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

British Empire?

•

I am in receipt of the announcement of .wards from the Benjamin
Franklin Fund, established in London in 1759. It is very interesting in
case you missed the item in the daily press to learn that while Benjamin
Franklin was spending considerable time in England from 1757 to 1762,
representing the American colonies, he placed E100 (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-
tively practiced what he preached on the subject 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 I would find
the name of Rabbi Stephen Wise among the participants, and I wasn't dis-
a ppointed. No minister in the country was closer to the war President than
Rabbi Wise. It was primarily 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-

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Now Rose Pastor Stokes must soon give way in mixed matrimonial ro-
mance to Harriet Hewitt —born Horowitz. Harriet is • hat model in New
York and according to the authentic reports she is soon lobe 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 cart of someone. Thus another
Jewess becomes ■ front page story and the work of assimilation between
the Four Hundred and the Four Million goes tragically on.

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Who is this Israel Zangwill? You may have heard him speak in Chi-
cago, or al 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 probability you were disappointed
in his address and you may have wondered why so much fuss is made over
Zangwill. Why, you could deliver a better speech, and yet by some strange
freak of nature you are not • Zangwill. I have heard so much comment
about Zangwill's inability to score in his American speeches and so many
persons attempt to comprehend a man in his entirety after hearing him
once in their lives deliver a talk lasting an hour. Well, we shouldn't blame

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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 a Yiddish play in

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the
aid,
own
ross
not?
the
Tell
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that

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. He 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."

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talks

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curls

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you
what
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e a bit

ler, one of the outstanding lay lead-
ers of Jewish reform; Jame+ N. Ito.
The object of education, Jewish as Americanized, more wealthy and more Isenberg, hr. S. Solis Cohen, Judge
calf-conscious Orthodox Jewish world.
Horace Stern, Lionel Sutra, Louis
well as general, has always been two-
When the man who best understands
fold to furnish to the ordinary mind
NViley, Morris Wolf and Maurice
the spiritual needs and the tremen-
the minimum knowledge for its ex.
Wertheim.
dous possibilities of traditional Juda-
[meted life Work, and to equip the ex-
It is reported that Felix Warburg,
this country, Dr. Bernard
traordinary mind to reach the alti- ism in
of
the
who has left fur a trip abroad in the
Revel, was placed at the head
tude of intellectual leadership. The institution, about seven years ago, the course of which lie will visit Palestine
presumption is that every child starts
next steps to be taken tvere so clearly and study the problem on the spot,
out to be it master, and elementary
mapped out, that the development has written to Mr. :Marshall indicat-
education is theoretically intended to which followed seemed tu be a niatiet ing his approval if the undertaking
be preparatory. But the great MRS !, of course. A complete high school and willingness to co-operate.
-ver goes beyond that, the number course was introduced, and the
An important figure whose co-oper-
and the 1,o- tentage of pupils becom- *ba•htir" who devoted himself to the
•
ation is also expected is David A.
ing smaller and smaller an We get
hor.)ugh study of the Taituud and Brown of Detroit, universally recog.
ne arer the top. This was well under- liabbinica, could now get in that insti-
nized as the most successful cam-,
stood by our sages in ancient times,
tution, in a truly Jewish atmosphere, pa ign leader that An e rican Jewry
as it is illustrated in the well-known
education.
a good An
has produced. Mr. Brown who has
passage in Mitirash Itabbah (Leviti-
"In Terms of Modern Culture."
just returned from a visit' to Pales-
cus, Parshn 21. "A thousand come
understood to have written a
in to study the Bible and only it hun-
The improvements in the rabbinical tine, is
remain; a hundred come in to edut•ation itself had to keep pace report in which lie speaks very highly
er
in
the
of
Jewish
achievements in that cowls
study the • Mishit,' and only ten re- with the oiro•spooding risv ,
It is further understood that
main; ten enter for the study of the standard 1.f general ...Ilk ation. A try. •
Talmud and only one remains (to. be wen t Talmudist, Rabbi Solomon Mr. Brown has been conferring with
other 1 ea, I ors,
This is what is int•ant by p o l a t s lie k (bitter known as the Louis Marshall and the
mast•r).
on his 'characteristically i
the statement of Ecclesiastes; one emo . k.a.h,:t er e) was brought over from who count
man in a thousand have I found." the Old World, thereby giving the vigorous co-operation.
Yeshivah a standing as high as that It is learned from a highly reliable
Our Talmud Torahs and ou r lie-
brew institutes, our Sabbath schools of any institution of that character source that Sir Herbert Samuel, High
teachhr Commissioner of Palestine, who has
and our "centers," are working with anywhere. The fan, ois Dew
various degrees of effieient•Y and ef- agrees with Dr. Revel;in& the other been kept :informed of the steps that
feetiveness, to minister to the Intel- leading spirits of the school that the are . being taken and who has been
lectual and spiritual wants of the 909. carrel studies must remain. upper- following the developments with in-
•
rabbis who are to be raised terest, has sent an important message
on p ar and shoull be in ,, t ; the
Thei r work is necessarY
it is here are to be real rabbis in the old for the •conference which will be read
ISAt
extended an far
But
this
is
at
one
of
the
sessions.
cloo.ly manifest, in the light 1 , f the Jewish sense of the wool. B
experience of many decades., and after not a "Ghetto Country" where the The conference will open at 10
the Astor Hotel. The first
manifold experimentations, that they Jews UV(' a separate life and their o'clock at
will be followed by a lunch.
cannot produce that one man for lead- leaders may be secluded in the "Four session
ership who could satisfy the faithful cubits of the Law. " Like the great eon, after which there will be a sec-
masses of our people. -. Jewish luminaries of olden times,
"Geonim" in the knowledge of Jewish
Inevitable Experiments.
who were also caroler scholars
lore' eminence,
• •
When the Jews who came here front of
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 whcih he was living, so
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- inestintbk• value of our eternal her-
itable. Thus anise the small "Ye- itage in the terms of modern culture.
shivah" or parochial School, where the
Ti achieve this highly desirable end,
exceptional parent who is eager for though not forgetting 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 . school education is hardly enough. So
educational road which may lead to
next step is as natural, as inevi-
eminence in that Special field. The . the
earliest attempt in that direction was table as the preceding ones which
made by the "Yeshivat etz Hayyim" were traced in this inadequate review
of the development of traditional rah-
on the East Side of New York, about !Anhui education in this country. A
.
a third of a century ago. Many fi ne
"haale belie" amongst the native college course must now be added, so

American and thoroughly -American- . that the student who remains through-
ized Jews, who are now doing splendid out' the exacting rabbinical course, I
communal work to upheld the banner shall together with the "Semikha" or
n as a m as ter of Jew is
of traditional Judaism in the United ' ordinatg
also recei ve his degree u s a
learnin
States, proudly 'boast of that little
io, secular scholar.
competent
"Yeshivah" as their spiritual Alma
To carry out the plan of making
Mater.
We now , have about a half dozens the college course a part of the rab-
such elementary "Yeshibot" in vari- binical education which the Yeshibah
ous parts of New York, most of them gives to its growing body of students
and to consolidate a great intellectual
housed,in fine buildings of their own,
and perhaps another half dozen or so Jewish center at a time when the Jew-
ish centers of the Ohl World are the-
elsewhere. No desire is evinced and
rm effort is made to extend their scope integrating, where they have not been
into a system of education for the I completely demolished, even buildings,
an endowment fund, a dormitory, li-
multitude of Jewish children. It
would be niacin(*) to think that the brary, perhaps even a campus, are
eeded. This means to build and to
millions, needed annually for such a h prepare fur a gloriou's future for du-
purpose were it even desirable —
could be raised. Probably less than deism in America.
1 per cent of the children receiving
a Jewish education are enrolled in',
those.sehools, and even among that in-
significant minority, there is going on
a process of elimination., leaving only
a small percentage able and willing-to . - VIENNA—(J. T. A.)—Three hun-
continue rabbinical studies.
Ifut .where could such studies be . dred immigrants were
drowned when
. Conejos, which was-
continued? As the Talmud Torah and the ocean liner
l, good in them; on its way from Saturn to Constanti-
the Sabbath schaoo
selves, cannot sfy
tis the desire of the nople,• was wrecked and bunk when
exceptional parents or the need of the it tried to Chke shelter against a huge

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numbers. The effort was
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 Chautauqua, of which he was the chancellor. But his interest in Regents' examinations with astonish- be good Jews cannot help being good
all Jewish educational work was characteristic. He wrote I book.. ing high marks. An institution of Americans. America is founded and
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 Inns in the cause of Judaism won for ern Jew was taking root, a minimum Jews try to imitate bad Americans
him • 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 • con g tion in Mobile, Ala., useful as the finished product. Few of bad Jew's. 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 he a negative body. You
that will be made in connection with the icanized rabbis not having yet arisen, must affirm your ideals whenever and
In the course of the add
protest meetings that are to be held throughout the country against the pro. among the orthodox immigrants. But wherever you can."
"Fight Nordic Nonsense."
posed further restrictive immigration laws, I do hope some speaker will use men instructed in the Torah and ac-
the opportunity to refer to that "100 per cent American spectacle" now tooted by religious motives went out Mr. Zangwill was also the guest at
benig staged in Washington, D. C., featuring "The Fall of the Nordic in • into the professional and the business a luncheon given in his honor by the
Tea Pot, or Oil'. Well that Smells Well." Yes, dear brethren, those immi• world, and they contributed to the administrative committee of the
grants are • 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. Ile
PROPOSE
BIOLOGICAL
the life of the Jewish immigrant in took the occasion to express his views
MORE POGROMS ON JEWS
America. on the immigration question in Amer-
TEST
FOR
IMMIGRANT
REPORTED FROM UKRAINE
The masses of the Orthodox Jews Ica, branding the "Nordic" theory as
of New York hardly knew what way ' drivel and nonsense. Referring to the
VIENNA.—(J. T. A.)—The Jew-
I.ONDON. — (J. T. A.) — Future happening, and for Russian Jews, no fight being aged against the Johnson
ish Wiener Morgenzeitung reports an
explanation as to how it happened imm i gration bill, Mr. Zangwill nail:
outbreak of Jewish pogroms in the immigrants for America should be se-
seas necessary. And before the Jew- ,
"Most fortifications are of card-
lected not on the "asylum" or eco-
Ukraine. The Soviet government
ish world at large was really aware of board and if you press against them
sent Jewish regiments to the towns nomic idea, but on a biological basin,
it, New York had a full pledged they will give way.
If you create
whence the disturbances occurred to seconding to Dr. Harry H. Laughlin,
higher Yeshibah, much enlarged and enough of a fuse against thin Nordic I
• restore order, according to the dis-
personal representative of Secretary strengthened by the amalgamation nonsense you will be able to forestall
patchen.
with the above mentioned elementary this immigration legislation. Demand
.
There has been unrest among the of Labor Davis, who has been in Eu-
"Parochial" school, the "Eta Hayyim." of America that she support her'
Jews in Soviet Ukraine mince the rope for the past six months making
The haphazard manner in which the , id,,,,,k,,
t. death of Lenin and there has been an investigation of the immigration
institution grew up proved its natur.
Dr. Stephen S. Wisedpresident of
general fear of pogroms since that question for the United States gov-
alness,
its very spontaneousness being the American, J.amel7fi— otirress, who I
day. Nearly all Jews are said to be ernment. The statement wan made
proof that it supplied a want which ' . presided over e luncheon, expressed
in
an
interview
with
the
London
cor-
leaving Odessa.
resnondent of the New York Herald. was felt more and more as the years to Mr. Zangwill the gratification of
Dr. Laughlin will leave shortly for pass on. The time was soon ripe to American Jewry over hie coming to I
NEW YORK.— (J. T. A.) — All
America and will report results of his net In that institution the apex of • 1 this country, stating that all the
member organizations of the United
system of real rabbinical education in , noted English author had said here
Hebrew Trades, have sent greetings investigation to the immigration com-
e J ew ish pr o.
mittee of the House of Representa- thin country, and to adjust it to the' has se rv ed t o awa ken th
to J. Ramsey MacDonald, the newly
Dew conditions of a larger, more ple to the urgency of their problems.
tives.
appointed labor premier of Englanzt

wealthy families.

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and 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 be 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
dui fn to participation in the Jewis
Agency, the question of the forma
tion of such a corporation is the
other big thing on the agenda of the}
conference.

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center of Talmudi•al learning in the information received by the Jewish
New World, had its inauspicious be- Telegraphic Agency, Russian immi-
ginning in 1090. It was natural, aye, grants often took advantage of
unavoidable, that Jews of the Slavic freight steamers crossing the Black
countries should rally to the support Sea to get to Constantinople and,
I note where Roger Kahn, Otto Kahn's son, who is "Seventeen" (the of "hachurim" who were studying Till- from there to America.
age that Booth Tarkington has assisted in immortalizing), is expressing his
mud in that small establishment on
father's interest in music, through an organisation of jabs players. Roger Henry street, continuing the old tra-
seems to have quite • 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?
They're human, too-1 am not referring to the flea but to the scions of

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people by the German embassy in Washington in refusing to half-mast the
flag in memory of Woodrow Wilson is but another confirmation of the fact
that if there are 999 ways of doing • thing right and one way of doing it
wrong, official Germany may he absolutely relied upon to find that one way.

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fund her-
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Rosie and
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it or accomplishment being subordi- by A. IL Bull Company and operated,
nate, is not brought up in that mail- by the United States Shipping Board.
It was a-freighter with a tonnage of
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Her.
7,825 dead-weight tons. The A. II,
An Inauspicious Beginning.
Bull Company informed the Jewish
A "Yeshibah" in the wider sense Telegraphic Agency that according to
of the word, patterned after the in-' advices they received the steamer was
stitutions of higher Talmudical wrecked and gunk near Trebizonda,
thing.
learning in eastern Europe, has that the entire crew of 37 persons,
meanwhile grown up, almost imper- together with Captain Fulsen, were
Since the Germans have again run true to form and pulled another eeptibly. in New York. The Rabbi drowned. The company, however,
"Merkle" (please consult Mussy McGraw), dumbell diplomacy now hears Isaac Elehanan TheOlogicaFSeminarY, had no information regarding the im-
the imprint "Made in Germany." The tactless affront to the American what is now the gieatest W•shilia, the migrants on board.
But according to

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Lacretelle, which is said to be one of the outstanding books of France, hav-
ing been awarded • prize for general literary excellence. It deals with Jew.
baiting in • French university and with the devotion of • Gentile student to
the cause of Silbermann the Jew. John Armstrong, writing in the New
York Tribune, says to write truthfully of racial prejudice and its monstrous
intolerance without involving one's self in a theory or propaganda in behalf
of the races depicted is a difficult thing to do with any credibility. But
it seems that the author of "Silbermann" has achieved this very unusual

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exceptional pupil, 'touch leks could gale
near the port of Trebizonda, ac-
t h e , cording to a report from Constanti-
uch satisfaction be given by ,
such
nople. More than 100' of the immi-
higher institutions of learning which grants were Russian Jews who were
specialize in a post martens kind of on their way to the United States.
We are beginning to have another era of the Jew in story form. Boni the "Science of Judaism" with a moti-
of f rabbinical • studies "on the
and Liveright seem to be leading the procession of publishers. "Haunch,
NEW YORK. — (J. T. A.) —In-
Paunch and Jowl," written by • Jew, is the worst example of these new side." The •leade• who should 1.i re-
books and one is amazed that • Jew could have written such • miserable s pected and obeyed, as real 'rabbis quiries conducted by the Jewish Telg-
,fonthe knowled, graphic Agency iroNew York elicited
thing. The other is "Silbermann," written by • Frenchman, Jacques de always have been,
if the Torah tirSt, every other (mai- •the fact that the„steamer was owned

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Bert Lehman, Judge Alexander Ceis•
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Dear reader, without imagination, it would take volumes to discuss this
remarkable Jew. So if you had the privilege of seeing him and hearing

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tuskily.
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after-
pork—
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grand-
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death—

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AGENCY CONFERENCE

(Editor's Note)—This article by the distinguished Jewish editor and
timely, because it discusses and
publicist is particularly illuminating 111111
clarifies the educational program of he 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 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, Ileine 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 Shalom Asch is known by the rank and
file of Jewry. Indeed there is no one, be he statesman or scientist,
er or physician, who can vie
philosopher or financier, artist or soldi
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
Pont 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."

Rebbe

id closed
to come
obbinglY
led. "0,
le cried
id on the

By PETER WIERNICK

(Copyrighted, 1924, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)

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

with
In at
tebbe
mean
Sha-
ad—"
igain.
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