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don't use the Encyclopedia Britt•nic• and, therefore, am not in • posi-

atroborat• the statement made by the American Israelite that the
tion to c
shows an anti•Jewish bias in some of its articles. There was, I
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, • discussion some lime ago concerning an article in that Encyclopedia
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by an Englishman, in which it was charred that it was
written, I think,
distinctly unfair to the Jews. Surely the publishers of the Brittenic• can-
e afford to present to the world • work presumably accurate, that carries
o
strain of prejudice. And the interesting part is that this very
th ro ugh it n
Encyclopedia has been given unusually wide distribution through the efficient
business methods of Jewish firms. I think in the circumstances an explana•
If any of our readers arc interested in purchasing • set of the
lion is due.
be • bad idea to clip out this paragraph and send
Britannic,. it alight not
it to 342 iitadison avenue, New York, the sales headquarters, and learn what

they have to say about it.

F. P. A., in the New World, says that over the phone came this wheeze
"Hail! Hail! Zangwill's here!" F. P. A., the keen cu.-
k. , the Lionistsi
todian of the "Conning Tower," may be interested to learn that after Zang.
verbal
firecrackers
at the Carnegie Hall meetine, the Zionists
gill lit the
ged the cry to "H—I! H—I! Zangwill's here!"
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Israel Zangwill Says Yiddish Stage Only One That Struggle. Towards the
Uplift and Advancement of the Drama and the Theater.

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Last Sunday evening Orchestra 'extra features adding to the interest
Hall was packed to the doors when in t; •
Mischa and Lucy German presented
This Sunday evening this east will
the musical comedy, "Dent Bobbin's present another drama, "Should the
ben Yuchid." The play dealt with Woman Tell,” in which last week's
the intermarriage there. Joseph, the company will be strengthened by the
son f a noted rabbi, himself a great appearance of 51w'. Bertha Guten-
violinist with a national reputation. tag, the well known Argentinian Jew-
falls in love with a Christian opera ish star.
singer. When his father learns of
The growth of the Yiddish stage re,
this he threatens to expel him' from cently occasioned some interesting
the hiliusehold, and this threat is fol- remarks from Israel Zangwill. While
lowed by a dream in which Joseph attending the presentation of "Shabse
sees all the evil consequences of in- Zvi" at the Jewish Art Theater in
termarriage. Ile awakens in tine to New York, the great Jewish author
realize that intermarriage is imprac- and playright flayed the American
' Beal and announces that he is to stage Mid lauded the Yiddish one.
marry his cousin, to whom he pledged Mr. Zangwill was applauded when he
his love while yet in Russia.
declared that the English speaking
The part of Joseph is ably played stage lacked all sense of poetry and
by Mischa German and Oat of Stella, spirituality and resorted to the baser
the cousin, by Lucy German. Mr, appeals, whereas th• Yiddish stage
and Mrs. German were very ably as- tended to uplift the drama.

JOURNALISTS HEAR
TALK ON REVIVAL
OF HEBREW TONGUE

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Israel Zangwill's recent statement sisted by Menasseh Skulnik, who
earned for himself it great reputa
that the Yiddish stage is the only
comedian. Others in lb'
striving towards the uplift and ad- lion as
vancement of the drama appears to cast were
Morris Goldberg, Esther.
Field , Max Rosen, Ethel Dorf, Ab..
nding application in the
be finding
D orf, Isidore Friedman and Sarah
theater, judging by the re- I Skulni k.
Yiddi
In addition, there was it
sponse that has been given thins far , spemal chorus of boys and a number
. minces by two juveniles, all these
•to the acting of the visiting players.

Shades of Roger Williams! exclaims the corre.nondent who sent me the
dipping of the announcement that the Pittsfield, M•ss., Country Club man-
sod the board of governors of the Lenox Club have notified the
agement ■
Hotel Aspinwall and the Curtis Hotel and ■ all the other hotels that have the
privilege of issuing short time playing•cards for the golf links that the privi-
lege will be withdrawn another ye•r if cards are issued to "Hebrews."
Those Hebrews are certainly having a tough time of it, but it does seem,
after all, that it is more of • social than z religious issue. I am not going
to get e xcited over this discrimination. It s the same old story under a new '

date line, that's all.

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SISTERHOOD TO HEAR
RABBI FEINSCHREIBER

Rabbi William Feinschrribeir of
St. Louis is going to be a very busy village between Nov. 11 and 16,
Memphis, Tenn., will be the speaker
when the Tenth Triennial of the Council of Jewish Women will be held.
at the monthly meeting of the Sister-
'
north,
from
the
south,
from
the
east,
from
the
west
will
come
From the
hood of Temple Beth El to be held at
delegates to attend what promises to be the most interesting
the army of
2:30 p. m. Monday, Nov. 12. Rabbi
gathering of the Council in many years. I wish I could take a vacation long
Feinschreiber has taken as his topic
enough to hear that speech of Mrs. Ernst (pardon me, I should say "The ,
Hon. Mrs. Ernst) Franklin of England on "The World Today: Woman's ' Bernard Isaacs Addresses Din- "World Peace—Reality sir Delusion."
Other features of the coming meeting
ner of Detroit News-
Opportunity." And what's the matter with Mr.. Carrie Chapman C ■ tt?
will he announced next week.
She's all right! Well, she will be there, too, with • lecture on "War or
papermen.
Peace." Then, of course, there are any number of smaller luminaries that
„
will assist in brightening the occasion. Every section in this country and
The Revival of Hebrew I' itera-
Canada should have no difficulty in finding member. eager to go as dole-
cure" was the topic of an address de-
gates to such an interesting conference,
livered by Bernard Isaacs, superin-

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tendent of the United Hebrew
They all most do it. This time it's "A Lady of the English Court," writ- , Schools of Detroit, at the dinner held
Thursday evening, Oct. 25, at the
gossipy.
inside
information.
She
is
iog
Belle Isle Yacht Club, under the joint
auspices of the Detroit alumni chap-
"A new king changes the whole character of a court. In Queen
' ter of the Sigma Delta ('hi and the
Victoria's reign, the English court was the most exclusive and diffi-
Michigan chapter of the Society of
cult to get into in the world. King Edward changed all that. In-
the Occident and the Orient. The
stead of mere birth, to become 'sonic one' at court a man or woman
Sigma Delta Chi is a national jour-
was obliged to have charm, wit and above all a great deal of money.
' nalistic college fraternity and the So-
All of his friends who had stood by him in his needy years when his
, ciety of the Occident and the Orient
old mother kept him short, were remembered, and South African
is the organization of foreign Ian-
and American millionaires, Jewish bankers, exiled monarchs, great
mitre newspapermen.
artist, actresses and musicians jostled one another up the great
Walter K. Towers, advertising
marble staircase of Buckingham palace."
manager of the Paige Motor Com-
Why mention Jewish. Of course, pany, representing the Sigma Delta
Dear lady, why not just "bankers?"
I intimates among the Jews, ('hi, acted as chairman and Philip
all of as know that King Edward had
Slomuvitz of The Detroit Jewish
notably Baron de Hirsch.
Chronicle, one of the secretaries of
the Society of the Occident and the
Just at this minute Zangwill can command • higher price for a lecture Orient, was vice-chairman of the din-
than any man in the United States who is on the lecture platform. I know ner. Speakers in addition to Air.
that he has received over 50 offers to lecture at $1,000 • night and all ex-
Isaacs were Lee A White and Arthur
penses paid. I also know that he has been offered $1,500 and even $2,000! Player of the Detroit News, for the
I wired him en offer of over $1,000 to come to Pittsburgh for one lecture
Sigma Delta Chi, and John Burch,
and if he accepts the biggest hall in the city will be sold out in 48 hours.
of th e Polish Fireside, and
I could never quite understand why Zangwill should he considered so re- editor
George Fong, Chinese correspondent,
kable. He is, of course, • great author; one of the greatest literary
makable.
O id
a n d
an
h Occident
for t the S ociety o f the
as
great
and
minds of the present period. But there are others equally
even greater who do not command the attention or excite the interest. Why, the Orient.
Pl ea for Understanding.
there
•re
few
authors',
20 years ago Zangwill received $500 for a lecture and
Mr. Player delivered a highly in-
today who can command such a sum.
teresting address in which he plead-

, eat for a common understanding
As for the eccentricity of genius, Zangwill has it 100 per cent. He is among all national groups in this
a man who can make you feel very uncomfortable without working very country, from whom there is to
hard at the job. He does most of the unconventional thines that you have .-merge the coming American nation-
heard or read about in connection with the great literary, histrionic, musical ality. Ile expressed his belief that
and art geniuses of the world. I could regale my readers with many of the first generation of immigrants
them. but I am afraid if Zangwill has his attention called to this column that ' cannot become thoroughly American-
he will never, never come to Pittsburgh for me, So I will wait until he ized because it is impossible for them
goes bark home, then I will tell you some of the stories that are peculiarly to forg et their mother countries, and
langsillien and which in truth make him such an interesting and unusual added that if they did forget their
ch•rarter.
mother countries and cultures, they
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would nut make desirable citizens
TO assist those Jews who may have in mind the idea of being converted anyway.
Mr. White quoted interesting tig-
to Christianity in selecting the proper branch of the Christian faith, I quote
the following part of • letter written by David Goldstein, descri e as the ores on newspapers throughout the
distinguished Jewish convert to Catholicism," to I. Saxe of the Chicago world and refuted an article pub-
Hebrew Mission, who is • Jew, but unfortunately converted to Protestantism. lished in a recent issue of the Dear-
burn Independent in which the mod-
Says Mr. Goldstein in • recent issue of the An
ern newspaper Wan severely attacked
over the signature of Ilenry Ford.
"Your friendly attempt to rescue me from 'Roman darkness' with
Mr. Isaacs Address.
the thousand-time answered perversions of right reasoning contained
11 r. Towers outlined the purposes
in Rev. 10. B. Meyer's London City Temple dissertation--that the
of the Sigma Delta Chi. Mr. Slum,.
Moody Bible Institute Monthly has broadcasted through our beloved
vitz spoke on the aims and objects of
country, is added evidence of the inanity of Protestantism's objection
the Society of the Occident and the
to Catholicity. It stabilizes my intellectual conviction that the Catho-
Orient. Mr. Bare, who recently re-
be Church is the one and the only true Church of Christ.
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turned from Poland. spoke briefly on
his impressions gathered during his
Goldstein
becomes
very
in
his
end
to
lead
his
former
Mr.
Jewish brother to adopt the one and only true faith and closes with this European tour. Mr. Fong spoke on
the development of the Chinese game
paragraph:
"Mall Jun v "
Mr. Isaacs, in his address, pointed
"Please, I beg of you, for your own intellectual integrity's sake,
out that the development of the He-
to acknowledge that your Rev. Dr. Meyer's contention has been
brew
language from a synagogue
sho•n to be fallacious. Please, I beg of you in the name of Christ
tongue to a spoken language was ac-
claims of
Jesus, whom you and I are trying to serve, to examine
companied
by similar changes in the
the Catholic Church 'before you continue your work of proving to
literature, which has grown until it
those of our Ilebrew race that Christ is the Messiah and so he enabled
has developed into a rich store of
i„ give them the whole truth."
literary works. He outlined the
I always imagined that there was enough prejudice between the "He. growth of the Hebrew language and
literature, from the Biblical days to
Jews"
and
the
"Christian
C•tholice"
end
the
"Christian
Protestants"
hrs.
to keep the religious pot boiling, but I see where we have • new element the present, and pointed to various
modern contributions to Hebrew
introduced by the "Hebrew Protestant" end the "Hebrew Catholics."
which have made the literature rank
among the finest in the world.
So Frank Swinnerton is • Jew. Well, that's news to me. I have always
Mr. ISII8•A touched briefly upon the
enjoyed the novels of this famous English novelist: "Nocturne," "The Co- works of such Hebrew writers as
quote" and more recently "The Three Lovers" and "Young Felix." His Mendell, Achad Ma'am, Peretz, Bialik
coming to this country for an extended lecture tour should be of more than and others, and said that at the pees-
Passing interest to the Jewish communities. Swinnerton is more than a
novelist; he is one of the most valuable contributors to the M•nchester "rat time works of great writers like
Henry Bergson, William
Guardian, England's great liberal paper. It is said that Swinnerton is one Shakespeare,
of the few men in the world who understand women. Judging by his books,IJames, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Tolstoi
i and others have been translated into
I should say that he is rather well informed on the subject.
Hebrew.
Fourteen nationalities were repre.
Smertenko re.
Under the caption "Spurious Anthropology," Johan
J.
is As., sriss. o vented in the membership of the So-
„The Jews
• iews for The Nation Burton J. Hendrick's book,
ciety of the Occident and the Orient
ed by the publication
Some readers will recall the discussion that was provoked
present at the dinner.

of Ilendrick's articles in World's Work. Smertenke acre:

"Mr. Hendrick presents his theory that the difference between
I' that
the Polish and the Spanish or German Jew is almost as great
between an Armenian and an Englishman, without anyt'ing more
substantial to support his claim than a map he has drawn for that
purpose. . . . Mr. Hendrick's theory is commendable for its sim-
a wild Tartar tribe called the
plicity. Once upon a time there WWI
Khazars which invaded and occupied Southern Russia, then and there
adopted Judaism, and eventually was driven out of the territory.
What more natural than that they should have gone to what is now
Poland, since that was just across the western b inter? By this rea-
soning the Polish Jew is made kin to the unspeakab'e Turk, to be
equally shunned, despised, exterminated or dealt with in whatever
manner pious souls are now advocating as medicine for the sick man

of Europe."

Now here is Smertenko's answer to Hendrick's statements:

"1. Only the king of the Khazars and the governing classes pro-
fessed the Jewish religion. Among the lower classes the three mono-

theistic religions were all represented.
"2. The Russian tgbes invaded and destroyed the Sharer settle-
ments in the Caspian region in 966-969 A. D. The Khazars with-
drew to the Crimean peninsula and fell before the Russians and
Byzantines in 1016. Tradition holds that the royal house fled to

their co-religionists in Spain.
"3. The Jewish settlements in Poland were made by hordes flee-
ing from Germany during the Crusades and enlarged by refugees
from the Spanish Inquisition.
German Jews of today (whom Mr. Hendrick holds to
"4. The
are in the main
be a different breed from their Polish co-religionists)
about • cen-
descendants of Polish Jews who returned to Germany
tury ago."

BICUR CHOLEM GIVES
MASQUE DANCE SUNDAY

Everything is in readiness for one
of the crowning events of the year, the
masquerade novelty dance to be given
by the Bicur Cholera Society at the
Elks' Temple, Sunday evening, Nov. 4.
This affair will be the first of its
kind to be sphnsored by this organ-
ization. Mystery will shroud it from
the purchase of the ticket to the finale
of the program of the evening. Mys-
terious novelties will he in abundance.
The committee, in its efforts to obtain
the best possible facilities to make
this an everwhelming success. assures
the best music obtainable. Prizes of
-aloe will be awarded to wearers of
the best costumes.
The proceeds will be used for the
extensive relief w-rk among the
needy, which this organization has
been doing for Pie past 14 years.

Detroiters to Attend Manufac-

turers Convention.

P. D. C. ASK $700,000
TO HELP PALESTINE

Judge Mack Optimistic About
the Country in Reports to

Brandeis Group.

NEW YORK. — (J. T. A.) -- The'
Palestine Development Council at a 1
meeting at the Hotel Pennsylvania
adopted a resolution providing for
he immediate raising of $700.000 to'
be paid for stock in the Palestine Co-,
operative Company and applied to
credit development in Palestine.
During the discussion of the reso-
lution Rabbi Louis Witt of St. Louis
appealed fur a larger concentration,
so that the drive would net many,
times more than the amount specified.
Federal Judge Julian W. Mack,
president of the Council, who recent-'
ly returned from Palestine, received'
all enthusiastic reception from more l
than 500 men and women at the
meeting.
Besides Judge Mat-k's address, in
which he spoke optimistically of Pal-
estine's future and described towns
and cities through which he traveled,
there was a report of the work of the
Building Loan and Savings Associa.
thin of the Council:by Harry Fischel,
its emirman, and a statement of the
progress of the economic develop.
menu of the country, as carried out
by Emanuel N. Mohl, representative
in Palestine of the development or-
ganization.
What was accepted by the audience
as a reference to Israel Zangwill,
whose remarks on Palestine created
a furore, is included in the following
remarks:
"Just as you cannot build up Pales-
tine by resolutions, so you cannot
thwart that development sir even hin-
der it seriously by paradox of epi-
gram. You can hurt the effort by ;
ill-considered phrase or untimely pro-
test, by speeec5es that, especially in
translation with incidental mistrans• •
lation, put a new and dangerous and
in essence a false interpretation upon .
our views and our wishes. But there
is a curiosity for the future which is
far too strong and for too powerful,
I think, far too permanent to be
shaken by eloquence or epigram or
even „ by pertinent justifiable criti-

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Judge Mack emphasized the neces
city of American Jews understanding
the true conditions of Palestine and
its actual beauties of climate and po-
tentialities for prosperity.
Representatives from other cities
reported to the council on the pro-
gress of organization and money
raised, among them Leon Miller of
Buffalo, Morris Avner of Pittsburgh,
Israel Brodie of Baltimore, Nathan
Kaplan of Chicago, Sam Waldstein of
Boston and Charles Levi of Milwau-
kee, recently representative of the
council at the Central Conference of
American Rabbis.

JACOBSON NAMED ON
RED CROSS COUNCIL

"His Father's Son"

Will He, Too, Have the Same
Hard Fight Ahead of Him?

Made Vice-President of New Organiz.
ation in Michigan.

II. J. Jacobson, of Pontiac, chair-
man of the Oakland county chapter,
American Red Cross, was elected vice-
chairman of the Michigan State Coun-
cil of the Red Cross, formed at a meet-
, ng of Red Cross state representatives
at Detroit, it was reported by Miss
Carrie M. Taylor, secretary of the
Oakland County chapter. F. A. Al-
drich of Flint, was elected chairman
'if the organization and Mrs. C. P.
%her of Battle Creek, secretary. The
plan of the organization calls for II
•ouncilmeh, who with the officers, wili
form the executive committee, and
these men were elected by the state
lelegateo yesterday. Councilman are t
chosen from the various state con-
gressional districts.
In the state council there will be one
delegate from each chapter through-
nit Michigan and one more will he al-
loeied to each chapter for every 1,000
members or fraction thereof, abort the
firvt thflusand.
The bard of directors will include
Ill delegates, the councilmen and the

The purpose of the organization is
to work out general plans for state
chapters
and to be • promoting body
The sixth annaul convention of the
Knitted Outerwear Manufacturers in the case of emergencies which must;
be
met.
It
is understood that the eve- ,1
Association will be held in Milwaukee
Wilts, on Dee. 6, 7 and 6. A number cutive c ommittee will meet soon to'
draft
bylaws
for the 'date council.
of Detroiters will attend as delegates
in certain quarters. Pie. *•ng them Edwin A. Wolf of the De Iowa and Illinois in the central dis-
I can imagine what effect this news will have
part of her life, believed
trict,
have
such
council', and it is af-
Mills
and
ture the feelings of • woman who, for the greater
trait Republic Knitting
that she had the blood of nobility in her veins, only to wake uo one morning Elias Frank of the local office of the ter these organizations thnt the Mich-
and discover that her forbears were domestics in the service of noble Chicago llosiery CO.
igan body is being modelled.

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He takes very seriously the possibility that
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States. He seeks for his boy • life the. is full
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What does he do to make these dreams come
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to lay the groundwork of the boy's future.

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