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Authorities Say Assemblyman
Ulmann's Race Prejudice
Charge Is Unfounded.

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By Chas. ti. Joseph.)

NEW YORK.—Sol Ulman, mem-
ber of the Assembly from the Sixth
District, charged the Lincoln School,
operated as an experimental unit at
Teachers College, Columbia Uni-
versity, with barring Jews from its
classes. The charge was denied by
the authorities of Teachers College.
Dean James E. Russell said that
about 20 per cent of the total regis-
"issue" then they fight for it.
tration was Jewish and that two of
the four members of the admissions
So Sarah Bernhardt is coming back home. Seems incredible after
committee were Jews.
"Our school is for experimental
half • century or more of being a communicant in the Catholic Church.
purposes," said Dean Russell, "and all
Rosine Bernard was born of Jewish parents in 1844, but for some
ore admitted, rich and poor. But we
reason or other she was at an early age received into the Catholic
accept only those who seem best tit-
Church. Now at the age of 80 something has appealed to the spark of
led for the experimental work. There
Jewish.ss yet remaining; she attributes her "revival" to the Pales•
is no discrimination as to race or re-
Tinian movement. Now before she dies she wants to do something
ligion. We want all kinds of pupils."
for "her own people." It seems that there is something in every Jew
He added that the nature of the
that remains to the end of his days despite the fact that he has been
work made small classes necessary.
alienated from the faith of his fathers. From an interview recently
About '300 are enrolled in the school,
published, it seem that "Divine Sarah" intends to act in this country
where experts in education study
again and the proceeds to be devoted to Palestine.
school curricula from the primary
grades through high school to col-
Charles A. Madison, apparently a 100 per cent American of the
lege. Many exceptional students are
"1776" school, writing to the Nation, says:
admitted on scholarships; tuition is
charged for others. With this picked
Since
Ilarvard's
proposed
discrimination
against
". . .
group of pupils, eliminations and
Jewish students became public, there has net in a feeling of dis-
changes in school work are planned
trust between the two classes of students. Jewish students
•and studied.
cannot help but betray a feeling of guilt when with non-Jewish
"It has come to attention from
students; a feeling 'not belonging,' and the Gentile students
most reliable sources that your school
feel the necessity of being less friendly with students of Semitic
is discriminating against applicants
origin."
of the Jewish faith," said Assembly-
man Ullmann's letter to the school
This is what I predicted would happen. The position I have taken
authorities. "You are chartered by
right along in this matter has been that the very publicity given to
the Educational Department of the
it by Harvard, intentionally or unintentionally, has •Iready d its
state of New York and your institu-
" rrrrr ictive" purpose. Unquestionaly some of the most representa-
tion is subject to all the laws of the
tive Jews of the nation will not send their sons to 1-1 d, •nd it is
state, more particularly the Civil
quite likely that their sons would not want to enter such a "strained"
Rights law, prohibiting racial dis-
atmosphere.
crimination
"Abraham Lincoln, after whom
I notice in an exchange that there is some discussion as to the
your school is named, in his famous
advisability of rabbis refusing to officiate at the funerals of those Jews
Gettysburg a ddr e s s, enunciated,
who halm been indifferent to Judaism. What's the use of bothering
among other things, the principle that
with them after they are dead? We ought to try to reform them while
'all men are created equal. You
they are alive.
should not disgrace the name of that
great martyr, but should immediate-
Samuel Bloomingdale says that • condition exists in New York
ly apply to change the name of your
which should shame every Jew. With more than 1,000,00 Jews in the
school to one more suggestive of the
city the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies is maintained by subscrip•
policy you follow."
lions from less than 30,000. And those 30,000 maintain organizations
Assemblyman Ullman said he knew
which cost about $7,000,000 annually. Quite some outlay. But Mr.
of three instances in which parents
Bloomingdale shouldn't be surprised. This isn't the only thing for
alleged their children had been bar-
which New York Jews should feel ashamed of themselves. They are
red because they were Jews.
guilty of ■ lot of other shortcomings.
"A mother and a child went there,"
he said, "and they did not look very
Walter Hurt, author of the "Truth About the Jews," writes us:
Jewish. The superintendent ques-
tioned the child and told him he was
"In view of the Harvard attitude, it is pleasing to note that
very bright. The mother asked
the University of Chicago has listed my book in its published
whether they had room for the child.
bulletin of important sociological works. As Rockefeller un-
The reply was: 'Sure. Plenty of
questionably influences the policies of that institution, this
room.'
would indicate that the oil magnate does not share Ilenry
"When the superintendent saw the
Ford's views on race questions."
name he said: 'Sorry. No room.
Overcrowded.' The same thing hap-
Mr. Hurt also writes:
pened in three cases reported to me.
The school was recommended to the
"One gratifying feature of the publication of my book is
parents by a public school principal.
the enormous amount of pro-Jewish propaganda that has been
"I am going to wait to see whether
injected into the general press through reviews of the work."
I get a reply from the school, but I
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don't
think it will answer. I am go-
It is unfortunate that so many of our people are dense when it
ing to make further investigation,
comes to relisingan opportunity that makes for the benefit of the
and
it
is probable that I shall intro-
whole. I think I used up a score of columns trying to arouse the
duce a resolution in the Legislature
readers of this column in the various newspapers in which it appears
to
revoke
the license of this school."
to support Whiter Hurt in getting his book to the public. It we like
The authorities said that undoubt-
pulling teeth, though here and there the response was generous, but
edly
the
pupils
in question were not
the Jewish people as a whole failed, in my judgment, to rise to the
admitted solely because they were
occasion.
not adapted to the experimental
work.
Mr. Hurt concludes his letter thusly:

They want the Jews of Russia to observe Sunday as their Sabbath.
That is, the Communists do. The suggestion or rather request backed
by the Jewish commissars seems to have stirred up • hornet's neat.
Of course, the Jewish workers who attend religious services are natur-
ally opposed to the introduction of Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath, for
"economic reasons." Well, we are getting on indeed. If the Com-
munists will visit this country they will learn that if they let the Jews
alone they will in time, of their free will and accord, give up their
Sabbath (in practice if not in theory). But when it is made en

"It is rather a peculiar fact that I receive more letters from
Gentiles regarding the book than I do from Jewish readers.
These letters are mostly from a highly intellectual class and
many of these people declare that the book has entirely altered
their ideas concerning the Jewish people."

Mr. Hurt need not feel surprised because the Jews are not writing
to him. He will be interested to learn that I have been writing for
Jewish journals for more than 25 years and in all that time I have
never received more than 10 acknowledgements from Jewish readers
commendatory word concerning
thanking me for having written ■
them individually. But my mail has been loaded to the guards with
requests for comments on institutions, individuals, and particularly
to rush to the defense of every real or fancied injury resulting from
presumable anti-Semitic acts. If Mr. Hurt had written a book attack-
ing the Jews his mail would have been overwhelmingly Jewish in

character.

I am afraid I shall have to balk at this. I am willing to "go along"
with the suggestion that Columbus was a Jew, but I refuse to budge
one step with the statement that • Jew was one of the original Pilgrim
fathers who came over in the Mayflower. They say his name was
Moses Simonson from the Jewish settlemnt in Amsterdam. Can't you
see what ■ terrible thing this would he if proved to be true? The
Stuyves•nts and the De Peysters and the Livingstone and the Cuylers
and the Beekman., why, even the Winthrop., just think of it, the
Winthrop. of Massachusetts might have Jewish blood in their veins!
Then, too, what • terrible, terrible blow it would be to Kenneth
Roberts and all the other pen-pushers of the Saturday Evening Post,
who have been trying to "sell" only the "original old stock," the "May-
flower •ariety," to the nation. No, I shall never be • party to such •
cataclysm in American society. It is unthinkable.

Does this sound familiar to you?

"I sold my house last week at a good profit and was glad to
get rid of it, too, because the Italians are beginning to get a
foot hold in the district, and wherever the Italians go the prop-
erty deteriorates in value."

This is an actual and not fancied conversation. It isn't a religious
prejudice against the Italian, is it? Neither is it jealousy of the
economic status of the Italians who are able to afford finer homes.
What do you think it is? Some time take • night off, stay at home
• nd think about this. Then possibly you will begin to get light on

the Jewish question.

The following letter from President Lowell of Harvard has been
handed to me by • former Jewish student, Emanuel Amdur of Pitts-
burgh. I shall make no comment, but am presenting to my readers
an idea of Mr. Lowell's reasoning and reasons.
just to give them •

Says Mr. Lowell:

"I am afraid that we do not understand one another's point
of view. In the first place, religion has nothing whatever to do
with the problem. The question is one of segregation of a
race. In the secnod place, the problem is not merely that of
reducing anti-Semitic feeling, but of blending the two races:
the segregation being due to the attitude of the Jews as well as
to the Gentiles. The two are not hostile here at Harvard in the
sense of ill-feeling, but they are segregated, and are becoming,
I fear, more so. There are Jewish clubs, which are increasing
in number. In the college as in the United States, we must
strive to blend all races together, and surely we do not pro-
mote that object by shutting our eyes to facts or calling bad
names."

Continuing, H

PAGE FIVE

Prraorrimsn 0xoN wiz

d's president says:

"With the increase of Jewish immigrants has been coming
the segregation of the race as it exists in Central and Eastern
the same thing has happened in universities. We are con-
Europe. If you do not see signs of this in the country I am
astonished. You know what has happened in the summer
hotels, and the same thing has happened in universities. We
are confronted by a situation which has not existed in this
country until recent times. It would seem to be the path of
wisdom to study it, not to shut our eyes to it and pretend that
it is un-American to consider facts as they are If things con-
tinue to drift as they appear to be drifting, the consequences
for the Jews in this country may be very unfortunate. Many
Jews recognize this."

"A Rabbi Contributes Set of Jewish Encyclopedia to Monastery."
That is • startling caption, isn't it A week or so ago I asked for the
donation of the Jewish Encyclopedia to the friars of Graymoor, New
York. 1 felt sure that some of my opulent readers would be glad of
the opportunity to do this. But either rich Jews do not red this
columns or if they do they do not p the missionary spirit. So
It is left to • rabbi todo it. And I want to thank Rabbi Herman
perin of the Tree of Life Synagogue of Pittsburgh, Pa., for his g•ne•
rosily in responding to my request. I know that the friars will ap-
preciate the gift doubly coming from such • source.

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N. Y. Dry Agent Confers With
President and Faculty of
Theological Seminary.

VERSION OF KRASSIN'S
REFERENCE TO JEWS BY
MORNING POST DENIED

LONDON.—(J. C. 13.)—The Morn-
ing Posts version of the statement
attributed to Krassin, the Soviet
trade envoy, regarding the danger to
Russia of needy Jews invading the
country for exploitation, is declared
to be a "misinterpretation" of the
opinion M. Krassin intended to con-
vey.
The statement originally appeared
inthe form of an interview with Mr.
Webster, the secretary of the Urque-
hart Company, who was alleged to
have said that Mr. Krassin told him
it was essential for Russia to exercise
a monopoly over foreign trade because
freedom in foreign trade would "in-
evitably bring an invasion of the
country by a gang of needy Jews and
would-be profiteers." The Soviet gov-
ernment was said to be ready to con-
clude an agreement with such corn-
panies as the Russia-Asiatic Com-
pany, which could not be suspected of
• desire to exploit the country.
The telegraphic agency immediately
inquired of Mr. Webster whether he
was quoted correctly by the Morning
Post. In reply Mr. Webster wrote
that the statement was a misinterpre-
tation.

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JEWS ARE ASKED TO
STOP SALE OF WINE

NEW YORK.—John D. Appleby,
in charge of the general agents in
New York and New Jersey, who has
tackled the problem of eliminating
bootleggers who are handling wines
on the pretense that they are for
sacramental purposes, designated one
of his agents on Wednesday to con-
fer with Dr. Cyrus Adler, president
of the Jewish Theological Seminary,
531 West One Hundred Twenty-
third street, in an effort to secure the
co-operation of the semniary in the
campaign to stop alleged abuses.
Dr. Adler came here especially for
the conference, which was held at the
seminary early in the afternoon and
listed for more than an hour. Present
also were a number of prominent rab-
bis of the city and members of the
seminary faculty.
Chief Appleby's representative re-
ported to his chief that the confer-
ence was in every way satisfactory
and that he was certain of the aid
of Dr. Adler and the rabbis present
in mapping out a plan for better con-
trol of the situation. Eighteen writ-
ten questions were submitted to Dr.
Adler and these will be answered
soon after he returns to Philadelphia,
it was said. Dr. Adler took with him
a copy of the present regulations re-
garding the handling of wines for sac-
ramental purposes.
Personally, Dr. Adler believes, ac-
cording to Chief Appleby's represent-
ative, that fermented wine is not
necessary for sacramental purposes.
He holds, it is understood, that unfer-
mented grape juice will answer every
purpose, and gave to Mr. Appleby's
representative a copy of a book in
Hebrew written by Dr. Ginsburg of
the seminary, giving proof that un-
fermented grape juice is just as valid
as fermented wine.

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