French Revolution exerted only by being prepared to make eon- tators—and they had a goodly number
There is a new flow of anti-Semit- cause of their wealth and a small the social "Sanctum Sanctorum." It
in
of followers—caused a series of heat- ism perceptible at the present mo- amount of intelligence, they have suf- constitutes a breeding ground for
on the modern civilized nations, the cessions, and generous concessions,
Jewish question assumed a new form. the modern spirit. This It was Count ed political struggles in Germany ment. The reaction knows that its ficiently impressed the masses with
Massacers of Jews on a large scale Bismarck, the chief Minister of Prus- which threatened, indeed, the equality decisive hour has conic. The Republic their judgment on art. Never has "right thinkers." Very few realize THE ONLY DETECTOR
sia , who proceeded immediately after of the Jews under the Constitution, is fortifying itself. And if France more incalcuable harm been done. the torture that men go through in
took place only in Russia, Ruma
DEMONSTRATED AT
and the Asiatic and African countries. 1866, following the expulsion of Aus- but the anti-Semites were never able does not push Germany into chaos by Thus finance managed to enthrone it- order to liberate their personalities.
THE RADIO SHOW
In the so-called civilized world there tria from Germany, to the creation of to overthrow the Constitution in re- a Chauvinist and reactionary policy, self in the universities, churches, li- Other than the liberation of the mind,
culture
has
no
legitimate
aim.
To
were attacks on the Jews of various a Constitution which for that period gard to the rights of the Jews.
if the enlightened world and the en- braries and marble museums, while hear our sleek and comfortable men
art
in
tattered
rags
begged
for
alms
degrees of violence, but mass-slough- and particularly for Prussia must be
Wilhelm I. who always strove to at- lightened French people know how to
and women gravely echoing the old
terings were never again resorted to. characterized as exceptionally pro- tach to himself Bismarck's genius prevent such a catastrpohe, Germany on the outside.
What were the effects of Ameri- threadbare words, "beautiful," "real-
That sort of thing was left to the gressive.
and will-power, allowed considerable will speedily bring her progressive
istic," "romantic," in connection with
Czarist Empire and the smaller Ru- , In face of the opposition of the latitude to the anti-Semitic movement, Constitution to absolute realization, can-made culture? We guarded our the latest novel, one almost forgets
manian State, and more recently, to backward, small landed classes in and Bismarck used it for his own and before long, Germany will be an public morals by depriving Walt the meaning of culture. Most of us
Whitman
of
a
job
in
the
Department
the newly risen Polish Republic and Germany, and the reactionary ele- ends. But neither the one nor the exceptionally progressive modern
are merely congeries of heredity,
South Russia. meats in Austria, Bismarck proceeded other openly supported anti-Semitism. state in which anti-Semitism will have of the Interior for writing "Leaves prejudices and the opinions of Will-
of Grass."
The development of events in Ger- to the establishment of a liberal Con- Neither did they allow themselves to been reduced to insignificance.
Edgar Allen Poe failed to receive iam Lyon Phelps. We mistake our
many was closely similar. The eatab- stitution in Germany, and immediate- he forced into severing their connec-
a head-stone from his countrymen. prejudices for ideas. The even of a
lishment of modern Germany began . y following the victorious war of tions with Jews.
We barred him because he drank pure judgment is rare. We confuse
with the end of the War of Liberation 1870 and the formation of the Ger-
The man who had charge of the
beer in unusual quantities. When morality, patriotism, politics and re-
which overthrew Napoleon I., who had man Empire, the German Reichstag private fortune of Wilhelm I. was the
The lower spring "A" regulated by
Arnold Bennett landed in this coun- ligion in any estimate.
destroyed the old state system of was brought into being, on a fran- Jewish banker, Baron Moritz von
The question of prohibition be- "13" enables you to secure the exact
try some years ago and asked where
Europe. Out of the ruins grew slow- chine which was at that time the most Cohn, to whom the Emperor retained
tension
desired between the cats'
comes
for
the
majority
a
religious
or
our most distinguished novelist, Theo-
ly, very slowly, a new Germany
unshakeable attachment during the
liberal in existence.
dore Dreiser, lived, we did not know moral problem. The art of "The whisker and the crystal. Adjustable
which the Jewish question reappeared
to
micrometric
touch.
Bismarck gave equal and secret whole of his life, right up to the day
about him. "Sister Carrie" was re- Ballad of Reading Gaol" is ignored
In modern form.
The new Bonish Detector with the
franchise to all Germans, and we had of his death. And the private fortune Chief Rabbi of Khazen Tells of fused publication on this side. Rob- because of the unfortunate life of its
of
Prince
Bismarck
was
in
the
hands
lower
spring
adjustment
is the ONLY
Dania. Jews Bad Soldiers.
Constitution
which
made
it
possible
a
Plight of Jews in Volga
ert Frost and Sherwood Anderson had author. We "hurrah" for the stir-
The Prussian Army which fought also for Jews to attain to any position of the Jewish banker, Gerson von
District
to seek publishers in England. "Jur- ring poetry of Edgar Guest and main- Detector that enable you to adjust
Bleichroeder.
without
disturbing
the point.
tension
against Napoleon 1. already contained In the state. it proclaimed complete
gen," from the pen of our most poetic tain that Robert Frost speaks a jar-
Introductory offer to ■ all who per-
of rights in the eyes of the
"One of Best Horses."
gon.
a considerable number of Jews. And equality
Six hundred thousand Jews are suf- prose writer, was suppressed.
sonally
purchase
Detector
at
Office-
Unless we separate artistic instinct
on the evidence of the investigations law for all German citizens without
All these thoughts were started by
It was of course highly inconvenient fering in the famine belt along the
of the then Prussian Ministry of War, exception. As citizens, there were to for the purposes of anti-Semitism, Volga, declares Dr. George Leikin, a question leveled at Louis Unter- from social position and the confused
$ I . 5 0
these Jews carried themselves as be no longer any distinctions between that these two Jews stood so near to chief rabbi of Kazan, who has just meyer the other evening when he ideas which have been reverentially
Mail orders promptly filled,
bravely as their Christian comrades in Jewish Germans and Christian Ger- the person of the German Emperor arrived in this country with harrow- spoke at the Scripps library. "How handed down, culture will remain a
the campaign against the Corsican mans throughout the whole extent of and of Germany's political chief. De- ing tales of the Jewish tragedy in may one tell good poetry?" asked an name. Culture will be pleasant as Open every day and Sunday, also
post-prandial
conversation
and
a
the
German
Empire.
genius. To dispose of the legend that
Wednesday and Saturday Even-
spite all their efforts: however. the Russia. Throughout the length and old maid, who, in a lonely hour, had
ings till 9.
Jews are bad soldiers, I have publish-
Bismarck's Vision.
anti-Semites were unable to destroy breadth of that country Jewish agony probably ventured forth into love pretty diversion for the women in the
drawing
room,
but
useless
as
aid
aid
ed a series of statistics relating to
lyrics of the sentimental type. "By
A statesman of the genius of Bis- the confidence of the Emperor and is acute, he says.
THE
BONISH
DETECTOR
to
living.
the Jews as soldiers, not only in Ger- marck saw that the German Empire the Chancellor in their two trusted
instinct,"
replied
Mr.
Untermeyer.
Ninety per cent of all Jewish in-
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many, but in all the states of modern had primarily to be made secure from financial advisers. When Bismarck fants die, practically in their moth-
Near Junction Ave.
Europe and in the United States of within, that he could not afford to lose was once asked by the reactionaries ers' arms, for want of natural nour- Their number was augmented by the
Detroit, Mich.
Walnut 2030
America, and these show that the the support of any section of the pop- to see that Baron von Cohn should be ishment, which the starved mothers
prisoners captured from the
Jews of various countries have com- ulation, not even that of the Jews, withdrawn from the Imperial Service, are unable to supply. Eighty per Jewish
Austrian
and
German
armies
by
the
pletely fulfilled in military . as in other that the liberal-minded elements of he replied in his characteristically cent of all adults who become ill die Russians. Eighty t housand Jewish
osed on
matters the obligations imp
the Left wing parties had to be won blunt fashion: "Leave it alone! Cohn of cold or want of proper food. Epi- prisoners whose welfare was being
them by the lands of their birth. over to his policy, and that the times is one of the best horses in the Im- demics of black typhus have mowed safe-guarded
by the American con-
These facts being recognized, voices made it impossible to exclude the Jews perial stable and His Majesty will down the Jews in thousands, while sul at Kazan were
turned over to me
were heard in Germany immediately from the general equality.of rights.
certainly not sacrifice it to let the horrible diseases, due to malnutrition when this country entered the war.
Twenty-four million German marks
after the War of Liberation, asking
and
terrible
substitutes
for
bread
anti-Semites
have
a
game
with
it."
"The
new
Jewish
population rapid- have just been appropriated by the
This is how it was on paper. Actu-
that the German Jews should be
Before Wilhelm II. ascended the have caused countless deaths.
ly adjusted itself to its new environ- Joint Distribution Commmittee to
ally
in
practice,
however,
it
was
far
granted all rights equally with the
The Russian government, Dr. Lei- ment," Dr. Leikin continued. "They hasten the rehabilitation of the Jews
throne, we had the brief, tragic af-
from being the case.
other citizens.
fair of the reign of the (lying Em- ken says, has resorted to heroic meas-
Even after 1870, the number of peror Friedrich. It was he who orig- ures to save the children, but noth- brought to us a refreshing Jewish of Lithuania whose progress toward
The Germany of that time was not
spirit. They brought with them their
For outright
yet ripe for such a liberal Constitu- Jewish officers in the German army inated the phrase that Stoecker's anti- ing at all for sick adults, especially deep-rooted Jewish culture, their self-support and self-respect makes
purchase or to be
tion. Even the atempts of the Frei- was insignificant. The Diplomatic Semitic campaign was a "disgrace to for older folks. "But even the heroic strong Jewish consciousness. They one of the most gratifying chapters
in
the
efforts
of
the
Jews
of
this
coun-
Service
continued
to
be
completely
herr von Stein to bring about the ex-
carried on
the century", and the Empress Fried- measures employed by the govern. received from us, in exchange for
tensions of the privileges of modern free of all Jews, and no Jews were rich, who was educated in liberal tra- ment for saving the children are of these spiritual gifts, whatever ele- try to restore their war-stricken Eu-
conservative
state institutions to the Christian pop- appointed to administrative posts in ditions, always had about her Jews little avail," Dr. Leikin remarked, ments of general culture we had to ropean brethren.
Of
all
the
war-wrecked
Jewish
com-
marginal basis.
ulation of Prussia, were only to a the German Empire or in the Consti- and Jewesses who were worthy of the "because it lacks sufficient re- impart. They established themselves
munities in Eastern and Central Eu-
slight degree successful. They were tuent states. The higher judicial posi- distinction.
sources."
on
a
seemingly
substantial
basis
and
rope that the Joint Distribution Com-
keenly contested by the forces of tions, too, were closed to the Jews.
Jews Slain and Crippled.
When Wilhelm IL ascended the
founded many institutions which gave
feudal reaction, who made use of a They were permitted to attain only to throne, he found himself under the
Approximately 400,000 Jews have tone and character to our communal mittee is endeavoring to pull out of
weapon which they have continued to the lower rungs of the judicial ladder, influence of Stoecker. This period, been killed in the pogroms in Russia life. Everything went well with us the slough of despond with funds con-
Members
employ up to the present day. They they were at liberty to become advo- however, in his development, was not and the Ukraine since the outbreak until the present regime came into tributed by American Jews, including
the money raised during the recent
New York Stock Exchange
tried to persuade the people to believe cates. A few Jewish scholars ob- of long duration. lie liberated him- of the war, according to Dr. Leikin, power.
$14,000,000
campaign,
those
of
the
Detroit Stock Exchange
that modern state development was tained positions in the Universities, self quickly from the influence and who was a member of the praesidium
"Then began the series of horrors
republic of Lithuania are mak-
not in consonance with the German but their numbers were comparatively surrounded himself unbiassedly with of the Central Union of all Russian in which Denikine and Kolchak and little
Detroit
ing the speediest "come-back."
character and that the modern politi- small.
a number of Jews. Ile invited them Jewish organizations during 1918 and the Czecho-Slovaks, the vengeful
301 Penobscot Bldg. Cherry 7460
Enjoy Real Equality.
cal ideas of Europe were un-Ger-
That theoretically the German Jews to become his intimate friends and 1919 and a member of the special population, the military officers and
manic, a French, a Jewish invention , had all the doors to social activity they were called upon to advise him in committee appointed by that body in civil office-holders of the czaristic
Lithuania is one of the few new Ss.
designed to undermine and destroy thrown open to them by Bismarck, is various specified directions. Among 1919 to investigate the pogroms. regime, the intelligenzia, the land- countries whose existence was made
a fact. To think, however, that the these Jews was Rathenau, the father Adding to the number slain outright, stripped nobility, each wrote a ter- possible by the League of Nations, .ithuanian leaders are urging the
the German state.
where the constitutional recognition Joint Distribution Committee to with-
Jews in the days of Bismarck were of Walter Rathenau who has recently the cripples, the widows and the or- rible chapter."
Reactionary Exploitation.
he estimates the total of po-
of "equal rights for all," required of hold an appropriation of 500,000 Ger-
This attempt to disparage the mo- enabled to enter through these opened been conducting negotiations in Lon- phans,
Imprisoned by Bolsheviks.
them by the league, is more than a
grom
victims
at
1,000,000.
as a
doors
into
actual
social
life
in
the
don,
Paris
and
Cannes
with
the
lead-
dern state in the eyes of the German
At one time Dr. Leikin was thrown legalistic fiction. Not only has the man marks made some time ago insist
"There
have
been
pogroms
in
the
way
that
after
the
necessary
prepara-
ing politicians of the Allied countries.
people by hammering it into their
into prison by the Bolsheviks, who, Lithuanian government not inter- sort of guarantee fund. They
Volga
district,
as
terrible
as
those
tions,
all
other
citizens
could,
is
to
be
There
was
also
James
Simon,
who
that
this
guarantee
fund
is
now'
un-
heads that the idea of the equality of
because he is a member of the clergy,
took a leading part in the work of that occurred in the Ukraine," Dr. regarded him as their enemy and in- fered with or retarded in the slight- necessary and even harmful, because
all citizens before the law was an in- under an illusion.
est degree Jewish relief and recon- it would give the banks a philanthro-
I.eikin
stated.
In
one
town,
Yeletz,
excavation
in
the
Euphrates
and
In
one
sphere,
indeed,
a
number
of
vention of un-German minds, especi-
with a Jewish population of 12,000, formed the Jews who pleaded for his struction efforts, but, on the con-
ally of the Jews, Is typical of the Jews of exceptional political capacity, Tigris districts, and in Egypt, Max over 10,000 were slaughtered in De- release that they should regard it as trary, it has, through its Ministry of pic character.
The Co-operative..
times of Stein and Hardenberg, and were enabled to partake to a consider- Warburg in Hamburg, brother of the cember, 1919. The survivors were an act of grace that they did not kill Jewish Affairs, actively participated
Next in importance to the banks
of the whole of the nineteenth cen- able extent in the upbuilding of Ger- Warburgs who attained to important removed to the comparative safety of him for treason. Hardly had he been in these efforts.
positions
in
the
United
States,
and
the
industrial
co-operatives, and
are
many.
This
sphere
was
that
of
Par-
tury, and is still to be found in Ger-
The Lithuanian Jews themselves,
Kazan, Saratov and Simbrinsk. Other released when the Czecho-Slovaks de-
many till the present day. The re- liament, and the two Jews who par- above all, Albert Bailin, the directing pogroms of equal ferocity occurred manded of the Jewish community of and quite independently of outside the success of those already estab-
head
of
the
Ilamburg-American
ship-
lished
in
Lithuania
is second only to
ticularly distinguished themselves in
Khazan that they be turned over to
actionaries have exploited and a
still exploiting anti-Semitism and the it were Ludwig Bamberger and Ed- ping line, the creator of the great at the same time, in Kazlov, Tambov, him as a hostage. Dr. Leikin was aid, have gone in for reconstruction that of the banks. Strong efforts are
work
with
great
vigor
and
initiative,
Penza
and
Bolashov.
Hamburg
shipping
trade
which
he
made
to
develop
a Jewish farm-
being
Jewish question in order to discredit ward Lasker,
Though it is almost three years safely in Moscow then, so the Szecho- and an eager desire to help them- er class, as there is less hostility in
succeeded in bringing to a remark-
and impress the development of liberal
Slovaks imposed a fine of 3,000,000 selves. The Jewish National Council
Luker'. Actviiti.s.
since,
as
a
member
of
the
special
in-
ably flourishing state.
Lithuania to Jewish ownership of soil
ideas in Germany.
In the years immediately following
vestigating committee, he viewed the rubles on the Jewish community. But and other communal organizations as than in most European countries.
Ballin's Influence.
After the Napoleonic wars, when 1806, after 1870 and right up to the
terrible aftermaths of the orgy of the Czecho-Slovaks were beaten back well as a number of individuals, have Several agricultural co-operatives
the downtrodden Prussian state was end of the seventies, the legislative
Bailin beyond all others, and alone pogroms in the Ukraine, he is still un- and the fine was not paid.
done yoeman service and displayed
Dr. Leikin made it very clear that great vision in their efforts to hasten have already been established and
to be re-erected by the Reform legis- construction of Germany was effected. among them all, it must be said, had able to speak with composure of his
he does not hold the present Russian the era of rehabilitation. The main their prospects of success seem
lation of Stein' and Hardenberg, earl- In these years the activities of Depu. the opportunity of exercising political experiences.
bright.
ous reactionary classes and individu- ties Bomberger and Lasker were by influence on 1Vilhilm II. Bailin was
It is impossible to convey any government responsible for the ter- instrumentality, however, in the re -
The biggest task that yet remains
alssubmitted petitions to the men- no means inconsiderable. Lasker ex- wise, rich in experience and at the idea to the American people of what rible disasters which have befallen habilitation of the Jewish communi-
of
tally immobile, frigidly antiquated erted the utmost' influence on the same time, immensely tactful in politi- actually transpired there," he ex- the Jews of that land, though the ties of Lithuania, according to all re- to be done before rehabilitation
can be completed
Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm Ill. of structure of German legislation, par- cal affairs. A book which has recent- claimed. "I saw dead bodies in the Jews are held responsible for the ex- ports received from that country, is Lithuanian Jewry
reconstruction
of
battle-
is
the
actual
Prussia in order to 'demonstrate to ticularly in the formulation of the ly been published on his life shows woods—I saw dead bodies every- istence of the present regime and the Joint Distribution Committee. wrecked buildings. This is an enor-
for practically everything it does.
him in passionate terms that the leg- l feria' code and prviate rights, and that Bailin made strenuous efforts to where."
Without the funds and without the
is
Reverting to the Jewish plight in direction supplied by that body, which mous undertaking and progress
islation proposed by the Frieherr von Ludwig Bamberger was of decisive bring about a timely approachment
At one time he headed a delegation
the re-
Stein and the Minister von Harden- assistance in drafting the economic with Britain, which would have ob- to the Cossack General Skura to plead the Volga, Dr. Leikin said: "There is the disbursing agency for all re- necessarily slow in meeting
182.-
is tremendous need for palliative re- lief funds raised by the Jews of quirements of a population of
berg would annihilate the splendid legislation, and above all, that part of viated what was for Europe and also for the lives of the Jews.
Let for the Jews in that section, just America, the colossal task which is (100 in 175 towns whose homes and
edifice of the old Royal Prussia, and it relating to currency. Ile must be for the United States, economically
ee ."
Cossacks Seek "R
as there is terrible need for pallia- now well under way would have been places of business and work were
transform it into a modern Jewish recognized as the person who helped at least, a disastrous war. When the
"We
moved
him,"
Dr.
Leikin
said.
i
tive relief for the Jews of every part entirely beyond the resources of the damaged or totally destroyed by the
state on Jacobin lines. That is the to create the conditions which develop- war did break out, Bailin strove to
fortunes of war.
"I
saw
a
tear
in
his
eyes.
Ile
told
of Russia. But our chief need is Lithuanians.
bring
it
to
a
speedy
end,
on
conditions
tune which has always been struck ed German economic life. Ile is one
A large part of the 24,000,0 00
us
to
come
back
the
next
day.
Then
the rehabilitation of our cultural in-
up by the reactionary . band at de- of those who made economic life in honorable to all sides, and able to as-
The two most important factors of marks appropriated for Lithuania will
he
informed
us
that
his
staff
threat-
stitutions.
And
when
I
say
that
I
the
prosperity
of
the
millions
eisive moments in Prussian and Ger- Germany flourish to a degree which it sure
rehabilitation in Lithuania, as they be devoted by the Joint Distribution
ened
to
mutiny
unless
they
were
per-
am
not
speaking,
especially,
of
the
man political life, nearly always with was impossible to imagine previously. who were caught up in the whirlwind
are in other countries, are the Peo- Committee to this important ree.n.
success, at the least with partia l
During the whole of this period, the of death. The military circles around mitted to take revenge on the Jews, general run of Jewish institutions, I ple's Banks and the industrial co- s truction task. The balance will he
success.
German reactionary Junkers fought Wilhelm II., knew how to render his whom they held responsible for the mean also institutions of general cul- operatives. These two institutions w
ticsanntss a a nn,(11
stieppinlystraurm
atioerdunmain
en l y ith to th
ture. If our children must go to the
The Stein-Hardenberg Constitution tooth and nail against the modern efforts innocuous and made it imnos- rise of Bolshevism.
vital necessities for small mer-
w ith
"That's one of the terrible para- government schools( and we have to are
was not carried fully into effect. It political and economic development in Bible for Bailin to influence the Em-
chants and artisans, for whom credit tools of their callings, financing labor
to
was held up and hindered and dig- Germany. They ranged themselves in peror to act in the interests of hu- doxes of Jewish life in Russia, that send them there because they are fed is of prime importance.
and agricultural enterprises and
credited as a "Jewish Constitution on regular die-hard fashion against manity, and thus the world was given the very people who typify 'burgeois' in these schools), there is no way of
Banks Self-Sustaining.
equip trade schools for the youth
their development along
the French model", although there is Prince Bismarck and only when he re- a peace which is disastrous both to tendencies are held responsible for preventing
The People's Banks in Kovno and
communistic lines. We must save
not the slightest evidence of any Jew- turned to the policy of his reactionary victors and vanquished. The victors the rise of communism.'
Dr. Leikin is a man of remarkable them as Jews. Besides the develop- in the other towns of what was once
ish influence in regard to it. The political past was his reconciliation are suffering, so are the vanquished. attainments.
ment of cultural institutions will the Russian province of that name,
Holding
the
degree
of
This
is
what
Albert
Bailin
foresaw,
reaction was victorious on almost with the Conservatives slowly and
Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of make the Jews stronger to resist the were founded over a year ago with
every point. The result was that gradually brought about. Bismarck but luckily did not live to see.
And they will funds supplied by the Jonit Distribu-
We will return to tracing the politi- Jurisprudence, he graduated from the decadence of despair.
social and also economic life in Ger- severed his connections with Liberal-
us, too, in our efforts to en- tion Committee, which required that WANTED—High school young man
many was broken, and dissatisfaction ism, and as soon as this became thor- cal development of Germany and the Yeshiba at Velozin at the age of 15 help
to drive Studebaker Six afternoons
lighten
the
masa
and
thereby
reduce a part of the capital should be sup-
with
a
rabbinic
degree.
From
Velo-
and indignation became rampant and oughly clear to them, the anti-Semites future of the German race.
except Saturday and Sunday. Box
plied locally. These banks have been
The Empire collapsed, the Republic sin he went to Heidleberg, where his the menace of pogroms which hangs amazingly
grew to such an extent that the once again raised their heads. With
782, Jewish Chronicle.
successful. A network of
over
us
like
a
Democletian
sword."
studies
included
a
course
in
general
ground was prepared for the Revolu- the opposition of the forces of the was proclaimed, and the new German
similar institutions now covers the _
and
He remained in Heidel-
state to the Liberal party, anti-Semit- Constitution ca nagain be character- pholosophy.
tion of 1848.
,
entire Lithuanian republic, function- TWO SISTERS desire board
berg
as
"privet
docent,"
"no
Jew
be-
EGYPTIAN
GAZETTE
PRAISES
room with refined private family.
ism assumed the center of the stage ized as the most progressive in the
Reaction Wins Again.
ing
in
a
manner
that
is
swiftly
heal-
position
on
the
ZIONIST MEDICAL UNIT WORK
world. All German citizens, male and ing eligible for a
Call Monday, Main 7391.
The Revolutionary movement of as at the beginning of the century.
ing the ugly spiritual wounds of the
teaching staff of that university) and
Bismarck was in his younger days female, over the age of 20, have the then returned to Russia, where he
this year, which commenced full of
An intereseting appreciation of the war. They began operations with the FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room
right
to
vote.
There
is
no
restrictisn
The
undeniably
an
anti-Semite.
That
was
promise, ebbed before long.
studied jurisprudence.
work of the Hadassah Medical Organ- comparatively small capital of 800,-
with adult family, for one or two
Call
people were unable to hold the rights in accordance with the traditions of or disability, not even the slightest, in
ization (American Zionist Medical 000 German marks. According to re-
gentlemen. Near Woodward.
Lectured at University.
whcih they conquered, and the reac- the circles among whom he was operation against the Jews. This
cent
reports,
this
capital
has
been
al-
Unit)
is
contained
in
a
recent
issue
Fifteen years ago he became chief
Market 5272-W.
tionary forces were successful after brought up. But I do not believe that time the provisions of the Constitu-
most
doubled.
of the Egyptian Gazette, which prints
an interplay lasting for a period of he adhered in his maturer years to tion have not remained a dead letter, rabbi of Khazan and almost simul- an interview with Dr. I. M. Rubinow,
The running expenses of these BURLINGAME 1653. To let, flat.
taneously lecturer on the philosophy
only a few months, in depriving the the convictions of his anti-Semitic the Constitution of the German Re- of jurisprudence in the famous uni- director of the Unit, telling of the banks, when they were opened, were
High class lower or upper duplex.
public
is
a
living
fact.
In
the
short
met chiefly through a tax imposed by
German people of all the liberties youth. There is no doubt at all in
Four bedrooms. Available June 1.
versity located there. With the pass- most recent additions to the Unit.
the Jewish National Council on all
which they had managed to gain in my mind that Bismarck in his later period that the new German Constitu- ing of the years he became chief rab-
Three
doctors
of
European
fame,
has been in operation, Jews have
FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room
American
money—remittances
made
their campaign. Now we have the periods regarded anti-Semitism as tion
have
just
joined
the
Unit,
according
binical authority for the entire Volga
for refined young gentleman. In-
same game that was played before sterile and politically degenerate. He attained to practically all positions in district and the recognized cultural to the Gazette. Prof. Jacob Erdheim, through that body, or the payment of
quire A. Kahn, 651 Medbury.
and after 1820 repeating itself. Pre- made not the slightest attempt to in- the State. They have been and are leader for the Jewish communities of well-known pathologist of Vienna, Dr. which it facilitated. This tax has now
Ministers,
Secretaries
of
State
and
corporate
anti-Semitism
in
the
Con-
cisely in accordance with the formula
Saratov, Simbrinsk, Samara, Pensa, Joseph Freud, a relative of the fam- been abolished and the banks no
RENT—Furnished room with
employed in the period following the stitution. On the other hand, I know Ambassadors, and what is most sig- Tver, Tambov, Astrakham, Nijni-nov. ous psycho-analyist, who is a Roent- longer require the aid of the Joint FOR
private Jewish family. Reference
Wars of Liberation, the reactionary of a whole series of utterances of his, nificant, the Constitution itself, which gored, Yaraslov, Peron and Ufa.
gen rays specialist, and Dr. Salkind, Distribution Committee to make
required. Call Melrose 2645-11.
short-term
loans.
In
other
words,
the
forces are claiming today that the which demonstrate that he considered has put an end to all sorts of preju-
famous
Petograd
specialist
in
inter-
His attention was called to the
Revolution of 1848 was not brought the proposals of the anti-Semites as dices and may be regarded as the cre-
In reviewing the work of the Unit, banks have been practically self-sus- BOYS WITH WIIEELS for day
about by the spontaneous feeling of impossible. In his distinctive youth- ation of far-seeing and wise states- widespread belief that there were nal diseases.
taining.
work ; clean, healthful, steady work.
very
fwe Jews in the Volga district.
manship,
was
drafted,
defended
and
See
Of 47 such banks recently investi-
the
Egyptian Gazette lays particular
indignation animating the German ful and impressive manner he used to
Guarantee of 25 cents an hour.
"That was true before the war," Dr.
people, but was instigated by Jews, say: "The anti-Semites think of the eventually carried into effect, by a Leikin explained. "At that time there emphasis on the infant welfare work , gated, it was found that 44 had sub-
Western Union Tel. Co,
Mr.
Press,
Jew,
the
then
Minister,
Professor
Dr.
Poles and Frenchmen who incited the Jews as vermin on the German body.
corner of Shelby and Congress Ste.
were only 200,000 Jews in the entire the training of Palestine nurses, the stantial balances on the profit side of
Preuss.
sanitary work among immigrants, the the ledger. The other three fell only
Germans to revolt against their bar. That in itself is bad zoology. But Hugo
That the power of the reactionaries section. But as the war reached the fight against malaria, and the record 28,672 marks short of meeting their FOR RENT—Modern eight-room ter-
solitary Princes. Yet among these when we come to the means by which
veritable
host
of
Russian 'front' a
The condition of the banks,
"hereditary" Princes there were quite they want to rid Germany of this in Germany has not entirely gone is refugees
race. All improvements. 544 E ast
poured into this section from of 400,000 visits to the clinics annu- overhead.
on the whole, is so satisfactory that
a number who owed their crowns and vermin, we find that their vermin- obvious. There is still today a reac- Poland, Courland and Lithuania. ally.
Palmer. Call Northway 3299-
tionary
party
in
Germnay
and
In
the
powder
is
thoroughly
useless.
What
their coronets to none other than

On Hearing Louis Untermeyer

German Anti-Semitism: Its Flow and Ebb

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Marquette Cafe

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480,000 JEWS DIED
IN RUSS POGROMS

JEWS OF LITHUANIA
GAIN INDEPENDENCE

NEW YORK
SECURITIES

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