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

I know that the readers of this column will grieve to learn that
Walter Hurt is desperately ill. So serious is his condition that g
fears Cr. entertained for his recovery. It must at least be a •iitisfac•
tion to such • soul to know that he has given to the public that book
which has been ■ long-cherished ambition, "The Truth About the
Jews." In a letter written by Mr. Hurt from his sickbed, he speaks
of the cordial reception given to his book by the reading public and
the critics and he has beautifully top
d his •ppreciation of the
friendship shown to him by writing these words, •s he exp
"from my couch of pain:"

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From Pisgah to the Promised Land.

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I never knew that we had "in our midst" a "Jewish science" group,
did you? Apparently some of our more intense leaders, determined
to "give the public what they want," have decided that since so many
Jews yearn for Christian Science, maybe the introduction of Jewish
Science will be a substitute "just as good." This cult, if that term
may be used, seems to flourish in the South. Rabbi Moses of Mobile
has written a sort of textbook that is called "Jewish Science." I am
indebted to ■ friend who has given me some information about the
class that it conducted by Rabbi Fox of Fort Worth. It is interesting.

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followed by a prayer, given usually by the leader; some members of
the group sometime, give spontaneous prayers; then • portion of
Rabbi Moses' book is read and interpreted. The class is then dosed
with Psalm and prayer. The thought behind is • perfect faith in the
Creator, and the optimism such • belief carries is sure to help those
who are ill and to cheer those who are dep d. It is not taught that
there is not illness, but an effort is made to keep our people from
worrying about it and thereby making their condition worse. As Dr.
it; "We attempt to bring those in the class nearer to
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God and in that communion find a spiritual delight which helps them
in their daily work. My movement, in fact, is • modernised Chassid-
ism." And he adds that splendid results have been achieved. It sounds
good, but I cannot express • definite opinion until I have learned more
of this interesting movement. At any rate, it ought to be • welcome
substitute for Christian Science among those Jews who have "
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outstanding figures in modern literature, but when he attempts to
discuss the Great Mystery of after life he becomes a pathetic figure.
I can only describe as dial g to witness such an intellect devoting
itself to this sort of drivel:

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"Heaven is a land of fulfilled ideals, the place where dis-
harmony and worry of this life are not and where the spirit
of a man who died as a twisted wreck of manhood, say at the
age of HO, becomes a vigorous being in the 30-year-old prime
of life, and where a gnarled old woman regains the beauty of
25. Children who (lie young in this world pass on to the next
and grow to maturity there, better than here, and their laughter
is day-long. Buildings and towns are there, as well as domestic
animals. Anything loved on earth is carried by the force of
love into the next life."

I cannot help recalling the words of Rabbi Goldenson of the Pitts-
burgh Rodef Shalom Congregation in ■ recent lecture to the effect
that our business is to create a kingdom of heaven on earth and that
we should devote less time or no time trying to create • h for
God. He can create His heaven without any help from us. So I am
reminded of this whenever I see great minds, normal on every other
subject, suddenly develop • kink and begin to describe the heaven
that men are going to. I wouldn't want to go to • place where one
laughs •II day long, because laughter would cease to be enjoyable or
Yet everyone who
enjoyed — we can appreciate only by contrast.
talks about heaven seems to be obsessed with the thought that the
same pleasurable feelings enjoyed by as intermittently on this earth
and in this life, if continued without interruption in after life, con-
stitute H . The weakness of the whole proposition lies in the
fact that human imagination is limited to earthly things. Neverthe-
less there will always be millions of persons trying to rend the veil
that the Creator in His wisdom has placed before the future.

A letter came recently from an outraged member of the com-
munity regarding the prices of Matson. Unfortunately, I had no
opportunity to discuss it at an earlier date. His indignation over-
flows along the lines of • question•ire:

"Do you know the prices of Matzos for the Passover? Do
you know that a day ago it was 14 cents a pound and now it is
sold for 8 cents a pound? Do you know that the bakers who
are interested in the Matzos business do not believe in a 'gen-
tleman's agreement?' Do you know that there is a big blot on
Jewry when such practices are allowed? In the first place the
price ought not to be over 6 cents a pound, and in the second
place this would avoid secret agreements for robbing the Jews
while being fooled in the strictly Kosher product. Undoubtedly
you have heard about such an outrage, and if you did not hear
it, why so?"

At any rate it will not hurt to let that class of Jews know that
there is "an eye above that sees everything." I think the correspon-
dent has covered the subject sufficiently without further comment,
except to say that he does me an injustice in expecting that I should
know everything, especially since I am not in the baker business and
have no knowledge of the gentlemen's agreement to which he refers.
If he can bring down the price of Mateo., God bless him, and so will

the Jews.

It is interesting to learn that Henry Morgenthau, Jr., has par.
chased the American Agriculturist, one of the oldest farm papers in
the United States, and that he will devote his entire time to the de-
velopment and expansion of this paper. He is a practical farmer,
owning • 1,000-acre farm in Dutchess county, New York, and is one
of the largest growers of alfalfa in that section. He was • student
at Cornell. This looks promising for the Jewish farm-
of •grciulture ■
ers. More and more Jews are turning to farming and it is astonishing

to consider the increase in the number of Jewish agriculturists within
the pest few year.. I hope the movement continues, for one of the
evils of Jewish life in the large cities is the huddling together by the
hundreds of thousands in congested and unwholesome sections. That
sort of living has focused the attention of the immigration restric-
tionist on the Jew; and further it has served to intensify prejudice
against the Jew on the more that he is a non-producer. Now let us
show the country that we can again become tillers of the soil, once

May-Day Rioting

DANZIG. — (J. C. B.) — Tens of
Jewish workmen were stabbed and
hundreds cruelly beaten at the May-
Day celebration in Warsaw, when the
labor meeting was surrounded and
attacked by students of the Rosvoj
party, reinforced by members of the
Polish Socialist party.
The trouble began in the course of
the address of Dr. Schipper, Socialist
deputy of the Polish Diet, who was
speaking in Polish. Rowdies said to
belong to the Roswoj party began
heckling the speaker, who appealed
to the crowd not to mar the work-
men's holiday. Unable to pacify the
crowd, he yielded, physically ex-
hausted, to the next speaker, Town
Councilor Ehrlich, who likewise called
on the Socialists not to permit hooli-
gans to interfere with the exercises.
His lust remark seems to have had
the opposite effect to what he desired
and the crowd fell on the Jewish
workmen. The Jewish national col-
ors which were carried in the proces-
sion were torn down and trampled,
the hooligans wielding clubs and flag-
, staffs in their attack on the fleeing
Jews. Madame Stein, wife of a town
councillor, was among the wounded,
while Mr. Mereminsky, a leader of
the Zeire Zion, had a narrow escape.
First aid was given by doctors who
arrived on the scene and remained
there for several hours to look after
the wounded.
Rimarska street recalled to many
pogrom scenes from Czarist Russia,
covered with feathers from pillows
carried by a Jewish pedler and rip-
ped open by the rowdies.
Desultory fighting continued ,lur-
ing the day between Communists and
the rioters. Joseph Brody, an Amer-
ican citizen on a visit to Warsaw, is
reported among, the wounded.
Altogether, 1,500 persons gathered
in the theater district, the crowd be-
ing composed of Socialists, Com-
munists, including a few Jewish Com-
munists, Jewish Bundists, both the
Right and Left Wing of the foals
Zion (Socialist Zionists). The trade
unionists were conspicuous by their
absence, which is explained by their
desire to avoid recrudescence of last
year's May-Day rioting in Warsaw.

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the subject of "Kultur" and their Nordic ancestry. They are getting
more violently anti-Jewish with the passing of each day. And then,
who on the face of the earth is more excitable than an intellectual
radical in Germany? In the meantime Schnittler's play is the sensa-

tion of Europe.

The Jewish Daily Forward is • great paper in its way. It is •
radical journ•I and its purpose seems to be to disco. and consider
and pass upon economic questions in a manner to strike • sympathetic
note in the minds and hearts of those Jews who are socialists. I here
•always felt that such • paper with its enormous following could render
• greater service to Jewry by developing • stronger religious note. But
I am in considerable danger when I make such • rash suggestion. The
Forward readers consist principally of racial Jews who are not inter.
cited so much in the religious side of Jewry. I note at the recent cele-
y of the paper the following Jews
bration of the twenty-fifth •nni
were present: Charles Ervin, editor of the (radical socialist);
Morris Hilquit, socialist; Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the Gar-
ment Workers Association, and Abram Chan, the editor. One would
imagine that • rabbi might have been among the spe•kers at the •nni-
vernry of a Jewish newspaper—but then that would be expecting too
much. But then these gentlemen are really not Jews in the popular
meaning of the word—they are internationalists.

Of course everybody has his or her own idea of the sort of legacy
they want to leave, but there are some folks, thank God, who like to
be remembered as will be Mrs. Flora Bilden. She was 76 year• eld
and with her husband had devoted her life to the welfare of the Jewish
people. Read that again: "She devoted her life" to her people. Two
months •go she name to this country from Palestine to receive from
25 Jewish org•nistaions an endowment fund for an orphan asylum in
Palestine for which she and her husband had given the house and lands.
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lden was the daughter of Joseph Israel, • noted [reveler and
writer, who started out to gather evidence on the Lost Tribes and
'biked every country on the fact of th• globe. Dr. and Mrs. Bilden
at least among the first, to establish
•are said to have been the first, or •
schools in Jerusalem. One cu picture • Mn. Bilden without me,
having seen her: • truss type of the real mother in Israel.

Says "Notoriety-Seeking Pygmies"
Spread "Insidious Propaganda."

Men are buying two and three of these suits at a time.
The values are wonderful.

All spring topcoats, gabardines and whipcords—every
single garment—now marked down for immediate disposal at
three prices. Nearly a thousand to choose from.

Frank & Seder—Men's Store—Third Floor.

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showing the funeral of the six Jewish
victims of the bomb outrage has been
suppressed by the police. The name
order declares it an offence to export
the film for projection abroad.

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They have handsome Polychrome standards, beautiful silk shades to
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it has ever been our privilege to offer to the people of Detroit.
Because of the unusual values being presented we earnestly advise our
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NEW YORK.—The third annual
convention of the Federation of Hun-
garian Jews in America will be held
Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May
21, at the Hies building, 425-437 La-
fayette street, near Astor place.
The 672 delegates from all parts of
the country have already mailed their
credentials to the central office of the
Federation at 400 East Ifouston
street in the name of their respective
organizations.
The Federation now has 92 affili-
ated societies and numbers about
200,000 Jews as its adherents. The
convention will be confronted with
the solution of various Jewish prob-
lems.
Dr. Samuel Buehler, president of
the Federation of Hungarian Jews in
America, and Bernard Price, execu-
tive secretary, state that this will be
the largest gathering in the history
of the Hungarian Jews in this coun-
try.
Delegates from New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
Connecticut, Missouri and many
other states will be present.
Mayor John F. Ilylan, Royal S.
Copeland, commissioner of health;
Julius Miller, president of the Boro
of Manhattan, and many other promi -
nent state and city officials will be
present to greet the assembled dele-
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tweeds, hard-finished worsteds, club checks. Practically every-
thing that well-dressed men are wearing.

given the opportunity.

Arthur Schnitsler's famous play, "Reigen," concerning which I
had occasion to comment recently, is still attracting the attention of
the censors of Europe. A group of anti-Semites issued a proclama-
tion calling upon the people of Vienna to attend an open air demon-
stration and demand that the government shall abolish "immor•I so-
rolled are imposed upon German men and women in Vienna by •
foreign rabble" (meaning, of course, Jewish rabble). This play, now
being shown in Vienna, has necessitated the appearance of • strong
at each performance, so strong in fact that it is im-
police protection •
possible for the antis to start anything in the hope of being able to
still insane on
finish it successfully. Those German "blondes" are
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Every suit with one pair of trousers goes in. Makes no
difference what regular prices have been, every suit is marked
down to $15.50, $23.75 or $31.50.

UNTERMYER HITS BACK
AT CRITICS OF ZIONISM

NEW YORK.—Samuel Untermyer
made a vigorous attack on critics of
the Zionist cause at a metineg under
the auspices of the Washington
Ileights Congregation, at 504 West
One Hundred Sixty-first street. Other
speakers were Nahum Sokolo•, Col.
J. II. Patterson and Vladimir Jabotin-
sky, who appealed for contributions
to the $3,000,000 budget which is be-
. ing. sought in New York on behalf
of the Palestine Foundation Fund.
Mr. Untermyer charged that "in-
sidious propaganda" was being spread
"by a handful of notoriety seeking
pygmies among the men of our own
race" who asserted that the purposes
and aspirations behind the Palestine
Restoration Fund were "un-Ameri-
, can" and had their roots in a desire
to mark out a separate national state
to be controlled by Jews.
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"The movement is not nationalis-
tic," Mr. Untermyer said. "Neither
is it charitable, and yet it is distinct-
, ly humanitarian. The purpose is one
of helping to self-help the Jews who
I want, but have not, the means to
escape from the hate and persecution
and the pogroms and massacres of
the crazed, bigoted and Jew-baiting
peoples of Eastern and Southeastern
Europe."
The Keren Hayesod, or Foundation
Fund, he said, was merely the agency
through which the money was to be
provided with which to buy land,
build houses and public works.
"Nationalism is no part of the plat-
form or purpose of the Keren Haye-
sod," he said. "Not a dollar of its
funds can be expended except for
, the constructive work of improving
the land for cultivation and habits-
! Lion, assisting our brethren to come
!and settle there, and establishing
them in useful, philanthropic and
gainful occupations. Surely that is a
platform on which Zionist and non-
Zionist can peacefully meet and co-
operate."
Mr. Untermyer asked whether
Americans of Irish descent who con-
tributed toward the cause of Irish
freedom could be classed as un-Amer-
ican, and said the attempt to brand
the support of the Palestine home-
land movement as disloyal to Amer-
ica was "so mean and base that no
words can sufficiently convey one's
feeling of resentment."

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Labor Meeting in Warsaw At-
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Rosvoj Party

HARRY V. MUTTER,

General Manager