/AGE SIX MEVentonicwisfigi ROM ICLE LI RO I THE U . 11 EWIN1 J 61RON1CLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. Joseph J. Cummins, President Jacob H. Schakne, Business Manager Illabered u second-class matter March 3, 1918, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 850 High Street West Telephone: Cable Address: Glendale 9300 Chronicle is impending. But .it will not be brought about, we regret to say, by any pleas that may be made on the ground of humitar- ianism, by any appeal to the traditions of America as a haven of refuge to the oppressed, or by any other attacks on the prob- lem that are based purely in sentiment. The change will be accomplished by the necsesities of an industrial civilization that demands a working force such as only the older countries of the world can furnish. On this basis, we feel assured that the immi- gration laws of the country are bound before very long to un- dergo a very considerable change. Two Important Syllabi. The Intercollegiate Menorah Association has recently sent out two very important booklets which will be of inestimable help to those who are devoting themselves to the study of Jew- ish life and history. One of these is published under the title enbseription. In Advance__ ...... _ .............. _.._... ..... 83.00 Per Year "An Introduction to Jewish History" and the other is headed "Jewish Factors in Western Civilization." To Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach The first of these Syllabi deals with the study of Jewish this office by Tuesday evening of each week. history from the beginning of the Biblical era to our own day and the other gives a full introduction and biography to a study RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN Editorial Contributor of the contribution of the Jew to religion, to philosophy, to lit- The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of interest to erature, to music, to science, to journalism, to statecraft, etc. Yu Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the The work of preparing the Syllabi has been undertaken with ex- Wow expressed by the writers. ceeding care such as characterizes the great bulk of the publi- cations of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association. These January 19, 1923 Shevat 2, 5683 Syllabi, we believe, could be used to very excellent advantage as guides to adult study classes as well as in the higher grades of our religious schools. The Menorah Association has put Protest Less—Build More. many under deep obligations to it by the publication of these A glance at the preliminary program of the Golden Jubi- works. lee meeting of the Union of American Ilebrew Congregations is extremely gratifying to those of us who have insisted much of late that there has been at the hands of our organizations an overstress on the wrongs of which the Jew has been the victim and a corresponding unemphasis upon the constructive work which it ought to be ours to do. Fortunately, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in building its program for New York has escaped this unfortu- THREATENED WITH DEATH, RABBI LYONS nate tendency and from first to last, the meeting bids fair to DENOUNCES KU KLUX, FORD PROPAGANDA deal with constructive issues affecting Jews and Judaism. Cen- tral to all these must be the strengthening of the synagog and By RABBI ALEXANDER LYONS, World War did not distinguish him- the deepening of the religious sp rit of the Jew. To this task Eighth Avenue Temple, Brooklyn. self for a remarkable patriotic re- gard. during the half century of its existence, the Union has consist- As long as the presumptuous and ently dedicated its efforts. It has not, it is true, failed to take I had occasion several times re- unprincipled power of possession proper cognizance of discriminations against our people as wit- cently to address important groups without the restraint of appropriate men and women when I made in- culture of mind and heart such as is ness the unremitting and highly successful endeavors of the of cidental reflections upon that exec- Committee on Civil and Religious Rights. But the essential rable excrescence of un-Americaniz- embodied in Ilenry Ford is permitted to go on the rampage we must expect work of the Union has been to build from within. Under the ation that is operating in America at just such disgraceful and damaging insiration of that master genius—Isaac M. Wise—the founder the present time under the name of contortions of Americanism as ob- of the Union, those who took up his work and builded upon the the Ku Klux Klan. I have since re- tains in the Ku Klux Klan. anonymous warning that I am It will long be a disgrace to Ameri- foundations laid by him, have realized that the unanswerable ceived in line for elimination. My reaction Christendom to have stood by argument which we can give to those who assail us is the effi- to such cowardice is the present mes- can the innocent blood of brother Jews cient living out of Israel's mission as the teacher and preacher sage. that was being shed so heartlessly by The man who desists from what the money-mad Jew mania of the man of a living faith. believes to be his duty because of from Michigan, who is now being To this end they have concentrated their efforts first to the he threatened danger discloses his un- spoken of as a possible candidate for unification of our congregational life in America ; second, to Americanism and declares himself a the United States Presidency. Far- the training of rabbis and teachers for our congregations. It derelict in loyalty to law and so a ther than this neither fancy nor folly is not to exaggerate the truth to say that the creation and defender of such lawlessness as has can possibly go. • perpetrated under the rigorous maintenance of the Hebrew Union College at the hands of the been rule of the Ku Klux Klan. Union marks the greatest bit of constructive work for Judaism The Ku Klux Klan is one of the that has ever been accomplished. One hesitates to think what most disgraceful insults ever offered MRS. SCHIFF GIVES MEMORIAL BUILDING might have been the fate of Judaism in America but for the to the American people. It is a con- assumption on the part of its leadership made possible by this institution. Had Isaac M. Wise ceited organizers and constituents that the Widow of Philanthropist Presents accomplished nothing else in his long and useful career than American people do not know what Q for Nurses' Service of to make possible this great institution of learning, he would by is right or, knowing, do not care, or Henry Street Settlement. that alone have raised himself above the greatest of American caring, are without the power to have the right respected. Jews. NEW YORK.—As a memorial to is the usurpation of majority But the Union having accomplished these two things has rule It by the late Jacob H. Schiff, his widow, minority presumption. gone further. It has banded together the Jewish women It is an-attempt to substitute a Mrs. Theresa Schiff, presented to the Street Settlement Thursday through out the land into a great sisterhood whose combined regime of terror for a reign of Henry promoted and secured night an administration building for efforts in behalf of their people and their faith are yielding righteousness the use of the Settlement's Visiting peaceful procedure, and so is an splendid fruits as witness their latest achievement—the build- by effort to transform a progressive Nurse Service, at 99 Park Avenue. Governor Alfred E. Smith came down ing of the Dormitory of the College. And now another for- America into an effete Russia. It is from Albany to take part in the pre- ward step is to be taken at the New York meeting. The men an endeavor to uphold law by lawless. sentation ceremonies and made a and, finally, is cowardice parad- of Israel representing the Temple brotherhoods and the men's ness, speech in which he extolled Mr. Schiff patriotism. as a great American. clubs affiliated with our temples, are to be brought together ing as Will Not Be Intimidated. Paul D. Cravath presided and gave into a nation-wide association and thus without doubt a new The dangerous possibilities and cer- a history of the Ilenry Street Settle- element of strength will be added to our congregational life. taities of an organization like the ment and praised its founder, Miss In connection with the meeting at New York, the Go-To- Ku Klux Klan will not be doubted Lillian D. Wald, whose work he corn- Synagog movement is being emhasized. No doubt the influ- for a moment by any true American pared to that of St. Frances and St. in possession of his normal Claire, and who, he said, was the ence of this effort in the metroplis will be reflected throughout citizen senses in view of the disclosures that century reincarnation of the entire country. The meeting next week may from many babe shocked us from the state of "twentieth those saints." Governor Smith, who standpoints be regarded as the . most important gathering of Louisiana, whose American-hearted with Mrs. Smith attened a dinner giv- Jews that has ever been held upon this soil. It is no small thing Governor Parker, merits the admira- en in the nurses' dining room, told tion and emulation of every citizen how he had always been interested in to bring together for the purpose of discussing the betterment worthy of the traditions of Washing- the Henry Street Settlement as Ilen- of our religious conditions, thousands of busy men and women ton, Lincoln and 'Roosevelt. ry Street was a part of his own dis- from every part of the country. But all the sacrifices entailed Nor will any true American citizen trict. He said the late Mr. Schiff on the art of the men and women who leave their homes for be intimidated into silent contempla- showed his interest in welfare legis- of a distorted Americanism that lation during his first term as Gov- this meeting as well as on the part of those who have the details tion disgraces all Americans. The Ameri- and was always ready to help of the convention in charge will be more than repaid in a re- can people ought to decide at this ernor the governor carry out a progressive newed enthusiasm and a deepened loyalty to all for which time, once and for all, whether they program. are going to rule themselves or be "Ile had a natural ability," said the Israel stands. by a self-appointed group governor, "to distinguish along what The problem of anti-Semitism as such need not be attacked domintaed whose greatest distinction is coward_ avenues the greatest progress could be at all. No protest need be leveled against those who out of ig- ice and conceit. made. His charities were always con- norance or out of malice direct their poisoned shafts against the And yet it is not merely the Ku trolled by a mind that understood the Jew. As we strengthen ourselves by constructive work, we Klux Klan that needs to be combated. business fo charity. lie was a great American, one who really loved his shall ward off their weapons and justify ourselves not only in There ought to be a fight throughout country and who always was in sym- America upon Ku Kluxism, that wide our own eyes but as well in the eyes of all right hearted and irreverence for law and consequent pathy with its aims." forward looking American men and women. The building, which has been made lawlessness so general in American LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND The Congregation As the Center of Jewish Life. If the Union of American Hebrew Congregations upon which the eyes of all American Jews shall be centered during the coming week has emphasized one thing more than another, it is that the congregation must be the soul and center of our Jewish life. It is the one logical and authoritative unit or rep- resentation of the Jew. One takes nothing away that legiti- mately falls to the credit of other Jewish organizations when we say this. The Jewish lodge in furnishing a common plat- form for Jews of all shades of religious opinion deserves its meed of credit and a full share of appreciation. The important work of the Jewish philanthropies none would underestimate. Who does not know what a powerful factor they have been in keeping alive in this and other lands hundreds and thousands of our people who but for their goodly offices might have per- ished? There is something to be said even for the Jewish social club though in many instances it has degenerated very much in the last years. But we maintain that not one of them all would have been an efficient agent in building up the Jewish life of this land but for the inspiration and the re-enforcement given them by the synagog. It is through the synagog that the spiritual life of the Jew finds expression. To those of us who hold that the Jew is a Jew by religion only, this of course is obvious enough. But even those who interpret the history and the destiny of the Jew in other terms must realize that the religionless Jew is an anomaly, a contradiction in terms. For every Jew, the synagog is the institution that best expresses the distinctiveness of his being. Therefore in stressing the importance of the congrega- tion as central to the Jewish life of our time, 'the Union of American Hebrew Congregations has done a service, the im- portance of which can scarcely be overestimated. Immigration and Industry. Judging from the expression of American manufacturers, there has been a vast change in the past year in regard to the attitude that our country should take with reference to the problem of immigration. What the antagonists of the 3 per cent law said long ago is now apparently becoming clear to many of the great industrial heads of this country. It has been forcibly brought home to them by experience that they cannot hope to carry on their industrial processes unless their working forces are reinforced by an influx of foreigners who are ready and able to undertake the hard labor which does not appeal to the native American and which for the most part he is physi- cally unable to undertake. We have little doubt that a change in the immigration law life in conjunction with an unthink- ing, unsympathetic and illigical in- tolerance that is parented by the prejudice that SOWS enmity and con- flict where there ought to be amity and co-operation. Of this pernicious, ignorant, un- thinking and illogical prejudice that of late has propaganized so prolific. ally in American life, the most no- torius representative, its low priest indeed as Aaron of old was the high priest of peace, is that mechanized manikin of Michigan, who, with his mercenary minions, has spent a for- tune in inoculating not only recep- tive but unsuspecting thousands In America with the virus of suspicion or even hate of their fellow men. Not Fit Dictator. Henry Ford is one of those men who do not know that they are not competent to be mentors of the mor- ality of the world, simply because they are manufacturers of machinery and makers of money. If he had as much modesty as he has millions he would not subvent a campaign in be- half of what he holds to be a deficient patriotism of so many of his fellow. men when he himself in his relation to his son with reference to the over fro mtwo houses and is thorough. ly equipped for nurse service, was ac- cepted on behalf of the settlement by Miss Wald. BERLIN IS PLANNING CENTER FOR HEBREW Object to Gather Statistical Material Regarding Jewish Culture. BERLIN.—(J. C. B.)—A meeting has been held here on the initiative of the Berlin "Beth Waad," of rep- resentatives now in Berlin of various Jewish cultural organizations, and it has been decided to establish a He- brew educational center, Tarbuth, in Berlin. The objects will include the gath- ering of statistical materials regard. ing Jewish cultural activity in vari- ous countries, especially in connec- tion with education, and to make ar_ rangements for the convocation of ■ Jewish cultural congress. The cen- ter is seeking to get into touch with Jewish cultural organizations in all countries and will publish bulletins dealing with Jewish cultural activity everywhere. The Persecuted Jew When strife is rampant in the world, And men and devils loudly cheer; The hearts of men have turned to atone And cruel monsters laugh and sneer. In sorrow and the darkest gloom, Our brother Jew has suffered long; The God of Israel knows his own, He, their king, is great and strong. Defend the people, God of Hosts, Thou God of Israel, grand and great; Look down and bless that noble race, And lead them to the golden gate. —STEPHEN TAYLOR DEKENS it CS1ing 3.\'citis ( 0:Wren's Qi.orner By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ , The Keren Ilayesod is the bridge over the turbulent sea of obstacles that leads Israel's homeward trek from Golus to Eretz Yisroel. As yet, however, it is the paper bridge of the Jewish legend. We can see it in our imagination. We have even seen its practical begining in the pre- liminary work for the rebuilding of Palestine. But the concrete struc- ture that is to make real the dream of the Jew is in waiting for the ac- tual efforts of our people. The mes- sage of Palestine and the Keren Hayesod is now being taken to every Jew here, and the aim is to compel the conscience and heart of every loyal member of the house of Israel to share in the responsibility which is all Israel's. The Jews of Pales- tine are watching us with great anx- iety. They look for action on the part of the richest Jewish commun- ity in the world. Jewish eyes every- where are riveted upon us in the great task that confronts us. The enthusiasm with which the work has been begun must be brought to frui- tion and must result in a crowning success. THE DESERT ISLAND (Translated from the Hebrew.) Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, there lived a famous king who loved justice and Kos merciful to the poor, and a father to the orphans withi n his country. Filled with great pity for the needy, he tried to help them earn their living. Finding that many of his poor became too dependent and ceased to work, the wise king decided to send some of his people away each year, that they might seek to live a new life in a new country. He called them to him and said: "You have, until this day, depend. ed entirely upon my bounty, eating of my bread and drinking of my wine, all this you have received with. out price, and without seeking to earn it. I want really to help you, so hark to my advice: Beyond the seas I have a fair country, a land of gardens and orchards,• containing every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, and all kinds of The Heart and the Pocket. spices. I intend to send you to take An interesting thing to be remem- charge of the gardens, to water every bered in connection with the forth_ tree, to prune and to care for the coming Keren Ilayesod campaign is things that grow there. In this way that, while the heart here controls you will be earning your own liv- the pocket of the giver, the pocket ing." But they fell at his feet and cried: here also controls the heart of Jewry everywhere, and especially that of the "Please do not send us so for away, Jew in Palestine. With the political where we cannot see your face. It success of the Zionist movement as- is better for us to sit here and enjoy sured, the rebuilding of the Holy the light of your countenance, even Land Is a responsibility of the Jew if we eat the bread of charity. For alone. But the vast majority of the who can tell whether we will succeed Jewish people is financially ruined in our new labors or not, and if we and has been saved from moral ruin return unsuccessful, how will we only by the hope and promise of dare to meet your reproaches?" But the king refused to allow them Palestine. The duty of the people for the rebuilding of the homeland was to remain with him, saying: "Al- though I have no doubt that many of thus placed on the most fortunate shoulders of the nation, those in you will not succeed in this work, still some will be successful, and even America and England. While Jews in other countries are also pouring those who are not will do something millions into Palestine, their millions of value, for all men must do some are unfortunately worthless because good." Then he taught them the laws of of the depreciations in East European currencies. The American dollar is that country to which they were go- the all-powerful weapon for rehabili- ing and spoke of the trees that they tation and the Jewish American is were to tend, and how to care for charged with the great responsibility them. Then he ordered a large and for this work. The Palestinians beautiful ship built and sent them know this and expect much. Already away over the seas. But when the journey was nearly many of them are deeply disappoint- ed because we here did not live up over, the ship struck a rock and was dashed to pieces. One of the men, to their expectations. Just so long as we are in a position to control who was a strong swimmer, managed to reach the shore. He was so worn our purse strings, we must be even more considerate and watchful of out from the waves that he fell ex- the result that this may have on the hausted upon the sand and knew morale of those already in Palestine, nothing more. When he came to him- and the hundreds of thousands wait- self, many people had gathered ing to enter the land. If we keep around him. They helped him to his in-mind that the tighter our hold on feet, and he stood staring blankly our pockets the weaker our morale, around him, wondering what had be- and the more liberal we are the hap- fallen him, for he had forgotten all pier will be made the entire Jewish that had happened to him while liv- people, we will have accomplished ing with the kind king. The people much and helped to retain our honor , of the island clad him in dry gar- ' ments; they rubbed his tired limbs as a people. with oil, and gave him food and drink. Then they brought the stranger a Finding the Heart. The above can best be illustrated beautiful chariot with white horses by a quotation from an address de. harnessed in gold, and drove him to livered recently by Ached Ha-Am at a splendid palace. Ilere many ser- Tel-Aviv, Palestine, at a reception vants welcomed him, dressed him like a king and sought to fulfill his slight- given to Dr. Chaim Weizmann: "About 20 years ago — Weiz- eat wishes. The man who had been a servant man was still young and I was not yet old—we met for the first time. could not understand all this, but, Then we came across each other for a while, he was too bewildered in Russia, and afterwards in Lon- to ask any questions. Everyone don. We are good friends. Al- 'treated him with the greatest respect; ready they had commenced the when he rode abroad, the island peo- disputes and differences of opinion ple hailed him as their king; messen- which it is impossible to give in gers from other lands came to his a few words. It was said, today court and brought him rich gifts; or tomorrow the Messiah will poets sang of his glory. When he come. I was one of those who was weary, musicians played sweet music to bring him rest, or the wisest thought that grass would grow on our graves long before the Messiah men read to him from their learned came. Weizmann, too, was among books. Of all his sages, the new king loved those who did not wait for salva- tion to come tomorrow. We hoped one best. Ile was a grave old man, the wisest of all the wise men of the that the result of our work, which was growing constantly, would be court, and, for some unknown reason, the king longed to have him as a a Messianic movement embracing the whole people. Now, when the friend. Often in the cool of the evening the king would walk abroad position of our people is worse than before, we see that the heart is in his gardens, and he always chose this sage to be his companion. One not there and that the pockets are empty. Dr. Weizmann has come to us not as the founder of the democratic section, but as presi- dent of the Zionist World Organ- ization, and he has need of funds. He has come here to find the heart. Whether he has found it you will be able to judge yourselves. I think he has not found it. Ile will short- ly go to America; I hope he will find there the funds. Perhaps then, if he will come back to us, he will, with the aid of the funds, find the heart." This quotation needs not to be commented upon, except also to point out that Dr. Weizmann, during his recent visit to Palestine, has arranged for the settlement in the homeland of 6,000 pioneers who have been waiting in Vienna under the worst conditions until the doors to the Promised Land will be opened to them. Whether these pioneers are to enter the land depends on the sue- ceas of the drive here. Now it is merely a question whether the pock_ etbook here will help find the heart there. Again the "God of the Germans." District officials of lower Austria are demanding that the Jews volun- tarily leave the country and are threatening them in letters with "piti- less extermination" if they don't. A typical letter handed over to the au- thorities had this conclusion: "In the near future the Aryan people will arise and mercilessly put an end to the Jewish domination. The Jews will first of all be stricken down, then indiscriminately murdered, extermi- nated and hung, their bodies being thrown in the Danube. Then and then only shall Pienna be free of this vampire. help us, oh God of the Germans, in this task." There is a Jewish body in Vienna that has, how- ever, proven stronger than the Ger- man god. Jewish students, whose meeting was raided by a band of 200 hooligans bearing the "Swastica," the emblem of the European anti-Sem- ites, were rescued by the athletes of the Jewish sports club, "Ilakoach," last year's football champions of Eu. rope. It seems as if anti-Semites in other parts of the world fear this new athletic strength of the Jewish peo- ple, which manages to defend where defense is needed. Thus. the Mac- cabee Society of Rowno, a branch of the Jewish European athletic organ- ization, Was refused • charter on the ground that it was "inimical" to Po- (Turn to last page.) evening, after he had been 1..,n g for many months, he determined to ask the sage the questions that troubled him, and began: "Why to the peo- ple of this desert island pay me such honor? I came here a poor, naked wandered, but they have ma.1.• me their king. Why does everyone treat me as though I were of royal nirth?" "I have long waited for you to ask me, 0 King," replied the sage. "Spirits live on this island. Every year a mortal man is sent to rule over us. We receive him with ti . , ,r and make him king of this island, but at the end of the year he los s all power. When the year draws to a close, his royal robes are taken from him and he is placed upon a s hi p which carries him to a lonely island many miles away. If he has net been a good king, he will find no friends there, and be obliged to live the rest of his life in utter loneliness. Every year we have selected a new king; they have all been'careless and cruel, and (lid not think that some day their power would come to an end, "Why don't you send workmen to the island where some day you may live, and command them to build houses and till the ground? Then the hard soil will be changed into fields of grain and corn and many people will journey there to live, and when you leave our kingdom you will find a new and better kingdom there with friends who will welcome you for having made their land so pleas- ant a place in which to dwell. But, remember, the year is short and your work is long: therefore, begin work at once and do not tire." The king took the sage's advice and sent workmen to the lonely island at once. They began to build houses and to till the ground and soon it became a country as beautiful as the land which he then ruled. The other kings who had ruled for a year had always feared the thought of the end of their days of power, but this king was not afraid. lie looked forward to the end of his reign With joy, because he realized that for a whole year he had been helping to make his future home beautiful. Finally the last day of the year came and the servant who had been a king for a year was told that his reign was over. The royal robes and crown were taken from him and he was placed upon a ship as naked and homeless as when he had entered his kingdom. The ship brought him to the shores of the island where he was to make his future home. But it was no longer lonely, for the people whom he had sent before him to make the land beautiful crowded upon the shores to welcome him with music and great joy. They made him their king and he ruled over them in peace and happiness forever. And our teachers say that the king who sent his servants to seek their fortunes in this story is God. lie sends us into the world, and gives us our work to do, and if we are worthy, we become as kings; but our kingdoms are ourselves, and Ile wishes us to rule over them wisely. We have a little time to reign, and then we, too, are sent to another kingdom, which we, like the servant of the story, can make beautiful by good deeds, before we reach it.— The Jewish Child. FACTOR ON TORONTO BOARD OF EDUCATION TORONTO.—(J. C. B.)—The Jew. ish Correspondence Bureau on Jan. 3 reported that Joseph Singer had been elected a member of the Board of Control and of the Board of Edu- cation. This is erroneous. Mr. Sing. er was elected on the Board of Con- trol and S. Factor to the Board of Education. Toronto Jews are thus represented by two co-religionists on two important municipal boards. 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