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1WHAT IS THE "NORDIC THEORY"
AND WHO IS LOTHROP STODDARD?
GROSS SUCCEEDS IN
ADMISSION FIGHT
who
a
NEW YORK.—(J.• T. A.)—Bela
Gross, refused admission to the
United States once and later refused
entry to France and Germany, has
• been admitted to the United States
following a tight made in his behalf
by a young stenographer who had
never seen him, but 'who had been
moved by his tale of woe.
Gross, who is a Russian Jew and
26 years of age, arrived in Portland
Nov. 3, 1923, on the S.S. George
ber The Russian quota for
November
was reported tilled and
ovem
N
Gross was ordered returned to
France. Het attempted. to swim
ashore at Portland but was caught.
In France he wag refused admis-
sion because he had lost his passport,
and the German authorities also re-
fused to receive him., The'steamship
compkny thereupon retorned him to
the United States, where he arrived
for the second time in December ind
was again excluded.
The United States District Court
has nowAecided to admit Gross on
the ground that he was illegally ex•
eluded from the country ,' when- he
first arrived here in November, Sus-
Lice Knox having ruled that the Rus-
sian quota was nut filled at that time.
Miss Gertrude - Israel,' secretary in
legal (trio office in New York, is re-
sponsible for Gross' admission, hay ,
ing interested others in his story, al-'
though she had never seen him.
Teutonic Origin—Stoddard Claud.
'
In•estigation
Shows Nordic Theory Is
'
Sec' is Pseudo-Scientist by Dr. Wise and Others.
MIDDLE AGED MEN
WANT EMPLOYMENT
United Jewish Charities Ask Chron-
icle to Co•operat• With Them to
several months and has now recov-
ery(' sufficiently to resume some light
work. This family is practically des-
titute but does not wish to become a
public charge. The man's lack of em-
ployment is seriously impairing his
mental health. The other is that of a
family of seven, where both father
and the oldest son, a buy of 17, have
been unemployed since Christmas. At
present the only income is the earn-
ings of a 16-year-old daughter.
We would appreciate it if anyone
knowing where such work might he
(obtained would telephone to the
United Jewish Charities. Cadillac
6711.
second and the United States third.
A comparison of these totals shows
the steady and continuous progress
of Palestine in commerce. Whereas
the amount imported by Palestine has
decreased from £1,251,713 to £1,-
077,777, the amount exported has in-
creased from £389,894 to £411,552.
Trade between Palestine and Syria
has increased considerably In the
past year due principally to the short•
age of cereals in the Transjordania:
The correspondent of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency learns that file
work of establishing the commercial
center in Jerusalem (Birketh-Manul-
lah street) will be commenced soon.
The plans provide for the erection
of 60 large buildings to be used as
offices and warerooms. Only a part
of these will be erected at this time.
Find Light Jobs for Them Men.
_
la the press reportseof the House a Teutonic Superiority. But the theory
During the past several weeks, the
Immigration Conimittee's hearing on I was such a convenient one and it ap-
the Johnson restrictive quota bill, pealed to the vanity of a group of United Jewish Charities has had
there have often appeared references pseudo-scientists, in which category numerous requests from middle-aged
t "nordir theory-and to one Loth= Dr. Wise has classed Lothrop Stod- men seeking employment. All of
r on Stoddard. 'lira, that they adopted It in thto, these men, because of their physical
:
The question arises; . •:It'ho is Loth- substituting the word Nordic, "r condition, are capable only of very
.
light factory work or unskilled labor,
man on Northern, for Teutonic.
it
rip Stodilar, 1?" Wh i this
SON REQUESTED IN WILL TO'
who'll the House Immigration commit-.. 'The .Nordic theory finds its excuse such as janitor work, freight elevator
FOLLOW JEWISH TRApITtONS
•• lui,ka as to an authtitity 9 What for being in a collection of half-truths running or work in a shipping room.
has he donothat his name should fig- which are given a most crellible sound Any of such jobs, small though the U. S. SECOND GREATEST
"A.1--Isaac Al- • pre in the'dispatches from Washing- with the use of many anthropological wage might be, would be not only of
PALESTINE IMPORTER
but would aid
exander, known as. Alexander the. ton? , Why should cohg,ressMen, aux- 'terms. But there is not and never financial as
their morale.
Great Tailor, who died a IA' days ago', ious
• to justify their stand for a'Nor- has been a Nordie race. It is entirely greatly in restoring
JERUSALEM.—(J.
T. A. by
of
the
United
Jewish
The wok
has left a will disposi.ng of his estate, dic immigration, look upon Lothrop •of the imagination and theorizations
sec-
which is valued at 63,000 pounds. Stoddard as the -ehijf arrthority for '-of such own as Stoddard and Nladison Charities have endeavored without Maili—The United States ranks
ond
*tinting
the
countries
importing
NEW YORK. — (J. T. A.) — The
The documeta makes- a speceic Fe- the support of their restrictionist Grant, another pseudo-scientist echo success to find employment for these
quar-
quest that his son, Claude, should tout 'theories? , bewails the passing of a great race, men, 1111(1 1111W presents this problem from Palestine during the third
Jewish Academy announces the pro-
of
1923,
having
imported
goods
-the IMPending (so he says) decline of art the readers of the Chronicle, in the ter
on the stock each:togs an I
posed activities of the organization
Who's Who has the' Ifollowipg:
Brookline' Mass I the Anglo-Saxons, and on ardent at- hope that, due to the wider field cov- to the value of 1:68,980. Egypt heads to include publication of critical texts
that he should folloW On. hest tradi•
nut h , b
list with a total of £191,823. The of standard Jewish literary works, co-
the
ered
by
the
(
hromele,
soon.
of
its
of
John
Lawson
mono:
of
Lothrop
Stodda4(
.
the Jewish religion.
(ions
sun , •
• On( 29 1883
'Tatters either having just such a total value of the goods exported operating with similar bodies abroad
Gcddenweiser Denies Theory.
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from Palestine during the third quar-
international Jew-
Real ' anthropologists, not of the place open or knowing where such ter of 1923 amounted to £411,552, as to the end that an
II. IlarVard, 1905, A. M. 1910; Ph. D.
in
work might be obtained, may be able
ish academy be created and to act
1911, J. It. B os ton ktv,iversilY 79118; journalistic variety, have lung ago
against £389,894 in the correspond- an advisory capacity in the organiza-
Us.
assist
• unmarried. Admitted to Massdehu- disprove,} (hi- theory of any race su- to We
ing
period
last
year.
The
total
value
lle-
of
the
cite hele two instances both of
tion of the Jewish division
setts bar in 1908. Member of the • periority, according to Itr. Golden-
of goods imported by Palestine dur- brew University in Jerusalem.
, American II istoriAil Association, weiser of the College of4the City of which came to our organization ask- ing this period amounts to £1,251,-
York,
who
wrote
concerning
ing
only
for
aid
in
securing
employ-
ew
American Political Science Associa- N
it. The first case is that of a fam- 713 during the third quarter of 1922.
God looks to the heart of man, then
tion, American Sociological 4.44.socia - "Racial Differences" in the' Menorah me r
Great Britain is the greatest ex-
of six; the father, the sole bread
to the mind.—The Talmud.
thin, Academy of politi ca l gi•iell(•o Journal for October, 1922. "Ilut the ily
porter to Palestine, Syria ranking
Unitarian.
Club4.diar-
National Institute
of St•itif
Sciences.. pugnacious and, prejudiced racial winner tit' the family, has been ill for
ideologist still refused to capitulate"
Republican. -
yard. Authors The French Itevolu• writes Mr. Goldenweiser. vile claim-
thin in'4,San Domingo, 1914; Present- ed the evidence of history. He argot
Day Europt.-.-Iits National States of :that the biologist, the' neurologiSt. and
' :Mind, 1917; The Stake0of War, 1918;' the psychologist were, after all, en-
.Pictorial• Library of the gaged in the study of data that bore on
I . Harper's
World War (Vol. 6,,,ffht..World at civilizationlinly inferertlially. Histor-
' Wart, Address Harinard Club, 27'W. ic material, on the other hand, brought
Forty-fourth, street, New York City. - us face to face with civilization -itself.
'In addition to the books named And how could anyone but a shallow
labove, Stoddard is also the author of sentimentalist deny the overwhelming
, The Revolt Against Civilization; The' stifieriority of the science, philosophy,
Menace of the Under Man; 1923; The morality, religion and the material
New World of Islam, 1921 i' and the ',achievenients of white nian (Pier those
Rising Tide of Color Against White of his primitive'brother? However
World Supremacy, With an introduc- impressive to the 'initiated, this artru
went had to go the way of its prede-
tion liY".Niadispn Grant.
cessor's when the light of better know-
'
, Harding Recognizes Him.
was
It
is
the
last
of
these
books
which
ledge
and the critical .judgement
It
.
,thrown
upon it."
gained fame for Stoddard and found
"Another social and national aspect
ce-
. favor for him in the eyes of such
lebrities as President Hardin*" and 0 (these problemst," says Mr. Golden-
Lord Northcliffe. In the Rising Tide weiser further on in his article, "is
of Color Stoddard expounds the odi- expressed jn the advocacy'or testrict-
ed immigration, thus to keep out un-
ohs Nordic theory,' which Mr. Louis
desirable strains.' A system of WM-
i Marshall and' Dr. Stephen S. Wise
ory not lacking in self-hssuance has
have labelled as false and without any
, foundaiton in fact, at the hearing in risen to justify these modern urges.
' Washington when the Jewish Dele- , Madison Grant in his The Passing of
n Great Race, Lothrop Stoddard in his
gation appeared before the house com- I
mittee on inifignation.
Little , dr 'The Rising Tide of Color and the Re-
u
n pf Lothrop Stod- volt Against Civilization, And even the
' nothing was know
lard until the late President (larding' well known biologist E.,G.Sonklin In
in a speech in Birmingham,•Alabama,ihis The Direction of Human Evolution
Octobor 26, 1921, said: "Whoever will I have turned their hacks upon the crit-
take the time to read and ponder Mr. ical and humane position of modern
Lothrop Stoddard's book on The Ris- ethnology and, on the basis of data
Booths Nos. 116-117
ing Tide of Color ... must realize that supplikl by the laboraties of ambitious
our race problems here in the .United half-Sciences, advocate racial discrim.
States is only a phase of a race issue 'nation, restrictive immigration and
that the whole world confronts." " eugenics, rather than education, edu-
Immediately there was a great flair-' cation and education."
— AT
This is Lothrop Stoddard and his
ry throughout the country created by
those who made haste to secure the Nordic theory of blond supremacy.
book-Land Stoddard became famous
td
virtually overnight. Earlier reviews,*
printed at the One the' book was
brought out by.,Charles Scriliner's
rmtis..._ , -. 1'. A.) — Dr. Joseph
Sons in. 1920, were in the main tin-
(J
favorable. The Nov York Times re- Silverman
.
was honored by a reception
view was neither favorable nor un- .in the Hotel Majestic recently. Many
favorable, merely quoting passages prominent French Jews participated
•••••• OOOOOO
from the hook and paying in an aside, ! and addresses were made by the Zion
. that
"It is effect.
indeed The
a problem,"
or Evening'
'words to fists Corcos, Fielderman, Naiditch and
New York
latopolsky. Dr. Silverman, reply-
Post was hardly on kinii, in fact the
Post reviewer was most uncomplimen- great
ing to impression
the addresses,
made described
upon him the
by
tary in his comment un the Subject his tour of Palestine,
matter of the volume. Of 'the thou- .
sands who have read the boOk since its ,
publication, it may be said that their
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separate reactions to it have been jn .
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iy more
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keeping wiht.their willingness or un- —
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• less theory of a Nordic supremacy.
What Is Nordic Theory?
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(snowing what it means. The Nordic l=
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