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1CopporrIght. 1921.
Seeing the South Through Soft
and Academic Eyes.
Hp Chao. H. Jeseoh.1
We have had a very rainy May. Every bard-headed business man knows
the reason—the investigations in Washington. The overthrow of the I'oin-
care militaristpolicy in France
an is due (ask any hard-headed business man
in this country) to the
in Washington. The depression in
the textile industries is due, as any hard-headed business man will tell you,
to the investigations in Washington. The slackening in the steel industry,
of course, undoubtedly, Mr. Gallagher, is due to the investigations in Wash-
ington. Mahatma Ghandi was released front his Indian prison, everyone
knows, because of the investigations in Washington. The floods, the back-
ward season, the increase in the number of divorces, the death of Leanly,
the increase in births, the exclusion of the Japanese, the victory in the
debate between Pr. Potter and Rev. Straton, and everything else that has
happened this year, to due, as any hard-headed business man will readily
testify, to the investigations in Washington. Wheeler and Walsh surely
have a great deal on their conscience. In the meantime there are a handful
ofpersons in the United States who still harbor the delusion that these two
Senators have rendered a great public service by refusing to abide by the
slogan, "A public office is a private graft." And I suggest that all these
hard-headed business men recite in the morning after arising, and in the
evening before retiring, this simple statement: "I pledge myself not to
condone dishonesty in the nation's business any more than I would condone
dishonesty in my own business." This will make the air a great deal purer
in the world of business, big and little.
Alas, poor Zangwill! His play, "We Moderns," was found dead in New
York, and the "verdict can only be murder.'" I missed that letter that
Zangwill wrote to the Nation until the other day. I am sorry that it could
not be printed in this column, because it is delightful—quite Zangwillian,
Really, Zangwill is in ninny ways charmingly childlike. I know that Unter-
myer and Richard Gottheil will rise up and protest that such is impossible.
Nevertheless it is true. Zangwill in some respects is as guileless and as
susceptible to the wiles of a wicked, material world as any other idealist.
He really believes that his play WIN deliberately killed by the New York
dramatic critics because they objected to the manner in which he criticized
America. Ile also believes that many people stayed away from his play
because of his attacks On this country.
Now Zangwill is all wrong. Very few persons stay away from anything
that they want very much, because of same high-minded motive. I recall
that James Schermerhorn, former owner of the Detroit Times, who tried to
conduct his newspaper along the purest ethical lines, who would never
accept eigaret or beer advertising; who wouldn't accept any advertising
that wasn't clean and fit to be read in any home, once told me that church
folk and others who believed in the purity of the press used to write him
letters commending his stand, but they always read the other fellow's paper.
That's the way with most folk. A fat lot New Yorkers cared whether Zang-
will made a good speech or a poor speech, or whether he criticized Central
Park or not. If his play appealed to them they would have flocked to see it
In an article which appears this week in the Nation, dealing with "an
un-official Jew Klux Klan," Bertha Wallerstein discussed the "Jewish Bab-
bitt." You know "Babbitt," the great Realtor and Rotarian, the most per-
fect specimen of Kiwanis in captivity; the champion Elk, the Shriner super-
lative; he is Orthodox in the matter of hair cuts as in all other matters of
100 per cent middle class. "Babbitt" isn't the greatest book ever written,
but if you have overlooked it, and possess a sense of humor, buy it and help
Sinclair Lewis along. But back to our subject. Miss Wallerstein's "Jewish,
Babbitt" is the man who is an "excluder." She says the "Jew Klux Klan"
"guards its Jewish borders jealously from any invasion of foreign blood. It
excommunicates those of its sons who marry 'outsiders.' It frowns on
those who associate with Gentiles. It employs as far as possible only Jews.
It protests when Jews deal at Gentile stores."
I think Miss Wallerstein makes out a case worse than the facts justify.
There may be a very small group that is so ingrowing that it will take the
position suggested on some of the things mentioned by the author, but I
personally have come in contact with so few that they are not worth mention-
ing. Only in the matter of social association with the Gentile in the sense
of the likelihood of its development into a marriage, is there any general
objection on the part of Jewish parents. In no way, by the wildest stretch
of the imagination, can there be said to be any objection to the association
with Gentiles. As for protests when "Jews deal at Gentile stores," that, to
my mind, is another exaggeration. There may be a handful of Jews who
may be so clannish, but I have never had the misfortune of meeting them.
Dr. Algernon Crapsey, who was tried for heresy in 1906 and invited to
step outside the Protestant Episcopal Church, is feeling quite comfortable
these days, he has to much company. In an interview the other (lay Dr.
Crapsey said:
"Today the church is in fragments, There are two great di-
visions, Catholic and Protestant. The Protestant church is going to
pieces. The trouble is that we now have a conception of the uni-
verse that will not harmonize with the teachings of the church. We
know that the universe is not composed of the three compartments,
heaven, hell and the earth. It is utterly hopeless for the church to
attempt to change its theology. What follows? Does everything go?
Is Christian civilization gone? My answer is that Christian civiliza-
tion has not yet arrived P
Speaking without partisan bias, I my that Oscar Underwood has shown
that he understands one of the essential qualifications for a candidate for
the nomination for President of the United States, namely, the desire to
eliminate from public life such organizations of un-Americanism as the Ku
Klux Klan. It is time that men who are seeking the highest office within
the gift of the American people should indicate that they understand their
responsibility toward all the citizens of the nation. Pussy-footing and eva-
sions are unbecoming. Didn't someone sometime say that "I would rather
be right than President." Maybe some person in Washington can lay his
hands on that reference and use it to advantage.
All this mugt be interesting to those worthy gentlemen who are so much
interested in curtailing the religious freedom of others that their own sruc-
ture is becoming dilapidated.
The reason I give an much space to these statements of the so-called
"heretics" in the Christian church is because they are helping the Jew fight
the battle for the truth. When Dr. Crapsy says that "the virgin birth of
Jesus is a fairy tale," he is saying that for which the Jew has been cursed
for centuries. Myths and miracles have cursed the world and kept humanity
in bondage.
It's about time that liberal leaders assert themselves and bring
to the world the thought that salvation of men's souls does not depend
Wan the "fairy stories" they believe, but upon the kind of lives they lead.
Crapsey is one of the martyrs who suffered in order to bring light to men.
I see
where Hillaire Belioc, the distinguished French-Englishman and
equally distinguished Roman Catholic, has had another attack of the heebie-
jeebies. This anti-Semite has given the world another book, titled "The Con-
trast," which compares England and America. Of course Belloc, who
doesn't command the respect of the intellectuals of England, makes the
romparison exactly as one would expect from such an erratic mind. This
dininguished Catholic, according to the New York World's literary critic,
"harbors ideas not alien to the klansman's hood." Ile devotes an entire
chapter to the "Jewish Problem." This is perfectly natural because Belloc
is
filled with venomous hatred against the Jew. Equally natural is it for
lain
to laud Henry Ford's "battle on the side of his own people" and as
same writer comments: "Belloc awards him (Ford) first laurels as the
,foremost gabardine spitter of the U. S. A. The contrast is thus implied
note
rather than expressed, for Mr. Belloc, I believe, enjoys that same
honor on the other side. The Catholics should find some way of muzzling
these loose-minded representatives. The state in which the klan is in coin-
Mete
control is the state of ignorance.
FUND FOR REFUGEES
IN ROUMANIA RAISED
Conference in Now York Results, in
Collection of $10,000.
NEW YORK. — (J. T. A.) — Ten
thousand dollars was raised at a con-
ference called by the lawyer, Max D.
Steuer, at the Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion, for the purpose of relieving
the situation of a great number of
t Russian Jewish refugees who are now
emporarily in Roumania, unable to
Proceed further on account of the
American immigration restrictions.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Joseph Ba-
randess and Arthur Lamport ad.
dressed the conference. The $10,-
000 was immediately raised toward a
fund of $25,000 necessary to bring
the refugees to Canada and other
countries. The conference was called
following the dinner given in honor
of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, under the
auspices of the American Jewish Con.
,rreaa, at which Dr. Wise and Lyon
Cohen of Montreal took the occasion
to plead the case of these refugees.
Steuer assured the president of
the American Jewish Congress that
the full sum would be raised within
two weeks.
Frank Tannenbaum. G. P. Putnam's
Som. New York, 203 Pages.
When most men talk and when men talk most they usually make inac-
curate statements because, generally, they are poorly informed on the sub-
ject they are discussing. For example, one hears that the foreign-born are
the most criminal and most murderous of our population. There is much
loose talk on this subject even :intone those who should be well informed.
So it is enlightening to hear Dr. Frederick 1,. Hoffman, vice-president and
consulting statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, say that
New York has and has had for years one of the lowest homicide records in
the United States because it has the largest Jewish population, and it has
a very large percentage of foreign-born.
Ile says that murder and crime are greatest among native-born Ameri-
cans living in t South. "In the South," says Dr. Hoffman, "where there
are few Jews and few foreign-born, the sanctity of human life is a ghastly
joke. The reason is, according to Dr. Hoffman, that local government in
the South is corrupt, and in comparison with the rest of the country the
South is lawless. Next tote
h South for high homicide records, his figures
show, is the West Most law-abiding is the East with its immigrants. Here
is something for the DM per centers to think about before they wave their
arms hysterically and cry out against the menace of the foreign-born in
this country. I recommend these statements to Mr. Lorimer of the Saturday
Evening Post, who seems dreadfully wrought up over our dreadful for-
eigners.
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DEDICATE A REFUGE
FOR CULTURED POOR
DARKER PHASES OF THE SOUTH
By
Andrew Freedman Home, Cost.
ing $1,000,000, Is New
Philanthropy.
"Marker Phases of the South" is the
third literary effort of the one-time
malcontent Frank Tannenbaum.
NEW' YORK.--The new 51,000,-
Ten years of the softening influ- Mai Andrew Freedman Ilome, at the
ence of Colombia University has left Grand Concourse and 1Sfith street,
its indelible mark. Ile who once the Bronx, has been dedicated. It
stormed cathedrals even though he was established under the will of the
,vas armed only wit
h empty pockets, late Andrew Freedman, fernier own-
bare hands and high ideals seems to- er of the New York Giants, and re-
day to he the poorer. Ile has become sponsible for the digging of the first
squeamish and soft-minuted, so care- New York subway. The home is in-
ful not to offend, apologizing in antici- tended for persons
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of refinement
who
pation. All the robust courage which have lost their money and who face
once characterized his attacks are poverty in their old age. Iludninds
missing. His English is improved, and wives may live together amid
he employs the current sociologic and luxurious surroundings. Hitherto
peychologac ternunology with expert- aged couples, if penniless, faced sepa-
ness and facility but yet he sips tea ration, as there have been 110 institu.
and eats lady fingers.
tionsto hich both would be admit-
The book is made up of five essays: ted.
The Ku Klux Klan, The South Buries
Mr. Freedman always felt that the
Its Anglo Saxons, Southern Prisons, fate of cultured persons who had lost
The Single Crop, and Problems of their money was the saddest thing in
Southern Solutions.
life. Foryears before he died, in
The K. K. K. is psychoanalyized. , December, 1915, he haul planned to
It offers to apeople living a dull, un- leave his fortune of $5,000,000 to
eventful life an opportunity for emo- alleviate their lot, Under the terms
tional debauch. These sanctified cru- of the will one-half was set aside for
saders are doing necessary work as the home. lhe remainder is now be-
the defenders of the virtue of white ing held in trust for his sister, Mrs.
weinanhood. They believe these things Isabella Freedman. Upon her death
makes life endurable for them.
it will revert to the Freedman home.
Proceeding on the theory that the
The building •contains a large lie-
K. K. K. isa lawless organization, ing room, library, billiard room and
passionate, brutal, fanatic, he con- dining room on the first floor. The
cludes that ithas caused more atroci- bedrooms, each of which has a large
tis and has been guilty of more private bath, are larger than those in
lynchings than before atrocities and most high-grade hotels, and many of
lynchings were organied. The fact, them are equipped with twin beds.'
however, is that lynchings have shown The home is non-sectarian and per-
a decided fall in the decade from 1914 sons between the ages of 110 and SO
to 1924 as compared with the decade will be admitted without regard to
from 1901 to 1914, while the lost five race or religion. Husbands and wives
of the last decade shows an ev- are to be kept together for the re-
S
en more decided drop.
mainder of their joint lives and pro-
In the second essay, The South Bur- vision is made for the survivor. Un.
ies its Anglo-Saxons, the blighting of-' der no circumstances are they to be
hats of industrialism are described separated. That is the dominant note
with no greater coloring or difference of the benefaction.
than appears in many of the sociolo-
Ornament to the City.
gi,creports upon the southern mill
Samuel Untermyer, the president,
town.
in turning the home over to the board
Southern prisons are described in of directors, said:
the third essay. The author advises
"The structure was intended to be
his readers to be prepared for grue- in itself, and I hope will be so re-
some details, harrowing pictures of garded, as being as beautiful an or.
inhu man treatment of prisoners by !lenient to the city as was the design
degenerate guards. Perhaps we have of the testator in planning the bene-
become calloused, for compared to the faction. The first and foremost atip-
description of fiendish brutality and ulation was that it should be strictly
perversions which obtained in Ameri- non-sectarian and blind to all con.
can prisons in the last 20 years, the siderations of race and creed in its
conditions described are just the ordi- benefits as well as in its management.
nary usual thing in prison routine. It is to fill a niche and to supply a
But despite the fact of their usualness, need nowhere to be found among: the
they cry to heaven for immediate cor- institutions of our city and, perhaps,
rection.
nowhere in this or any other country.
The single crop system of the south
"It will be a veritable 'home for
has industrialized the farmer so gentlefolk'—husbands 81111 wives who,
thoroughly that his lot as tenant by reason of reverses in the profes.
farmer is infinitely worse than the sional and business lives of the be-
city worker, inasmuch as the farmer heads, accompanied by advancing age
has none of the varied compensations and infirmities, have lost their ability
which the city offers to the disspinted to maintain themselves in the station
industrialized worker.
in life to which they have been ac-.
The most unsatisfactory part of the customed."
book is the last essay on the Problem
The home, Mr. Untermyer said, is
of Southern Solutions. Although the an "eloquent and convincing answer
author brings to the task the sociolo- , to attacks upon our capitalistic sys-
gist's technic and equipment, he has tem."
become so enmeshed in the technic
"Such works as these," he said,
that he apparently forgets fundamen- i "would solve many of our perplexing
tals. lie sees black. The negro is the social and economic problems. It
all-disturbing difficulty. Dilute the demonstrates once more that the hon.
black with 10,000,000 foreign whites; I eat accumulation of wealth goes hand
disperse your black over the whole in hand with public service"
country; make it a national and not
Plight of the Cultured Poor,
a sectional problem and you are on the
Senator Royal S. Copeland refer-
road to a solution. He assures us red to thehardships of the class Mr.
there is no solution. Melioration, is Freedman's benefaction is designed
all that is possible.
to aid. Ile said he knew of the widow
But this we do know, that millions of an admiral in the United States
of foreign whites have conic to this navy—"a man who by his service and
country. They had a knowledge of diplomacy won every medal this
diversified crop culture. They readily country could give"—who was forced
accommmlated themselves to the in- to live in a tenement on the lower
dustrial process, remained practically West Side on a pension of $20 a
segregated, and to date have contribu- month.
ted practically nothing to the creation
"I am glad," he said, "that I have
of a different milieu in industrial Am- been able to induce the government
erica. They are the modern helots in to rectify this injustice and that her
steel, mining, automobile and textiles. situation is now somewhat easier. But
Ten million white foreigners will di- think what it means to a woman of
lute the black but industrialism will her refinement to live in sordid sur-
isch merrily on. The language of the roundings!"
mill town will be Slavish, Russian,
Senator Copeland said that, al-
Polish and Bohemian and not English though New York had the reputation
—that is all.
of being the home of money grabbers,
We would like to see Frank Tan- there were many splendid benefac-
nenbaum cut loose for a while from tions here. He spoke of the milk de-
academic harness for the good of his pots established by Nathan Straus,
awn SOUL
the Henry Street Settlement founded
by Jacob 11. Schiff and the prison re-'
Sublime Struggle of Jeremiah form work undertaken by Adolph
Lewisolm.
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Depicted in Drama.
JEREMIAH
By Stel•n Zweig. Translated by Edon and
Cedar Paul. 338 pp. Now York. Thos.
Seltzer.
That the greatest book of all time
may also serve as the source book for
superb literature seems to have
escaped the notice of all but a small
group of modern writers. Stefan
Zweig, perhaps the most even-tem-
pered and spiritual of German men
of letters, has gone to the Bible for
inspiration in the present chaos of
the world's misfortune. In Jeremiah
the prophet, pacifist, lover of his peo-
ple and discerner of the truths that
relate to the human drama, Zweig
has found the supreme example of
understanding leadership.
"Jeremiah" possesses a two-fold
merit. In the first place, it is of the
substance that makes a great work
of art. It is a swift moving drama
of the events that preceded and fol-
lowed the destruction of the Jewish
political state. The heart-rending
melancholy and poignant suffering
which it diffuses and the final hope
which it inspires in those who see
with Jeremiah's vision and under-
stand with his knowing mind, togeth-
er with the vivid dramatic episodes
that hold the reader's attention from
the first to the last page, constitute
a resplendently vital and beautiful
drama.
In the second place, "Jeremiah"
:Teaks a clamorous message to the
nations of today no less than it re-
veals the truth that has made for the
immortality of the Jewish people. It
preaches a message which, as old an
the Jewish dispersion, is an little un-
derstood now as it wan of the pur-
blind kings and leaders of the Jews
and of the devastating but now for-
gotten rulers of Egypt and Assyria.
This drama speaks for Zweig's un-
derstanding of the futility of war
and the madness which vents itself
on the centuries old bearer of the
race's passions and sorrows,
"Jeremiah" is a book which states.
men would read with blushing cheeks.
But we sometimes wonder whether
statesmen ever read anything that is
meaningful and trenchantly true.
RUTENBERG PROJECT
RECEIVES BACKING
OF FOUR GROUPS
(Concluded from page 1.)
Bernard Mayer, A. Mazer, Isidore D.
Morrison, Samuel Raisler, Louis S.
Posner, Albert Rosenblatt, Samuel J.
Rosengohn. A. K. Rothstein, David
Shapiro, Stole & Shaffer, Charles
Zenker, New 'York City; Samuel Cu-
rtiss, George J. Klein, Charles Tiller,
Julius Tuteur, Harry Simon, Solo-
mon Ulmer, Cleveland; Ben Selling,
Portland, Ore.; Jacob Ginsberg, Phil-
adelphia; William Sauber, Green Bay,
Wis.
To Resume Normal Work.
The Palestine Co-operative Com-
pany will dispose of its stock in the
Rutenberg project to American sub-
scribers in order to enable it to con-
tinue its normal work in Palestine,
that of financing the Palestine Build-
ing and Loan Savings Association and
the Central Bank for Co-operative in-
stitutions and other operations of a
like nature, which it has promoted in
Palestine and which it believes will
be given new impetus by the con-
.traction work necessary to put the'
hydro-electric plan into operation.
Subscriptions are being received by
the Palestine Development Council,
15 William stret, New York City, or
by any of the Palestine Development
Leagues.
YOUNG JUDEA TO HOLD
SIXTEENTH CONVENTION
NEW YORK.—(.3. T. A.)—Pour-
teen thousand Jewish boys and girls
belonging to 750 different clubs in
the United States will be represented
at the sixteenth annual convention of
Young Judea, to be held at the Hotel
Scarborough, Long Branch, N. J., on
June 21, 22, 23, 24. Among the
guests will be Miss Henrietta Szold,
Nathan Straw, Dr. Chaim Greenberg,
representative of the Polish Tarbuth,
and Louis Lipsky.
Question:
A.
Answer s
What is meant
by Industrial Banking?
Industrial Banking
is a type of financing
that does for small
merchants, sa ► aried
employees and
professional people
what the commercial
banks do for large
business institutions.
The Industrial Bank
"The Bank of Persona7 Service"
1219 Griswold St.
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"At Capitol Park"
Industrial Bank Building
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