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By Chas. H. Joseph.)
Henry Morgenth•u, the ubiquitous, is now devoting his time to
fashioning • financial life p with which to rescue Austria from
the waves of economic disaster. Mr. Morgenth•u may know what he
is doing, but we have little sympathy with his enterprise. For the
restoration of Austria he is planning an international bank on • gold
basis, development of tourist traded the organization of • $50,•
000,000 corporation to act as • holding company for the principal
Austrian industries. Why should Austria, • country that has devoted
a large amount of its energy to exterminating the Jew, be saved by
a Jaw?
Some reader sends me this item:
"On the occasion of a recent gathering in Pittsburgh, an
acquaintance of mine, a Gentile, engaged the chancellor of the
University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Bowman, in a conversation re-
garding the Ilarvard University attitude toward Jews. The
chancellor is reported to have answered a question as to the
position of the University of Pittsburgh by saying that under
no circumstance would the question of race or creed be raised;
that there would never be any discrimination against any stu-
dent who desired to be educated at the university because of
his religion or race, so long as he was chancellor."
I am glad to see that Dr. Bowman took such a position, yet it is
no surprise to anyone who knows the chancellor, a broad-minded,
high•mnided man.
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One after the other of the leading colleges are going on record
as opposed to the stand taken by Harvard. Such colleges as Amherst,
Brown, Dartmouth in particular have expressed themselves as dif-
fering in principle with the stand taken by President Lowell. Yet I
cannot help but believe that the restriction measures suggested by
H d will be put into effect, exactly as they are already in effect
in some other leading universities. While on the subject, I am sure
that most college presidents will agree that while some Jewish students
may not be socially acceptable, they are not such drunkards and gay.
white-way boys as all too many of the Gentile students are.
A well meaning but wholly misguided Jewish lady of Buffalo, N.
Y., writes to the editor of the Jewish Daily News advocating the estab-
lishment of two Jewish universities because, among other advantages:
"Jewish students would he more attached to their religion
and would nut eat ham sandwiches in school. Moreover, the
students would not be forced to be backward in their studies
because of absence on the Jewish holidays, and the Jewish spirit
would, of course, prevail in a Jewish institution."
I am afraid the Jewish young lady wants to assist our worthy •nti-
Semite, Hilaire Belloc, in his ambition to segregate the Jews in every
field of life. This is America and not Palestine and there is no reason
why Jews should become thorough going separatists and hold them.
selves aloof from those activities which are peculiarly American and
in which every American citizen should participate. I em afraid that
persons holding the views of the young lady from Buffalo would be
in favor of • distinct garb for the Jew. 1 would advise a course in
Anveric•nization for Miss Edith Safren.
An astonishing result has been disclosed through the votes of over
200,000 readers of the Literary Digest on the question of prohibition.
Some 77,000 votes were recorded in favor of the strict enforcement
of the Volstead law, while 85,000 were in favor of its modification to
include light wines and beer and 45,000 were in favor of its repeal,
thus indicating 130,000 votes of the 200,000 votes cut •s opposed to
the present prohibition amendment. When one realises that these
votes come from the so-celled "better element," which includes teach-
ers, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, business men, bankers and others
in the higher walks of life, the result is all the more remarkable. One
can imagine what such • vote would result in were it to be taken
among the working people. It seems to be the opinion of a consider.
•ble percentage of thoughtful minded men that the prohibition law
was passed at a very unfortunate time just when the country was
wrestling with the problem of readjustment from the chaotic condi-
tions resulting from the war.
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A physician has sent to me Volume IV of "The International
Jew," reprinted from the Dearborn Independent and published in
May, 1922. Accompanying the pamphlet is this statement:
"Please accept with our compliments the enclosed copy of
the fourth volume of the series of articles on the Jewish ques-
tion which have appeared in the Dearborn Independent. The
articles in this volume deal with 'Aspects of Jewish Power in
the United States' and we believe you will find the information
therein worthy of your thought and consideration."
This definite evidence in my po
on explodes the theory that
Ford has stopped his crazy attacks on the Jews. It indic•tes that this
deluded man is still being milked to the king's taste by the grafters
that surround him. It is also interesting to note that it is necessary
for Ford to send his pamphlets free, because no one would think of
paying money for such trash. And from what I hear there has been
an abnormal demand for waste paper baskets to take care of this new
supply of literature issued from the Ford factory.
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I inquired from the keeper of • newst•nd on the busiest corner
of Pittsburgh, P•., whether the sale of Hearst's International Maga.
sine had increased since the appearance of Hapgood's articles attack-
ing Ford, and be told me that he could not get enough to supply the
demand; that he had just come from the general distributing maga•
line agency and had taken away every single copy they could get and
these would be sold in • couple of days. And, pointing to McClure's
Magazine, which is running one of these inspired glorifications of
Ford's life, he mid that that magazine was decreasing and that he
could not sell them. He further amplified his statement with the re
mark that "the people were fed up to the neck with Ford and were
g himself." I am interested to hear from Mc-
tired of his •dve e
Clure's Magazine just what has been the effect of this playing up
of the world's greatest egotist.
Mary Austine, the well known author, writing a criticism of Lud-
wig Lewisohn's "Up the Stream" for the Dial, makes this rather inter-
esting and significant statement:
"The Jew has a tremendous sense of tribe. Once he has
given his heart to the tribe of United States, he looks for that
quick, constant response from the human elements of his en-
vironment, a need for which has been created in him by cen-
turies of enforced solidarity. Instead he finds the cool space
that insures the tap-rooted American against invasive intimacy.
During its first centuries America was largely populated by
men motivated by the desire for non-interference. Some of
an recall when the actual spacing of the crowd in Western
streets was sharply expressive of the feeling generalized in the
cliques of the mining camps as 'Don't Crowd Me.' Later occa-
sions to the population from thickly populated tribal-minded
Central Europe are chilled to the marrow by the failure of
personal response, but their efforts to overcome it by effusive
familiarities produce in the native born a disposition to goose-
flesh of the social surfaces. If, as happens in the case of young
Lewisohn, the situation is pointed by some such incident as his
tacit exclusion from the Greek fraternity organized among his
schoolmates, it is sure to be interpreted in terms of social
obduracy.
Frankly, when I read the Dial 1 am kept busy carefully sorting over
the sentences I read in a bewildered attempt to get at the heart of
their meanings. After considerable groping I believe that I have
gained some light on what Mrs. Austin is driving at, but I think her
premise is wrong. There is • natural antipathy to alien peoples, and
that holds true whether the German happens to be the native and the
Americas the alien or the , even the dogs of Constantinople
play "shinny on your own side" and discourage the "invasive inti.
ntty," as Mary Austin says, of outside dogs. I don't believe the •n-
tipathy to the Jew in this country has been due to the fact that the
American wants lots of room to stretch and resents the crowding
There are • great many reasons
familiarity of the emotional Jew,
deeper than that which have brought •nti•Semitism in the world. Of
course, there is always the natural antagonism to "outsiders" squ•t•
ting on what we believe to be our territory. Naturally the Jew is
intense in his tribal expression; he wants to be at home and to make
himself at home in the country and among the people t owhich he has
come. He would like to mix with his neighbors, but his neighbors
won't mix with him. For Miss Austin's benefit, I beg to remind her
that the "cool space" she speaks of seems to be p when Catholic
looks for "response" from Protestant.
Hear! Hear! What's this? Zion's Herald of Boston, in discussing
the crime wave that has engulfed the nation, asks:
"Is there not in the preaching of the Christian church too
little emphasis upon the exacting demands of righteousness and
rather too much stress upon a sentimental interpretation of the
love of God?
Page Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan,
Treason! Heresy!
Jmephus Daniels, Dr. Bowman, the Baptist Fundamentlaists! Then,
besides, we always thought those awful "foreigners," those "aliens,"
this
did •Il the murdering and burgling, and here we find, according to
authority, it has been the "native stock." And consider the figures.
Los Angeles' name leads all the rest in burglaries and housebreaking..
Maybe someone will say "Well, see all those foreigners out there in
the
the movie.. And New York, the wicked; New York, the home of
Polyglot people.; why, New York is way behind the good old American
cities like Washington and Baltimore and St. Paul. gas murders, too,
New York, with her vast alien opulation, is far down in the list. Any-
one reading the daily papers will observe q
old American names linked up with the murders that sae spread from
"1 to day over the front page. About time that we ceased to blame
all the vices of this country upon the "titian."
PAGE FIVE
Vitality in Religion
By WALTER E. ROTHMAN
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3 1 (1• 1" : It t,
The conflict between two genera-
tions appears to be one that will run
on interminably. But in spite of the
fact that that the present conserva-
tive forces are defending the citadel
easily because of their resources, nev-
er before has the philosophy of radi-
calism been so accessible. Books and
magazines are full of the opinions of
intellectual leaders and adherence to
ideas has become comparatively easy.
The armies are no longer uneven and
unlike the older generation, the young-
er generation is gaining recruits with-
out conscription.
The taunt of the older generation
still continues to be "Impractical" and
the answer of youth gathering cour-
age is the desertion of the cherished
institutions. Chief among these is re-
ligion. The cry that youth is irrelig-
ious has gone through all the stages
of a platitude, so that now, it is nor-
mal, not to expect youth to partake in
any spiritual activities. Religion and
old age have for some time been
strangely enamored fo one another.
But although this division has been
accepted by both parties, the spirit of
conversion refuses to depart from the
watchful elders. Not only have they
developed strongly their sense of re-
sponsibility as guides, but they insist
that their desciples shall receive a
double portion of their zeal for good.)
Thus as time goes on the solicitude of
old for young increases at a danger- j
ously fast rate.
Now religion in the hands of the el-
ders has always been an instrument of
compulsion. They have used it to in-
vest such words as "duty," "sin" and
"reverence," with a divine flavor.
Surely we must compliment them on
their strategy. Only the crossing of
the Alps in winter can approach the
success of their campaign. The ways
of instilling this servile attitude into'
the young have been very subtle and j
the invention of education remains one
of the chief glories of our forefathers.'
No delicate instrument of torture has
been shaped more cunningly. It seems
that education is the means whereby
our elders may with all urbanity jus-
tify their actions in the eyes of their
children. This method of training
dulls the sharp edges of criticism that
the younger generation has for the old
and iessens all harsh judgments. Ideas
swallowed with a mother's milk are
not easily drained from the blood. For-
tunately however, the process of re-
jection when it appears has been
strnog enough to destroy the age-
worn formulas poured into the minds
of pupils, for too docile.
Theironic question "why" begins to
be heard in the mouth of youth. It
is not a heartless futile question, but
one fraught with eagerness to discov-
er and change. A stream is about to
burst its dam and youth standing on
the brin anxiously sees to direct the
current. "We passed through that
stage," is the only encouragement
offered. Idealism like measles is some-
thing to be gotten over as quickly as
possible. And if timorously we ques-1
tion our elders they say that exper-1
ience is more valuable. They have
used experience as a substitute for
thinking.
The sonic elders who have been so
careful about teaching justice, free-
dom and equality, to the young are
callous about the conditions of the
world outside of the school room. So
there grows up mutual distrust. Now
religion for a long time has been the
source of these wordy virtues. Too
many pulpits have been merely ex-
horting their people to be just and
charitable and depending on the old
theological arguments of moral con-
science and irate goodness to perform
the rest. Only a very few pulpits
have stationed themselves like light
houses in the dangerous and lonely
places of the sea. The rest have been
content to shine within the three-mile
limit. Only let a crisis occur, and
where are the eloquent sermons on
justice.
Slowly but surely religion begins
'the support of current doctrines.
Rev. and Aors. David Goldin of
, Youth deserts not joyfully but sadly, li•ndrie avenue entertained the
crushed and disappointed. The re- board of directors of the European I
, ligion of his fathers may call, but he
Jewish Women's Welfare Organize-
tassel
head averted. o
tin on Sunday, Aug. 6, in honor of
ow a Yltar an d he is an ardent wor-
the Ear Mitzvah of their son, Morris.
shipper. Youth deserts because he is
Mrs. Joseph Zuckerman, the presi-
disappointed. It is not a cowardly de-
, sertion, but rather a shunning of the dent of t he organization, presented
the
Bar Mitzvah with watch and chain
' hypocrisy of his elders. He is tired
' of a religion hanging on words and ' as a gift of the board. Mrs. M. Gold-
i
stick,
president of the North Wood-
existing because it has existed. He
demands that it be far more vigorous ward branch, also addressed the con-
commentary on life then it has been: ' firmant. Rev. Goldin and son gave
And indeed there is a serious misun- several vocal solos.
derstanding on the part of both as to
Mrs. Schneiderman made an appeal
the meaning of religion. It happens for the orphans and widows of Eu-
that when the experienced and prac- rope and a sum of money was real-
tical benefactors of public welfare feel ized for the fund, Rev. Goldin head-
that youth has become a bit too crae- ing the list of contributors.
less, a trifle light-hearted, they call in
The next meeting of the European
' the aid of religion to point out the welfare organization will be held on
right road.
Tuesday evening, Aug. 15, at the
' Thus youth becomes impressed with Mogen Abraham Synagogue, on
the idea that religion is a code of be- Farnsworth street.
lief, a court of right and wrong. For
youth on the other hand, religion has
always been a way of looking at the START CAMP FOR JEWISH
world, a sensitive ecstacy. It is if I
GIRLS UP TO AGE OF 18
may say so a bit more senous, dabbed
a little more with the color of life.
"What will become of the doctrines
Recreation Camp, beautifully situ-
which distinguish as from others," ', abed on Lake Elizabeth, four miles
cry the alarmists. Doctrines, yes if we , north of Pontiac, in the heart of the
need them, but before doctrines imagi- 'lake district, is open for Jewish girls
nation. In the beginning it was om- !tin to the age of IS, from Aug. 20 to
agination that gave birth to theology. 27, on a strictly "kosher" basin, The
Surely a people conceiving its own charge will be $5.50 net week.
good is the crowning glory of imagi-
All those interested should register
nation. And surely religion must al-
daily between 3:30 and 4:30 p. m. at
low more mental freedom. Only with the Jewish Institute, bringing El at
these two banners can religion hope to
time of registration.
allure youth. Youth is not irreligious,
The food et the camp will consist
but saddened. In this country Juda-
of fish fresh vegetables, milk, eggs
ism has lost her men of imagination.
and fruit and will be served in abun-
Walter Lippman, Harold Stearns, dance. The water is from a certified
Maxwell Bodenheim and others are
artesian well in camp.
, strangely apathetic on the question of
The necessary outfit is a sweater, a
their religion. But they are the lead-
bathing suit, a heavy blandket or
era of the young intellectuals. Reli-
quilt, a comb, brush, straw or canvas
I gion through theology has foolishly at-
hat, handkerchiefs, two pair of extra
, tempted the preservation of truth.
stockings, one sleeping garment, two
Nothing has been more disastrous. It
bar of soap
is the seeking of truth rather than the suits of underwear, one
in small box, one tooth brush and
establishing of it that is valuable, said
paste, two towels for face and hands,
Montaigne. And the old skeptic knew
two dish towels. bag /or laundry, pil-
human nature. Of course religion will
low ease, pair of sneakers and tennis
begin to sputter and insist that it is
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HADASSAH REPRESENTED
EUROPEAN WELFARE
AT CARLSBAD MEETING
SOCIETY DIRECTORS
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Or-
ENTERTAINED AUG. 6 ganization, will have adequate repres-
liberal. The grave fault is that it
gives speculation and imagination,
free rein only within a limit. Beyond
that man may dare, he will be regard-
ed as offensive to the "best interests."
Religion must like science be ready
to discard an old truth for the discov-
ery of a new truth. Institutions must
follow and not lead. Harnessed one
is no longer young but old with pas-
sions cooled and guided by that bless-
ed virtue of old wires, an abundance
of common sense.
ANTI-SEMITIC PAPER STOPPED
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—Mystery
surrounds the sudden disappearance
of Berlin's biggest anti - Semitic
"Deutsches Abendblatt." Newspaper
shoes, sheet, dark skirt, bathing cap
(not red), two middy blouses (prefer-
ably blue), dark bloomers.
Groups leave in trucks at 1 p. m.
Sunday afternoons from Northwest-
ern Community }louse, Wreford ave-
nue, three doors north of Grand
River avenue, near boulevard.
The special features at camp will
be:
Sunday Night — Get acquainted
talks on camp,
Monday Night—Marshmallow roast.
Tuesday Night—Songs and Indian
war dance.
Wednesday Night—Popcorn; rid-
dles.
Thursday Night—Amateur vaude-
ville.
Friday Night—Music, singing.
Saturday Night—Surprise night.
pension of this important daily, and a
number of explanations are being ad-
Hasten to perform the slightest!
good deed.—The Talmud.
vaned.
entation at the World's Zionist Con-
vention at Carlsbad, the 'Jahreskon-
ferenz' which commences on Aug. 23.
The Zionist Oraganization of Amer-
ica has selected with Hadassah's ap-
porval, Miss Henrietta Szold to rep-
resent America. Miss Szold is the as-
sistant director of the Iladassah Med-
ical Organization in Palestine, and
since its inception has been the inspir-
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ation and guiding light of Hadassah.
Her present official connection with
Iludassah is that of honorary presi-
dent. •
Thus, at this rendezvous of Zionists
from all over the world, Hadassah will
play no small role in the deliberations,
and in bringing the conference to a
highly successful and satisfactory
conclusion.
In order to establish an actual face
to face communion between Hadassah
An interesting feature is that Miss
in Palestine and Hadassah in Amer-
ica, the national board of liadsasith is Ray Hernias, office secretary of Ila-
dassah,
has inbibed the Zionist spirit
sending Mrs. Edward Jacobs to Carls-
bad to confer with Miss Szold and to and ideal to the extent of accompany.
ing
Mrs.
Jacobs to Carlsbad. •
affect the clearest possible under-
standing of the Palestinian nod Am-
erican problems of Hadassah. Mrs.
Even he who lives upon charity
Jacobs will sail on Tuesday, Aug. ti, should practice benevolence. — The
on the Berengaria.
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