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So R•rns•y Macdonald's private secretary is Rosie Rosenberg. A won-
derful combination of Scotch shrewdness and Jewish perspicacity that
augurs well for the administration of England's new Prime Minister. But
what in the world will those heavenly twins, Hilaire Belton and Gilbert Ches•
terton, do with the new shadow of such • Jewish menace overhanging the
British Empire?

I am in receipt of the announcement of awards from the Benjamin
Franklin Fund, established in London in 1759. It is very interesting in
cue you missed the item in the daily press to learn that while Benjamin
Franklin was spending considerable time in England from 1757 to 1762,
r epresenting the American colonies, he placed £100 (about $500) in the
hands of the Quakers to be invested with accumulations, for not less than
150 years. Thereafter, at the discretion of the trustees, awards were to be
made from time to time for the most valuable contributions to science. Now
the first awards have been made exactly 165 years after Franklin created
the small fund. The income alone from that original sum of $500 is suffi-
cient to pay three .wards totalling £4,000 or roughly $20,000. One begins
to gain some idea of how far sighted "Poor Richard" was and how he effec-
lively practiced what he preached on the •ubject of thrift and savings .

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When I read the account of the memorial services held in New York
for Woodrow Wilson, I knew that before I finished the article 1 would find
the name of Rabbi Stephen Wise among the participants, and I wasn't disc
appointed. No minister in the country was closer to the war President than
Rabbi Wise. It wasprimarily through his friendship with Wilson that
Henry Morgenthau was put in the way of becoming Ambassador to Turkey,
and after Morgenthau's retirement Dr. Wise was materially influential in
obtaining the appointment of Abraham Elkus. The rabbi of the Free Syna-
gogue was a Wilson man to the end, and the former President held our co
religionist in unusual esteem.

Now Rose Pastor Stokes must soon give way in mixed matrimonial ro-
mance to Harriet Hewitt—born Horowitz. Harriet is a hat model in New
York and according to the authentic reports she is soon to be wedded to
Oliver Harriman as soon as the banker can get the court to free him from
his present golden chains of matrimony, which seem to have become some.
what tarnished through neglect on the Dart of someone. Thus another
Jewess becomes a front page story and the work of assimilation between
the Four Hundred and the Four Million goes tragically on.

is this Israel Zangwill? You may have heard him speak in Chi-
Who is
cago, or at the college at Evanston, or at the dinner in Cincinnati, or at
Washington, or in New York at the American Congress gathering, or pos-
sibly in Pittsburgh or Boston, and in all prob•bility you were disappointed
in his address and you may have wondered why so much fuss is made over
Zangwill. Why, you could deliver • better speech, and yet by some strang•
freak of nature you are not a Zangwill. I have heard so much comment
about Zangwill's inability to score in his American speeches•nd so many
attempt to comprehend a man in his entirety after hearing him
once in their lives deliver • talk lasting ■ n hour. Well, we shouldn't blame

those folk; they mean well. But they lack imagination.
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Who is this Israel Zangwill? Let me quote you from my friend Walter
Hurt, the Gentile, who went with Zangwill to attend • • Yiddish play in

Chicago:

"After an evening spent with Zangwill in a Yiddish playhouse,
one better can understand his strange power over his people—a power
not paralleled since the days of the elder prophets; a power that
sold the last seat in this big auditorium early in the evening, and
later in defiance of the fire ordinance packed the aisles, and filled the
foyer; while Roosevelt road and Blue Island avenue were far-
thronged in four directions by a vast overflow vainly clamoring for
admittance—because it was known that Zangwill would be there.
This man is more than a playwright, he is more than a factionist,
he is more than a propagandist. Ile is a modern incarnation of an-
cient Israel. He is the personification of tribal history. Ile is the
embodiment of racial experience. As such his people instinctively
know him as a species knows its kind, and none other can take his
place or fulfill his function in presenting Jewry."

Who is this Israel Zangwill? Let us hear what Johan Smertenko, the
brilliant writer of the Nation, has to say in answer to his own question:

"The English 'Who's Who' furnishes a list of some twenty vol-
umes: novels, plays, essays, sketches, stories, etc. If you accosted
the Jews in my town . . . and inquired concerning the three sages
whom the Gentile world justly considers the glory of modern Israel
(Spinoza, Heine and Brandes), not one in 10, possibly not one in 100,
would recognize the names. Neither Bergson nor Schnitzler nor
even a Yiddish writer like Sholom Asch is known by the rank and
file of Jewry. Indeed there is no one, be he statesman or scientist,
philosopher or financier, artist or soldier or physician, who can vie
with Zangwill for a place in the hearts of his people. It is the famous
novelsit and playwright whose aid Theodore Herzl seeks when he
wishes to present his idea of Zionism; whom the Jews of Warsaw
consult on the advisability of voting for certain candidates to the
Duma; into whose office Joseph Fels enters with an offer of $100,000;
at whose request the American Jewish Congress changed its meeting
place from Baltimore to New York and, as the New York Evening
Post says, 'the foremost Jewish literary figure of his time,' is asked
to awaken the conscience of mankind and the consciousness of Jewry
to the problems the Jews are facing."

By PETER WIERNICK

JEWISH LEADERS TO
ATTEND PALESTINE
AGENCY CONFERENCE

FR A N K -84,, . S DER

(Copyrighted, 1924, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)

(Editor's Note :—This article by the distinguished Jewish editor and
publicist is particularly illuminating iind timely, because it discusses and
clarifies the educational program of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary, whose recently announced dans for expansion have caused wide-
spread discussion throughout the Jewish and general press in America.)

The object of education, Jewish as. Americanized, more wealthy and more
well as general, has always been two- sell-cone.cious Orthodox Jewish world.
awn who best understands
fold to furnish to the ordinary mind When the
the minimum knowledge for its ex. the spiritual needs and the tremen-
petted life work, and to equip the ex. dous possibilities of traditional Juda-
ism in this country, Dr. Bernard
traordinary mind to reach the alti-
at the head of the
tude of intellectual leadership. The Revel, was placed
institution, about seven years ago, the
presumption is that every child starts
next steps to be taken were so clearly
out to be a mister, and elementary
mapped out, that the development
e ducation is theoretically intended to
which followed scented to be a matter
he preparatory. But the gr ea t mass
of course. A complete high Seh001
ever goes beyond that, the number
int roduced, and the
course w•as
and the percentage of pupils bet:om-
"haehur" who devoted himself to the
it: smaller and snuffler as we get
thorough study of the Talmud and
nearer the top. This was well under-
Rabbinical, could now get in that insti-
stood by our sages in ancient times,
tution, in a truly Jewish atmosphere,
as it is illustrated in the well-known
a good American education.
passage in Midrash Itabbah (Leviti-
"In Terms of Modern Culture."
cus, Parsha 2). "A thousand come
The improvements in the rabbinical
in to study the Bible end only a hun-
dred remain: a hundred come in to education itself had to keep pace
study the Mishna and only ten re- with the corresponding rises in the
main; ten enter fur the study of the standard of general education. A
tiolonton
Talmud and only one remains to be izt eat Talmudist, Rohl,'
This is what is meant by l i ellItSilek I better kIIIIWII RS the
master).
the statement of Ecclesiastes; one "letischetiir") WAS brought over from
the Old World, thereby giving the
man in a thousand have I found."
Our Talmud Torahs and our He- Yeshivah a standing as high as that
bre• institutes, our Sabbath schools of any institution of that character
and our "centers," are working with anywhere. The famous TIM teacher
various degrees of efficiency and ef- agrees with Dr. Revel and the other
fectiveness, to minister to the intel- leudinty spirits of the school that the
lectual and spiritual wants of the 999. silered studies must remain. upper-
Their work is necessary and should he most ; the rabbis who are to lie raised
extended as far as possible. But it is here ore to be real rabbis in the old
clearly manifest, in the light of the Jewish sense of the word. But this is
experience of many decades, and after nut a "Ghetto Country" where the
manifold experimentations, that they Jews live a separate life and their
cannot produce that one man fur lead- leaders may lie secluded in the "Four
ership who could satisfy the faithful cubits of the Law." Like the great
Jewish luminaries of olden times,
masses of our people.
"Geonim" in the knowledge of Jewish
Inevitable Experiments.
lore, who were also secular scholars
When the Jews who came here from of eminence, each speaking and often
eastern Europe, those among whom also writing in the language of the
faith is a living force, became con- country in wheih he was living, no
vinced of the inability of the existing might the Orthodox rabbi in America
Jewish educational institutions to be an American scholar, able to ex-
bring forth that "one man in a thou- press his thoughts and to indicate the
sand," new experiments became inev- inestimable value of our eternal her-
itable. Thus arose the small "Ye- ' Rage in the terms of modern culture.
shivah" or parochial school, where the
To achieve this highly desirable end,
exceptional parent who is eager for
though nut ((insetting for a moment
his offspring to acquire more Jewish
that the Jewish studios are the prin.
scholarship than that which can he
cipal object of the Yeshibah, a high
obtained in a Talmud Torah, finds an
educational road which may lead to school education is hardly enough. So
eminence in that special field. The the next step is as natural, as inevi-

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41. S e o I44:

Bert Lehman, Judge Alexa.oller Geis.
mar, Judge Lazansky, Nathan J. Mil-
ler, one of the outstanding lay kad-
ers of Jewish reform; James N. Ito.
senberg, Dr. S. Solis Cohen, Judge
llorace Stern, Lionel Sutra, Louis
Wiley, Morris Wolf and Maurice

It is reported that Felix Warburg,
who has left for a trip abroad in the
course of which he will visit Palestine
and study the problem on the spot,
has written to Mr. Marshall indicat-
ing his approval of the undertaking
to •o-operate.
and

earliest attempt in that direction was
were traced in this inadequate review
made by the "Yeshlvat etc Ilayyim" table as the preceding ones which
on the East Side of New York, about of the development of traditional rob-
"bank
hatim"
amongst
the
native
binical
education in this country. A
a third of a century ago. Many fine
American and thoroughly American- , college course must now be added, so

out the exacting rabbinical course,
iced Jews, who are nose doing splendid that the student who remains threugh-
communal work to uphold the banner I shall together with the "Semikha" or
ordination as a master of Jewish
of traditional Judaism in the United
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spiritual
Alma
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proudly
boast
of that
little learning, also receive his degree as a
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ond session in the afternoon. It is
understood that letters of invitation
have been sent out to the leaders of
the Palestine Development Council,
known as the Brandeis-Mack group,
as well as to the American Palestine
Company. Both these groups, it is
presumed, will he interested in the

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proposal to establish a large Invest
ment company through which all sue
efforts might be co-ordinated. In ad
articipation in the Jewis
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Agency, the question of the forma4
tion of such a corporation is thi
other big thing on the agenda of that
conference.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 19,

8 O'Clock

I To carry out the plan of making
We now have about a half dozen , the college course a part of the rab-
such elementary "Yeshihot" in sari- binical education which the Yeshibah
, mosttoif, own, gives to its growing body of students
of York, of he
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and perhaps
half dozen or so and to consolidate a great intellectual
in fine another
buildings
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elsewhere. No desire is evinced and Jewish center at a time when the Jew-

integrating, where they have not been
no effort is made to extend their scope ish centers of the Old World are dis-
completely demolished, even buildings,
into a system of education for the
Ii-
multitude of Jewish children. It
would be madness to think that the an endowment fund, a dormitory, li-
needed. This means to build and to
millions needed annually for such a brary, perhaps even a campus, are
prepare for a gloriotis future for Ju-
purpose were it even desirable—

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JEWISH IMMIGRANTS
DROWNED

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could he raised. Probably less than deism in America.
1 per cent of the children receiving
a Jewish education are enrolled in
those schools, and even among that in
significant minority, there is going on
a process of elimination, leaving only
a small percentage able and willing to l
VIENNA—(J. T. A.)—Three hun-
continue rabbinical studies.
But where could such studies be
- the ocean liner Conejos, which was
continued? As the Talmud Torah and deed immigrants were drowned when
on its way from Datum to Constanti-
the Sabbath school, good in them
selves, cannot satisfy the desire of the nople, was wrecked and sunk when
exceptional parents or the need of the it tried to take shelter against a huge
Dear reader, without imagination, it would take volumes to discuss this exceptional pupil, much less could gale near the port of Trebizonda, ac-
remarkable Jew. So if you had the privilege of seeing him and herring such satisfaction be
given by t he , cording to a report from Constanti-
c h nople. More than 100 of the immi-
him, regard it as • privilege.
higher institutions of learning whi
specialize in a post mortem kind of grants were Russian Jews who were
We are beginning to have another era of the Jew in story form. Boni the "Science of Judaism" with a mod- on their way to the United States.
and Liveright seem to be leading the procession of publishers. "Haunch,
icum of rabbinical studies "on the
NEW YORK. — (J. T. A.) — In-
Paunch and Jowl," written by • Jew, is the worst example of these new side." The leader who- should he re-
books and one is amazed that • Jew could have written such a miserable spected and obeyed, as real rabbis quiries conducted by the Jewish Tele-
thing. The other is "Silbermann," written by • Frenchman, Jacques de always have been, for the knowledge graphic Agency in New York elicited
Lacretelle, which is said to be one of the outstanding books of France, has of the Torah first, every other gnat- ' the fact that the steamer was owned
been awarded a prize for general literary excellence. It deals with Jew. icy or accomplishment being subordi- by A. II. Bull Company and operated
baiting in • French university and with the devotion of • Gentile student to note, is not brought up in that man- , by the United States Shipping Board.
; It was a freighter with a tonnage of
the cause of Silberm•nn the Jew. John Armstrong, writing in the New ner.
7,825 dead-weight tons. The A. II.
York Tribune, says to write truthfully of racial prejudice and its monstrous
An Inauspicious Beginning. Bull Company informed the Jewish
intolerance without involving one's self in • theory or propaganda in behalf
A "Yeshibah" in the wider sense Telegraphic Agency that according to
of the races depicted is • difficult thing to do with any credibility. But
it seems that the author of "Silberm•nn" has achieved this very unusual of the word, patterned after the in-' adviees they received the steamer was
stitutions (1f higher Talmudical wrecked and sunk near Trebizonda,
thing.
learning in eastern Europe, has , that the entire crew of 37 persons,
meanwhile grown an, almost imper- together with Captain Fulsen, were'!
Since the Germans have again run true to form and pulled another
ceptibly, in New York. The Rabbi drowned. The company, however, I
"Merkle" (please consult Mugsy McGraw), dumbell diplomacy now bears Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, had no information regarding the im-
the imprint "Made in Germany." The tactless affront to the American
what is now the greatest Yeshiba, the migrants on board. But according to
people by the German embassy in Washington in refusing to half-mast the center of Talmudical learning in the information received by the Jewish
flag in memory of Woodrow Wilson is but another confirmation of the fact New World, had its inauspicious be- Telegraphic Agency, Russian inuni-
that if there are 999 ways of doing • thing right and one way of doing it ginning in 1S96. It was natural, aye, grants often took advantage of
wrong, official Germany may be •lisolutely relied upon to find that one way.
unavoidable, that Jews of the Slavic freight steamers crossing the Black
•
countries should rally to the support Sea to get to Constantinople and,
who is "Seventeen" (the of "hachurim" who were studying Tal- from there to America.
1 note where Roger Kahn, Otto Kahn's so
talising), is expressing his
age that Booth Tarkington has assisted in immortalizing),
mud in that small establishment op
father's interest in music, through an o rganization of jazz players. Roger lienry street, continuing the old tra.
to
seems to have quite a way of his own. Why should the newspapers wonder dition and transplanting the "Tree of
at Roger when one of the Rothchilds devoted himself to the study of fleas? Life" wherever Jews settled in con-
They're human, too-1 am not referring to the fleas but to the scions of siderable numbers. The effort was
wealthy families.
hardly organized, it simply grew. In
a few years, there were dozens of
(Concluded from page I.)
In the death of Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, American Israel has lost one young men studying Talmud very
—
of its finest characters. His greatest achievement was the founding of the seriously, and incidentally passing the
Jewish Ch•utauqu•s, of which he was the chancellor. But his interest in
Regents' examinations with astonish- be good Jews cannot help being good
haracteristic.
He
wrote
several
books.
ing high marks. An institution of , Americans. America is founded and
all Jewish educational work was c
As • rabbi he was recognized as one of the most spiritual men in the Jewish learning after the heart of the east- inspired on the Old Testament. When
pulpit. His sincerity and his earnestness in the reuse of Judaism won for ern Jew was taking root, a minimum Jews try to imitate bad Americans
him a high place in American Jewish congregational life. If one needed of tutoring was bringing a maximum and the rottenness that comes within
any further index to the character of this fine soul one would find it in the of results, and the "waste" was as, your own borders, then they become
fact that Dr. Berkowitz, while in charge of a congregation in Mobile, Ala., useful as the finished product. Few of bad Jews. In a word my message to
started • movement for the protection of children and animals from cruelty. the Yeshivah students of those days , American and other Jews is this: You
became rabbis, the demand for Amer- must not be a negative body. You
In the course of the addresses that will be made in connection with the
icanized rabbis not having yet arisen I must affirm your ideals whenever and
protest meetings that are to be held throughout the country • against the pro. among the orthodox immigrants. But wherever you can."
posed further restrictive immigration laws, I do hope some spe•ker will us* men instructed in the Torah and ac-
"Fight Nordic N
the opportunity to refer to that "100 per cent American spectacle" now tuated by religious motives went out
Mr. Zangwill was also the guest at
benic staged in Washington, D. C., featuring "The F•11 of the Nordic in • into the professional and the business
a luncheon given in his honor by the ,
Tea Pot, or Oil's Well that Smells Well." Yes, deer brethren, those immi• world, and they contributed to the administrative committee of the
gr•nts are a terrible menace to American institutions.
stemming of the tide of radicalism. American Jewish Congress, at whose
which for a time threatened to engulf request he came to America, He
MORE POGROMS ON JEWS PROPOSE BIOLOGICAL
the life of the Jewish immigrant in took the occasion to express his views
REPORTED FROM UKRAINE
TEST FOR IMMIGRANT America. on-the immigration question in Amer-
The masses of the Orthodox Jews ice, branding the "Nordic" theory as
of New York hardly knew what was , drivel and nonsense. Referring to the
VIENNA.—(J. T. A.)—The Jew-
LONDON. — (J. T. A.) — Future happening, and for Russian Jews, no tight being
aged against the Johnson
ish Wiener Morgenzeitung reports an
outbreak of Jewish pogroms in the immigrants for America should be se- explanation as to how it happened immigration bill, Mr. Zangwill said:
Ukraine. The Soviet government has lected not on the "asylum" or eco- was necessary. And before the Jew- "Moat fortifications are of card-
sent Jewish regiments to the towns nomic idea, but on a biological basis, ish world at large was really aware of board and if you press against them
it, New York had a full pledged they will give way. If you create
whence the disturbances occurred to
according to Dr. Harry H. Laughlin,
higher Yeshibah, much enlarged and enough of a fuss against this Nordic
restore order, according to the dis-
personal representative of Secretary strengthened by the amalgamation nonsense you will be able to forestall
patches .
There has been unrest among the of Labor Davis, who has been in Eu- with the above mentioned elementary this immigration legislation. Demand
Jews in Soviet Ukraine since the rope for the past six months making "Parochial" school, the "Eta Haiyim." , of America that she support her
The haphazard manner in which the I ideals."
death of Lenin and there has been an investigation of the immigration
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of
general fear of pogroms since that question for the United States gov- institution grew up proved its natur-
day. Nearly all Jews are said to be ernment. The statement was made alness, its very spontaneousness being the American Jewish Congress, who
in an interview with the London cor- proof that it supplied a want which', presided over the luncheon, expressed
leaving Odessa.
respondent of the New York Herald. was felt more and more as the years to Mx, Zangwill the gratification of
Dr. Laughlin will leave shortly for pass on. The time was soon ripe to ' : American Jewry over his coming to
NEW YORK.— (J. T. A.) — All
member organizations of the United America and will report results of his see in that institution the apex of a 1 this country, gating that all the
investigation
to the immigration com- system of real rabbinical education In I noted English author had said here
Hebrew Trades, have sent greetings
to J. Ramsey MacDonald, the newly mittee of the House of Representa- this country, and to adjust it to the 1 has serve d t o a waken the Jewish pee.
new conditions of a larger, more pie to the urgency of their problems.
tives.
appointed labor premier of Englanz ,

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An important figure whose co-oper•
ration is also id is David A.
Brown of Detroit, universally recog-
nized as the must s4rreosful r11111-
pnign leader that American Jewry
has produced. Mr. lisown, who has
just returned from allfistt to Pales-
tine, is understood to have written a
report in which he speaks very highly
of Jewish achievements in that coun-
try. It is fu rther understood that
Mr. Brown has been conferring with
Loins Marshall and the other leaders,
who count on his characteristically
vigorous co-operation.
It is learned from a highly reliable
source that Sir Herbert Samuel, high
Commissioner of Palestine, who has
been kept informed of the steps that
are being taken and who has been
following the developments with in-
terest, has sent an important message
for the conference which will be read
at one of the sessions.
The conference will o., , en at 10
o'clock at the Astor Hotel. The first
session will be followed by a lunch•
eon, after which there will he a sec-

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