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`GOD OF VENGEANCE' CHARGE HENRY FORD
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Sentence Suspended on Eleven B'rith Abraham Order Con-
demns Him for Anti-Semi-
Players; Bigotry Blamed
tic Attitude.
by Owner.

up the unfitness of Henry Ford for President, Oswald Vil
. i tier devoting three pages in the current Nation to the subject, says

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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Henry
NEW YORK. — Rudolph Schild.
Sr
I the
I • ng
ling ole in Ford was charged with being the
kraut, s s o p I aye(
e tat
financial
backer of the Ku Klux Klan
Shalom Asch's The God of Ven-
have been observing political conditions in the United States
geance," and Harry Weinberger, at the biennial convention of the
I
writing
about
them
for
the
press
for
3(1
years.
It
is
my
deliber-
,.
lawyer, owner of the play, were fined Grand Lodge Order of B'rith Abra-
. belief that during that time no candidate has been suggested so
$200 each by Judge McIntyre in Gen- ham at the Hotel Jerome.
.r ...lately unfit for the White House as Henry Ford. Almost any-
The charge was embodied in a
eral Sessions for giving an immoral
(,, g conceivable might happen to the republic should he be elected."
performance. Eleven other members resolution which was unanimously
of the cast were released on sus- adopted. When Mr. Ford's name was
of minds that would be for Billy Sunday ere rootin g pended sentences. The lawyer and first mentioned there were groans
The same class
for President. I am referring to this so much because to have
the 12 members of the at were con- and hisses.
for I ,rd
such an erratic man in the executive mansion would be ■ calamity to the strafed by a jury last week.
As spokesmen for a membership
es om reading the
Stripping from Ford all the glamour that coma
In imposing sentence, Judge Mc- of 35,0(11), the 500 delegates put the
hat is written about him by the press •gents, I submit for the con- Intyre said that he had been lenient under on record with the resolution,
(7.1'n
of those readers of Collier's who want him for President this because it was the first conviction of which read in part :
sideration
life of Ford (Marquis was former the kind, but warned the six women
"He it resolved that the order of
statement taken from Dr. S. S. Marquis'
B'rith Abraham, now in session, go
I
director
of the Ford plant):
writ,
p.
:mil seven men defendants that if
they should act in an immoral play on record as follows:
”e evening
"That the delegates assembled
More than 80 men. in one department went home sae
in the future, prison sentences would
svithout any intimation whatever that they were dis missed. They
be given to them. Ile declared that condemn the attitude of Henry Ford
come back to work the next morning to find their chairs and desks
the verdict of the jury hail clearly for his attitude against the Jews as
taken from the room in which they worked. They were left to find
. answered the question of the censor- un-American and that his candidacy
ou: as best they could that they hail been fired. The request to be
ship of plays in this city and that a for President is an insult to the fun-
prrmitted to tell men in a decent, gentlemanly manner that the cum-
moral lesson, such as the 13 had con- damentals upon which this country is
pony no longer required their services, met with refusal."
. tended the play revealed must not be based.
"Further be it resolved that this
"Some employes came to work to find their desks smashed with
i taught by indecent, impure or oh-
convention accuse Mr. Ford of being
s,: axe—a kind of sadistic vengeance which in no wise suggests this
scene language or conduct.
the financial backer of the hooded
df-control and sense of justice which are surely requisites in any
"I have no doubt that the play in
one who would guide the destinies of this nation."
the original Russian or German was Ku Klux Klan, who approves of their
unpatriotic exploitation against the
mot as objectionable as in its present
led
to
the
Ameri•
The day surely is coming when this man will be
version," Judge :McIntyre said. "We Jews, Catholics, negroes and foreign-
can people in his true light. When they won't be blinded by his enormous I have some testimony to the effect ers."
Discussing the resolution. Acting
that the play was changed, and I sus-
cash balance.
Grand Master Morris M. Green of
' peel that in the changing of it things
New
York said: "We feel that Ford
were injected that were not in the
I notice in Baltimore there is • "Harvard Club, Inc.," composed, I pre•
is behind the Ku Klux Klan, that he
some, of Jewish young men. It has been in existence 12 years. It is original - -things that may make it in- is their sponsor, and we are glad to
■ early time to change its name. H al's changing ideas on the subject decent."
Weinberger, who acted as counsel join with our Catholic brethren in
of democracy and other such things should i n fi oe ,., e J ews w h o are seeking
in the trial for himself and the other fighting him and the organization."
rm .,. for • club, and who sometimes are hard put to find one, to at least
defendants, pleaded that a nominal The resolution was introduced by II.
make • selection that has some merit
Murray Perkolsk•, Assistant Corpor-
fine be imposed on Mr. Schildkraut
and himself. He asserted that the ation Counsel of the City of Boston.
getting on! "Shall • Jewish Social Worker
Well, well, we surely are
•
The convention also passed a reso-
production had been destroyed, with
Be Jewish?" What's going on? A revolution? They had quite • debate
lution that the age limit for mem-
If things keep on this damages of about $100,000, because bers be reduced from 21 to 18 and
on this subject down in Washington the other day.
of
the
verdict
of
the
jury.
He
con-
way, the first thing we know some of our radicals will be insisting that
tended that Mr. Schildkraut and he that unmarried women unaccom-
rabbis shall be Jews. It's surely a terrible state of affairs! One thing that felt that they were teaching the pub- panied by male members be admitted
many of our Jewish social workers pride themselves on is the fact that they
lic a moral lesson by giving the "God to membership. Hitherto a woman
are not very Jewish, and the fact remains that whether they so pride them.
has not been eligible unless seem-
of Vengeance" here in English.
not much Jewish. Not ■ all of them, of course.
selves or not, they are
•
Mr. Sehildkraut, who is CO years ponied by a near male relative.
The convention voted to care for
But some.
told, was unable to attend the trial
aged members in home of their own
ge Jewish because of illness. When he appeared locality instead of spending the ap-
If ever there was • natural born assimilationist, it is the
for sentence, however, he said that
social worker. And the very nature of their work seems to make them
he had been playing the leading role propriation exclusively in New York
un.Jewish. They scale all credal barriers and work among all who need
in "The God of Vengeance" in per- City.
help. Yet if they are Jewish, why shouldn't they he Jewish? It wouldn't
Grand Master Green, who was
formanes given in this country and
interfere with their efficiency and it would make them more and more at
Europe during the last 15 years. Ile unanimously e'ect..:(i, hell the office
home among the Jews they are working with. They remind me of some said that he was born in Turkey; that of first deputy for eight years and
of the intellectual Zionists that I know who are int d in rebuilding
' his mother was born in Russia and served as acting grind master since
the death last February of Samuel
Palestine, and Jewish life, yet who do not believe in Judaism. At any rate, his father in Italy.
I am glad to see that the non•Jewishnesss of our Jewish social worker is
Doren of New York, leader for 30
Weinberger, after be and Mr.
being considered—at conferences.
Schildkraut had been tined, pleaded years. Other officers are:
First deputy, Alexander Katzke,
for clemency for the other members
Oh where are German Jews of yesterday? That refrain will Boon be
of the cast, saying that they had been Brooklyn; second deputy, Charles
filling the air. Slowly but surely, despite their stubborn resistance, the ,
Hamburger,
Atlantic City; third
merely employes a n d had no inten-
German Jews in this country are being submerged. The Russian Jew, who -
lion of offending against the law deputy, Jacob Gould, Minneapolis;
pioneered in the New World in the early '80's, is now in the saddle. He ',
fourth
deputy,
Max Fein, Boston;
when they took part in the parform-
is gaining the ascendancy in the Reform congregations of the land; he isl
fifth deputy, Max Aronson, Balti-
supplanting his German brother in the channels of trade; in the world of anew.
more;
grand
secretary,
George %V.
T he other persons released 011 sus- Leisersohn, New York; grand treas-
art, music and literature he and his Polish brother are supreme, not alone
sentences were Esther Stock-
from the viewpoint of talent, but from the standpoint of promotion. The , pended
urer,
Julius
Berliner,
New
York; en-
ton, IS West Sixteenth street; Mar-
sons and daughters of the German Jews are merging with the sons and Jane Steward, 244 Thompson street; dowment treasurer, Max Kedziorek,
daughters of the later comers. And today the German Jew is only • tenth , Mae Berland, 62 West Forty-ninth New York; chairman of endowment,
—soon he will be Its rare in this country as the Diplodocus—Evolution— '
street ; Aldeah Wise, 28 Carlton David Trautman, New York; chair-
man of propaganda, William Isaac,
Progress—the March of Events.
.street; Dorothee Nolan, 244 Thomp-
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son street; Lillian Taiz, 1,379 Lex- Philadelphia.

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Religious services will be het
without interruption in the chapel of
the temple on Saturday mornings a
10:30. Many other activities of the
temple will continue throughout the
summer term. Information as to any
phase of congregational activity may
be obtained at the administration of-
fices of the temple or from any of the
officers of affiliated organizations.

Jewish Art Theater Company,
Headed by Maurice Swartz,

ments; there are plenty of church members. What'. needed is that those
who are already church members are given to understand the meaning of amined.
"On the question of morality or
'
their membership sind the obligations the teachings of their faith pieces immorality of the play, if the
h charge
upon them. Here we have hundreds of thousands of Protestants linked of the court to the jury i correct
together in ■ campaign of hate against the Jew and the Catholic; that is one . law, then 50 per cent of the plays of
evil that should be remedied. No man, for example, who is a member of '
, the City of New York i n the mist
• n organization whose purpose is the promotion of preudice or the •ttack.
co uld have been indicted and
any group of a different faith, should be permitted to belong to • year
ing of ■
convicted.
church so long •s he retains his membership in the undesirable organisation.
"This case is of national imam ,

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is the first of its kind and
The time has come, Mr. President, for anion. You should issue • ring. questions
tance. It of vast importance about
ing menage that would he heard to the uttermost ends of this country,
involved
will have to be de-
the law
sidling upon men to lay down their weapons of hate and prejudice against termined, if serious plays are to be
their fellow citizens. You should condemn out of an sush organ ise tines presented in New York and else-
us the Klan and the evil it is creating in these peace times should be brought where. If the regular Broadway man-
home to its members. The churches of the nation should be called upon to agers Is not realize it at this par-
recognize their duty and their obligations as spiritual forces in the nation. ticular moment, they will in the near
The charge was hurled throughout the world during the was that the church future, when, whether because of
has filed. If they failed then, they are failing again. They should pool their malice or bigotry or enmity, indict-
forces—and launch a nation-wide campaign against the inroads of those ments are filed against their plays
elements that make for the disintreg•tion of the national spirit. Whether without notice or hearing. When
it be against • m•n like Ford, who has caught the imagination of the coon. some of the manager-owners of thee-
try by material ,access, or whether it be a paper like the Menace with its tern find conviction follows indict-
anti-Catholic propaganda, or whether it be the Ku Klux Klan, you, Mr. ment and their theater licenses re-
President, should take the lead in this crusade as Theodore Roosevelt voked they may regret their rushing
sounded the call to arms in the battle against the evil of business immoral- into print about this conviction to
0 .. That is the "single, •II.absorbing enterprise" you are seeking. Unless show how 'moral' they and their plays
this be done, all the sacrifices that were made during the war have gone are.
"The acting of Rudolph Schild-
ior naught.
---ss-see-
kraut has been heralded. The les-
Despiteorg•nised efforts to limit the mental reaches of leading church sons of the play have been preached
pastors, the forces of liberalism refused to be denied. Rev. Harry S. Coffin, about. The conviction has been con-
pastor of the Madison avenue, New York, damned by some of the best writers
te
the prominent Presbyterian
and editors in the city.
• church , commenting on the Fosdick controversy, said:
"Any interest, under the procedure
"Personally, I do not know how our Lord was born. and I cer.
in this case, whether it is the Jewish,
doctrine
the Ku Klux Klan, the Catholics, the
tainly refuse to teach the Virgin birth as an essential
Protestant. politicians or business op-
I do not find that the Scriptures teach that it was the same body in
which Jesus suffered in which he arose from the dead and ascended."
ponents, who have a grudge to serve,
and happen to be in power, can stop
and and play in the City of New York
The light is begining to break through the clouds of legend ■
myth which ha•e done so much to keep the minds of men darkened and under the plea or under the guise of
name • of religion.
obscenity or immorality.
hen brought so much irreligion •mong men in the
"'The God of Vengeance,' as play-
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Mrs. Hannah Hyman, who died last month in New York, left • will ed in English, was exactly as played
and
giving
her
executors
the
■
in
New York City for the past 10
be ueathin loge sums to 32 institutions,
•
ears on the Yiddish and German
right to remember 20 other charities. A very unusual will. It is in
ing to note that this Jewess left $10,000 to the S•Ivation Army, $10,000 stage without question from public
to • colored orphan asylum, $5,000 to the Newsboys' Home, $10,000 to the officials or police."
on.sect•rian hospital. This i s
Setup Hospital, and $10,000 to another n

what I would call "Christian" charity!
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Be that as it may. A lady, writing to the Freeman, quotes from • letter
C•plain Paton Hibbee, in reply to an appeal for starving Russian
snti t.oPaton
labia;

"I loved and honored the late Russian royal family, and have the
greatest sympathy for the nobility who have been so unspeakably
used and robbed. No real American has any sympathy for the Rus-
sian government, or can believe one word they say."

Oh, mini. me, I forgot this important statement:

"I would sooner furnish money to propagate cobras than to send.

any money to

Russia."

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OFFICERS FOR NEW TERM

At the annual meeting of the
Junior Iladassah Monday evening the
following officers were elected: Miss
Mary Wetsman, honorary president;
Miss Ethel Rosenthal, president; Miss
Helen Blumrosen, vice-president;
Miss Corrine Marx, corresponding
secretary; Miss Betty Friedman, re-
cording secretary; Miss Dorothy Koz-
low, treasurer, and Miss Jennie Zie-
rer, financial secretary; board of di-
rectors, the Misses Ethel Shetzer, Ju-
lia Klein, Rose Lipsitz, Betty Itarick,
Elizabeth Glazier, Rose Babcock, Bes-
sie Barnett, Pearl Kozlow, Ida Velick
and Arline Callow.

Annual graduation exercises of the
Shaarey Zedek Sunday School will
be held at 10 a. m. Sunday at the
synagogue. Thirty-two boys and girls
will be graduated. An interesting
program has been arranged for the
A single light answers as well for
occasion. the speakers to be Rabbi
a hundred men as for one.—The Tal-
A. ✓ M. Hershman and Judge Harry B.
Keidan. The graduation exercises mud.
will be followed by a reception to
If the fox is king, bow before him.
members of the class and their
—The Talmud.
parents.

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with Jewish families either from this
country or of Palestine.

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the Detroit Hebrew Orphan Home
announces that a concert and dance
will be given at Elkin's Hotel, Mt.
Clemens, on Wednesday evening.
June 27. The use of the ballroom
and orchestra of the hotel is donated
to the Orphan Home by Samuel El-
kin and sons, proprietors of the hotel.
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Maurice Swartz, creator of the
Jewish Art Theater of New York and
the sponsor of the better Yiddish
stage in this country, will appear at
the New Detroit Opera House this
Sunday afternoon in Sholom Alei- Texas Jews to Purchase 4,000
chem's folk-comery "Dos Groise Ge-
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Through the initiative of J. B. Wer-
Mr. Swartz is today touring the
lin
of Houston, Texas, and with the
larger cities in the country demon-
strating the effects of his art theater approval of the Zionist organization
of
the
states es well as of the Amer-
and its accomplishments. In his ap-
pearance in Detroit he will be assist-
ed by the following artists: Mischa
German, l.ucy German, Bina Abram-
ovitch, Anna Apfel, Yodel Dubinsky,
Isaac Honigman, Max Skulnik and
Muni Weisenfriend.
The play, "Dos Groise Gewins,"
has attracted wide attention in the
non-Jewish as well as Jewish circles
ill New York. The New York Tele-
gram calls the play "highly delight-
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"well worth a visit, even though one
does not understand Yiddish." The
New York Times calls the cast ex-
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Sir Israel Gollancs. the distinguished Shakespearean scholar now in this
country, said in • recent interview, in speaking of the late Sir Henry Irving;

ington avenue ; Irwin J. Adler, 150
Clairmont avenue; Sam Joffe, 8
Mount Morris Park West; Morris
"Ilia Shylock, although altogether too intellectual and dignified,
Carnovsky, 43 West Eighty-fourth
showed minute study. I remember one day when I was in his room
street, and James Meighan, 40 East
he told me how he came to portray that character. lie was in Venice
Fifty-second street.
one evening when a Levantine merchant passed him, and he at once
After the sentence hail been pro-
recognized him as a model for the character of Shylock. He became '
nounced Weinberger announced that
friendly with the Mall, who proved to be a Levantine Jew. Irving
he would file an appeal from the con-
copied his costume, his manner and his bearing. Ile said that he
f victiun. Later he issued a statement,
was particularly struck by the merchant's racial dignity, and he
yin part as follows:
endeavored to carry out this original in his portrayal of Shylock.
en-
"Jewish religious bigotry
It lacked the intensity and the maddened desperation of the charac-
'trenched in power is responsible for
ter which I think are the essential elements in Shylock."
I
the
indictment
in
the
case
of
'The
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God of Vengeance,' despite the fact
The President of the United States delivered an address before the Na.
rabbis like Dr. Stephen S. Wise
tional American Council, • patriotic organisation. He said that "we have . that
of the Free Synagogue and the Cen-
not discovered any single, all-absorbing enterprise capable of commanding i
Synagogue and Dr. I. Mortimer
the services of the whole united community." He was speaking of the "let. , tral
Bloom of the Hebrew Tabernacle and
down" of that intensified national spirit that exp d itself so effectively' others favored this play both on re-
during the war, when we were at white-heat, an to speak, in behalf of a
igloos and on morality grounds. I
common cause. But since the war, we have lapsed back into our old slip.
have more to say in the future
shod, shiftless habits, and that better spirit of nationalism which came to ' will
about the indictment and the con-
the front during the war has subsided. Men of different faiths and races viction and the reason for the super.
about the subject of the
do not work together no harmoniously. We do not hear so much of the
any longer of the coming sensitiveness
0I0Y by one particular individual.
"common brotherhood" of man. We do not hear
together of the better feeling engendered by the mingling of the blood of Even Dr. Nathan Krass, the new rob-
all the peoples of this country on the battlefields of France for the greater , Li of Temple I.:menu-El, said there
glory ,of democracy!
I was nothing immoral or indecent
t'e play. It was the venerable
out- ,ihout
•
The President asks for something to take the place of that great,
Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-
standing cause which prompted men to forget their petty rivalries and their
who was used as complainant be-
petty hates and prejudices for the common welfar e of the nation. I would El
fore the grand jury to obtain the
oanisatios n of the nation. to enter
suggest that he call upon the religiosrg
move .. indictment, but did not appear upon
upon ■ campaign of common brotherhood. Not "back to the church"
the trial to testify anti be cross-ex-

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