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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1922

BERLINER, JEWISH INVENTOR,
LEADING N. Y. JEWS EMILE
ADDS TO HIS MANY ACHIEVEMENTS
LAUNCH DRIVE FOR
JEWISH EDUCATION

(Copyright Jewish Correspondence
Bureau, 1922.)

By MAX RHOADE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Emile
Berliner,
famous millionaire Jewish
National Committee Organized
inventor of the microphone or tele-
Under Leadership of
phone transmitter, a leading Zionist
of this city, has announced that he
Adolph S. Ochs.
and his son, Henry A. Berliner, have
invented a helicopter flying machine
for experimental purposes, capable of
EXPECT 1,500 TO ATTEND
rising 10 fete perpendicularly from
MEETINGS ON JAN. 23-25 the ground and of accomplishing a
' forward movement. The Berliners
Louis Marshall Brings Home ' are confident that their machine, on
which they have have been working
Necessity for Revival of
for nearly 20 years, will prove to be
a practical success.
Judaism in U. S.
Announcement of the work of the
Jewish inventors was made after
New York's leading Jews—rabbis London authorities had denied re-
and laymen—pledged their aid to ports that Louis Brannan had per-
the greatest movement ever under- fected a helicopter and captured the
taken to bring Jews back to Judiaism prizes offered by the British Air Min-
ot a dinner given recently by Adolph istry. Brannan, accroding to cable
S. Ochs at the Metropolis Club. They dispatches from England, admits that
organized themselves into a commit- his machine has never been tried and
tee, under Mr. Ochs' leadership, to in fact has never been taken from
arrange for the fiftieth anniversarylthe shop in which it is being built.
The Forward Motion.
convention of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations in New York' Though the Berliner machine has
City, Jan. 22, 23, 24 and 25, 1923, at only attained an altitude of 10 feet
which the movement for Jewish edu-1
cation will be launched. This corn-
.r
y,ev ey.
0$„ w ilie l I i i n nc I u lle ew t h vo heads otf
s m yin t a t 7

a. MOVE MADE AGAINST

in experiments, the inventors assert
that it will go up to any desired alti-
tude provided the motors are strong
enough, which has been the chief dif-
ficulty. Thus far they have been
unable to obtain a sufficiently power-
ful motor, the one now in use being
only 110 horsepower. With a 150
horsepower motor the Berliners be-
lieve that the ultimate in perfection
will be reached. Such a powerful
motor is now being built for govern-
ment departments and the Berliners
say that they expect to obtain one
of these for installation on their heli-
copter.
Perhaps the greatest step which
has been accomplished Ir. the Ber-
liners in their machine is the forward
motion. This has been the stumbling
block to all who have worked on such
machines. Berliner asserts that in
their machine this difficulty has been
completely overcome.

Will Startle Scientists.
The one difficulty which still re-
mains, and upon which Henry Ber-
liner is at present working and hopes
to eliminate shortly, is that of effect-
ing a safe landing from high altitude,
but he hopes to have a landing device

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INTERESTING FILMS
ZIONIST RESOLUTION PORTRAY PALESTINE

MOVE MADE TO CUT Prominent Editor DISCRIMINATION IS
IMMIGRATION QUOTA Endorses Zionism PRACTICED AGAINST
Ford Negative, Palestine
Pisgah Lodge No. 34, I. 0. B.
JEWS IN COLLEGES
BY THIRD OF TOTAL Calls Positive
Side of the Jew-
B., to Elect New Officers on

Mt. Clemens Lodge
Installed Sunday

ish Question.

Monday, June 26.

Leading Article in the Nation
Congress Committee Receives
NEW YORK.—"In the fight of the
Bares Existing Facts in
Proposal to Reduce Number
Impressive ceremonies marked the
Jewish
People
for
a
broader
life,
Ford
installation Sunday of a new lodge of
U. S. Universities.
From 3 to 2 Per Cent.
is of importance only as a symptom

the Independent Order of B'nai
B'rith at Mt. Clemens. The cere-
monies, which were held at Elkins'
Hotel, were conducted under the aus-
pices of the Michigan Council of
B'nai B'rith Clubs.
Adolph Freund, founder of the
Michigan Council, who opened the
ceremonies of the day, pointed out
the significance of the occasion and
spoke of the purposes of the order.
Following the voting of 22 charter
members into the new lodge, the de-
gree team and glee club of Pisgah
Lodge impressively carried out the
ritual for the installation of the
chapter.
A. B. Seelenfreund, Grand Lodge
and Constitutional Grand Lodge Sec-
retary, addressed the new members,
impressing them with the duties of
B'nai B'rith.
Others who spoke during the day
were Benjamin F. Wiener, Edward
Lichtig, Bernard Ginsburg, Louis Co-
bane and Louis James Rosenberg.
Lichtig Toastmaster.
Mr. Lichtig acted as toastmaster
at the banquet held in the evening.
Mr. Freund, who was one of the
speakers, pointed out how the Jews
were united by the campaign of anti-
Semitism and spoke generally of the
mission and work of the order of
B'nai B'rith.
Mr. Rosenberg, who is a former
United States Consul to Seville,
Spain, then delivered an instructive
address on "The Jew in Statecraft,"
relating in the course of his talk the
activities of leading Jews through-
out the world, among them Professor
Ashkenazi, Polish Ambassador to
Great Britain; David Ferand, French
statesman; M. H. Godfroy, Dutch
jurist; Ritter von Gomperz, Hun-
garian statesman; Lord Reading,
Luigi I.uzzatti and others.
Entertainment Numbers.
The entertainment during the ban-
quet was furnished by the Pisgah
Lodge Glee Club, with songs by Sam
Mandell and Aubrey Cherkose. Silas
Feinberg recited several interesting
recitations. Mr. Seelenfreund made
the closing address of the evening.
Mr. Lichtig of Bay City, active in
Michigan B'nai B'rith affairs, an-
nounced that when the cool weather
sets in, the Michigan Council will
hold a rally at Mt. Clemens, at which
time those who signed the charter
for membership in the Mt. Clemens
Lodge but did not appear at the in-
stallation ceremonies will be initi-
ated.
The officers of the new Mt. Clem-
ens Lodge are: Lewis Green, presi-
dent; C. H. 51albin, vice-president;
Samuel Malbin, secretary; Dr. Bar-
nett Malbin, treasurer; Morris Ro-
senbaum, assistant monitor: Simon
Kaplan, warden; Max Fleisher,
guardian; Samuel Elkin, monitor;
Maurice Sanft, Meyer Davis and Max
Fleisher, trustees.
• * s

form or Orthodox, affiliated or not
affiliated with the union.
In addresses that voiced the Jew's
pride in his people, a group of not-
able speakers, which i included Daniel .
P. Hays, Louis Marshall, Rabbi Na• 1
Committee, However, Dr. Baer Epstein Addresses
than Krass, Judge Irving Lehman, 'Rules
Daniel Frohman, Judge Julius Mayer, ,
Expected to Take Early
Meetings of Jewish Na-
Mortimer L. Schiff, Philip J. Good-
Action in House.
tional Fund.
hart, Meier Steinbrink and Mr. Ochs,
declared that the remedy for all the
ills that obsess modern Judaism, of
WASHINGTON.—(J. T. A.1—Re-
Three audiences of Detroit Jews
which anti-Semitism is agreed to be
form rabbis and a few laymen, led Sunday and Monday witnessed the
the foremost, is more Judaism.
I by Rabbi Phillipson of Cincinnati, showing of a film at McCollester
1,500 to Attend.
the J. T. A. correspondent learns Hall, portraying the activities of the
This convention, which will be the from several sources, have for the Jewish settlers in Palestine, the pro-
most notable Jewish gathering ever past two weeks been conducting a gress made there as a result of the
held in America, will be attended by campaign against the Zionist resolu- Zionist movement and the settlement
1,500 prominent Jews from all parts Con with the object of preventing a of the Jews for the purpose of cre-
of the United States. The sessions, vote in the House, particularly di- ating there a homeland.
es at present arranged, will include recting their efforts against the
Picturing the barrenness of the
a banquet at Hotel Astor, religious granting of a special rule for its con- land and the change that comes over
services at all temples and syna- sideration at this time, out of its reg- it under the resourcefulness of the
gogues and a union meeting at Car- ular order on the calendar.
Jewish agriculturist, the films served
Dr. Isaac Landman and a few as a great educational and instructive
negie Hall. At this convention, which
will end the first half-century since others in New York are taking an factor in giving local Jews an idea
of the present conditions and the fu-
the Union of American Hebrew Con- active part in the move.
gregations was founded by the late', Representative Mondell, majority ture possibilities in Palestine.
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, the problem leader of the House, personally re-
Excavations ■ at Tiberias.
Symbolizing almost the entire
of the preservation of Judaism lated to your correspondent the ef-
through the young people of this forts which have been made to im- course of Jewish history, the ruins
faith will be the leading factor and press him with Jewish opposition to and the hopes of the Promised Land,
a program for nation-wide Jewish the resolution. Recently, he said, he the motion pictures included views
education of Jews will be adopted. : was approached by a Congressman of the excavations of ruins near the
"I am heart and soul with the pur- : opposing the resolution, who showed site of Tiberias, under the direction
poses of the union," Mr. Ochs, who ' him letters received from Reformed of Professor Nahum Slousch. The
presided, declared at the opening Jews protesting against the resolu- Hebrew College Ilerzliah at Tel Aviv,
meeting. "Any movement which I lion. One opponent wrote that Re- the Bezalel School of Arts founded
promotes religion is conducive to form Jews comprise 10 ner cent of by Professor Boris Schatz and other
good citizenship. Yet, AmericanIthe Jewish population, but are most important institutions were shown in
Jews, who pride themselves on their Americanized and best class of Jews. the film.
The most interesting parts of the
good American citizenship, have been
Counteract Propaganda.
more remiss in New York City than
The main purpose of the prone- motion pictures were those dealing
any other denomination in this re- ganda appears to be to impress Con- with the activities of the Halutzim,
cord. They are allowing 300,000 of gressional leaders with the idea that the Jewish men and women pioneers,
their children in New York City to Jews are divided and that therefore many of whom are college graduates,
grow up without any religious in- action by Congress in an internal a number of whom left their uni-
versities to settle in Palestine and
struction whatever. It is time that Jewish dispute is unwarranted.
we instilled into our children the
Active friends of the resolution in assist in the building of the Jewish
feeling that to be a Jew is not an the House, especially the Jewish Con- homeland. The Ilalutzim are shown
impediment. The Jew who stands up gressmen who have been continuous- from the moment they arrive in Pal-
for his Judaism, proud of his faith, ly on the job, are endeavoring to estine through their varied works,
recreations and studies.
invariably has the respect and ad- counteract the propaganda.
The J. N. F. Colonies.
mirotion of his fellow citizens of
The success of the counter-offen-
The Jewish National Fund colo-
every creed."
sive conducted by Zionists was •it-
Mess•ga of Judaism.
nessed when Congressman Fess of nies, particularly Kirjoth Anovim,
That the Jewish youth is, itself, the rules committee informed Con- Kinereth, Daganiya and others, are
seeking and craving for spiritual gressman Albert Rossdale of New among the most picturesque spots
leadership was emphasized by Judge York, who has been an incessant shown in the film.
Among others, Sir Herbert Samuel,
Irving Lehman, who is head of the worker for the resolution, and Abra-
Y. M. IL A.-Jewish Welfare Board ham Goldberg of the Zionist Admin- High Commissioner for l'olestine,
movement. "The Young Jew needs istration that he has finally decided plays an important part in the film.
the message of Judaism," he de- not only to support the resolution The arrival of the High Commission-
Glared. "Ile is groping for spiritual but will himself make the motion in er, the visit he paid to the old Je-
leadership, and not finding it, . 11 the rules committee to grant the rusalem synagogue, Churvath Reb
drifting away from his faith, recip- resolution the special rule for imme- Yehudah Ilechosid, on Sabbath
Nachmu, his visit to the cloony Ri-
rocating the indifference with which diate consideration.
shon LeZion, the marriage of his son,
his own aspirations have been met.
To Vote Next Week.
Edwin,
to Miss Hadassah Grasofsky
Judge Lehman declared that the
Mr. Fess declared the opposition
orthodox youth as well as the young of Reform Jews could not influence are vividly portrayed.
The movies brought home in vivid
man and woman of reform Jewish him, as he had concluded that the
parentage had suffered from the lack overwhelming majority of American colors the message and hope of Zion-
of spiritual leadership and he
of- Jews were heartily in favor of Zion- ism and the idealism of the sturdy
young
sons and daughters of Israel who
fered the co-operation of the
i
people,
people, whom he represented, in car- At the same time Chairman Camp- joyfully labor away for the sake of
rying out the movement for Jewish bell made it known that he will call reclaiming a devastated country.
Dr. Epstein Speaks.
education. a meeting of the rules committee for
Dr. Baer Epstein, leader in the
Daniel P. Hays, who is chairman next Tuesday to decide on rule and
Jewish
National
Fund movement in
of the New York executive commit- it is understood that a definite date
the world, delivered an interesting
tee of the Union, brought home the
lecture
at
each
showing
of the films.
fact that the Union is not aiming for
the
vote
in
the
House
will
be
fixed for not later than week of
Dr. Epstein explained the purposes
to bring young people to reform Ju-
June 19.
of
the
Jewish
National
Fund,
whose
deism, but merely to bring them to
Besides Representative Rossdale,
their religion itself. He noted that Congressmen Siegel and Perlman of aims are to reclaim the soil of Pales-
tine
to
become
the
property
of the
in the three religious schools main- New York and Sabath of Chicago
tained by the Union in New York have been of much assistance to the entire Jewish people.
Dr. Epstein appealed to his audi-
City, the majority were of orthodox Zionists.
parentage. "When Isaac M. Wise
Many . telegrams have been re- ences to help in reclaiming Palestine
founded reform Judaism," Mr. Hays ceived in the past few days from by buying dunam land in their names
said, "he gave it the customs and the Jewish constituents of rules commit- to become the property of the entire
ritual which he believed to be beat tee members, one from the Jewish people. A dunam land sells for $20.
The first night's appeal brought $500
adapted to his time He founded the
Union of American Hebrew Congre- Strauss,
Congress
being
signed
by Nathan
Dr.
Stephen
Wise,
Samuel and the second night's plea, although
number,
addressed to a fewer
Untermyer
and
Bernard
G.
Richards.
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There have also been telegrams from, brought the sum of $800, mostly in
p ractically all Jewish newspapers in cash
A feature of the contributions on
HOLD MODEL MEETING
the United States, including Chicago
Monday evening was the offering
AT THE SHAAREY ZEDEK and Cleveland.
made by one of the men in the audi-
ence to give up his watch and all the
WILL REMOVE SARGENT'S money he possessed at the time,
Monday evening, June 19, at 7:30
PAINTING FROM LIBRARY amounting to $7.15. The watch was
o'clock, in the Shaarey Zedek audi-
and returned to the
torium, the Philomathic will stage its
B 0 S T 0 N.—The Massachusetts later redeemed
twentieth annual model meeting. House, by suspending its rules, passed owner, who refused to give his name.
Musical
Program.
This night has been set aside as through all its readings the bill to
P. Slomovitz, chairman of the De-
alumni night, when all the past mas- provide for the removal of the Ser-
troit
Jewish
National
Fund commit-
ters of the organization will meet geant painting, "The Synagogue,"
tee, under whose auspices the meet-
and become acquainted with the from the Boston Public Library.
The action was taken after a de-
members of the Philomathic of to-
(Turn to last page.)
day.
bate in which Representative Silbert
The club has secured alumni of Boston made an eloquent appeal
judges who will award the debaters for the removal of the painting on DR. MAGNUS TO ADDRESS
of the evening gold and silver med- the ground that it is un-American to MASSMEETING ON SUNDAY
als. These medals are donated to tolerate • painting that is a serious
the organization through the courtesy reflection upon the religion of thou-
Dr. Mains Magnus, one of the
of Louis Smilansky and Mrs. Jacob sands of Massachusetts citizens.
G. Brown. A silver loving cup will
The painting which portrays the world leaders in the Mizrachi move-
also be awarded to the team winning downfall of Judaism, has been pro- ment, who is in Detroit this week in
the debate. The loving cup is award- tested by thousands of Christians, the interest of the Zionist movement
ed to the organization each year by according to Representative Silbert, among the Orthodox Jews, will ad-
Judge Harry .1. Dingeman.
who was applauded loudly when he dress a massmeeting at 7:30 p. m.
The debate will be on the question, finished his appeal. He wag support- Sunday, June 18, at the Ahavath
"Resolved, that the principle of capi- ed in his argument for greater re- Achim Synagogue on Westminster
tal punishment is justifiable." The ligious tolerance by Representatives and Delmar avenues.
An interesting musical program
affirmative of the measure will be Adlow, Finkelstein, Shulman and Lo-
supported by Ben Sate, Louis Carpol masney of Boston, Richards of Mal- has also been arranged for the occa-
sion,
Cantor Malovsky of the Ferns-
and Wilbur DeYoung. while Charles den and Graves of Springfield. Rep-
Ornstein. Aaron Weiswasser and resentative Ilull of Leominster, chair- worth Street Synagogue to sing a
Sam
number
of ritual selections.
judici-
Jack S. Honigman will argue on the man of the committee on the
negative. This model meeting will ary, opposed the bill on the ground Horowitz of Toledo will also speak.
Dr.
Magnus
comes
here
to
interest
characterize the weekly meetings of that it is unconstitutional, but the
the Philomathic. The public is cor- ote in favor of removal was over- a larger number of Orthodox Jews
dially invited to attend.
in the Mizrachl movement.
whelming.

PISGAH LODGE TO ELECT
OFFICERS ON JUNE 26
First nominations of new officers
for Pisgah Lodge were held last Mon-
day evening and will be continued
this Monday. The election of new
officers will take place at the meet-
ing on Monday evening, June 20.
An initiation of new candidates for
membership in Pisgah Lodge was
held at the last meeting, the Pisgah
degree team participating in the cere-
monies.
An appeal was made to the mem-
bers for the milk fund, a number of
contributions coming in response as-
suring the continuation of the fund.

CHARGES CRUELTIES
TO JEWISH STUDENT

Senator Sutherland Demands Inquiry
Into Annapolis "Discipline."

WASHINGTON.—Investigation of
disciplinary methods in the United
States Naval Academy, which are
said to allow discrimination against
students because of paternity has
been demanded.
Senator Sutherland of West Vir-
ginia has appealed to administrative
authority for assistance in determin-
ing responsibility for alleged cruelty
to a young Jewish graduate who,
Sutherland says, was held up to ridi-
cule by members of the graduating
class.
The discrimination was carried to
such an extent that the annual year
book of the academy was so designed
that the picture of Leonard Kaplan
of Weston, W. Va., a member of
1922 graduating class, could be re-
moved without defacing the book,
Sutherland said. The picture of Kap-
lan, the senator said, was placed on
a page not bearing a number and the
sheet was perforated near the bind-
ing, as that it could easily be torn
out.
This, Mr. Sutherland stated, was
only one of many "cruelties" Kaplan
was forced to suffer during his four-
year course. Mr. Sutherland also is
attempting to determine what influ-
ence Kaplan's paternity had in his
failure to win a scholarship prize,
since he is said to have been the best
mathematician of his class, and inas-
much as his scholarship reputation
was among the highest of his class.

BEGIN REGISTERING
UKRAINIAN EMIGRANTS

RIGA.—(J. T. A.)—The registra-
tion of Jewish refugees from the Uk-
raine living in hopes of finding a
place to which to migrate has been un-
dertaken by the Jewish World Relief
Executive and the Yidgescom. The
purpose of this registration is to en-
able some of the refugees to obtain
passports, and visas of the consuls
concerned. It is understood the
Yidgescom and the World Relief Con-
ference have undertaken the finan-
cing of the emigration as far as the
Roumanian frontier.

and owing to the size of the weapon

which he can wield. Ile represents WRITER SAYS TENDENCY
SIEGEL TO LEAD FIGHT
the negative side of the Jewish ques-
AGAINST NEW MEASURE tion, and neither he nor by crusade TO FORM ACADEMIC PALE

Will Ask Jewish Leaders for
Immediate Support in Op-
position to Bill.

against him compare with the con-
structive side of it which is represen-
ted by the movement to restore the
Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Zion-
ism presents the consummation of the
gospel of democracy. It is the best,
noblest, and most uplifting conception
of liberalism and freedom."
In these words, Norman Hapgood
summarized his views on the anti-
Jewish activities of Henry Ford, and
the movement for restoring the Jew-
ish Homeland in Palestine.
Mr. Ho good declared that his in-
terest in the success of the restoration
of the Jewish Homeland was even
greater than his desire to drive out of
American life such reactionary and

"Only Russia of Czars Did
What Our Universities Are
Beginning to Do."

In a leading editorial article in its
WASHINGTON.—(J. C. B.)—A
issue of June 14, the Nation discusses
big surprise in the form of a totally
the question of discrimination against
unexpected and dangerous move
the Jews in American colleges and
against immigration was sprung
universities and declares that "Har-
when at the meeting of the House
vard is not the first American uni-
immigration committee it was pro-
versity to attempt to limit the pro-
posed by anti-immigrationist mem-
portion of the Jews in its midst."
bers to reduce from 3 to 2 per cent
The writer in the Nation points ,
the number of immigrants, admissible
out that Columbia has In the past
according to nationality, under the
two
years reduced the percentage of
present immigration law recently ex-
Jews in her incoming classes from
tended to June 30, 1921.
40
per
cent to 22 and that New York
If adopted, this would mean that
University has effected even more
over 115,000 immigrants would be
stringent
measures. Harvard's ac-
cut off from admission. In other
tion the Nation calls the frankest.
words, one-third of the total of ap-
proximately 350,000 admissible un-
"May Jews Go to College?"
der the present quota scheme during
The article is entitled "May Jewti
the entire year would be barred.
Go to College?" and closes with the
This move was in the form of a
statement that "only the Russia of
proposed amendment to be embodied
the czars did what our universities
in the ship subsidy bill now under
are beginning to do; only Poland,
discussion by the immigration com-
Roumania and Hungary do so today.
mittee in connection with the pro-
America cannot afford to class itself
visions therein contained that 50 per
with the most backward in Europe."
cent of all immigrants should be car-
The article follows In full:
ried on American ships.
"Harvard is not the first American
The reason advanced by the ad-
university to attempt to limit the
vocates of cutting the percentage
proportion of Jews in its midst. It
from 3 to 2 per cent was that if
is merely the frankest. Other col-
Congress passed the American ship
leges have gone far further without
proviso, the American steamship
admitting it. The Harvard faculty
companies would use their influence
passed a measure permitting more
in Congress to secure more liberal
elasticity in considering candidates
laws and otherwise endeavor to
for admission on other grounds than
those of character and of scholarship.
stimulate freer immigration. If,
The faculty did not at first realize
however, the percentage were cut,
that this meant discrimination against
it would discourage the companies
the Jew; when it did, it rescinded
from making such attempts.
the action taken.
The real purpose is plain, how-
ever: Immigration opponents are
NORMAN HAPGOOD
An Academic Pale.
merely utilizing this argument as a
"Yet the honorable action of the
pretext for striking a serious blow baseless propaganda as Henry Ford Harvard faculty does not solve the
against even the present restrictive has been duped into conducting. In problem of the Jew in American col-
law in order to hurt still further the answer to a question, Mr. ilapgood re- leges. The incident merely calls at-
prospective immigrant. It is under- counted the beginning of his interest tention to the tendency in American
stood that Chairman Johnson is a in exposing the Ford propaganda.
universities to establish an academic
leading advocate of the proposed re-
Pale. Columbia University has in
Tells of Anti-Semitism.
duction.
"Not long ago", he said, "at a the past two years reduced the per-
Congressman Siegel, member of luncheon at the University Club, the centage of Jews in her incoming
committee, who was present at the question of liberalism in its original classes from 40 per cent to 22; New
meeting, stated that the situation is sense came up in the course of the York University is reported to have
serious and that a strong effort would conversation. Among those present effected an even more stringent re-
probably be made to carry through was the head of the Russian Govern- duction; and other universities have
the proposed reduction. When an- ment in Omsk after the Revolution, adopted or are considering similar
nouncement of this proposal was and the head of the foreign affairs
methods. It is a matter which col-
made, Representative Siegel declared Russia under three administrations. lege presidents have discussed among
he and others interested in a just We talked about public opinion in gen- themselves, and which has been svhis-
treatment of immigration would eral, then we talked about Ford, and pered about at faculty meetings. It
fight the move to, the last ditch. speculated oil why he carries on his was high time to haul it out into the
Further discussing the situtaion, Mr. crazy campaign. We were all aware limelight.
Siegel stated that the move was the that anti-Semitism has always been
"Let us face the question in all
greatest surprise to him personally, the handmaiden of reaction, stimula- frankness. In the two decades be-
as he thought that the recent exten- ted by despotic government. It is al- fore the war a flood of Jews poured
sion of the 3 per cent quota law for ways the extreme right which is anti. out of Russia and Poland into the
two years had ended the immigra- Semitic. One of the men said he had United States. They had not the
tion fight in Congress, at least until seen in Chicago a check drawn by game cultural background as the Ger-
the next session.
Ford to Boris Itrasol. The latter hadrman Jewish immigration; they came
Congressman Sabath of Chicago, been a secret service agent under the I from the ghettos of the Pale; the tra-
another member of the immigration Czarist regime and was connected dition of persecution and discrimina-
committee, is in Chicago but will be with the Beilis affair. This man Bra- lion, even of pogroms, ran red in
summoned back if necessary. sot is working openly to bring the Ro- theirdingiest
.
.
"Today's development," Mr. Siegel nianoffs back to Itusaia. It was this lour dingies't tenements and tolerated
said, "merely illustrates that friends man who furnished Ford with meter- exploitation of them in our darkest
of immigration must be everlastingly ial and made him his tool. He gavelsweatshops. Their own efforts, their
on the lookout, and that the temper him rte so-coil e d P r otocols, w If lch are readiness to toil night and day, have
of certain elements of Congress op- supposed to prove that the Jews want ' brought them a l i ttle of this world's
posed to immigration is such that the to erect a Jewish oligarchy in the goods, and they are now sending their
most unscupulous efforts might at world. Ford had influential Jews sons to college. With all their hunt
any time be made to strike a blow hunted up by his detectives. lie even , for money they have retained an ex-
at immigration.
went so far as to say that Wilson , traordinary respect for learning. A
In addition to reducing the nation-
Taft and Harding were tools of Bran- larger proportion of Jews go to col-
ality quota from 3 to 2 per cent, the
deis, and that there was a secret tele- lege than of any other race in Amer.
proposal made also embodies another
They are, accordingly, flooding
I
phone wire between Brandeis and Wil- CO.
important restrictive feature, name-
"The information concerning the universities in the cities where
" Th cheek, drawn by Ford to Brasol, they have congregated. The College
ly, to lower the monthly quotas from the
the number
20 to 10 per cent
of ad-
t I
present of the City of New York has become
starting
w as the startng point of sly presen , an overwhelmingly Jewish college—
miscible for the entire year. This ' expose
' "
would mean that it would take twice '
students
"Ilow does your crusade against more t than 90 per cent of its studen
the period to fill the quotas now pod- '
Columbia's Jewish per-
Ford connect itself in your niind with are Jews.
sible under the law, delaying to that ' the l'alestine Homeland movement?" centage crept steadily upward until,
extent immigrants who could come
in 1919, the freshman class entering
t Mr
. !Inwood was asked.
in earlier.
' the college Was more than 40 per
Zionism Constructive.
Zionism
No decision was taken by the corn-
co-
der
this
movement,
or
Zion-
cent Jewish. The Wharton School of
"I cons ,
mitte on the proposal, but further ' ism, the positive or constructive side Commerce, the largest department of
has
consideration is anticipated at an
, of the same question. My crusade the University of Pennsylvania,
early date.
I does not compare with its importance. 27 per cent Jews and the medical
Chairman Lasker of the Shipping For me and for Christians like me,' school is reported to have even more.
at the for on to I Zionism is the consummation of the At Harvard the percentage, which 10
Board
earedprovision sessibenefit
10, has
appthe
champion
gospel of democracy. s,,,,,, peop le years ago was between 5 and
of American ships.
reached 20. And these Jews, com-
think of democracy not only as a qual-
• • •
ing increasingly from poor immigrant
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SIEGEL TO CONFER WITH
homes, are often unable to use in
JEWISH LEADERS
the college dormitories or to share
in undergraduate life—even if they
W A S II I N GTON.—(J. C. B.)—
Further information obtained by the
were wanted. Many of them live at
J. C. 13. correspondent concerning
home, eat a pocket lunch on the col-
what transpired at the executive
' lege campus, and leave the university
the money for their
meeting of the immigration commit- I
tee regarding the new immigration' , Will Study Jewish Conditions In grounds
tuition to
by earn
night work. Many retain
War•Stricken Countries.
restrictions aiming to reduce the 1
the gregariousness born of life in the
Pale, and remain only half-assimi-
quota to 2 per cent reveals the fact ,
that the chairman and other pro-' !leaded by Dr. Lee K. Frankel , lated.
vice-president of the Metropol
t
Collegm—"Country Clubs."
ponents of the idea have changed .-
hird Life Insurance Company, a com-
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"It is natural that university of11-
mission of leading Jewish business
d social cials should attempt to stem this tide.
ientists bankers
workers, will sail for Europe Tuesday As J. P. Gavit put it in the New York
WANTS FATHER'S BODY
" 11
t here
June 20, on the Berangaria, to study
REMOVED FROM JEWISH
Jewish conditions in the •ar-strick- which are simply young gentlemen's
pleasant pro-
TO CHRISTIAN CEMETERY en countries. country clubs for the
The other members of the commis- longation of the period of &doles-

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EUROPEAN MISSION
SAILS ON TUESDAY

VIENNA.—(J. C. B. by Mail.)—
Dr. L. Hartmann, professor at the
University of Vienna has applied to
the Board of Jewish Community in'
Vienna to permit the removal from
the Jewish cemetery of the body of
his father, Moritz Ilartmann, who
was buried there 50 years ago. He
desires that the body be re-interred
in the Christian cemetery in accord-
ance with a resolution adopted by the
City Council of Vienna to provide •1
special tomb in recognition of the ser-
vices of Moritz Hartmann as a dis- '
tinguished writer on philosophy.
The Board of the Jewish commun-i
ity has declined to surrender the body
on the ground that it cannot agree to
a re-interment in a non-Jewish ceme
tery. Dr. Hartmann now declares'
that his father never considered him-
self a Jew. The Board in return has
asked him to furnish proofs that his
father at any time officially announced
■ decision to withdraw from the Jew- I
ish community and states that unless ,
such proof is afforded, it cannot agree
to the removal of the body.

sion, appointed by Louis Marshall, ,
Jewis
h Re-
resident of the American Jewish
id A rown,
ief Committee, are Dav
av id
of Detroit, who was national chair-
man of the recent war-relief cam-
paign, which raised $17,000,000; Dr.
Milton J. Rosenau, professor of Pre-
ventative Medicine at Ilarvard, Dav-
id M. Bressler, chairman of the New
York City campaign that raised over
$4,000,000; Mr. Morris Wolf, promi-
nent Philadelphia attorney and Her-
bert L. Lehman, New York banker,,
Chairman of the Reconstruction Com-
mittee of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, who is already in Paris.
The commission which was estab-
lished at the "Victory Conference"
of the American Jewish Relief Corn-
mittee at Detroit on April 9th, will
study at first hand the further need
for palliative relief among the 300,-
000 orphans and 400,000 refugees,
and to what extent the $50,000,0001
raised prior to the last campaign has ,
started the Jews of Europe on the
road to rehabilitation, reconstruction
and self-support.

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UNION OF MELBOURNE
SYNAGOGUES PROPOSED

MELBOURNE.—(J.C.B. by Mail.)
— Considerable interest is being
aroused here at the proposal to amal-
gamate the two senior Melbourne styn-
&Rogues. The scheme is an outcome
of the financial difficulties of the two
congregations and the fact that as at
present divided neither can afford to
support a qualified Rabbi and Chan-
an. The position in which Melbourne
Jewry finds itself is a serious one.
There is only one synagogue that is
fully equipped and that is St. Kilda.
The general feeling is that the am-
algamation is impossible. There is a
general view that the East Melbourne
Congregation, whose members are
chiefly immigrants froMoEurope, re-
quires ■ Chain, what the Bourke
street Congregation requires is • lec-
turer.