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's feeling
his model-
storm his
tality and
1. Rosen-
ghtness of
4 in poet-
ipects of the
fact that he
finding that,
if the minis-
resent known
'e hopelessly
I to invent a
heats figures
e with a lus-
t require no
the rents are getting so high. For the benefit of that man and others like
him I commend the suggestion of the New Republic that he send for • book-
let issued by the Co-operative League of America, 167 West Twelfth street,
New York, to learn all about the Co-operative Housing Association, that will
enable him and others who want to build apartment houses with comfortable
accommodation at about half the prevailing rental, to find out how it can
be done.
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ing group of letters came from lead-
President Sidney Edward Mezes of the Board of Foreign Missions of the ing social workers and reformers in
had been engaged for 50 years.
Presbyterian Church, Albert D. Link-
Mr. Levy was born in Banks street, City College of New York; President er, former chairman of the U. S. Ship- this country. These letters were
Manhattan, and after graduating Livingston Farrand of Cornell; Presi- ping Board; Bernard M. Baruch, Ab- written by Mary Fels, prominent tin-
from New York University studied dent Emeritus Henry Pratt Judson ram Simon of Washington, president gle tax advocate; Jacob Billikopf, exe-
At the risk of lengthening the column this week to weary the reader, I
law in the office of Clarkson N. Pot- of the University of Chicago, Dr. Wil- of the Central Conference of Ameri- cutive director of the Philadelphia
must find room for generous quotations from the article "The Wondering
ter. He was a member of the Fifty- liam Lyon Phelps of Yale; Judges Ir-
Federation of Jewish Charities; Dr.
Jew," appearing in the February Century, written by M. E. Ravage, who
NEW YORK.—When he was 14, sixth, Sixty-third and Sixty-sixth ving Lehman and Benjamin N. Car- can rabbis; Dr. William Rosenau of Solomon Lowenstein, executive direc-
cams to this country some 23 years ago from Roumania. Mr. Ravage, of
Baltimore, Rabbi Maurice H. Harris
back
in
1879,
Joseph
H.
Cohen
went
and
is
still
at
work
dona
of
the
New
York
Court
of
Ap-
Congresses.
Ile
was
always
a
Demo-
colleges,
tor of the New York Federation of
course, is • Jew. He has been trained in two
illumine- to work for $8 a month, building the crat in politics and was one of the peals; Bishop Francis J. McConnell of of Temple Israel, New York; Rabbi Jewish Philanthropies; Lillian D.
taking a course at Columbia. While his article does not add much
Max lleller of New Orleans, Dr. Ab-
fires
and
sweeping
the
floor
of
Isaac
Pittsburgh,
Dr.
John
Haynes
Holmes,
founders
of
the
Democratic
Club
of
Wald of the Henry Street Settlement;
lion on the subject of the Jew, yet he states some old things in a new way,
Rubenstein's dry goods store at 45 New York.
Secretary Charles V. Vickrey of the raham Cronbach of the Hebrew Union Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Frank P.
and in • way that is not at all plenant. He seems willing to stand the con-
College; Dr. Israel Abrahams, reader
Canal
street.
Near
East
Relief,
Dr.
James
L.
Bar-
For
many
years
various
plans
were
Walsh, Paul U. Kellogg, editor of the
sequences of his article, and so am I in quoting it. Says Mr. Ravage:
Last week Mr. Cohen, the fifth man put forward for the purchase of ton, secretary of the American Board in Rabbinic at Cambridge University Survey; Norman Hapgood and Homer
to turn over his business to trusted „ Monticello" and its establishment as of Commissioners for Foreign Mis - and George W. Coleman of Ford Hall
"We of the Western nations have had the Jew among us for a
Folks.
Forum,
Boston.
employes within a year in New York, a national shrine, but none of them sions; Secretary Arthur J. Brown of
considerable while, but he remains for us to this day a rather hazy
announced that he had given his was carried to completion. It was
figure. It would be no much more to our liking if he fitted into a
cloak and suit concern, 498 Seventh stated at Mr. Levy's house that the
mold, if he could be classified, and once for all pigeonholded and for-
avenue, with a $1,000,000 turnover Thomas Jefferson Memorial Associa-
gotten. He has a name of his own to go by and that is convenient.
in 1923, to Charles Tomberg, his of- tion was arranging to acquire the
But we really have not the remotest idea what the thing called Jew-
lice manager, and his sons, Abraham, property. "Monticello" was inherited
ishness is. We have been bandying the word about all these genera-
33, and Simon, 31.
by Mr. Levy from his uncle, Commo-
tions, but after all our slipshod efforts, we have not put our finger on
A small , quiet, big-eyed man, wear- dore Uriah P. Levy, who had bought
the reality behind the word, if such reality exists. Jewishness is any-
the stiff shirt and string tie of it from the Rev. James C. Beret y
a
ing
thing you like. It is also anything you dislike. It is a religion,
the old time merchant, Mr. Cohen the mrchased from J ffarso ' daug ah ,
he
nationality, a race, a tradition; it is a code of commercal
immorality
told the story of the tremendous in- ter 1 Mrs Randolmh. e Mr nLse
of Chris-
b -
and the radical foe of commercialism. It is the
dustry, idealism and family loyalty lon , ged to. a family !) long in. thisnr coun e--
tianity; it is Jesus and Shylocic and Karl Marx rolled into one. Ask
the early Jewish immigrant try, his ancestors having landed here
which
a Jew what Jewishness is and you will get every variety of answer.
brought to America.
in 1862. He belonged to the Sons of
There are so many kinds of Jew! The old men of the Ghetto cry
When 21.
When
St•rts Busi
the Revolution and the Society of the
vehemently that it is their faith. Their youthful offspring say it is a
"My mother brought me from Po- War of 1812,
misfortune. The Zionists see in it nothing but a renascent national-
land when I was nine," he began.
ism, and the young gentlemen in the college cherish it principally as
"I went to work at 14 and when I
a cultural inheritance."
was 21 I had saved $400. I bor. STEPHEN S. WISE IS
r o ,
with
tha a partner
$
voirse,
d$.
a
r
Rather good, I say, and rather t rue, I say!
GREETED BY WORLD
,
Abra ham Davis, wren h
Broad-
started
business
at
126
East
Broad-
FAMOUS LEADERS
rather
Leaping over quite an area, I come to this rather biting, but
way.
human, and let me whisper it—true Bise-up of let in say—some of us:
"In recent years my profit has
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I from $'-0 ,000 to $100 000 "
b. Factory
"The whole Jewish people are indifferent to social snobbism. The
Mr. Cohen said. "Now that the union outstanding place among those who
Jew has, by centuries of hard knocks, come to perceive and acknowl-
forbids men to work overtime, the are seeking to bring our nation to a
edge a distinction between himself and the others. But within the
boss must put in long hours, and finer consciousness of its moral re-
differ-
Pale he has never known and he can never understand any
since Mr. Tomberg and my boys will sponsibility at home and abroad. He
ences. He has learned the lesson his neighbor has so long tried to
have to put in the longer hours, they has given freely of himself and his
and he never can he got to forget it.
ought to have the business. Mr. Tom- talents to every great and worthy
teach him, that a Jew is a Jew,
If Mr. Disraeli becomes Lord Beaconsfield, every Jew will rejoice not
berg receives 17 per cent and my sons cause, and in doing so has won the
only on Mr. Disraeli's account, but principally on his own. All Jews
the rest. At their convenience they confidence and sincere regard of peo-
are equal; therefore, when one Jew is an aristocrat, all Jews are
are going to pay me from their profits , pie generally.
who becomes king of the new Jerusalem will
the $100,000 at which the business ; "May I also add a personal word
aristocrats. The Jew
have to keep perpetual open house or abdicate. No Jew can take on
is capitalized. I am working for of affection for Dr. Wise. In my
them without pay until they fire me." many contacts with him I have been
airs among his own and carry it off."
Mr. Cohen is president of Beth Is- impressed with the comprehensive-
rael Hospital. Thirty years ago he ' ness of his breadth of view and the
"The worst injury the Gentile can do me is to leave me alone,
Jew will not leave
was notified he had been elected algenerosity of his spirit."
and that I an
manage
to
endure.
But
my
fellow
c
he ♦ will scrupu-
Israel Zangwill wrote from his Sus-
director and asked whether he would
me alone. As long as he mistakes me for a stranger
sex home that he knows no more out-
accept or refuse.
lously respect my right to privacy and ring the bell of my (lore before
Fire Due Wheel; and Minh SelOf canting Carrier, $25 addition. l
figure in American Jewry,
Boasts
of
Eight
Grandchildren.
letanding
he invades my home, and give heed to the amenities of decent society
"I thought I might still have been or indeed in world Jewry. Ile adds:
after he has entered, and pay cash for the goods I sell him without
living in Russia where the Czar's sol- "A pioneer equally in religion and
expecting undue favors, and in general deal with me equitably and
diem might come to drag me off to social service; a humanist with Mt-
humanely. But just as soon as he has spotted me my freedom ceases
me
serve in the army, if my mother had mor, a scholar, an orator, he pos.
to be. He will, so to speak, embrace me fraternally and gather
not brought me here, where Jewsisesses the magnetism of the born
to his bosom. Ile will feel thoroughly at ease with me and quite at
he
will
unbend
chummily
and
unburden
him-
could find liberty. I accepted and I leader. His influence must grow ever
home in my house, and
have been working in the hospital greater as time adds its consecration
self of his tears and hopes, and he will keep me waiting longest
ever since," Mr. Cohen said. to his work."
when I come into his ::hop and least when he sends out his bills. I
member
of
the
Great Civic Courage.
a
He was a member of the first Zion-
am but a fellow Jew, while others are people.. I am
The Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Dr. II.
iat organization founded in New
family, so I can put up with the leavings when strangers are calling."
York, in 1884; member of Jewish re- P. Chajes, wrote:
"What I most appreciate and es-
Speaking of the civic and political interest and the meimilability of the lief committees during the war, and , teem in my friend Dr. Wise, and what
of the Jewish Center.
new and old comer to the New World, that is, the immigrant from Western a supporter
For 10 years, Mr. Cohen said, he' I conceive to be the source of his ex-
it seems, according to
Europe and he of Southern and Eastern Europe,
n
had been agitating to get cloak and, traordinary power, is his civic cour-
Representative Cellar, that out of 13,849 aliens who filed petitions for at-
re- suit manufacturers to pay their un- I age.
ur•lization, it was discovered that the Ce length of time the •lien
"Just as American citizens had the
itizenship papers is 10.6 employed workers.
main. in this country before taking out his final c
"With unemployment insurance, courage to openly declare themselves
evelation. The man from Russia and
as partisans of the discredited Presi-
years. But here is ■ an interesting r
which
is
perfectly
practical,
we
can
Roumania and Hungary takes his papers out after he has been here 9.9
our country, who comes from wipe out poverty for the first time in dent following the fall of Wilson at
a time when this, even in the United
Years, while the Nordic, the "foundation" of
history," Mr. Cohen said,
England, waits 11.7 years, the German almost 12 years, the Swiss over 12
"My business is not a large one, States, was an act of temerity not
years,
and
the
chap from Canada over 16
yearn, the man from Sweden 13
FOURS and SIXES
but I have one thing to boast of—the altogether devoid of danger; so Dr.
rears. Something for the hysterical statesmen in Washington to ponder!
eight finest grandchildren in the Wise, since his eraliest youth, had
world." the spiritual courage to strive for the
William Eliot, who celebrated his ninetieth
recognition of the Jewish national
Every Jew finds in Charles
birthday on March 20, • kindred spirit. This rugged liberal, whose pension
ideal, and for the rehabilitation of
the outstanding educational leader of his JEFFERSON LEVY DIES;
Palestine,
titu de
at atimeb when such an at-
for truth and justice has made him
country can tender
MONTICELLO
OWNER
r
, even in
i II eral Judaism of
"Y, deserves every tribute of regard that • grateful
he met up
was
scornfully received and
swore
to
"Hit
that
thing"
slme.v
wh
Former
Congressman
Was
Owner
of
America,
s Lil
n nco
hit, A
d, made up his mind to hit illiberalism whenever
Jefferson'. Home.
I was likely to prove perilous to the
with it. so Eliot, of H
d could never have done
he met up with it. Eliot of H
• nd wh
NEW YORK.—Jefferson M. Levy, evolution of a young rabbi's career."
what Lowell of Harvard did. He is too big, too broad; his recognition o f former member of Congress from this
Leaden in Tribute.
human •alues in too great. On the eve of his ninetieth birthday thin man city, owner of ''Monticello," Thomas Others who contributed letters to
writes an article in the current Atlantic Monthly on "The Great Religious Jeerson's home near Charlottesville, the volume are Claude G. Monteflore,
Renner dealing with the Fundamentalist and Modernist controversy nging Va., died March 6 of heart disease at leader of liberal Judaism in England;
in the Protestant church in • manner that challenges our admiration for his residence, 17 East Thirty-seventh Dr. Barry Emerson Fosdick, Newton
the millions of right•
its lucidity and ext•ordniary breadth. I join with
street, at the age of 72. A friend , D. Baker, former secretary of war;
minded, right-thinking Americans who value truth and justice and sanity of the family said that his illness . Robert Lansing, former secretary of
in our relations with our fellow men, in felicitating this truly "Grand Old might have been avoided had Mr. I state; Professor Gilbert Murray of
Amercan" upon having been spared for so many, many years of usefulnen, Levy been willing entirely to relin- Oxford, Dr. I. J. Foakes Jackson of
coupled with the hope that the God of Righteousness will spare him for many
quish his law practice, in which he the Un. n Theological Seminary;
u
r
aaaaa in membership in Jewish
drawn, that there has been • decided inc
congregations.
/P
Sixth
Sixth
Br Chu. It laseels.1
*****
Every once in • while • discouraged reader sends us • weeping me
1
! periods
ous syrn-
igination
assionate
that as-
group de-
not more
ictures in
ng, lash-
don that
is deeper
it a pen-
eived word
been elected
iety of Min-
s placed in
ams, the so-
ure portrait
le, who dur-
nited States
Rosenthal's
Nilliams cx-
most recent
allery, bon-
gores. They
srofound im-
RABBIS THRILLED
WITH PALESTINE
NEW YORK. —Dr. Joseph Silver-
man' Rabbi Emeritus o f Temple
Emanu-El, nectar of Reform Judaism
in New York City, who opened up the
keren Ilayesod campaign in New
, )(irk, is taking a leading part in the
I drive. He has just returned from
the New York Palestine and declared he was thrilled ,
The other day • peeved Nordic wrote a whining letter to
of the with the spectacle which he wit- I
World complaining that •Il the prises in the "World's Biggest News
the World nessed and enthusiastic over the pos- '
Week" competition are being won by non•Nordice Each week
sibilities for development. Ile said:
offers prizes to pupils of the schools in the Metropolitan diatrict who "nose"
week, "Any Jew who wilfully hinders this
out what they consider to be the moat important bit of news of the
to rebuild the Jewish
very
snappy
replylmovement
a
and w ho tell why in • brief article. The editor wrote pain than he had when homeland iii injuring his people and
to the pained Nordic that probably gave him a bigger
he wrote the letter. In looking over the list of winners of the prizes for his faith. Any Jew who remanis
aloof from the mvement
o
at thiss criti-
last week, I could easily understand the Nordic's dismay, for here are the
cal period in our history lays
names I found: , '. open to the charge of indifferencej
. to the fate of a large part of Israel."
Nathan Cosminsky, Theodore Isaacs, Benjamin Gelardin, Michael
Aloof for Years.
1
Zenowitz, Samuel Weinberg, Anthony P. Costella, Michael Goren-
"For many years I have been a Re-I
stein, William Reznikoff, Isidore Itlarkowitz, Joseph Kastner, Elihu
form rabbi," he added. "I have stood
Platowsky, Hyman Walkowitz, William Dragunas and Samuel Gold-
aloof from Zionism, but now, after
man.
this visit to Palestine, I realize that a
t Nordic! , Jewish homeland should be built up
Surely a lint to strike terror to the heart of the b
which will be the spiritual center of
Jewish people. And I am e-
What is the remedy? Justice Cropsey, after sentencing the Diamond the
termined, after what I have seen in
realizing its portentous sig.
and Farina and P ■ nt•no to the electric chair, made an impassioned'
\ Inother•
plea for greater vigilance on the part of the welfare agencies of our great !Palestine,
nificance, to devote the remainder of
citie• in keeping the boys of the streets surrounded by • beneficial environ. my life to the restoration of the an-
meat. Three of the murderers are • trifle over 21 years of age! In fact, dent glory of our people."
who are
of our city
ys, • nd it seems • t ragedy
than
Great progress in the Keren Ilaye-
gangsters •re li tt m
most gang
made so
n from y criminal, but
who are not in borentl
sod's campaign for $5,000,000 is re-1
life th•t these boy., who
of
proper
guidance.
But I '
suffer so from lack
ciates, shoul d su
orted
from every section of the
p
by vi
cious
correct in his di•gnosis of the conditional country. With the opening of the e,
th ink the justice is not entirely
that bring so many yng
ou men to the penitentimy or to the ch•ir. Th• drive in New York City new fuel has
politics that protects evil influence. been added and increased effort is re-
to alt lies largely with our rotten city
young men
ported from the North and South,
to which the boy of the street inevitably turns. Many of these
•re dope fiends •nd rotten politics make it ea•y for men to create these from the East and West. The open-
?
after they have become addict..
enslaved
of the New York campaign has
drug
addicts,
and
then
to
keep
then,
'
make our cities decent in g
We should begin at the top and not at the bottom to
for many had the effect of increasing effort on
the part of workers all along the line
places to live is Politics and evil have been in close partnership
Years.
—• —.e _in the realization of the $5,000,000
goal. The vision of a Palestine re-
There was truth in the newspaper headline which read, "House Votes to stored, to reports of economic pro-
Assent
of
the
govern-
■
made
him
! sug. , grass and a more peaceful political
Give Ford Muscle Shoals." It certainly
so fashionable just now,
relationship between the Jews and
mantes property. Since investigations are
Arabs have added considerable force
gadthat someone make it his business to inquire why thee Congressme
have been so eager to hand over to an individual for 100 year. governmen n t to the campaign which is now in full
property. 1 think it wen Cleveland who said, or at least gave wide circula. Si '
in g' Present Condition Bright.
is • public trust." It is just as inimical
tion to the saying, "A public office
Morris Rothenberg, chairman of
to the n•t'ion•I welfare to give Ford or any other man national resources
just as the board of directors of the Keren
and
it
I.
population,
in order to satisfy • cert•in element in our
wrong for Congressmen to vote for it, •s it is to give •way government prop• Ilayesod, reviewing the present situ.
ation in Palestine and the progress
arty to oil speculators.
• -••• ■ •
which has been made possible through
flattered myself that I carried rather a complete line of fashionable the efforts of the Keren Ilayesod,
"Middle of the Road" I said:
invectives, but I am mistaken. In Philip Gibbs'
"At no time since the inception of
find this one:
the Keren Hayesod have we worked
under such favorable circumstances.
"You reptilian, hypersensitive Bohunki You self-absorbed, psy-
The political situation in Palestine is
choanalytical Punmdoodlum!"
brighter than at any time since the
mandate was issued. The High Com-
I will, somebody would hurry up and call me a name so I can try out missioner rules over a peaceful coun-
that new one,
try. The present British govern-
•
ment, like each preceding govern-
The church census for 1923 has been completed, but I have not been ment since the Balfour Declaration,
cl over
able to obtain the result in the Jewish group. The Catholics in
embership of the Catholic Church in this country has manifested its purpose to carry
fully the terms of the mandate
138,000, and the present m
is the largest church affiliation of any faith. I wouldn't be surprised that, out
with respect to the Jewish national
despite the immigration restrictions placed upon the Southern and
home."
Eastern Euopean countries from which Jewish immigration is largely
,sage;
PAGE SEVEN,
KON ICIL
NESTOR OF REFORM
Dr. Joseph Silverman Brings
Back Glowing Message
After Tour of Country.
that it's getting so • man with • family can't afford to live on this aseth,
(Cavr.rislat, 1921.
and
etion
Ile
ne as
leme,
nary
back-
men-
se to
:very-
lend.
res closely
,e is essen-
ctic in his
ek suavity
amicably;
.bat. Now
theme and
of an ode
w utters a
fiery pas-
larger fig-
miniatures,
rats varied
the Jew in
is, pitying
and hateful
forth mi-
ld, he may
Ho who re-
in the lux-
klexandriar
championed
an tyranny
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