PITROIT MS ► 01 RO N IC LE =nom. PAGE FOUR 4 rer SgVi?AsN•Vier - -- - 4ZiV 7 IRP RIC hi l ntO EEutawe L onme ,.kt, mime ea woos. • Publiebed Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Cm, Ins. Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor Jacob H. Selman., Business Manager t■ X..r./ v. ...kr , should do nothing to invite or attract. and that as a spiritual institution it takes no cognizance of men other than in their spiritual relationships. If they did this it would be tantamount to intellectual blindness or, at best. short-sightedness. The fact that they dis- cussed the above enumerated subjects indicates that they have realized the need for an approach to Jewish labor which requires tact, sympathy and understand- ing. The Christian churches have for some time past realized that they have a function to perform in the relations between capital and labor, and that in any disputes that may arise they cannot take an aloof and detached position. They must use their ollices to bring about a better understanding and kindlier feeling in the heat of a bitter strike or controversy over factory conditions. If they are remiss in their duty, and fail to carry out their obligations, they cannot hope to have the trust and confidence of labor, and in many of the eastern communities Jewish labor bulks very large and important. We rather expected the discussions on Jewish labor and the synagogue from the eastern seaboard. It brings home to us the conviction that the American rabbinate has a fruitful field for its numerous talents among or- ganized Jewish workers which will bring greater re- wards in human happiness and salvation than almost any activity which has engaged the genius of the rab- binate from the day of its inception. In this work may they bring all the wisdom and patience with which many generations of study has endowed and equipped them. AS WE GO ALONG .0: - 1% [ ezi • 4eulskcs.,,A1‘.1.g.. , Facing The Future With Free Loans By ABRAHAM CAPLAN of a relief agency, he is tempted to In the Talmudic tractate "Sab- yield to a mental supineness which bath" Rabbi Abbe, in the name of bodes no good for him, his family or Rabbi Simeon ben Lakesh, declares: the community. HE Socialist party of New York General Offices and Publication Building "Ile who advances a loan is greater Let it not be thought that relief I state nominated a l'resbyterian funds are distributed freely to those 850 High Street West than he who gives charity and he who minister for governor, Jews for lieu- Cable Address: Chronicle who but ask for assistance. The ques- Telephone: Glendale 9300 puts in capital for partnership with tenant-governor and attorney-gen- London Office: tion is whether men and women who the person in distress) is more ineri- eral, a German for treasurer, a Rus- 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England would spurn the good offices of re- sian for state engineer, a Negro for torius than all others." This thought lief workers should. in times of stress has been stressed by Jewish sages secretary of state and for controller Subscription, in dvance..........._... ............... ....... ..$3.00 Per Year and depression, suffer needlessly or a woman whose name suggests that and thinkers for centuries and has re- by means of properly arranged loans To boom publiratIon, all correspondence and news matter must mach this she corner from Anglo-Saxon stock. ceived elaborate and emphatic em- ogee by Tuesday evening of each week. tide themselves over until more pros- Here is the cosmopoltian concept put bodiment in the various legal codices, perous times approach and, as hap- int Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on eubjects of interest forward with a vehement will and, for such as the Shulchan Aruch of Joseph n to the ewleh people, but disclaim esposibility for an Indorsement of the pens every once in a while, succeed Caro and the Guide of the Perplexed all its obvious effort at showing the views morninr g by the writers. in turning the tide ie their fortunes. equality of racial stocks in the gov- by Maimonides, as well as in the ethi- The need for extend:inti loans along ernment of a community, is as de- cal works of medieval and modern Ab 8, 5684 wider lines than the Ilebrew Free August 8, 1924 cisively American as anything any Jewish writers. The superior charac- Loan Association is able to do at other party could execute. In states ter of a loan over that of mere alms- present is marked. The probable ten- like New York, where variety of giving has impressed the Jew almost dency towards a diminution in those racial origins is so markedly and from the very beginning anti found cases requiring the attention of re- abundantly represented. the older expression in the free loan agencies One of the back-stage revelations of the Democratic lief agencies will by no means lessen parties often have resorted to deal- that obtained in every Jewish com- convention which created a genuine sensation was the the need for a free loan association ing out positions on local tickets to munity in the world and that were as in Detroit with a larger capital fund representative of large racial much a part of the Jewish communal advice given by Samuel Untermyer to William Gibbs than is now available. Indeed, the groups with a view of enhancing organization as the religious school, McAdoo that he should not antagonize or even oppose very growth in the number of fami- their chances of election. But as yet the hosptial, the home for the aged lies able to shift for themselves will the Klan. The motives of Mr. Untermyer are not ques- they have not seen fit to nominate and the asylum for orphans. Indeed, call for a financial agency that will the free loan concept was given re- for en office on the state ticket a tioned, but his wisdom is far from sound or approved. enable the small buainss man and the member of the colored race. It is not iterated attention because of the fact He no doubt predicated his views upon the theory able-bodied workman to secure, in unlikely that either or both of the that it involved a method that had time of economic dullness or unem- that the Klan would become innocuous if ignored. That major parties in their heart of hearts greater potential good than any other ployment, a loan which serves as a and at one time or another wished to form of charity. theory has its merits, but in the case of the Klan the bulwark against discouragement and win over the colored element to its The halo that surround's the free vice goes deeper and further than the Klan itself, in- which they cannot obtain at banks. side by selecting a negro for a state loan idea is explained on the ground The very economic progress which has asmuch as the Klan spirit means an intolerant, isola- office. That they failed to do so woe that instinctively the Jew shrinks marked the adjustment of the erst- l i merely because courage of a suffl- front the thought of asking for alms tionist and bigoted attitude toward the racial, religious while Jewish immigrant in this coun- and that he would resort to unusual ciently high order was lacking. The try, the very gains which the com- and national problems in American life. Socialists, in this respect, live up to efforts, in times of distress, to win munity. as a result of this progress, their principles and the cosmopolitan self-dependence. The Jew prefers to We are of the opinion that this actual Klan strength Both Russia and Poland have been intensely agi- character of their ticket in New York be free from obligation in the matter has achieved will have to be main- is not formidable. The ludicrous, though often tragic, tained. The free loan method of self- state can hardly be regarded as self- of securing his daily bread and finds help, properly extended and wisely demonstrations of the Elan are evidences of excited in- tated in recent weeks over the question of minority lan- ish political stratagem. no greater satisfaction than in devis- guages. After much discussion and no little bitter- employed, should become a perma- ing means for earning his living with- fantilism confined for the most part to the intellec- nent source of economic power fur out the shadow of charity darkening tually- starved and entertainment-neglected small com- ness, the Soviets decided that Yiddish was to be one those who front time to time may his spirit. "Better bread and water, Decade. have occasion to apply for loans. only that I might not need to ask for munities. If we were asked to take a position on the of the official languages, while Poland decided against Yiddish as an oflicial minority speech. Many are hard Thus it is that the effort of the THE way certain people and goy- charity," is the precise utterance of Klan, as a phenomenon of the mischievous activity of Hebrew Free Loan Association to 51e- '. ernments act toward one another men and women who possess the im- put to reconcile these decisions in view of the facts morons, we would unhesitatingly advocate a policy of cure. through life memerships of memorial aversion of the Jew for the suggest that the world war did superficially known. Yiddish is the tongue of a com- would $250 each. a larger capital fund is bounty of others. Many were the not begin just 10 years ago but that Fa ignoring it. But when we realize that all the reaction- not merely another "drive" for occasions upon which I have heard it was the Battle of Thermoplyae, for ary and restrictionist elements are favorable to these paratively large number of Polish people, while a com- money, but a wise, helpful and con- these self-same words spoken, and the all its distant pertinence to the strug- irresponsible terrorists a situation fraught with serious paratively small number of the inhabitants of Russia gling present, From July 20, 1914, strength of this truth has been im- structive move for insuring strength ry -consequences faces us which we must heed, and heed speak Yiddish. Russia has from the very beginning of when Austria declared war on Serbia, pressed upon me in connection with and self-reliance among an appre- ciable number of Detroit Jews. Speak- the effort that is being made by the the August, 1924, conference well. We cannot afford for our own safety and se- Sovietism ridiculed the idea of bourgeois democracy, until ing from a practical point of view, a Hebrew Free Loan Association to in- by British Prime Minister Mac- calling it a fraud and delusion. At the same time it called free loan fund of, let us say, $100,- curity, and for the larger security and safety of the Donald to consider the Dawes scheme crease its capital funds in order to recognizes a fundamental of the democratic creed— 000 in a community the size of De- do a greater amount of constructive for German reparation payments, country, to permit this unequivocal challenge to pass troit would constitute a sort of in- Jewish good than its present funds much has happened to deprive men the recognition of the rights of minorities, while Po- unnoticed, The menace touches in a seriously intimate surance against economic weakening of their moiety of optimism and lit- permit. among that large element of depend- way the very heart of all the free institutions which land, ostensibly a republic, goes on the theory that only tle to inspire them with hope for a One of the distinct contributions able, hard-working men and women mastery over human folly. The which Jews have made to modern have been so painfully and laboriously built up. And those minorities which are recognized by the majority final to which I have already referred. But war that was intended to end war methods of social betterment is pre- it is no idle statement, but one backed by sad experi- have any rights. just., at this moment the request of has been succeeded by a war—a cisely this idea of free loans. They Although we have ever objected to the indefensible the Ilehrew Free Loan Association is righteous war—that, without guns seemed to appreciate more keenly ence, that these hard won victories of freedom are ever remarkably modest, since it asks for and submarines and without destroy- than others the psychological element practices of Soviet Russia, there seems a definite real- in a precarious state, likely to be torn from us by the an increase of its canital resources human beings and their handi- involved. A man or woman in whom ism and sanity in their actions when they encounter ing from $17,000 to $25.000 through life least breath of reaction and tyranny. work, hopes to destroy the common there dwells sufficient pride and self- an inevitable situation. But, on the other hand, the memberships of $250. This means enemies of all men—selfishness, hate reliance to wish to work out his or The spiritual kindred of the Klan are prepared to that when 32 men anti women of De- and the pride which begets the whole her salvation is, in time of depres- impose a hard and inelastic conformity upon the whole Poles, despite their lip service to democracy, seem gamut of the unlovely fears and sion or adversity, best aided by a troit Jewry, sensing the practical wis- country and in their un-democratic hysteria are able to never to recognize that occasionally there must be an rancors that are familiar to all the loan adequate to meet his imperative dom of investing $250 against eco- nomic disturbance among large num- adherence to democratic principles. needs and not by the softening pro- world. rob un of those rights which are really precious. bers of Jews, have subscribed as life cess of charitable attention. Once a Compared with Poland, Russia has indeed an in- The Klan was heartened beyond its most sanguine members, the association will cease man passes from a condition of tem- telligent government. The mark of intelligence is the to ask for more. For one, I hope Muscle. porary difficulty to a condition of rel- expectations by the vote of the convention, because that Detroit Jews will view this free ative self-dependence as a result of a capacity to learn from past experience. Russia under they readily accept the decision as one favorable to HE Finns, having won pre-emi- loan question as I to and that there free loan, which involves no obliga- nence at the recent Olympic them on account of their strength and soundness. They the Soviets has made blunders, committed atrocities will be as many new life memberships tion other than that of paying it back without number, but hardly ever the same atrocity or as there are practical, level.headed games in France, somehow must be in small weekly instalments over a will not have it that McAdoo did not indorse them— and social-minded Jews in this city. credited with Nordic eminence. News- comparatively long period, he is re- only ignored them. They will not have it that many blunder. Lenin, who started an uncompromising move- paper columns already are being de- stored to a position in the community I do not know all of them. I know who voted against the resolution actually repudiated ment, ended by inaugurating the New Economic Policy. voted to articles "proving" that the which is clearly desirable. Once a there are as many times 32 as to out- are not what they were thought man becomes inured to the habit of number the memberships of the their practices and philosophy. If for no other reason He discovered that the principle of communism would Finns to be but are what they ought to be House of Representatives and of the receiving charitable aid, even if his than because of the exaggerated importance which not work and had the acumen and courage to change in view of their prowess on the ath- condition warrants the ministration British I'arliament. the system to meet the prevailing conditions. In prac- letic field. The spreading of Nordic they now feel, it would have been much better had tically every activity in Russia we find modifications jam on the bread of Finnish pride McAdoo not ignored them. may be altogether gratuitous on the There is, however, a consideration of much more and attempts at accommodation. Not so in Poland. part of the scientists who have to They learn nothing from experience, for they are ani- readjust their doctrine in order to serious import for us as Jews involved in our attitude mated by the ancient Bourbon philosophy of "learn be in keeping with perversely upset- toward the Klan. ting events. Those Jewish athletes, By RABBI RUDOLPH COFFEE like the Maccabees anti the Ilakoach, This organization flaunts to the whole world its 100 nothing and forget nothing." We have much greater hopes from Russia than we who defeated university and army (Copyright by Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1924.) per cent Protestant white supremacy. The Jew, among athletes in Austria, France and Eng- others, is of a lesser and inferior breed. Ile is only in have from Poland, inasmuch as Russia is sufficiently land with astonishing ease, would also defeat of the entire re , olution, we, The annual meeting of the Cen- intelligent to learn from experience, whereas Poland have to be admitted into the Valhalla the country by sufferance, and as long as he behaves therefore, omitted reference to the tral Conference of American Rabbis, of flaxen-haired youths of valor. has not the capacity to learn from any source. League of Nations. held this year M Cedar Paint, Ohio, himself according to the standard of the greater breeds Open the door a bit wider, ye scien- The resolution as presented to the will chiefly be remembered because In the meantime the struggle for freedom goes on he may live here. They arrogate to themselves arbi- tists; you may be called upon to re- conference and unanimously adopted, of its ringing and definite declaration unabated in both lands, with much brighter prospects ceive dark-hued runners and vaulters trary authority beyond that of the constituted powers while unalterably opposed to war in on behalf of peace; together with its prowess puts the strength of principle. does not profess an extreme genuine insistence on positive efforts and punish, boycott and bedevil where there is no in- of a better day for our people in the former land of whose the ancient Greek lads to timid stand. The Quakers, for example, leading to the abolition of war. The the Czars than in the land of virulent anti-Semitism, shame. fraction of the legal or ethical code. will take no part in aggressive war- temper of. the rabbis was unmistak- Poland. Are we to accept the sufferance attitude, and be able, even though the hundred or 'fare. They are consistently as well as persistently opposed to all manner more men in attendance had honest satisfied? Are we to admit that at best we can achieve Blessing. of wars, anti have won the admira- differences of opinion regarding de: only a place of inferiority? Are we to hide behind T was appropriate enough that Ber- tion of the entire world by their re- tails. the numerically larger groups which are attacked by nerd M. Baruch should confer his ligious consistency anti wonderful nard At the opening session of the con- ministry of the poor in devastated blessing upon Georges Clemenceau ference I projected this subject upon the Klan and tell them to do'battle for us against this Lord Birkenhead finds, after a visit to America, Europe. and recall the somewhat dimmed the assembly during.a reading of the abortive and reactionary thing called the Klan? If that England has better Jew's than America. It may glory of the man "who saved the day report of the committee on social jus- Our resolution recognizes the pos- we do accept the sufferance attitude, the inferior po- displease many of us and others may be incensed by for France." Baruch goes - into tice. I moved, although the mbtion sibility of a defensive war anti real- rhapsodies as he reports his interrupted the regular order of busi- izes that men will rush to the defense sition, and hide behind the other groups, then we really the invidious comparison so uncomplimentary to us. veritable visit to the old philosopher, who "is. that a special committee be ap- of our flag in the hour of national cannot ask for equality and the rights and .privileges What makes it so authentic is the fact that he has at peace with mankind," whose "soul ness, pointed at once to explain ' Israel's peril. At the same time we 'point . guaranteed to every American citizen. had much time and many opportunities to observe Eng- and heart know no rancor," who position on the subject of war and out the insidious clangers of propa- tolerant sympathy surveys the peace. There is no theme of greater ganda and feeding the people with• We cannot be indifferent. We cannot ignore this lish Jewry at its worst as well as at its best, while the "with world." It is strange how conveni- or more vital concern at this moment poisoned information, such as was nightmare thing. We must join with all the elements short stay here enabled him to see us only with our ently the tiger becomes the trustful to American citizens and to our Jew- very considerably done in the world placed in the sufferance, inferior categories and elimi- company manners and on our best behavior, and yet lamb and the master of Machiavelian ish people. As the religious leaders war. Therefore, our resolution de- regards with soulful eyes of liberal Judaism, Israel's attitude mands that before war be declared nate from the American scene all arbitrary, undemo- he tells us we are not up to the mark of our British diplomacy the sorrows and the struggles of the should be very . definitely expressed the whole !subject be thrown open for cratic and bigoted influences which have grown as co-religionists. world of men. Before long, Raymond and made clear to all. national discussion and that no man will be visited by reverenc- be prevented from expressing his noxious weeds since the end of the war. If British Jewry were not culturally superior to Poincare , The resolution was carried and a ing followers who will speak of the candid opinions, though they be di- committee was appointed consisting And in the struggle with prejudice and darkness American Jewry it would be really amazing, for the overflowing milk of human kindness rectly contrary to the viewpoint of . of Rabbis James Q . 'Tolle, chairman , • d ' , of the much misunderstood mathe- Rudolph I. Coffee, Morris S. Lazarom . government officials. Such a. policy, we, too, shall achieve a finer appreciation and under- community is much older, more thoroughly integrate standing of free institutions and democratic gospels, more self-sufficient. surer of itself and invested with a matician who was premier of France. Gerson B. Levi and George Solomon. if carried out, renders war practically impossible because the lies put forth a When the committee assembled to for no man can employ righteous, free and democratic self-respect based upon past achievement and present in Europe 10 years ago this month prepare the resolution, all five men Franchise. means without at the same time becoming imbued with could have been refuted with open accomplishment. were unanimous in the determination and honest exchanges of opinion, and UPPOSE the Michigan Legislature . to bring in a statement which would a spirit of righteousness, freedom and democracy. We called attention to the fact in these columns war possibly prevented. The only passed a law disfranchising for, ' show that Jewish teachings stood for In the long, tortuous and ever-upward travels of that British Jewry, only one-tenth as numerous as armed force we favor is a small guard years the voter who sheerly' ne- peace and its leaders should aggres- for police duty. Beyond that, arbi- the Jew throughout the centuries he has never been American Jewry, had a larger number of representa- two elected to vote. What a howl of in- sively further the ends of peace. We tration and peaceful means will suf- far away, when his fellow men struggled for freedom tives in the House of Commons than we have in the dignation and remonstrance there; should look upon war as wholly de- fice. and democracy. In this instance let it not be said that House of Representatives. This fact may have jolted would rise. Impassioned references . structive. If our resolution fell short in one would be made to the violation of the We were very definite that, before we did not play our part manfully and well. respect, and I personally regret this some of us who have delusions of grandeur. but now constitutional rights of American Congress ever again votes to enter it failed specifically to ob- comes Lord Birkenhead and tells us in unambiguous citizens which such a law would ren- - a war, there should be a referendum omission, ject to that movement which, in the resent. Bolshevism. Prussianism, whereby the people would decide this language that our British brethren are intellectually name of military training, spreads monarchism, tyrrany (the latter word question, instead of our law-makers propaganda on the campus of Rabbi Aaron G. Robinson of Newark discussed the and culturally superior to us. This is a blow to our uttered with "r's" as sharply as by a being the final judges. We were ab- war many large American universities. villain in a melodrama) and other swollen vanity and overfed conceit. To many it will solutely opposed to private individu- subject "How to Attract Labor to the Synagogue,' This movement really calls for our like epithets would be hurled at the als and firms making firearms and strong condemnation because if one Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York spoke on the "In- no doubt mean an awakening, to others it may bring lawmakers. other implements of war. In other theory is absolutely exploded by re- But, sir or madam, do you know words, we frankly believed that dustrial Revolution and the Synagogue" and Rabbi a revaluing of values. In our headlong pursuit of ma- that cent events it is that old-time slogan: in the last presidential election and commercial considerations "In time of peace, prepare for war." Alter E. Landesman of Brooklyn read a paper on "The terial success, so highly appraised, we have come to more citizens of this country eligible money are contributing factors to warfare. the conclusion that we are the last word in magnifi- We now know that preparation for to cast a ballot stayed away from the Attitude of Jewish Organized Labor to the Synagogue." In view of the terrible poisons war provokes and leads to war. polls than took part in the voting? cence and excellence, culturally and intellectually. No, these were not the subjects discussed by the con- which are now being manufactured As rabbis and teachers in Israel, Every man or woman who voiced his If Lord Birkenhead had made the comparison be- or and which will be used with appalling who consecrate our lives to expound vention of the Living Synagogue in Poltava, Russia, her opinion in the election was results in the next war, if there be historic traditions of our faith, but at a meeting of the Rabbinical Assembly of the tween America and England we should have placed paralleled by one who remained one, we are utterly opposed to their the we ran do no leas than take this firm but stupidly indifferent. And Jewish Theological Seminary held at Kensington Gar- him in the category of those who disparage us so that smugly further creation. stand on the subject of peace and are constantly reminded that only we his own may be more illustrious, but Lord Birkenhead the self-seekers, the henchmen, the war. The prophets of Israel were Our committee favored the plan dens, Far Rockaway. Jew. He gives us an objective and unbiased denizens of the underworld and the first drafted by S. 0. Levinson of Chi- the first to see the sin and folly of • Rabbi Robinson hails from Newark, Rabbi Gold- is not a warfare. It is utterly absurd that cago on the outlawry of war, as in- beneficiaries of crooked politics re- stein lives in New York and Rabbi Landesman holds opinion which will have a salutary effect upon those man, with his so-called enlighten- troduced in Congress by Senator ligiously vote in primary and general who realize that we have not reached the ultimate ment, should have no other way of Borah of Idaho. On the subject of forth in Brooklyn. This may be a pure accident, but elections. settling disputes than by brute force the League of Nations our commit- The moral of this sermon is clear: perfection. we think not. These rabbis know that Jewish labor and a resort to arms. Rave we made tee divided. While favoring the now and vote in the pri- The honest, penetrating opinions of visitors from Register is a fact, not a theory. They come in frequent con- no spiritual advance in the past 40 World Court in the strongest terms, maries. in the general elections and a hot day—they refresh centuries? Righteousness, not war, we hesitated about the League of Na- in every primary and general election tact with the Jewish organized labor of the clothing, abroad are like a shower on exalteth • nation, and the spiritual tions because we held honest differ- that follows. A government that is printing and jewelry industries in New York. They and cleanse—and then without rancor or malice they ruled be less than one-half of the ences of opinion concerning a tri- leaders of Israel passed their stinging may dose their eyes to the existence of Jewish organ- inspire us to make forward strides so that we may people over which it governs is pretty bunal born out of the unholy Ver- denunciation of brute war because it sailles Treaty. Rather than risk the la a relic of barbarism. ized labor and take the position that the synagogue equal and eventually surpass those who now excel us. much of a makeshift. Entered es Begood.cl.msb.snfieer,r Act oa f lillial%al.tlittrupostolgc• at Detroit. Should We Oppose the Klan? 4 Coalition. T Minority Languages. 4 T 4 LIBERAL JUDAISM AND WORLD PEACE 4 English and American Jews. I S Labor and the Synagogue. it Yi •Je.e ■ 7♦ ,•_•.,* -A. • •-",..,..kor" -3,1„ -JO". 'p Vo. -gee g%')I.Z>s 422>I3S1s10513410 1