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the sense of pleasure and of honor
which I feel at being invited this af-
ternoon to address this large and in-
telligent audience. As I cast my eye
over this room, my thoughts go back
to another time whose history is well
worn with you and which no doubt
forms an integral part of your daily
life and thought. When I see this in-
At the annual meeting of the Federation of Jewish l'hilanthropies
telligent and prosperous and numer-
of New York, held at Temple Emanu-El Jan. 13, 1924, the principal
ous audience, 1 cannot but think of
speaker was John W. Davis, Democratic nominee (or President of
the day, 260 years ago, when a wrath-
the United States. In his address Mr. Davis reveal, a speaking ac-
er.beaten group dropped anchor off
quaintance with Jewish history, lore and ideals which occasionally
the bay and 23 voyage-worn area
characterizes the acholarly nun-Jewish layman. The complete text
landed for the first time on Man-
of the address is as follows:
hattan Island. And contrasting that
If anything can add to the ember- address, for which your president has little band of refugees with the men
rassment which I feel of having to ad- seen fit to introduce me in very kind and women that are in this audience
and the much larger gathering of co-
dress a very few remarks, I shall ask language. But not even that unbar-
religionists whom they represent, one
your permission to bear with me this rassment can entirely deprive me of
Davis, In Notable Address, Reveals
Acquaintance With Jewish Idealism
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age
cannot but think how two centuries eration to generation, and from
and a half can have wrought their to age; and in all the great names
which
the
Jewish
people
have
con-
miracle on American sod. 1 ou know,
of course, as well as to I, that, when tributed to the betterment of man-
these Brazilian refugees made their kind, in all contributions made in war
appearance here, old Peter Stuyve-! and peace, in art, in commerce, in
sant refused them admission to what statesmanship, literature and in law
was manifestly his personal kingdom. —that is nothing that, it seems to me,
And when they appealed from Caesar , would more fill nip heart with pride
unto Caesar, and from l'eter Stuyve• were I of your communion, than the
sant to his large land-owning friends fact that it might be said: "The Jew.;
in Amsterdam, their admission was ish people look after the Jewish
granted upon the distinct condition, poor." And if I have no other reason
and I again ask your indulgence for ' for accepting your kind invitation to
repeating words so familiar, that the speak here this afternoon, I would
poor among them should not become feel that I had ample justification in
it burden to the company or to the embracing this opportunity to pay the
community but should be supported respectful tribute of one of another
by those of their own communion. faith to that great achievement on
And for myself, looking back to that your part.
Mr. Warburg wog kind enough,
day and to its surroundings, I can-
not think that that demand on the when he gave me this invitation, to
part of the Dutch company was take pity on me and to furnish me
either harsh or unreasonable. There with sonic account of the federation,
were 800 people on Manhattan Island ' on the theory, perhaps a mistaken
and its surroundings. They were one, that one talks a little better if
3,000 miles from home crossing peril- he knows what he is talking about.
ous wastes of water. They were sur- But there arc two things of that ac-
rounded by a wild and unknown coup- count which I hold far and above the
try filled with still wilder and less statistical information which does not
known men, and the great issue of always make a profound impression
their success or failure was still un- on anyone, and I have had both these
decided, and it still remained to be things reinforced by the very nom-
proven that a white men's settlement plete and exhaustive report which
could be set up on the red man's con- your president has made this after-
tinent; and I find nothing surprising', noon and which seemed to me to
in the fact that those whose honor mark your federation nut for a career
and whose faith was pledged to that of great usefulness and convinced me
enterprise should have been unwilling of the fact that those who have plan-
to run any risk of additional burden ned and conducted it planned wisely
or to admit a single newcomer who and have labored well.
could not certainly bear his part in
As I run down the scope of its ac-
the common enterprise and all noth- tivities, they seem to are almost one
ing to the common debt. And then and all to be guided and inspired first
the other site of that problem--I find by the great precept of charity; that
no surprise whatever in the fact that it is far better anti far nobler to help
those poor and oppressed refugees, a man to help himself than to make
driven out from the coutnry in which of him a mere dependent member;
they at first found a haven, landing your educational activities, your
in New York so poor that two of training and care of the young, your
their number were detained aboard hospitals, are all, as I read your liter-
the steamer as hostages for the ship ature, serving a great end, giving men
money, penniless, oppressed, forlorn, new heart, new courage, new health
with nothing but the high thought and new spirit and aim to put them
borne in their bosom—I find it not on their feet so that they may he-
surprising that, without demur or come successful citizens in their own
hesitation, they fully acceded to these' right. Self-help is noble and proper
terms and each man of them sub- and that sort of charity is better in
scribed to that pledge. And I find the long run than the charity which
that not surprising, if you please, be- takes no thought of the future and
cause the terms presented to them, its responsibilities.
were no novelty whatever. It in-
And the second thing. I came here,
volved to them nothing more than the as perhaps some of the rest of you
fulfillment of the faith that they had have done, a stranger in the City of
learned at their mother's knee and NOW York. One of the things with
again being willing to subscribe to which I have been most struck about
the solemn mandates of the law which this great city and its people is that
they had inherited from the blood the retrench so often cast on it and
that bore them, for, if you please, I cast at every great urban community
think I should be borne out in saying in the world is that the strain and
that every great teacher of the Jew- rush of the life we live makes men
ish faith from Moses to filaimonides callous and indifferent to the suffering
has laid this great duty of charity of their fellows and forgetful of the
down as the cardinal principle of the needs o f those less fOrtunat e than
law. Was it not Moses who said "The themselves. And I have been not sir.
poor shall never cease out of the land, prised but delighted to find that no-
therefore I command thee now that n where in all the world does n human
thou shalt open thy hand wide unto heart beat n or, ■ . irmly, lima- here in
thy brother and unto the poor and all the world is there a greater reser-
needy in thy land." Rabbi Isaac it voir of charity r ady to spread hap-
was who declared that "whoever gives , piness and cheer, than in this City of
a farthing to a man is blessed with I New York; yet with all that willing-
seven blessings; and whoever com- ness, with all that charitable urge,
forts him with words is blessed with one cannot help being struck with an-
eleven blessings." The great filai• ; other consideration--that there is a
nionitles said, "It is a positive com- great tendency for that stream of be-
mand to give alms and donations to nevolence to scatter in innurnreable
the Jewish poor according, to our ca- rills and rivulets, so small that they
pacity. Who sees a poor man and almost sink into the dry sand into
looks away and gives him nothing, which they flow. For wtih all this
has transgressed the law'." And I unplification of charitable endeavor,
find no reason for surprise that these with all these charitable institutions
Jewish refugees from Brazil put their and with the enormous demand for
names to a pledge which is an ex- this or that, there is a tendency for
emplification of their great faith. But the repetition of charitable appcalsto
if I may say so, there is one thing airy up the spring of individual gene-
connected with that incident that I rosity, and there is, inevitable I think,
think is worthy of comment.
, not the subject of reproach but, ine-
The history of mankind is filler ' vitable none the less, there is a ten-
,
with pledges given and with pledges deney to waste effort, to waste time,
broken, with promises made in time to waste money, in enterprises, each
of stress and need and promises for -; one of them worthy and deserving in
gotten in days of prosperity and for ; iself, but all drawn from a common
tune. But here is one pledge an I reservoir from which they should
here is one promise which, to th e flow; but the purpose of this federa-
glory of your faith be it said, yo u , lion and of smaller organizations is to
have. faithfully performed from gen I consolidate withal that great force of
charitable energy and then pour it out
from that common reservoir without
waste, without depletion, without un-
necessary expense to the great pur-
pose for which the contribution was
made. And I have been surprised,
Mr. President, to note in yotir ad-
dress of the anion proportion of ad-
ministration expense in this federa-
tion as against the tremendous suns
you are called upon to administer,
I and I am glad also for that reason
to be here this afternoon to lend my
i humble word of congratulation to the
members of this organization.
Now a thought occurred to me. I
caught in your president's report ref-
erence to your activities in American-
ization. Now-here in all this broad
land is this so necessary as in this
great entry port to which come a vast
stream of strangers born and reared
under other conditions and unfa-
miliar with the institutions that we
love. The thought goes even beyond
the teaching of the language; it goes
!even beyond the teaching of the gov-
ernment machinery; it goes to the
very essence of the things we plan-
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ned for in this country and on which
we built up the civilization of which
we are so proud.
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We believe in this country and in
the thought that all men are created
with the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and we deny
that there can be any such thing as
liberty unless it carries with it lib-
erty of parson, freedom of speech,
freedom of religion and the sacred
right of private properly, and if we
accept those who come to us friend-
less and forsaken, to assure these
ideals and to strive toward their com-
mon goal, then we who have striven
for them must assure them the beacon
light of opportunity; and the right of
property, if it is to prevail as it un-
doubtedly will in this country against
those who would deny it, must carry
I along with it the solemn duty that
those who have, owe to those who
have not by reason of their very good
tft
fortune.
Now one thought more and perhaps
;
, I should let it come from someone
other than a layman. There is a duty
here that you are performing to your
, city. There is a duty here that is
being performed to your country.
Then the thought mounts beyond that
to the idea that lies at the heart of
all religions, no matter by what name
they may characterize themselves.
' Wherever there is a religious man,
be his creed what it may, he must
know in his heart of hearts, for all
that he is, for all that he was, and
for all that he hopes to be. and must
believe himself to be but a trustee
under a higher power, for, in the lan-
guage of the great Psalmist: "The
earth is the Lord's and the fullness
thereof."
STATE SENATOR
Herbert F.
BAKER
OR
Governor
(Republican Ticket)
Primaries September 9, 1924.
Senator Baker In Pledged, If Elected, to Give Michigan
Clean, Efficient and Economical Administration.
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BAKER FOR GOVERNOR CLUB
ABE SRERE,
ROBERT MARWIL,
LOUIS DUSCOI I,
Chair man
Treasurer
Secretary
"Hit
Record Recommends Ihm."
JAMES A.
Burns
(State Representative)
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR
State Senator
Fifth, Seventh and Ninth Wards — Second District.
HIS RECORD:
Author of the following laws:
Ku Mu: Klan to un
(1)
Burns' Anti-Klan Law—forced the
mask in Michigan.
(2)
Burns' City College Law—gave the citizens the College
(3)
Burns' Anti-Dope Late—checked the growth of the nar-
of the City of Detroit.
cotic evil.
PRIMARIES
SEPTEMBER 9, 1924.
V- 'RI: UMEEMEMISSNEEMMEW
HONEST
VOTE FOR
For United States Senator
U. S. District Judge
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Herman A.
State Representative in Legislature
ARTHUR J. TUTTLE
FIRST DISTRICT
Endorsed by prominent Detroit Jewish citizens.
WHO IS HE?
LEONARD G. CURTIS
1911 - 1912 U. S. District Attorney
1907-1910 State Senator, Michigan State Legislature.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR
County Treasurer
Born it Detroit, Sept. 18, 1879. Re-
ceived his education in the Detroit Public
Schools; has had sixteen years of actual
experience in all branches of the City and
County Treasurer's offices. Two years as
tax expert and real estate appraiser for
several of the largest mortgage companies
and banks in the city. Believes in a busi-
ness administration for all public offices.
1899-1902 Prosecutor of Ingham County
Since 1912 U. S. District Judge
A True Servant of the People
SERVICE, COURTESY, EFFICIENCY,
His Motto.
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RE-ELECT
OTTO STOLL
His record based on 25 years of public service
entitles him to your vote
Register of Deeds
This advertisement is contributed by prominent Detroit Jews
-_-_.--, 4,-117~pee~. eereTeeet-A.-evel
I The Rev. Isaac Phillips, who has
been minister of the Portsmouth,
England, synagogue for 60 years,
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biju4za d ed recently at the age of '79.
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Stands for a continual,. of •
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Clean Business Administration