POPTROflIEWISII RON WILE PAGE SIX • PA EWISII fiRCffl • 114,• awn rwmans mown. Pulellsbed Weakly by Th. Jewish airioakle Polshabil./ G, Inc. Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor Jacob H. &hake., Business Manager 1:1,1%bal.1771postofaeo at Detroit., intend as Seeendltiel.a:nt,tie.r, 1.arlh.1 2c,,r General Offices and Publication Building 850 High Street West Telephone: Glendale 9300 Cable Address: Chronicle Oen.. 14 Stretford Place, London, W. I, England London Sub sc ription, in Advance ..... . .... . ....... 1 •0 ......... ....$3.00 Per Year hien. publieetion. all correspondence nd news matter mu. reach this °Mee by 1 netday evening of ant h week. atete of 'neg roe The Dtroit Jwish Chronleta Invitee correspondence on eule to the e Joel.; h e people, but disdain. responsibility tor en ladoroment of the view. eapre..ed by the writer.. August 22, 1924 ry 4 4 Ab 22, 5684 Where Do They Stand? . NS . 4/As NS , sesits „ 11S r appeals to humanity and decency. The much despised negro became so valuable and of such consequence that many of the southern legislatures passed acts making it a crime to entice negroes from the south, but even these drastic measures had very little effect when opposed to the fundamental laws of economic neces- sity. The net result of all this has been a marked im- provement in the position of the negro and an increased respect for his rights as a human being. To us all this benefit and advantage which has ac- crued to the negro is very significant as well as hearten- ing. It means that all the claptrap about negro in- feriority, indolence and inefficiency is only so much dust raised to treat the negro abominably. As soon as he is needed the whole attitude is changed, and in place of condemnation he is approved, instead of con- tumely he finds respect. May we not hope that the next six months of 1924 will show an improvement over the first six months. If the negro becomes of greater value in the south and attains to a position of economic equality our hope will be realized. We do not destroy that which we need except in a frenzy of hatred or maudlin drunkenness, and even in those states the level-headed ones are able to restrain the irresponsible elements. For the sake of the whole community as well as for the negro we trust that he may become increasingly indispensable, while simultaneously growing in intelligence and making cultural advances which will place him on a plane of equality with his white brothers. This meaningful change has a peculiar interest for us and brings to our minds very forcibly the fine analy- sis; made of anti-Semitism in Russia and Poland by the leaders of the Ort movement. They have always in- sisted that the Jew suffered less from pogroms and dis- crimination in those periods when he became indis- pensable and valuable in Russian and Polish economic life. Exactly ten years after the commencement of the great war the signs of reasonableness are multiplying on every hand and encourage the belief that a finer spirit of humanity and equality will dominate all the people of the world. Not the least of these favorable signs is the remarkable decrease of lynching in the south. rise' Beating Swords Into Plowshares By ABRAHAM CAPLAN Tragedy. 11E report that Hans Herzl, the son of Theodor Herz], has em- braced Christianity will, if substanti- ated, cause greater sorrow among Jews than the circumstance justifies. Men do not permit themselves to ra- tionalize when their pride is wounded and their emotions are wrought up. Jews who have identified with the movement begun by tiers! the expres- sion of their pent-up longings in the realm of political and religious hope will be struck with little less than horror. They will draw conclusions which the facts in the situation prob- ably will not sustain. Although there may be as little relation between Herzl's historic work and the con- version of his son as there is between the most fortuitous of occurrences, consternation will seize the Jewish people. The tragedy lies in the fact that it is the son of Ilerzl—Herzl who had already taken his place in the pantheon of Jewish greatness—who leaves his people in the most inglori- ous of ways. Whereas Theodor Herz', after passing his early manhood in pathetic uncertainty, in so far as Jewish consciousness was concerned, resurrected himself into moral emi- nence, his son seeks refuge into a selfish medievalism which, if we are charitable, we must attribute to men- tal deformity. Enemies of Zionism will rise to draw unfair conclusions and even stray banner-bearers may feel a sudden weakening in their erst- while vigorous arms. It is not pleasant to contemplate a Christian Herzl, a man bearing a his- toric name slinking into the covert of renegades and perhaps into the assembly of Jewish enemies. And, if it be true that Hans Herzlhas sub- mitted to the cajolings of a priest who himself was once a Jew, the tragedy will be accentuated. For has it not been said by Christians in Europe that a Jew must be despised even though he embrace the duties of the church? Let us not quibble about our shame. King Hezekiah begot a son, Menasseh. But, an the legend goes, the righteous Ilezekiah foresaw his despicable son, • whereas Theodor Ileral seemingly did pot. T If there is anything that has been proven by events to be indisputable it is the fact that war, with magnificent- ly rare exceptions, is not only cruel, vicious and wrong but stupid and re- sultless—in a lasting sense—both to the defeated and the victorious na- tions. From the standpoint of ulti- mate values—of progress, morals, cul- ture and adjustment — wars con- tribute nothing that cannot be at- tained through the ordinary decent methods of nations at peace with one another. People who see in wars beneficent catastrophes, a strange super-morality, a maneuver of man that is pleasing to the god of the lov- ers of war, will not take into account the gigantic personal, national, moral and social losses that have been sus- tained as a result of the recent Eu- ropean blood letting. They behold the putative glamor of war, even as children, playing in their gardens the game of Indian with tomahawk in hand or visioning the sweets of pir- acy on ocean waters, conceive the de- lights of sweeping destruction. But it is inconceivable that, in a time when peace is a thin small voice difficultly heard above the clamor for more war, a rabbi should raise his voice—and not a thin small voice, at that—to champion the movement to display the strong right arm of the American people, so that all may see and be astounded. Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, ton, has seen the vivid things behind the lines of an army— in the camps of the erstwhile army of the American republic sharpening the weapons of war—and has ben caught in the fascinating net. The language which he used in stating his dissent from the significant movement to dis- courage the so-called defense test in September is altogether familiar, though- not powerfully in consonance with the usual verbiage of religious leaders who think they have a mes- sage for the world every time they speak. Were Rabbi Lazaron an assistant secretary of war rather than the leader of a congregation, his flourish- ing advocacy of a general demonstra- tion of Arnericit's resources—in men, money and materials—would be logi- cal. But that he should assume the role of defense attorney for the War Department, particularly after serv- ing on the resolutions committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and urging the outlawry of war and all its works, is painful to contemplate. The peace resolution which the Reform rabbis adopted and which is printed in full elsewhere in this issue of The Detroit Jewish 'Clronicle is so tellingly affirmative, so stirringly in conflict with the war. complex as repre , ented by the War • Department's call to the nation to demonstrate its "strong hand and outstretched arm," that no one who took part in its framing could con- sistently conic forward and denounce opponents of military display as fools M. M. Ussishkin, director of the Jewish National Fund, took a definite, drastic stand of opposition to the enlargement of the Jewish Agency at the meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee held in London. Ile minimized American influences in this characteristic vein: "The talk about American brains, American money and American importance discourages European Jews, killing their self-reliance and lessening the scope of Zionist activity in Europe. It would be a mistake for the Zionist Organization to place all hope for the rebuilding of Palestine in America." How Agency participation in the rebuilding of Palestine will kill the self-reliance and lessen the scope of activity in Europe is not at all clear to us. Even if all the plans for the Agency matured and were real- ized, how would this militate against the continued activity of European Zionists and kill their self-re- liance? Will a developing and growing Palestine, aided by non-Zionist participation, kill the activities of European Zionists or will it hearten them and make them more enthusiastic? Will a struggling, straggling Palestine encourage those who are interested in up- building Palestine more than a healthy, flourishing Palestine? What are the facts? Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner, gives the following as his view of the Germany Amuck. situation: "In the last four years the country has The Nationalist party of Germany, the child of made substantial progress. In the last two years work Kaiserism, Ludendorf and Hitler Fascisti, has intro- has been going on under more tranquil conditions than duced an anti-Semitic bill in the ReiChstag. It is so Grandeur. in the past. Immigration has continued on a smaller grotesque and hatred-soaked in its deliberate anti: UST about 1492 the Turk began scale than desired, but this depends entirely upon the Semitism that were they a majority the Jews of •Ger- J his career as the. sick man of Eu- rope. 'So that when the Jews of economic progress of the country. Recently, however, many would be in a very dangerous predicament. . Spain, fleeing hither and yon, rapped an important increase in immigration has been record- the evidence of vindictivenOss on the sick man's door they were bid- But just the same ed." The crux of the whole matter is this: The up- and animosity behind it augurs ill should the Republi- den to come in. The Jews who mad:. Spain great could also make Turkey building, settlement and immigration of Palestine, can forces in Germany suffer reverses which would per- great. Whether or not they had made within the physical limits imposed by the country itself, mit these irreconcilable Junkers to again occupy the good the hope that the Turk had net upon them is to be seen in the fact, is dependent upon the "economic progress of the coun- seats of the mighty. that for nearly 4,00 years the Jews try." This economic factor cannot be stressed too The bill provides for the expulsion of all alien Jews, enjoyed peace and security in the, of the crescent and the sword. strongly and these economic resources must come from the confiscation of their property and the death 'pen- land usually Jews are not given peace that Jewry which has a surplus. The only Jewry which alty should any deported Jew return. All native Jews And and security merely for- the asking. has a surplus of any magnitude is American Jewry, are to be excluded from the army and navy and the More recent conditions in the land the Turk tell another tale. The and many of them are not Zionists and will not become professions. These are but a few of the delectable of Jew in Turkey in the nineteenth can- Zionists, but are not averse or opposed to the upbuild- morsels selected at random from the sixty-odd pro- tury Was regarded as outside the pale ing of Palestine as a home for the oppressed and har- visions of a bill conceived in ignorance and dedicated of Turkish respectability. The ad- vent of the Young Turks' rule made ried of Europe. to vengeance and malice. matters hardly the better. The great Dr. Weizmann threatens to resign if the Agency The depravity of the Junker mind stands forth in war. saw Turkish rapacity, whetted by proposal is not approved; his heart is set upon it, for all its nakedness in the penal clause of the bill, which German inspiration, unfold itself in colors. The Teuton and the he is sufficiently realistic to appreciate the need for provides the death penalty in the event of the return gory Turk combined to make the position "economic progress" as a condition precedent to any of a deported alien. We think the punishment of de- of the Jew in the country of Mo-, substantial growth of the Palestinian project. If po- portation in America sufficiently cruel and severe and hamet unenviable. devastation and There came war, , litical vagaries were rigorously excluded from the pro- the penal clause of five years' imprisonment should one defeat for Turkey. Driven, not only ject the position of Weizmann and his adherents would return is shocking to the conscience of all liberal- out of Europe but out of his strong- hold in Palestine, the Turk saw the be more understandable. Perhaps Dr. Weizmann minded Americans, but it remained for the greater end of days coming, and unhappy wus speaks in terms of Palestine as a Jewish homeland and breeds of Nordics found hi Germany to frame a bill the prospect. But fortune smiled agiurt. All was not lust. The Angora makes reports to the effect that the British government which shames the most ferocious cannibal. government, small though the terri- is favorable to the future of the Jewish national home- We do not fear that the bill will be enacted into tory over which it ruled, defied its • land in Palestine for strategic and diplomatic reasons. a law, but the very fact that such a perverted, con- foes in.' Europe. In its - way, it was And now comes the pe- If such is the case, it merely muddles the issue and temptible piece of legislation should be seriously intro- triumphant. culiar state of mind to which power gives to those impractical elements ammunition to op- duced in any moderncivilized laW-making body is con- gives rise. The Jews of Turkey must, pose him, because he is unable to produce the facts vincing proof that the frenzy of disappointment and within a year, leave the country. The grandeur-complex has arrived. Tun. to support his position on the question of the British chagrin of the autocrats of Germany knows no bounds, key must undo what it had done so government attitude. As long as discontent flourishes in Germany, these well four centuries ago. Precedents Palestine cannot at present be a legally secured recidivists and sadists will continue to urge such legis- there are, are there not? Here is Spain, Portugal and, aforetime, Eng- national Jewish homeland. National homelands, either lation, and in a period of despondency Who knows bid land. And today there are more countries besides Turkey or similar as mandatory or autonomous, are not handed out to what such an ignominious law may be passed. mind than they have the courage to insignificant minorities by those who live it the world This incipient menace must be scotched. It is a admit. of Realpolitic. The Zionist Organization has gone challenge to the liberal and democratic forces in Ger- Idolatry: through the period of fancy and idealism and has come many.• All sane elements must sink superficial partisan D USSIAN scientists would not be to the rock bottom of understanding that political differences and must exert themselves to the utmost to IN outdone by the chemists of recognition follows economic stability and numerical stabilize industry and finance. They must approve Egypt. They have devised a process strength. The present realistic policy of the American any arrangement which will bring about a •..ropean for the , embalming of dead bodies that achieves a retention of the char- Zionist Organization must needs become the point of rapprochement from which the republican form of act4ristics of a human being resting departure for the World Zionist Organization and even government will emerge strengthened and secure. in peaceful slumber. With this ac- complished, the Soviet leaders have though the Agency may not shoulder any responsibili- proceeded to place the well-preserved ties their contribution will go a long way in helping to remains of Lenin in one of the great Mrs. Charles Anne L. Huston died recently in At- Public buildings so that the faithful lay the solid foundation for increased immigratien and lady was possessed of much worldly followers of the ideal of communism The lantic City., economic progress in Palestine, ' may behold his face and be inspired. If 'the Weizmann agency policy is carried out it goods and among her bequests are the following: Ten Soviet leaders would root out re- thousand ;toilets to the Chicago Hebrew Mission, $20,- ligion as they found it, but they will at least enable a large number of destitute Jews would set up the god of communism 000 hi to She Midway Mission to the Jew, Lon- of Europe to find homes, even though the homeland the worship of Russia's millions. don, and $25,006' in trust to the China Inland Mission, for may never be realized! On the other hand, should' the Religion in Russia must die, but the non-Zionist be repudiated, our • unfortunate brothers the income to be used for work, among the Jews of religion of Lenin must be gvien birth. Mohamet is to Islam, Lenin Philadelphia. We feel slighted. Detroit Jewry really •What will. not have homes, let alone a homeland. It would may become to the myriads, of Rus- be well for the Zionist Organization to make its posi- should have been remembered. When will these kindly sia's people. tion clear and rid itself of much that has - contribiited sincere, but hopelessly deluded, ladies of both sexes Worth. realize that their generosity is really misplaced. This to raise false holies and crtite 4nisunderstanding; NIG CALVIN COOLIDGE, JR., is waste to the "nth" degree. Ywho died. recently, in a letter s s • which he wrote a year ago to a boy friend, declared that, though his fa- • A Favorable Sign. , - • 0.1..470 .mot j i l "An J.e. LC, r e. AC.. sio. .14:. -Iv. Jiro. -se. re ; re..24'.. re, .24, When enlightened men and women in all walks of life and teachers of religion in all denominations unite to put a stop to the grandiose gestures that are accompanied by the clang of steel, it is an unheard-of thing for a rabbi to espouse the plans of the War Department of the most advanced of republics. Rather than elaborating upon contingencies that call for the shedding of blood and the waste of the handiwork of men, it is becoming that a rabbi should point to the con- ditions vital for peace and to the in- sistence of peace as an ideal in hu- man life — in the smallest communi- ties as well as the largest. The de- struction wrought by war—the de- struction of basic moral, spiritual and intellectual values—is the common concern of mankind and has neither an American nor a German point of view, neither a French nor a Russian nor a Japanese aspect that has not a vital bearing on the rest of the world. The will to peace is an art that the whole world is seeking to acquire, though with labored clumsiness. It should be the preoccupation of all peoples—of America, surely. If our example is shown by means of de- fense tests, need we expect that other nations will meekly follow with bland programs of disarmament and ges- tures of innocent peace? Fortunately for the American rab- binate, the views of Rabbi Lazaron are shared by few, if any, in the Jewish clergy. Rabbis can do no bet- ter than to maintain that to 'beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks" is the safe thing, and the wise thing, for the world. RABBI KORNFELD AND PERSIAN JEWS Henry Ford is not an anti-Semite. The sage of ther was President of the United , In the first six months' of 1924 only five negroes Dearborn says so himself. If he is not, he certainly States, he was not "the first boy of were lytiched in the 'Southern States of the Ended is easily duped by anti-Semites. For some months past the land." Ile refused to lose his head because his father was the na- States. This was the smallest number-for - a similar, a Robert Morgan has been writing on the Sapiro plan tion's chief or to assume an attitude period in the last. forty years. It Seems rather an' in tin endeavor to prove that the Sapiro brothers have of self-importance. The first boy of anomolous and unexpected situation' in light of the al- systematically exploited and hoodwinked the Ameri- the land, he said in substance, should be the boy who had done an act of leged Klan activities in the South, but.upon examina- can farmer. We challenge any fair person with half such high merit as to warrant the dis- tion of economic and - migration statistics hardly' any 'an Once Of critical, analytical ability to find a scintilla tinction. The President's son revealed both forceful training and a superior other result could be expected: of evidence in his articles which prove the general habit of mind. Such a lad, grown The great migration o•negroes northward began charges made. As a matter of generalities, innuendo to maturity, would not have been de- pressed by the fact that he might not during the war when the Industries furnishing war and slander, we award Morgan the prize. be able to say that his "little finger" munitions were taxed to Rapacity and the man power was "thicker than" his "father's of the country' reduced by the large numbers drafted Ernest Toiler, the brillian German dramatist, author loins." , • Doorbells. for active .•ntilitary service. - Then came the terrifying . activities of the Klan which drove many negro..s north- of "Mi'sse Mensch." was recently released from prison, -IN Philadelphia the Associates] Tal- mud Torahs have conceived the : war4 Alto soughtto escape, tbe night.eders and hooded where he served five years for participation in the Ba- 1 idea of sending principals and teach- teach- desperadoei: ,As a chnsequence the South was brought varian Communist revolt. He contrasted his treatment ers n nate ttohecadleleattellas ttoefnttenwisohf :i -to the realization that the negro was a very valuable with that accorded Adolph Hitler and Count Arco, the househsiders to the need for giving economic asset who could not readily be replaced.. The assassin of Eisner. He served years for his idealism, their children a Jewish etticati:oint has they are idolized for their beer garden revolt and mur- passage of the Jehnson bill in 1922 contributed to the i nteresting as thou g h an evangelistic character. Ringing der. Some day when democracy is fully achieved the. El the !tetra. hi no imardegiee. ' nbrtbarardani rRtion doorbells might be a worth while All these factors gave the negro a status in the South- Toilers will be idolized, the Hitters and Arcos'anathe- Punic "spiel," if it brings Jewish children iato the religious schools'. . land which .he Vas. tillable- to 'achieve by means of matized. Who knows when that day will come! : or pacifists—the latter word used with a derogatory sneer. Superficially, sonic of the things Rabbi Lamson said in advocacy of the war maneuver—and, however re- garded, the defense test is only a demonstration of what the United States can do in time of war — have a certain correctness that cannot be gainsaid. But the idea that nations must arm to the teeth in order to forestall the aggression of other na. tions has been advanced since the be- ginning of time and has not solved the problem of war or allayed the savage conditions that are begotten of war. To compare the preparation for war to the acquisition of a gun to prepare oneself against highway- men is fair rhetoric but poor and mischievous philosophy. As a teacher in Israel, Rabbi Lazaron had an op- portunity to view the situation from the standpoint of the Jewish tradi- tional love for peace but succumbed to a shallow verbal plausibility which makes war inevitable and peace a wild phantasy. The conditions which Rabbi Lazaron conjured up and urged as justification for preparing for war virtually do not exist. Even if they were to exist, he could not, as a rabbi speaking the language of the Proph- ets, do aught but declaim against those deeds and attitudes and selfish moves, both on the part of America and of other nations, that reap the harrowing harvest of war. Negotiations carried on by Joseph S. Kornfeld, American minister to Persia, in the course of diplomatic exchanges between the United States and Persia over the Imbrie affair, re- call the minister's efforts upon his reaching Persia in intervening against the anti-Jewish riots in that country at that time. In a letter to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, written in 1922, the president of the Central Zionist Organization of Persia gives a detailed account of a pogrom and of the intercession by Minister Kornfeld. As a token of es- teem, the Zionist Congress, then in session, presented the minister with a silver plate bearing the Ten Com- mandments, surmounted with a gold- en crown with the legend, The Crown of,a Good Name.' The letter, which is in the posses- sion of the Union of American He- brew Congregations, reads as fol- lows: "During the first quarter of 1922, anti-Semitic (or rather anti-minor- ity) feeling began to increase in Persia, and once in a while the Jews of the different provinces were perse- cuted. For instance, they had to wear a special kind of hat. In the month of Nissan a committee was or- ganized in Teheran, called 'Nedaye Islam,' composed of Mohammedan Mullahs and anti-Jews, who aroused the non-educated Persians to perse- cute the Jews. They beat many Jews and rushed to the Jewish quarter with the intention of murdering its in- habitants and plundering their shops and houses, but were stopped by the police. The government, how-ever, had promised to take into considera- tion the requests of the committee. The committee had decided upon 12 restrictions and insisted that the gov- erninent should make the Jews abide by them. The matter was taken up by the cabinet, the ministry of in- terior and the House of Constitutions, and, although the committee urged . and pressed the matter, the gosern- meat put them off for days and weeks. Meanwhile the anti-Jewish feeling appeared to have died down; everything seemed quiet again. "One unhappy Wednesday-27 El- la', 5682—a large body of Moham- medans rushed to the Jewish quarter with swords and other arms, wounded a number of Jews and broke into many houses, showing no pity es-en to women and children. Not only in the Jewish quarter, but throughout GOD AND PHARAOH Isn't it interesting and instructive that just as Joan tit Arc, the deliverer of France, was a third child so was Moses, the redeemer of Israel. How fortunate that Jochebed was not a fiend on dancing, dressing and din- ing like some of her decadent de- ecendants nor, like them, cared more for her figure than she did for the future. If she had been thus un- Jewishly self-centered ,instead of ges tee rei ,Li yam. Li the whole city, wherever a Jew was seen, he was unmercifully beaten and dragged through the streets like a captive. The government, being asked to intercede, sent only a few policemen, some of whom watched the persecution without interfering, whjle the others joined the rioters. Next day the affair took on an even more serious aspect; an actual po- grom was taking place. Armed lo- hammedans barred un all roads lead- ing, out of the Jewish quarter and waited for the order of their leading Mullah to slaughter the Jews, who were announced to be worse than dogs, and to plunder their property. What could the Jew, do? Where could they look for mercy? There was not a single protector. They at last appealed to the representative of the country which had often helped small nations, to Dr. Joseph S. Korn- feld, the American minister, two of whose ylunshis were also severely beaten. The matter needed imme- diate and serious attention; a few minutes' delay would have been fatal, because from the capital it would have rapidly spread to the provinces. "He was aware of the pernicious results of the riot and realized that he could not bear to be a mere sight- seer; he decided to try to stop it im- mediately, and finding no carriage in which to ride to the city, he walked a distance of over six miles, and, thanks to God, he had influence enough with the government to stop the riot instantly. "Blessed is the country that pro- duced such a benevolent gentleman and exalted is the government that has such a merciful representative. "Armed troops were stationed all around and through the Jewish quar- ter and were strictly ordered to pro- tect the Jews, who yet kept their shops closed for a week and would not leave home except for urgent nec- essary supplies. "The above fact makes us believe tram P411.11J1 #11.11,11"U was an arena, savior or a second Mordecai, and once the sentence, 'Terem make shem yisborach refuah bars,' was fulfilled for Petslan Jews. "On Rosh Ilashonah and Yom Kip- pur all the Jews of Teheran remem- bered the American govern ment and J. S. Kornfeld in their prayers, and in all the- 17 synagogues of Teheran 'Ali Shebarakh' was read for Rabbi Kornfeld and the Amercian govern- ment and officials." ♦ Jewishly social in vision and conduct, both the life of Israel and of the world would have suffered a tremen- dous setback and loss, Would that modern farad had ;note 3ochebeds•. a pleasur- They might not have able time immediately but In the long run they -would bless themselves with a more joyous motherhood and , the world with a mightier moral mo- Mentuni. Israel, Multiply! Pha- God said raoh said, Birth-Control! History has proved that the Creator was wiser than the creature.—Alexander Lyons. such i4 `Isl• yiS,% Le" pfge .14. r e.. .24...ret...10.