TIMPETB0f1;itifttin 80NICLE PAGE 1'UU It SCZ 1. 14140,-- mir ffeworrimmt &wawa; OW Ayr... rm... Anne PubilsiteA Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishes' Ce., Inc. — - _ and Editor Joseph J. Cummins, President — Jacob H. Scbekee, Bueiness M aaaaaa - --- •t the IlostoMce at Detroit, as Zeroed-lc matter March A 1916, Mich., under the Act of March 1, 1879. __— Entered General Offices and Publication Building 850 High Street West Telephone: Glendale 9300 Cable Address' Chronicle London Office 14 Stratford Place, London, W. l e Emilaaa ...... $3.00 Per Year Subscription, in Advance . ...... ......... ........ all correspondence and new. matter must reach this To insure puhlle.11on. offic• by Tuesday evening of ench week. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee correepondence on aublects of Mewl to the Jewish people, hut disclaims responalbility for an indoreernent of the • Iew• exprewed by the writer.. July 25, 1924 Tamuz 23, 5684 Jews and Business. Upon examination of anti-Semites one will find nc belief more fixed and deeply rooted than the one that all Jews are interested in business. Some go so far as to maintain, and with no little heat, that Jews are born with a predilection for commerce, trade and particu- larly money lending. The whole credo is as sound as the theory of ritual murder, Jewish world domination by the Elders of Zion, Nordic supremacy and the whole structure of anti-Semitic bigotry and hatred, It will be quite interesting to read the replies of our special- ists of hatred who may happen to come across a news report from Riga anent the choice of trades, occupa- tions and professions made by 804 Jewish children in Odessa. Of the numer 15.3 per cent chose factory work; 13,4 per cent elected medicine; 12.3 per cent want to be engineers; 22.4 per cent have a predilection for car- pentry, tailoring and similar occupations; 7.2 per cent chose the liberal professions; 3.5 per cent would like to be sailors; 3 per cent think the life the transport worker very attractive; 20 pe/cent have, chosen the army; 1,9 per cent are attracted to the land and 1.6 per cent are lured by politics as a, career. Not one of the Jewish children wants to enter business. Could a more crushing, smashing argument against the anti-Semitic credo be found? how can this qual- ity so prevalent and profoundly rooted in the Jew be so completely extripated that not a single Jewish child cares to make profits in trade, commerce and money lending? Will the anti-Semite recognize the facts or will he with his age-long blindness and casuistry try to find some way out to prove his absurdly stupid position? To us the matter is quite simple. In Russia the bus- iness groups are classed among the inferior; the term bourgeoisie is a term of reproach and opprobrium. The non-productiv• worker is denied political rights and has no social status. What is the consequence of the changed social system? Just what we find among the Jewish children. Lest we be misunderstood, the same attitude toward business was shown by the non-Jewish children although the percentage varied, due to group, social and economic point of view'. . The Jew, in the past, in nine cases out of ten, spurn- ed non-productive, parasitic occupations when he hail a choice of a productive, self-respecting and creative occupation. The history of Russia is one long, harrow- ing picture of restriction and discrimination in the mat- ter of occupation and residence. With the dawn of a new era, with restrictions removed and free choice al- lowed, we discover that Jewish children answer the call of their creative intelligence and genius with the same healthy choice as do their non-Jewish brothers and sisters. Jews as well as non-Jews are moved by biological necessity and will choose business when it is legal and socially approved as a means of earning a livelihood. When all work is open to us on equal terms we shall be found ever contributing our share to the social wel- fare. . . Evidences of this sort will silence anti-Semites more effectively than all the reasoned arguments we could possibly muster. A I } , rie- r s ex-. •eir so't or ,!.1/ /6 1%. ye t geA "A. ' - to save the world for Kultur. This whole structure is in the dust ; it came tumbling down over their heads, but they will not have it that there were not gangrene By ABRAHAM CAPLAN spots of non-German origin responsible for the catas- trophe. Only after all the specious reasoning and unfound- ranummannoranumamaimaannumaa the Church of Rome he would have Judaism hits often been referred to ed excuses have been dismissed and the German people Business. been chcsen by acclaim, for no man in realize that the fault of their defeat lay in their crass D OUMANI A of late has learned t a s a social religion and the Jew, by public life since Roosevelt had indi- lie same token, is from the standpoint materialistic and militarist position will the world know IN some valuable lessons. It has cated a more positive statesman-like f his religion a social being, just as that they have at last reached a point from which they come to believe in Roumania for Rou- strength than Smith and no man is =Mans. On the basis of this doctrine h e is a creature with a distinctive out- may proceed to build up a healthy imperishable nation it has passed a law requiring that SO more beloved by his constituency- 'E' 'h ook on the relations that exist be- which will live in amity with the sister nations of Eu- per vent of all foreign companies be and his constituency is the :nighty ween man and his Creator. But the owned by Roumanians. Quite a consist- stale of New York, a stole as big as '.< em is also a political being of a very rope. ent law this statute is, when it is oh- We are glad that the men who commanded our co- served that Roumanian capitalists a relent sort. Whether it is be to his many a European nation and more in- i religionists had the courage and honesty to repudiate lack sufficient money to buy up SO per a entient sscialisity, if the coining of fluential, materially and spiritually. cent of the foreign investments. Were But the World, as for as the advo- such accusations as were made against the Jewish sol- it not for the fact that the American a new word be permitted, or to his cacy of Smith was coneerned, lost out diers in the German armies, This attitude on the part interests aggrieved are chiefly the personal absorption in the develop- and another Kew York paper, headed ment of nations as political groups, or Oil and Baldwin Locomotive of the military experts presages a return to sanity. Standard by a Jew and easily the world's most Companies, the sovereign state of his especial love for country, Jewish The whole investigation when completed may show Queen Marie, the bright-eyed sorcer- thoroughgoing chronicler of events, nterest in politics is of a striking and prove to the German people that they must accept ess in imperial European circles, .haracter. won. The nomination of John W. might be assumed to devise methods their full share of the blame and responsibility for the by which she could control foreign Davis constitutes a tribute not only Recent occurrences in the political defeat. When they do this in the spirit of profiting businesses operating within its bord- arena are a case in point. Just what to a superior statesman but to the from experience and mistakes, the scapegoat complex ers without the prosaic proceeding of part Jews played in the dramatic con- public power of a great newspaper. out 80 per cent of their hold- For several years the Times saw in vention of the Democratic party has will be dissolved and this people whose genius is of a buying ings. But since the Standard Oil Com- high order will really attain to a position in the sun pany and the Baldwin Locomotive been lost sight of in the tense whirl John W. Davis a man fitted by educa- tion, scholarship, moral character and Company, not to mention lesser fry that kept the convention in a state of which no one will either deny or begrudge them. in the category of international busi- legal ability to hold office as president. With the prospects of a real peace now in the off- ness, are involved, it is logical to sup- fever heat for many days. And I re- That Adolph S. Ochs, the publisher of fer to the Democratic convention be- ing we may now hope that this will be the last blood pose that Washington will bring such cause (unlike the Republican conven- the Times, should espouse the cause of to bear on Premier Brati- libel emanating from Germany against our co-religion- pressure such a singularly capable man as Da- tion, which was a staid and clearly ano's government as to result in an abatement of the rigor which Rouma- vis does not surprise a Jew who knows ists. fore-ordered affair and lacked the AS WE GO ALONG nia has imposed on foreign enter- prises. Bratiano, out of the goodness of his heart and in view of the con- cord that long has subsisted between America and Roumania, may con- clude to allay the difficulty which his parliament created. Speaking of Roumania, it may be recalled that quite a number of Jews were done to death and others were thrown off running trains recently in a sort of holiday outburst on the part of Roumanian folk. The perpetra- tion of the outrages was definitely proved, despite the fact that the Rou- manian minister to the United States, son-in-law of Herbert Henry As- quith, former prime minister of Great Britain and leader of the Lib- eral party, persistently denied it. The upper regions in Washington diplo- matic circles were not set a-flutter when the reports of the Roumanian debauch were being broadcast the world over. We must not fail to point out, how- ever, that in the language of inter- national affairs the word pogrom, which usually refers to attacks on Jews by organized bands of ruffians, not infrequently acting in response to the conniving wink of officials, pos- sesses It trivial meaning. Our Awakening. The Jew in American Politics feeblest vestige of uncertainty and what the traditional Jewish attitude emotion) it offered an opportunity always has been to men who are to be for the projection of individual power vested with executive powers. I am and the display of psychological prow- not insisting that Mr. Ochs looks to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zion- Jewish tradition as the lodestar of his ess. ist Organization, was tendered a public reception upon mil pities as a publisher, but in his en- It is perhaps not generally known thusiasm for i man of the type of that the Democratic phaform was his return to London after his American tour on behalf DaVis he was 'entirely consistent. written largely by the virile and bril- of the Koren Ilayesod. Among other things he sold, Adolph S. Ochs is not only a great liant pen of Samuel Untennyer, even newspaper publisher but he is not the "American Jewry as I observed it, is alive to Jewish though he may not have been on the least significant Jew among the Jews committee which framed the alocu. problems and to Palestine. This is due to the increase of America. went. Indeed, I do not recall that he The nomination of Davis is to be of anti-Semitism, the new immigration bill passed by was even n delegate to . the convention. credited to the unflagging publication . . . . But his ability as a writer of forceful Congress and to the realization which is growing great- his achieve- S. English, his widely accepted lender- er that Palestine is the only place where the existence ments as member of Congress, as' so- ship in the liberal political forces in 1 icitor general of the United States, , of the Jewish people can be secure." his party and in the country at large as ambassador to Great Britain, as a Q and his eha mpionship of movements As to any increase of anti-Semitism in America we highly intelligent statesman and as a for breaking down monopolies and the figure free from attitudes that an hon.' are persuaded that despite the Ku Klux Klan, Henry influence of what fromently has been °sable num need quibble about. His referred to as "invisible government,' Ford and the pseudo-anthropologists such is really not selection may also be credited in part ,Pd explain the frequent use made of Mtn • the case. There has been a marked heightening of to the "discovery" of him made by by hiS party in New York State and other newspapers but it is generally te Jewish consciousness with the consequent responsive. at the national conventions. agreed that nothing worked so vigor- ness of greater numbers of our co-religionists to any But a more interesting phase, per. ous a magic on the imagination of haps, of the national Democratic sit. the delegates, once they had been re- discriminatory expression or action. This responsiveness uation was the part which two Jews lieved of the dark influence of the on the part of our people may be easily construed as played in the pre-convention tints and Elan question, than the clear-cut edi- indicative of a wide-spread anti-Semitism in America, during the convention itself. Those torial advocacy made by the New- who followed the development of York Times, and no doubt Chaim Weizmann, who is after all a events know that the New York World Who Calvin Coolidge and Robert stranger in America, may have easily confounded Jew- has set its heart on the nomination of M. La Follette are is 'known . to the Career. ish consciousness and sensitiveness with anti-Semitism. Governor Alfred E. Smith. Why the American public and will he more ful- HE death of Israel de Haan, the World, which may he said , to have ly understood as the forthcoming cam- leader of the Agudath Israel who Ile may have been led to believe that anti-Semitism been transformed into the mast cour- paign develops. • Jews will study the carried on vehement warfare against has increased because of the antics of the Klan, the ful- the Zionist movement, serves to bring ageous new:paper in America by one qualifications' of candidates ' as not of the youngest but not the least bra- • other part of the American electorate. mination of Ford-the-saviour and the exalters of Nor- to the attention of the Jewish public liant journalists in the country, Welt- • The instinct for independence mid the man, a strange career and dicism, but he mistook noise for substance and cross n an singular er Lippman, should have desired the desire for men properly fitted for pub- almost pathetic revelation of the burnings for the stake. The Jew is accepted in America, vagaries that recur in Jewish life. selection of Governor Smith is clear, lie service nre sufficiently marked ill It knew him to be one of the ablest but that is not sufficient; mere toleration is not the goal Beginning as a Zionist, he deserted men in American public life. It PAW Jewish totes to be a cause for rejoice ing. They will search out the merits Zionist movement after quarreling of Jewry. Equality in all matters where equality is the in him an honest and wise statesman. -: of candidates., and inquire into what with the leader in Holland, where de possible must be the ideal which American Jewry must Hann was born. In his youth he wets It observed in him a sagheious inter- they stand for. They will demand preter of political progress and social justice and clarity of view with regard atheist and, to be consistent, mar- ever hold before it. advance. But it desired him for other to vital issues. They Will exact abso- ried a Catholic girl, Ten years ago Is Dr. 1Veizmarin correct when he says that the re- he reverted to Judaism and became an reasons but equally insistent. It want- lute candor of statement upon the ed hits to be the sttindard bearer of a alization is growing greater and greater that Palestine intensely observant Orthodox Jew. great party heat more than any question of the right of men in Amer- ica to live that religious life which , now that he is dead, his C atholic is the only place where the existence of the Jewish And other man, Ile arms the symbol of the history, tradition or personal intelli- wife comes forward to claim his body people can be secure? Are the Jews of America really and prepare it for burial in a Catho- emancipation of political interests gence and inclination render becom- the subtle, venomous and indi- ing to them. coming to the conclusion that the only place where they lic cemetery. Next to his death, which frisn rect bigotry of those elements in Am- In an address before the Jewish was caused by an assassin's bullet, the can live as Jews is Palestine? erica who as communicants of Protes- Historical Society of England in 1520, most pathetic thing about de llaan tant faiths haws just begun to think Mr. Davis, who was then Ambassador The implications of this statement are numerous, was his life. in terms which Cardinal Torquemada to Great Britain, said in part: In some respects de Ilaan's life par- far-reaching and profound. What are the Jewish peo- allels that of the distinguished Jewish and Ferdinand and laabella of Spain "Washington, addressing the Jews ple of America doing to substantiate this statement? publicist, Nathan Birnbaum. Birn- (teemed worthy of mankind and pleas- in 17511, expressed the hope that the - ing, in the eyes of God. . baum, too, sought intellectual freedom sons of Abraham might firid there a Are any large numbers who believe in security in Pal- land in which they would find no man in negation and substituted atheism The World -and when I say the estine only making preparations to leave this country, for positive belief. But In his biter to molest them and make them afraid. Wart(' I mean Walter Lippman- let alone actually leaving the land? We unhesitatingly years he became successively a nat- wanted so to clarify the American po- And tram that (lay to this, there is no and a foremost member of the office, however lofty, to which a Jew litical situation as ti, leave no rem- say "no." And are those who are making no such prep- ionalist Agudath Israel in Europe, visiting may not aspire: no public duty, how- nant of doubt in the mind of the think- arations and who are not leaving, acting as though they America several years ago with a ing voter as to the genuine content of ever humble, which the Jews of Am- intended to abandon their Judaism in America, to lose group of rabbis. Birnbaum donned American citizenship and as to the erica are not willing to perform. And shawl and phylacteries and these men are with you not only be- duty of the man and woman who their identity? To both these questions our answer is prayer found his final goal in devout prayer. cause you both profess the sante creed, would consider first the welfare of an unambiguous negative. Different people will view men the reverence the sante traditions, cherish America and its institutions and not and de Ilaan from a var- the same ideals, sound across the same those loyalties which are separate and If Weizmann had stated that Palestine is one of Birnbaum iety of points of view. Some will see sea the same cry 'the God of Israel is distinct from matters of government. the places where the existence of the Jewish people the workings of an insistent theism The World had consecrated itself to One,' but because the Jews of the can be secure, we would offer no dissent ; but when he in the minds of thinking men, provid- the task of rescuing American values United States, having entered Amer- their intellectual efforts bring them km, have become Americans, and those from spurious doctrine and restoring says the only place, he makes the Palestinian project ed to the proper state of humility. Others having lodged here have remained the fair name of the great republic next to impossible of accomplishment, for there is not will discern a process to which they of the west to its fernier glory. British. apply anything but gracious terms. "Those Americans hold out to you That it had nearly succeeded is a Zionist who has visited Palestine who would expect the hand of fellowship, side by side known to everyone who has sufficient Placing the Blame. that land to accommodate the whole of Jewry. Perhaps Protection. with all our countrymen, animated by intelligence to rend the obvious. Al- HE Rabbinical Assembly, which firm convictions and ideals of the fu- fred E. Smith would have been 190111i- Before the great war Germany had persuaded her- Weizmann did not mean this so literally, but in his en- consists of rabbis affiliated with ture. Less than this, I cannot find it hated hail he not been a Catholic. thusiasm he made an overstatement which is much self that she was a nation of supermen. This same na- more serious than he had probably intended. the conservative wing in Judaism, at in my heart to say." Were he anything but a member of its recent conference resolved to con- tion hail develdpcc•a scientific technique which carried We emphatically deny that the existence of Jewry sider means for protecting Judaism the Jewish public against the ir- litters Drought to their attention , investigationN . of ri* in America cannot be secure. We know that Judaism and responsible acts of men who set them- PAGANISM VERSUS HEBRAISM h'. .y had ecome overbearing, to the, last detail.' can and will flourish and grow in America, creating its selves up as theological or communal meticulous and rash to a poirrtiiiyond endurance. The own forms, developing its own particular genius and oracles. Many a so-called rabbi has discredit upon the Jewish contributing its share as an integral part of American brought By RABBI LOUIS I. NEWMAN war came. This unconquerable supernation was de- name and not a few unprincipled was- trels have fatted on the wide berth of life. feated. They cannot reconcile themselves to the crush- privilege which Jews permit in relig- Palestine offers a secure existence for the harried ious end communal affairs. How the ing loss of prestige and world domination. All sorts of has not hero the foe of the spontane- In the current controversies in the pogrom-ridden population of Europe. It holds forth Rabbinical Assembly purposes to Christian ous and gladsome enjoyment associ- Church, one of the most in- fanciful and bizarre reasons are now offered to excul- - check the criminal freedom of irre- ated with the Hellenic or Pagan tra- for many American Jews the promise of a spiritual re teresting points of debate has been the sponsible men posing as iabbis has dition. Matthew Arnold's famous dic- proposal of Rev. Dr. Guthrie to revive pate the Germans from responSibility. birth, but it is not for us the only place where the Jew not been made clear. It is apparent, tum: the Greek stood for the holiness the Hellenic and Pagan elements in The charge was made before a parliamentary com- ish people can be secure. however, that a step in the direction of beauty and the Jew for the beauty American Christianity. "('an the of propriety will be taken when the of holiness, does not signify that the mittee investigating Germany's breakdown during the modern Christian," he asks, "afford With the passage of the immigration bill we are Jews of America learn that they must war, that the cowardice and unfitness of Jewish sol- made more alive to the greater responsibilities which set up n system of religious authority to have only one eye? The Hebraic Jew found beauty only in his faith. eye is open. We must lift the eyelids Men and women the world over are diers caused the defeat of Germany. German military devolve upon us to keep burning the religion, philos _ to be vested in men who will he re- of its Hellenic eye. There is no need virtually the sante, regardless of the sponsible to Jewish law and Jewish experts testifying before the committee stated that the for war between our Hebraic and Hel- creed which guides then,. When the ophy, poetry and literature which is distinctly our con honor. As long as the individual Jew accusation was absolutely unfounded. In support of tribution to world culture, but with this greater con - considers himself competent to act in lenic heritage. Let there be neither ancient Hassidic Jew opposed sculp- an Ilebraic nor an Hellenic monop• ture and painting, it was not through matters as a free lance and scoffs their statements they cited the fact that 96.000 Jewish sciousness which is everywhere apparent we shal I all oly." disdain for beauty, but because of the at the idea of national regulation, we soldiers voluntarily enlisted, being 12 per cent of all achieve the unity and fulfillment of a praiseworty demoralizing influences connected Dr. Guthrie's preachment is of spec- shall witness from time to time the therewith; when he refused to partic- voluntary enlistments. Four-fifths of the Jewish sol- Judaism, ial interest to us because of its his- doings of self-styled sages who cause ipate in Greek games, he did so as a toric and contemporary background. the Jewish cheek to burn with shame. diers fought at the front, and over 12,000 were killed; protest against laxity and license. But Too many of the ills of present-day — - 35,000 were decorated for bravery, 1,000 receiving the today, when our code of personal mor- life are laid at the door of the "Hebra- Canes. The Prince of Wales, at the recent Olympic game s ality is somewhat higher, and art and ic" factor in Christianity. Thus in Iron Cross. Twenty-three thousand received promo- EXT to a vigorous shock of hair, sports are not synonymous with de- the recent discussions concerning the in Colombes. France, declared that British sports look - preferably in an unkempt con- tion to the first class, 2,000 becoming officers. cadence, the Jew has entered zealous- "Blue Laws" and the prohibition of • dition, conies the cane as an index of eel to Harold M. Abrahams, the fleet-footed Jewish These facts are not recited to prove that our co- ly into the realm of the fine arts, and amusements en Sunday, the rigorist 0 the man who would be beholden as attitude has been stigmatized as "Pur- has become a great devotee of health- religionists are not cowardly or unfit or to prove that sprinter• for vindication. Abrahams proceeded to d Men must be identified learned. giving sports. itan" or "Judaic." In the field of his part by winning the 100-meter race. Since we have somehow. They cannot resort to vo- in all lands we contribute our share in times of war as drama, the cause of "censorship" has In the realm of religion, we do not on their achievements. They well as in times of peace, but rather for the purpose of always regarded Wales a truly princely gentleman, we calizing been allied with "Ilebraism," and the stand for coldness and suppression. would violate all the canons of good showing how purblind and prejudiced are these people, hope that his admiration for Abrahams will not be con- taste, humility and true culture. They strict reform element, demanding a We have a warm Oriental apprecia- and ascetic outlook on life, tion of the beauty of living, and take and to what an extent the illusion of grandeur held , strued by the Morning Post as a mark of decadence on must remain mute except when they suppressive has been attacked as "Hebraic." delight in the carnival spirit of Pur- have legitimate cause for discourse. them. It seems inconceivable to them that the defeat the part of the British crown. The use of these epithets creates im and our festivals of home and com- And in the absence of the spoken or false antitheses, harmful to the Jew munity. The contrast between the was due to their own limitations and weakness. written word and until the careless and unworthy of his neighbor. The celebration of the Civil or Pagan New world discovers whom it neglects, it The theory of omnipotence and infallibility had be- The lowly Nazarene preached the gospel of turn- is necessary, by means of fine and be- Christian world, as the great Unitar- Year, and the Jewish and spiritual 'come so thoroughly ingrained in the German mind of ing the other cheek ; Israel practices it with magnificent coming indirection, to suggest to men ian, Travers llarford, has pointed out, New Year illustrates most aptly the the military caste headed by the Kaiser that in their gestures. The Straus and the Sachs families have that the votaries of culture are pre- has done an historic injustice to the contrast between the Jewish and Hel- ancient exponents of Jewish "Puri- pared for service to the several arts. lenic interpretation of life. It will be blasphemous arrogance they inscribed in their belts contributed one half million dollars to the ten million If a man be bereft of the gift of flow- tanism," "Pharisees", by making them a sorry day for Christianity when its "Gott mit uns." They had not only a monopoly on dollar endowment fund of Harvard University. May ing hair, let him carry a cane and equivalent to hypocritical lip-observ- Greek elements will weaken the He- it a part of his intellectual be- ers who exalt the letter above the brew tradition; from both ways of brains, ability and scientific knowledge but even God we ever return kindness for unkindness, magnanimity make ing, no that all the world may see and spirit. The Jew has stood for a stern, life, the modern believer must choose himself was aligned with them in their holy Crusade for pusillanimity. know and understand. self-disciplining view of life, but he the beat. T T a° N lc. re. Ve. re .16, re. le/. g .15 res Jolire . • -I*,