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gives away a perfectly good seed
cake?
All night long Rosie tossed about
Cable Address: Chronicle
her narrow little. bed. Over and over
By HADASSAH
came
here
to
deliver
one
speech
ro•
the
Jewish
9300
Telephone.
Glendale
lie
e:
iondon Office:
((gain
she said all the prayers she
ish Agency C•11.1.
Congress. He delivered that one speech at Carnegie
London, W. 1, Eastland
knew; she said the "Shenia" on each
14 Stratford Place,
Rosh ha Sheilah the Lord
Hall.
New
York.
Consternation,
chagrin,
disturbance.
s, One say prayers on beads;
accustomed
as
it
is
to
"And
on
finger,
$3.00 Per Year
ENV YORE, visitors who arrive of Life sits by the greathouk and tells
— - - —
IN distinguished
she recited the Ten Commandments;
Subscription, in Advance
repudiation and controversy followed.
matter must reach this
she could remember no
news
and
when
ondence and
down; the
good the
are
written
the Recording
Angel
names
to
correspsday
It must have amused him, we can hardly say an- in the city with each ship that brushes write
To Insure publication , all by Tue
evening of eac h week.
More, said softly over and over again,
office
down fur life, the bad for death, and
past the statue Of Liberty on its way
Forgki. me! Don't
d
him
when
his
most
intimate
friends
and
asso
me!
"Forgive
le Mvites correquindence on subjects of intereAt
those who are neither very good nor
to quarantine, paid more than passing
gere
c
The Detro it Jewish Chroni disclaims responnity for an Indorsement of the
me d
write me d iwn fur death!"
very had have until Yom Kippur to
dates took him to task, derided him, mocked and in-
notice to the coming
ti America a
people, but
e Jew
to thish
e
gray
light of dawn was
views exp eeeee d by the writers.
When th
repent, for the book is kept open until
few days ago if Rabbi Raphael Muir-
him for telling so many shocking and unwanted
creeping i iito her window, she fell
rabbi,
then." So spoke grandfather, his
the martyr rabb,
,
Adar 10, 5684 suited
(heal B
asleep. It seelliell only a few no,
white beard tossed by the light Sep-
February 15, 1924
the famous Russian Jewish cleric who
/'
mother
------ -- things.
IV
meats la ter when her
timber breeze, his dim, g,ray, sunken
dared to defy the late Premier Lenin's
ilia determination to speak hat once s soo gave way
"Rosie, get up! You'll
, Soviet government, the pious, intrepid, eyes fixed far away in the stars com- awakened her
A Leader In Israel
for save
be late fur school, Rosie!" Then she
Few are the men in any walk of life whose passing to the repeated and insistent demandpeeches
rotund little man who dared to tell a
ing out overhead.
ale cheeks and noted the
felt
the
life
of
the
sm
all
city
"justice"
that
Jew-
le so deep a sense Of per- which came from all parts of the country, and the much
The evening
Soviet tribunal Of
feverish e' 'vs. 'Rosie, don't you feel
sheets and the Jewish soul would
could bring to so many peop
floWe d past them, as they sat before
reviled and disappointing Israel Zangwill, came into
pod? I t o es your head ache?"
the ittle
loenutker's
shop on the
tat of Dr. Henry Berkowitz of Philadel-
outlive Sovietism as it has outlived
sh
life
and
gave
so
many
of
us
a
renal loss ash
Her hen I did ache, she said, but she
main street of the small city. Grand-
governments down through the
phia whom the death angel kissed while he quietly our uneventful prosy
ant,
bizarre, other
a
would go to school. Ni,, her throat
father was very old. "Most a mil-
ages,
and
went
to
jail
for
it.
slept early Ty morning of last week. Dr. Berko- fearful mental thumping with handled r
was not s ore. But she didn't want
lion!" explained 7-year-old Max when
The "Homier Rata"—hails from L ❑ o-
hursda
imaginative. volatile , personality -workers are rather met which appertains to Cher nigov the question of Grandfather's age any break fast. She had to beat school
witz was one of the sturdiest of souls. Ile was loved
o his c o
very earl: she had to study. Tier
r eactionsf
a
to
into
discussion
among
the
chit-
ia—has
come
to
Americ
Gulann
CROW
as few men are loved for his magnetic, genial, love-
mother sh ook her head as Rosie ran
The violent fs that his shafts ha d barbs which pene- stay and to spend his remaining years dren on the street.
out the s tore door, her books under
inviting personality, but he was equally respected for convincing proo
Then
Rosie,
so
much
older
at
12,
in diligent effort to raise the standards
his trate rather
deeply.
d
her arm, an hour before school could
would chide Max and carefully ex-
of Jewishness in America, just as he
those sturdy and sterling convections
that
marked
o
call
a
man,
who
has
weathered
so
many
storms
possibly e
plain that he' was really only 75, but
.
strove so valiantly to maintain it in
T
But it !Nana ; to Rebbe Levy's house
preaching, his teaching and his living.
of unpopularity; irresponsible, notoriety seeker, ma tr e lteu als ni,ie t s under both Czarist and Soviet that suffering in the old home across
that Rosh • went, rushing up the flar-
the sea had made him seem so old.
Among his colleagues, he was ever held up as an of epigrams, does not really dispose of the matter. Any-
row stair, e, bursting breathlessly into
But together they would sit with hint
ans story iis a most
b B aris h's
Ra bi
ideal of what the rabbi in Israel should be. Ile was
, ust admit that his
m
the little kitchen where Rebbe nail
by the hour, listening to his tales of
one, a story fraught with
reachment of love and brotherhood, but he never one, not a fanatic partisan, ts even though pictur - interesting
R ebbetnin were having their morning
life.
in
Eastern
Europe,
of
Talmud
a t h a t rt ta am l ine: ro ism
the e p
coffee.
n i va irrr i fii' ;i n r amItw ait
lore and Old World folk tales.
lacked the courage to cry out for justice and for right- thoroughly r easoned argumen
o unts bae laky
som e merit
Zio nism in Palestine have ecti
eligion;
sat
downcast,
her
"Rebbe Levy, oh, Rabe Levy!" She
r
fanat
ic
ally
e story of a
But 110W Rosie
on with n o t th Jew
eousness, and to invoke stern measures when circum- esque, on political
threw het self upon him and burst into
last few wee in conn
but rather the sto ry of an
eyes wide and frightened. The hand
stances seemed to demand them. He was a man with- and the events of the
Co r- ,iiii
deep,
rat
that slipped into grandfather's was
intensel y Jewish patriot,
e found his the attempted creation of a Jewis-Arab Entente
n
"What ki i s agis'? a 'I')s. Ile started to his
.1,),','.` ,.rti:It . prs:1,"„'„, "...as
cold and trembling.
% . il g lo risk
out guile and without selfish ambition.
are rather persuasive proofs that Israel Zangw ill , this
feet. "I, osele, what is it? Who is
sphere to save his people from
"Grandfather," she whispered, "is
h e long years o fie his blenssed diale not so far from the truth. King Ilussein's state- enxtlinc ion ,haini d t oh implete absorption in every
sick? T( II me, whet do you want?"
,firisce. During tA
er one who did a sin written down
joy int serv
was
as
K
tolerant
h
rh t(le;ra
Word ly word, between choking
neli,ee.tel,es
iu s gh nee
"ttl' i J oe. t was
l a for death?"
meat that he abhed
minisryt in Mobi e, labama, and ten in as
orr political Zionism is not ae
sobs, R line asked her questions.
Grandfather
shook
his
head
judi-
e ones, of the
City and finally in Philadelphia, where for upwards of
"Rebbe I .coy, in your books you can
stronghold of ancient Jewish tradition
ciously. "Who can say—God is the
three decades he taught and wrought so well, his first gesture. How many of the indignant obduratn idl
urning, a land where the Jew
find out everything. The liebbetZin
Judge—He sees righteously. If one
always for the needs of his people to whom albeit uncertain, who heard Zangwill speak, feel quite at un d wIt( tstrafed
to the world his perse-
said so! Dear Rebbe Levy, look it
truly repents, and tries of make good
We hazard a guess that d
thought was
so strongly about it now
up—wha t does it say? Will I lie writ-
%Trance against perversity and end-
what he has done, he is given a
he gave of himself and of the rich qualities of his mind
many have sort of modified their first hasty expressed less persecutions ,a land where Jews chance."
ten dowt for death? When the Angel
the hook, will I be written
writes
paid for their Jewishness in bloody
"To make good? What do you
and But
of his
heart
without
stint,
great as was the field of his activity and press- judgments and would perhaps not excommunicate him
down so ? Honest, Rebbe Levy, I
pogroms and tortures which were no
mean?" she qua vered anxio usly
can
to do it! I didn't know!
m
't
didn
asylum today.
.
less terrible than the horrors of the
s, al must b e given
te sall
"If One
a nge con - without
s laid upon him by a large
w o„. t G oil understand? I said all the
n curls
During his sojourn with us, he kept up a steady fire fifteenth century Inquisit ions.
grega
ing
as were the demand
b ec k!" Ile " stro ked her brrieve
I
know
wand I am afraid,
n
Israel,
g owd an-
prayers
The Soviet government two years or
h
tion, Dr. Berkowitz felt that as a teacher
If one has
tenerly.
Remo, I evy! If I am written down
he owed an obligation to his people that extended far and his trenchant, ambiguous, penetrating wisdom
other, he must ask forgiveness. Each
more ago ordere d that the teac hing of
did
stir
us
a
bit,
and
disturbed
many
a
com-
h,
who
will
take Max across
for deal
really
Hebrew to Jewis h children be stopped.
one, knows his own sin."
to school?
beyond the domain of his own community and congre-
It was ordered that the Hebrew lam.
the iar tracks when he goes
e, Rat some thing, grandfather, you
gation. He was convinced that the salvation of Israel placent, stodgy human t mind.
a are gunge
no longer be used, for the
good! They didn't hurt
And ' I h eve to help my mother all the
sorry to see him go , but we
down-righ
.,
me,
t
i
ause
she
ain't
strong!
Tell
We
are
he
ebrew—a
t
least
this
was
you
do
then?"
o
make
t h uastt Ha
reason ni
u
one
k us
enough
h to make
can't
e lse. What d
measu re from within. H e fe blt
was
wh
t to put me down so, Rebbe
ceat
t us long eno
s with
s Zionist propa.
must come in gr
their contenti Bolsheyism..which
ad- There were tears in her voice. The Him no Maybe He'll believe. you that
e
saved
only
as
he
should
be
thankful
that
d
Levy!
realize that some men do improve the quality of hu- pirate a nd that.
he Jew ould estb
that the
mite only of internationalism could old man
arm around
her. that
I didn't do it on purpose!"
"Are put
you his
a 'yeshibah
bochur'
thrilled with a proper sense of pride in his own past
manity, even though it may be done in a rather uncon - not permit a nationalistic ideal such
The ( Ad man held her close and
to
be
promoted
within
its
you
ask
such
questions?
What
have
and in the part that he had played and was destined to
wa i ted fur the agonized sobbing to
unexpected
manner.
you to do with sin? Would my soul
as Zionism
, to van May and
ow, y. "Rosele," he murmured,
die,
s.
were as spotless! Let sinners worry.
play in the working out of
May the vigor of his mind continue unabated and bo u R n ad ba hri iettn
rishansky not only refus -
R osele! Who has frightened lit-
ou will be
him, education was the indispensable condition for the
he
undud.
We
await
his
return
with
a
feeling
that
he
ou—yll
Y
but
lle
d to abide by the Soviet dictum
tle Roso de? What child of Israel talks
s? Stop crying, Rosele!"
perpetuation of Jewish idealism and Jewis h life. It
welcomed by many who are now undecided e
writ
people
to
think
thi
little
we
was ths thought in mind that as a young man, he will be
Slow y the crying stopped, and with
so deeply."
ightened
eyes she looked up at
been a power in Russia, at least
wet, fr
Quietly Rosa stole away, but not to
him. . 'It's awful to do a sin, Rebbe
ible.
d in the us e of
among Jews, persiste
play. She sa t by the little upper
of popularizing Jewish education and of spreading a was irrespons
!
I
know
it!
But I didn't mean
evy
the ntother-tongue, taught it and in-
cited others to follow in the trail window, watching how one by one
the to.
L Ai ul now it's soon Rosh ha Sha-
c
in
oon
— how quickly them
knowledge of Jewish history an d J awls h pratices
nd
the
Book
will open—and—"
A
"Pacifist"
Organization.
which
he
so
gloriously
blazed.
A
little
stars
came
out
tiell
re hnow sss,e
— a
rship was
wIn a s ce aTit o nn eg e hritd —
those small communities where Jewish leadership
of the pro - am7 eads faor yi.ilesr pagoa i h se tewas arre s f ted t h te te ldler p nab
by threatened to begin again.
The
of
A
Rebbe
Levy
spoke.,
tenderly, but
s;
e
Col -
ch, profes
wanting. To the Jewish Chautauqua Society, Dr.
ly . t, t and the
playi ng on the street,
a ee e ni
. t a o r of a ter e
his best energies and it stands today posed organization of Dr. Abraham Cronba
unciam
1
—
h
evening tr n c a me
sternly y
ing tt o pl ' obey tepronr
le
of
the
eare
rw
Un
n
at
th
Hebeio-
witz consecrated
rumb
al Studies
„ Res de, whom did you kill?"
powers that be. The Soviet tribunal a but
sot of J
she was not a part of the li e
gracious enough to
monument t to his genius, to his loyalty, and to his lege. Dr: Cronbach asks the members to sign a pledge
i
She looked up hastily. "Oh, Rebbe
and
a m
world be low—she was a sinner,
1 ,„.y , I didn't kill anyone!"
.en minutes to speak in " on Rosh he Shanah she was to be
of o allow
fir w te"re
never wavering desire to serve his people.
ow
pp
, how much money did you
friend of man and among his which is to be a public declaration of their sit
his own defence. The lIomler Ray
written down for deat tli d !
Berkowitz was a
"Nu, ' Ile smoothed the wet curls
Dr . Berkow
he sobbed
used the timeallotedshimtfor his own
mourners are those of every color and of every creed pacifism.
l?
dry her mother's ;1.7 m her forehead.
no quarrel with those portions
t
- so ti l ' y e. e;Tla to c w ao m ueld er a wasn't strong!
W e certainly' have
: Rebbe I.evy! Steal?" There Was
- ( o f e iinseinsotitdueTtrounsn,"deC'eleringlnaasnedritaht
who have felt the benediction of his life resting upon
hes— and
chool, Max
in her tunes.
of th e pledge which are germane to the avowed par
ing arraignment of the tyra nnical, dis
s
horror
moth
Max
to
ld
take
them. All the principles of right living and of high
wou
f the organization, but we really cannot reconcile soul-devouring measures of th e Inter- Who
le s on the car tracks?
"Nu , you didn't murder and you
ts
h
v. 'ho wea .
When his time was up c
thinking which are associated f th the
didn't steal! Tell me, Rosele, what
Who would do her fathers' errands in
ourselves to a program which has so many contradic- nationale.
was told: "You have finished", and
of Dr. Berkowitz found a noble exemplification in his pose o
the little shop? Surely he couldn't
did y eu do?" The Rebbetzin leaned
the incorrigible little rabbi retaliated
own life. Side by side with his devoted wife—to whom tory purposes as revealed by the broadcasted program.
forwa eel to listen, clicking her lips and
afford to pay a boy!
with
what
has
become
a
byword
in
The first paragraph reads as follows: I shall never
tongu e pityingly.
"Rosie!" came a call from below.
sin wly, Rosele lifted her eyes, then
he never failed to say he owed the largest measure of
those homes where the Jewish soul
"Go now with them things to Rebbe
his inspiration—Dr. Berkowitz lived what he preached use or threaten to use or do anything to encourage, urge
tragically persists: "It is not I and
Levy—only
just
now
came
the
herring
let th em fall. "I—I—ate—trefa!"
in
.Jewishness
which
have
finished;
it
"Ti efa?" Nu, you ate trete! Are
—a life that was full, that was rich, that was inspiring or necessitate others to use any weapon upon any hu-
he wants. Like a good girl, go!"
you The Jew and his Jewishness will
Like a good girl she went, not dar-
you t he only one? And how did you
because it was keyed to the thought that God requires man being, whether countryman or foreigner.
outlive even your government as it
ing to come into the light for fear
come to eat trefa?" Was there a bit
Paragraph four reads as follows:
of a , (mile in his faded old eyes?
has outlived all governments down
r misty eye s.
nothing of man but to do justice, to love mercy, and to
would see
„ A girl in school gave our a sand-
o
r-
Construing such acceptance as obedience or to law, I through the ages." Ile was sentenced someone
c
he around the
Rebbe Levy only li ved
humbly with Him. Dr. Henry Berkowitz is en-
,
appeal to two years in prison.
wich. " The words came huskily.
nee, and she loved to go there. But
shall accept without resistance, complaint
After several fruitless appeals, suf-
shrined among the immortals. His memory will surely
tonight she did not want to meet his
And she Jennie Leibowitz gave it to
non-combatant service, fine, imprisonment, exile or any
ficient influence was brought to bear
DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN.
keen old eyes—he was wise—perhaps
her that it was veal. And after-
be a blessing.
wand s she told me—that it was pork—
with
the
result
that
he
was
released
other penalty including death if imposed by the gov-
he would see through into her soul!
after
seven
months
behind
Soviet
prix-
How would he feel when he knew the
and , she laughed! And no one knows
ernment for my observance of any part of this pledge.
_on,
on wells. Ile went to Moscow and oh-
my mother neither. And granit-
sin there! Ile always kissed her fore-
Our Percentage Norm.
tained
citizenship
there,
with
a
view
lath( e' said how some are written
head and called her "Rosele"—he
In his article "A Century of Immigration," Secre- These two paragraphs can be readily accepted by
toward leaving Russia at the first op-
for life--and some for death-
would
never
do
that
again
when
he
do
en
tary of Labor, Davis, states some facts which were any relative pacifist, but scarcely by any absolutist pac-
ptunity.
His numerous requests for
or
and
knew!
a visa were repeatedly refused; the
,, r osele—the old man took her hot
The
Rebbe
was
not
at
home—so
the
quite generally known, but the exact figures make ifist. But in paragraph two we find this pledge: I shall
Soviet government was fearful of
Rebbetzin said. lie had studied long
little hands in his. "When one does
these facts more significant—at least for the Jews in
what he might have of say of its in -
no
never maim or kill an animal in sport or approve such
day and was tired, and so had
not do a wrong purposely, it is who
outside
that
..;_, The sin belongs to the one
ofs in the pledge of stitutions once he reached the
gone for a walk. Always at this sea-
sin!
America.
world. After six months he was sue-
d
you!
And
does
the
Holy
One,
About one and three quarter million Jews entered acts in others. This properly long Our Wild Game.
son of the year so many people came
idea sed he Ile,' write dow n the names
cessful, however, and his arrival in
the Society for the Preservation
to him to ask questions about this and
w not what
this land in the last twenty-five years, and of this num-
New York followed as a matter of
anization.
about that—to find out if one might
of t he children, who kno
and not in a pacifist orghe
'
ber only five percent have returned to Countries from
eat a certain chicken, to determine the
they do? Nay. Be comforted; you
e inconsistency, pars- course.
ith t
Rabbi Ilarishansky refuses to be
degree of guilt one had and the fit-
hay s e no sin!"
which they came, or emigrated to other lands. A small-
stilled and the picture of the Jewish
he threw her head lunch and closed
graph three pro vides: I shall rigidly obey, to the best
ta n g penance—all manner of things
future in Russia which he presents is
er percentage of our co-religionists emigrated than did
asked.
And
often
he
had
to
read
her eyes. A sigh that s come
f
my
nowledg,
all
the
laws
of
the
city,
township,
obbingly
e
Soviet
they
k
o
indeed a forbidding one. The
n within her heart came
ls
entering
the
ports
of
the
hours
in
his
big
books
in
order
to
an-
i
fro
any of the other nationals
government says Rabbi Barishansky,
county, state and nation, particularly the laws which
,
tort h. "Itebbe Levy," she cried. "0,
awm..
has been so successful in its propa-
United States.
can be violated with impunity. This has the flavor and
Rut be Levy!" And now she. cried
the
"It says about sins in his big
• 1 Cons that
Our brothers departed from the lands of hate no-
.
Ronda against • c .
sat urally, gratefully, her head on
books?" asked Rosie, wistfully.
odor of the League to Enforce Prohibition.
hardly more than a fragnient remains.
man's shoulder. "You are sure,
"About sins?" the Rebbetzin echoed.
grom and discrimination with the avowed determina-
,
„
'"
Paragraph five of this amazing hodge podge reads:
s
The spirit of the Jew has been brok-
Me Levy?" she whispered.
not he
t Law
"Ab out everyt hing. It is ra bbi
tion to make a permanent home here. They are not the
'''' Am I sure?" She asks me! Am
their
I shall keep myself informed regarding my financial en . At least this is true of the young
and the sayings of the
r
or am I not the Rebbe, Rosele?"
i
transients who have journeyed here to take advantage
I
names
be
blessed!
Any
question
'he
affairs and shall make absolutely honest reports to all
d f t e e a I
'
lens ')t,i h s ersold o f 'Ir. vso,t. ia oc ne ut'oth tnhl e e d i r al
An
answer! Ile is a Rebbel Such h
A he laughed. And the Rebbetzin
of the opportunities offered, and contribute nothing to
tax assessors, no matter what may be the resultant pri - persist hardily. The methods of the can
Arc night in fresh coffee and hard little,
the cultural, civic and aesthetic and material progress
This savors of the Soviet have removed trim the
endts.
en
.s.hionatrhee „Il'erl'ac‘%(Ma.ntrfyar!" a
o. l Is covered with poppy seeds, an(
rR
ton
vaci
et t o
aw eet hatter. And Rosie found her
tmhoortieghtesspLoctiatilliye y aern iun nn gg e r til ,ee wi i sew a n d tahnoeuassantillamseih"
of the land. This may truthfully be said of some of
"He is out?" A sudden surge of
Taxes.
of
Collection
to
Insure
the
Collection
i'h
ee l f eating, and once she smiled
aring swept through Roe's soul. "I
'the immigrants who have come here in the last quarter Society
ther tearfully, at the Rebbe's joke
Paragraph six is a meaningless affair. I shall never children, any desire for Jewish learn- daring
am
sorry'!"
the
traditional
manner
of
ra
century, and that is particularly true of those who are
T h en the Rebtietzin filled her pocket
make by speech, writing or legal aflidavit, an Y state - ing.
a n,
"Na, come tomorrow." The nt fat lit-
Kr
andfathers,
and
aened
th little seed cakes, and Rosie
it
tapers
l
s.
theel i ir r
members of the dominant groups of the countries from
tiemssItenbybslizeinsasyms ilte,e,lsodeoiw ,na fine e little
meat detrimental to any individual or groups of indi - the
antiquity. r thousands of
bbe Levy went back to Rosie'
et l.
a
h
which they emigrated.
fa
viduals, excepting all three of the following conditions
yearn into
ho e use, although Rosie said she had t
manner-
cir:
.
gi rl l . S S ee, here is a seed cake."
,,, to school. But the Rebbe had i
The Jewish immigrant came here and immediately
wis hiestrtedininst,s heave hsm
But the usually tempting seed rake
obtain: (a) That the statement be true beyond the
'" ay, and then he told the h l
jts' J
undertook to acquaint himself with the language, cus- shadow of a doubt; (b) That making the statement be isms,
was untested, and she gave it to Max,
hild in d
wl
scorn and the Jewish child
tip
to
who ate it greedily. What was the
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e first to tag af -
toms and laws of the country so as to become inte- certain to secure some preponderance of good or to
t te h e e stt h reeet lad en: J ong th h
tow ieerrie - matter with Rosie, anyway? Who
grated, although not assimilated. They have partici-• avoid preponderance of evil for persons other than my -
u
glliVaerse
th:noa
t u re i n tan gy a n yaw
paled in every industrial, political and social movement
they might be congregated. Every-
self ; (c) That there be no other way of securing the
thing that is traditionally Jewish is
for the advancement of this land.
preponderance of good, averting the preponderance of
caricatured as despicable and con-
1)uring the great war, we could match our contribu-
evil for persons other than myself,
t d empts ible, says the rabbi. Obser-
tion in money, men, patriotism and brains with any
vance of the Sabbath has been forbid-
If Dr. Cronbach offers this as a practical joke, we
tl i l ht. o h ni e e r
d, Thou know'et my in most hope and thought,
Jewish hitinei i. t h in eyo sh se rT7encej eowf ie a
group.
-
Zangwill Leaves.
THE SINNER
N
Passes.
t ti
SONN ET
can understand it, for he has offered a platform which
And now Congress proposes to admit only 2 per
will probably attract nobody, for he advocates the re -
cent of our people based on the census of 1890, which fusel to obey some laws on one hand, and immediately
means the practical exclusion of all of our co-religion-
urges the strictest obedience to other laws. If on the
ists, for comparatively few came prior to 1898.
If we were a nomadic people. transients without
almost e ery member will have some men-
roots, we could properly be accused of being a charge membership,
tal reservation on some point. Hence. the Society of
upon the country; but we are permanent dwellers,
builders of cities, industrial entrepreneurs. politically Pacifists will be the battleground where manybitter
controversies will be staged.
alert and socially conscious, an asset of no mean value
Why all this impedimenta? A pacifist is a person
to any democracy.
who believes that men can settle their differences with-
To us, therefore, the facts and statistics are espe-
out rrorting to physical force. He need not be a vege-
cially meaningful. These figures disprove and refute
any and every argument based upon reason, logic and tartan, or anti-vivisectionist, a prohibitionist, a molly
the facts which may be used by those who advocate coddle or a stand - patter.
We shall be happy to endorse the religio-pacifist
the exclusion of southeastern Europeans, and especially
movement of Dr. Cronbach when it is that, and not a
Jewa.
We are definitely convinced that sinister Influences thing of rags and patches.
i s
leek.,14%,
1116, :
.04 'SW
„el
r
that
t c orners tone of all o
life. long t he
is Jewish, has been broken up; the
is
spirit of the Jew which
admit
v-
Cza preie s f t eg ee o ed
l s a n s m ar s eth th e he
een Ten y e ra n n t,n t i t caw
. -
Bar
.
than is Sovietism, says Rabbi
ishansky, who himself is liberal in is
politics. "Any government would be
better than Sovietism," he says i n his
hiee'n'annty. ogeonveIrr not t
Yiddisto
ant Yiddish,
, n el e h h bin
the oC a rs,''l y and
eteh
nerkutared
zslight
rne ever
twinkled
ding more light on the kindliness of
his soul which has become so embit-
tered through the injustices which
have been heaped upon his people, and
v w . . i s u h
e yes
-11,„ Vii-
0 Lo
Thou know'at whene'er helot e Thy judgment throne
I shed salt tears, and uttered many a moan.
'Twas not for vanities that I b esought.
0 turn on me Thy look with mercy fraught,
makes me groan!
And see how envious
wo
malice,
v
The pall upon my heart by e rror thrown,
Remove; illumine me with Th y radiant thought.
At truth let not the wicked sc orner mock,
spark divine.
0 Thou, that breath'dst in is e a
lying tongue's deceit wii th silecne blight,
Protect me from its venom, Thou, my Rock,
And show the spiteful gland' rer by this sign
h Thy endless might.
That Thou doat shield me wit
—SA RA COPIA SULLAM.
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