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Orphans and Palestine.
Among the organizations which work silently and
persistently spreading cheer and happiness in the
world, motivated by good will and the desire to achieve
permanent social results, none surpasses the Jewish
Women's European Welfare Organization of Detroit.
Since the close of the European war these women
have devoted themselves to the task of rescuing as
much of the flotsam and jetsam thrown up by the
European flood and debacle as they were able. All
the money collected was used toward transporting or-
phans from Russia, Poland, Roumania and Hungary
to America and placing these orphans in homes and
caring for their needs. In this manner many children
to whom the future was filled with endless nightmares
and horrors have been given an opportunity to become
unselfish members of society. To enable a person to
live independently, to make one self-supporting and
resourceful is the kind of charity which makes for a
healthy, vigorous society. To women who have the
wisdom and understanding to put such a plan into prac-
tice too much praise cannot be given.
Recently, however, these women were faced with
a difficult situation. The immigration quota law re-
cently passed makes no discrimination in favor of chil-
dren who have no parents, and consequently with the
best intentions in the world these orphans cannot be
brought into this county. However, love will find a
way, and in this work of love a way has been found
and who can say that this new way may not lead to
even greater good than the old way.
The organization has decided that hereafter all
orphans who are to be in their charge shall be sent to
Palestine to be educated, trained and cared for. In
the land of Israel these derelicts and neglected ones,
these victims of man's hate, will grow to useful, proud
manhood and will expend their energies in the upbuild-
ing of the ancient home of Israel.
If this organization had not the sincere purposes
which have moved it, the obstacle placed in its way
would have been a good and sufficient reason to cause
it to cease its efforts and disband. But not so with
women actuated by noble and idealistic motives. This
kind of practical work should recommend itself to
many women who are fortunately situated. We know
there are many who have the inclination and the time
but are unaware of the splendid work that is being
carried on.
Immigrant Bootlegging.
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of the law, but at the same time laws which are not
for the benefit and protection of the people will hardly
find any moral support. These laws are conceived to
be in the nature of arbitrary restraints, a diminishing
of one's proper activities, as regulating one's personal
conduct,
The law must not fall into disrepute, but there is no
surer way of rendering law absurd than the passage
of laws which will not be upheld. In these instances
the cure seems infinitely worse than the illness. Laws
as well as other things in life must be suited to the
needs and the understandings of the times and of the
people ; if they are not, they work as badly as prohi-
bition and immigration. Our law-makers should scien-
tifically investigate the conditions before they enact
legislation. The immigration law today stands con-
victed as unsound and unscientific.
Hakoach Versus Polonia.
11
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The Writing on the Wall
By EMANUEL NEUMANN
(Copyright, 1924, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.)
Obsaquiousnon.
lIE spirit that shone forth front
the Jewish martyrs as they nut-
jestically strode up to the burning
pyres in Spain during the Inquisition
was not present in the rabbis who
proceeded to the Bishop of Transyl-
vania to express to hint their condol-
ence on the death of his father. Did
they expect that sorrow would tem-
Per the bishop's feeling for the Tran-
slvanian Jews and that he would be
in a mood to utter a word of cheer to
the Jewish communities of Roumania
which are menaced by the mobs, not
Infrequently goaded to violence by
the cross-b earing churchmen?
declared to the rabbinical
what
delegation, after it had presented its
condolence and petition, was that the
Jews of Roumania deserved all that
had been meted out t o them and that
they
ha need expect no mitigation of
their lot. 'Inc basis of his diatribe is
not important.
It is good Jewish
conduct to con-
ew
sole thwe who h ave been visited by
sorrow
and it makes no difference
ro
wh ether it is a Jewish or non-Jewish
household over which the angel of
death has fluttered its wings. But
for a rabbinical group to plead with
a probably ignorant churchman for
intervention against rowdy mobs is to
be guilty of self-abasement which has
none of the elements of reasonable
humility. If the bishop were a Chris-
tian in the fundamental sense and
not a prototype of a Roumanian of-
tidal or beard-pulling student, it
would not have been necessary for
rabbis to plead for protection at his
hands.
(Maurice Samuel's latest book, "You Gentiles" (Harcourt,
Brace), although just off the press, has already aroused a storm of
controversy, in which the brilliant young novelist and essayist has
been the storm center of violent denunciations and equally ardent
praise. Emanuel Neumann contributes a striking review of the book
to the heated controversy now going on, a review which clearly pre-
sents the thesis of the author and analyzes its arresting features.
—The Editor.)
I intended to compose a review in
accordance with standard recipes eon-
tinned in approved literary cook-
books. There was to be a logical re
p-
sentation of the theme, critical anal-
a
discussion
of
the
form
and
3 , n ,
appreciation of the fine points—
y
in short, an authentic and finished
product of the culinary art. Instead
1 have produced this dubious substi-
toe, which, I fear, will hardly be a t-
cepted as a legitimate dish by the
high - throned, frown - encumbenal
chiefs of the editorial c mbers.
closely-reasoned, convincing argu-
ment. Not altogether new, nor wind
ly without flaw. In my head then
keeps revolving the admonition of on.
of the rabbis of the middle ages: "lie
not enticed by the culture of Hellas,
yielding fair flowers but barren
fruit." Is not this the theme?
we not here the old distinction between
the Hellenic and the Hebraic, mod,
fied, it is true, and regarnished, but
essentially unchanged? And, whether
new or old, is it sound throughout?
Is the difference, if it exists, not ex-
plicable, in large measure, in terms
of age and youth? Are not the es-
sential characteristics of the Gentiles
here described—their playfulness,
their polytheistic proclivities, their
combativeness, their joy of living,
their group-mindedness and sport•
loyalties, their exuberance and their
cruelties—are not these the character.
istics of youth, of a young and imma-
ture civilization, of a race but recent-
ly emerged from its primitive origins,
from the Stygian darkness of the sav-
age state? And does not the Jewish
character, as portrayed, hear the un-
mistakable signs of maturity, if not
of age? The staid seriousness, the in-
sisterwe ui on moral purpose, the nos
ception of an all-embracing cosmic
unity, the reverence for human life
and horror of bloodshed, the control-
ling, overpowering ethical sense, the
unerring appreciation of content rath-
er than form—do not these betoken
polite hairy with age, rich in expel..
ience, that has outlived the quips of
childhood and outgroon the pranks of
youth? And are not the fabled flow-
ers of Hellas but the blossoms that
presage the coming fruit?
or
The Jew is exasperating, disconcerting, unexpected
or capricious, according with the saturnine, irascible or
whimsical temperament of the anti-Semite.
The pseudo scientist who made a bid for business
There is nothing I could plead in
granted the Jew a capacity for theologic speculation
extenuation, unless it be found in the
and philosophic acumen, but denied his artistic or
character of "You Gentiles" itself.
There is, indeed, .something in its na-
scientific potentialities and abilities, This estimate of
tare and fundamental quality that
the Nordic apologist had a superficial validity inas-
successfully resisted my attempts to
apply the time-honored recipes. The
much as large numbers of our people in Russia and
,
author first disarms you by modestly
Austria-Hungary had spent their time exclusively in
laying aside all claims to scholarship
the field of speculation and religion. In the light of the
and scientific groundings; and, having
restrictions and exclusions in matters of education, oc-
thus disarmed you, having spirited
away your buckler, lance and rapier
cupation and residence imposed by the autocratic re-
and rendered you defenseless, attacks
gimes it was both natural and logical that our people
you by it passionate appeal to your
would devote themselves to those studies which Ghetto
deepest impulses and intuitions, the
secret springs of your life and con-
life permitted and encouraged.
duct.
And then, too, the ideal scholar among European
You would steel yourself for the
fray, meet his onrush steadily, un-
Jews of the Ghetto was the anemic and emaciated in-
flinchingly, note his vulnerable points
dividual. Long hours spent over the Talmud, endless
and presently return to the attack.
Finis.
disputations carried on in ill-lighted and poorly ven-
NACHMAN SYRKIN, the pub. But he numbs and overwhelms your
nit,
faculties, infects yo.1 with his
tilated synagogues and Yeshibahs were not conducive 11 heist and founder of the radical critical
soaring topper, fires you with his
to vigorous, robust manhood. The learned scholars had wing in the Zionist movement, died prophetic wroth and pawns you head-
"Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord Our
long into captivity, chained to his
a pallor and softness which scarcely commended them with
God, the Lord is One" on his lips.
flaming chariot wheels.
to strenuous athletic competition.
Just as the curtain was lowering on
For this book is not a reasoned are
With the breakdown of the Ghetto and the removal his vigorously active life, a life spent gunient, a succession of syllogisms,
d
som
a
i
n
.
hardly
n
s
a
but
n a t
a
but a challenge and a battle cry. It is
of restrictions we discovered that the Jew had the same in ea usefulness
religious consciousness,
natgerdbty
Are not the two elements that ice•
defiance hurled by impassioned
capacity for scientific and artistic achievement as he overpowering sense of the immanence stark
here placed in such sharply contrast.
youth in the teeth of a hostile world.
of
God
took
hold of him and trans-
showed in the fields where eye and hand co-ordination
ing juxtaposition in truth !successive
It is the outraged honor of a people
muted him into a witness of the Cre-
phases of the sante continuous evolu-
rearing its laceratssl head. It is the
was not requisite. But even though the official anti- stoics
all-pervading love.
tionary process—the one a necessary
voice of manhood vehemently assert-
But must a man approach the "se-
Semite scholars reluctantly admitted Jewish excellence
preliminary or complement to the
ing the precious and inalienable rights
unknown" before it dawns
in the world of science and art, yet they felt that there creted
other?
of personality, of individuality. And
upon him that man has acknowledge-
Or, else, is a creative synthesis of
was one field where he could not enter, and in this meat to make of the Guiding Prin. a voice, a disembodied cry, cannot be
these two life forces really completely
into laboratories to be sub-
special field the blond, tall Teuton, Nordic or Slav ciple Who keeps a loving eye on men. dragged
hemi-
impossible? Where the one is primer-
m . icrosco p ic. 1
ean
nations, on the universe. It seems
ily concerned with the forms of life,
would be ever pre-eminent. It is no wonder then that on
cal analysis. A living, ardent spirit
a pity that the possessors of keen and
and the other with content and ulti-
the anti-Semites of Poland are provoked and irritated, useful minds forget, throughout the cannot be fettered. It will elude your
mate purpose, cannot the former be
scalpel and escape the nameless hos-
for now comes this despised people of inferior physique greater part of their lives, that there roes I if literary vivisection,
employed to clothe the latter? Cannot
is no completeness in human exist-
thus
the essential virtues of both, in
Not that there is in this book any
and short stature and defeats them in the exclusive field once without a workable relationship
lack of well thought out, consistent
some manner yet to be explored and
between man and his Creator.
where they thought they were pre-eminent.
discovered, he skillfully and happily
philosophy supported by cogent arm-
We disagree earnestly with those
The Ilakoach Athletic Society of Vienna defeated who
combined; the lofty grace of the Ilel-
ment. Both are here, and a-plenty.
suggest that death makes cow-
the Polonia Athletic Society of Warsaw in a dual meet. ards of strong men and would have it Indeed, so sharp and crystal-clear are lone with the profound moral enthus-
the
outlines
of
the
author's
theses
in
itiant and earnestness of the Hebrew?
that it is the final realization of man's
Our athletes conducted themselves with fine restraint
Or were our sages mistaken when in
his own mind, that they are presented,
on a d his n soul's deriva-
and proved themselves superior in the realm of muscle, dependence
I
had
almost
said
present
themselves,
the Midrash they spoke of "the come
tion from the source of all spirit that
speed and accuracy. It is a bitter pill to swallow but compels hint, as he reviews the sum with a lucidity and force unequaled lines, of Japheth inthetents of Shim??"
Is grace and chivalry really incompat•
in his other writings. And, by the
total of his career, to cry out, as Dr.
it will inspire wholesome respect for the Jews among
ibi s , with Godliness anti prophecy?
sante token his propositions readily
Syrkin is reported to have done,
These questions I ant not raising no-
those who hold physical prowess in high esteem, and
lend themselves
to compact summari-
'
"Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord Our God,
tually, but only, is it were, hypothet-
nation.
today the number of worshipers of athletic superiority the Lord is One."
There is, he asserts, a fundamen- ically. Many another query might be
far outnumber those who appreciate mental and spir-
propounded by an inquiring mind—
tal, permanent, irreconcilable differ-
Foundation.
one for every page of the 221 com-
once between the Jews, on the on
E note with genuine distress
itual excellence.
prising the volume. For, indeed, is
hand.
and
the
Gentiles
of
the
western
that, sponsored by the Hillel
We look forward hopefully to the formation of
there a thought or idea or proposition,
world,
on
the
other.
a movement initiated by
many Hokoach societies. They make for a healthy Foundation,
algebraic
formula or geometric theor-
This difference is not fragmentwy
the Independent Order B'nai B'rith,
mind in a healthy body, which is, after all an ideal Jewish religious activities at the Uni- or superficial; it is co-extensive with eel, yes, even one "established mien-
its roots ore biologic in their
tale filet" that stands proof against
worthy of attainment. Perhaps in the next Olympic versite Wisconsin will consist, in life;
depth. It may he described as a dif- the subtle invasion of philosophic
part,. of Reform services on Sunday
games we may have a Jewish team which will do Jewry
f•rence in instinctive and habitual re-
doubt?
mornings and Orthodox services on
But, as I have said, his appeal is
action to our terrestral environment
Friday evenings. Jewish cultural
credit.
ce
—in the author's words, "a difference
not so much to the head as to the
According to the latest estimates of the Depart-
ment of Labor over 100,000 persons have entered the
United States unlawfully in the last year. Many of
these persons have paid as much as $1,000 to come
here. Among those who have so entered there are no
doubt a large number of criminal, insane, diseased and
A New Russian Policy.
otherwise unfit persons. The amount of harm they will
do to the country is incalculable. But it is not at all Arthur Ransome, writing in the Manchester Guard-
surprising that such a condition has arisen and, what ian, reveals certain fundamental changes in Soviet Rus-
is more, this bootlegging in immigrants has the tacit sia which are found to have consequences of greater
moral support of large numbers of people. import than any that have taken place in the Soviet
It is no simple matter to outlaw a practice which in Republic since its founding.
The original communist plan has been shaved and
its very nature is not unlawful. Lawyers speak of
crimes which are mala in se and those which are mala whittled from time to time ; compromises were made
prohibita, that is, crimes which are wrong in themselves with a hope that conditions in the outside world would
and those which are wrong because a statute has been enable them to return to the basic principles of Soviet-
passed declaring the act a crime. Murder, arson and ism. Untenable and unworkable schemes were aban-
incest are by common consent of humanity wrong in dolled when they discovered that these schemes ran
themselves, while the wrong of entering a country is counter to every belief and conception of, the peasant
only a mala prohibita. We do not conceive any differ- population in Russia.
In 1921, under the stress of very unsatisfactory con-
once between mala in se and mala prohibita as far as
the need for upholding the law' is concerned, but one ditions in Russia. as well as their inability to make any
must of necessity, if one is to be at all realistic, recog- arrangements with the outside world, the policy known
nize that one has a validity which instantly appeals as the New Economic Policy was adopted. The Nep,
and the other may or may not become valid. as the new policy is known, was adopted only after
Some years have passed since it has become unlaw- much heated argument, recriminations and not a little
ful to manufacture, sell and transport alcoholic liquors. misgiving. It was an expedient based upon reason. It
It would be a matter of supererogation to tell of its was reasoned that the possibility of a rapprochement
failure. This much is a fact. But why is the law with the capitalistic countries of the world would be
flaunted, why do otherwise law-abiding citizens take a more easily accomplished if the foreign governments
special delight in violating the eighteenth amendment? were made to believe that the Soviets had abandoned
This spirit of lawlessness as it relates to the prohibition their war against private enterprise, initiative and
law has permeated every group and class in America. property.
This new economic policy, approved and adopted
When such a condition exists it is not an accident. It
must have some deep-rooted organic reason. Why has as a means of effecting closer economic and diplomatic
this statutory prohibition none of the force and effect relations, is no longer apolitical expedient but has be-
of a law which prohibits an act wrong in itself ? There come an economic principle in Soviet Russia. The
are many statutes which have the sanction and validity significance of this change cannot be exaggerated, for
of the law's which punish murder, arson and incest. it now becomes the economic mode of life. That which
There are many traffic violators, but yet nobody for was outlawed, disreputable and at best an expedient
a moment thinks the court unjust or unreasonable for has become the approved method.
By adOpting the New Economic Policy as an econ-
sending a reckless speeder to jail or imposing a heavy
fine upon him. But such is not the case with the pro- 'omic principle the Soviets are actually placing them-
selves in a position.favorable for official recognition by
hibition amendment or with the immigration law. It
appears to us that it is quite diflicult to make men agree the United . States. Those European countries which
were anxious to deal with Russia were satisfied to do
that a thing is wrong when it limits one's freedom and business with it and even recognize it with the
works
deprivation. of the amendments to the consti- knowledge that the New Economic Policy was one of
An a examination
-
work, carried on under the direction
of instructors delegated by the IIillel
Foundation, will, it is assumed, be
given no special doctrinal emphasis.
We think this separatist plan a
mark of egregious lack of self-re-
spect. One would expect a move-
ment, which is an outgrowth of the
concern shown by thoughtful Jews
for the future of Judaism in America,
to integrate rather than to scatter
Jewish forces and to inspire the cour-
age and consistency that American
Jews sorely need. What sort of Ju-
daism are we going to cultivate if
Jewish students at universities have
so little backbone as to substitute the
traditional Friday evening and Satur-
day morning service for a service on
Sunday morning which, at best, can
be but a foolish imitation of the serv-
ice of the dominant religion?
Is there anything in the require-
ments of Reform Judaism that makes
Sunday morning services desirable
and Friday evening services intoler-
able? If separatism is to be insisted
upon, why not have two services on
Friday evenings?
Jewish students in the American
colleges have yet to indicate that they
can command the respect of their
teachers and their fellow students.
Too soon do they forget that, al-
though they are ensconced in the
cloistered halls of colleges and acade-
mies, they are the representatives,
perhaps the most important, of their
people. Manhood. which expresses
itself in devotion to Jewish morality
and religious principles, is not re-
vealed in the make-believe Jewish
culture and religious work which, we
fear, will characterize the program
of the 'fillet Foundation. The ques-
tion in our mind is whether the bricks
in the Hillel Foundation have been
surely tested.
s ,
in the sum totals of our respective
heart ; to intuition rather than logic.
emotions under the stimulus of the
Though addressed to "You Gentiles .'
it is probably calculated to strike
external world."
To the Gentiles, life is at best a
home to "Us Jews" with equal or
grand passage-at-arms; a beautiful, greater force. And this it does.
gallant adventure, a thrilling, compli-
Whatever the Gentile's reaction, no
rated game. The business of life is to
Jew can follow the author in his brit-
fight with honor, to experience und liana succession of chapters without
enjoy the adventure, to play the game
being profoundly stirred, without run-
in accordance with the rules. This ning the gamut of human emotions in
basic conception is strange and abhor-
soaring crescendo from one superb ,
rent to the Jew because of its ungo3- climax too another. He develops his
liness, its essential "lack of serious-
theory of the "fundamental differ-
swiss." To him life is purposeful, and
ence" step by step, tracing its opera-
all its processes are related to ulti-
lion, in various departments of human
mate universal ends. All the values
activity, points out the glaring con-
and considerations of life are suitor-
resulting
incompatibilities,
trasts,
dinate to the fundamental and immu-
irritations, the inevitable conflict
table consideration of right and
And having done so, having entered
wrong. The dash of these opposing
the items on both sides of the ledger,
viewpoints, the incompatibility of
he presents "The Reckoning," terrible,
these two moods—the playful and the searching and unsparing:
serious, the esthetic and the moral,
"And so, since we have lived among
fit`(
the temporal and the spiritual—af-
you,you have instinctively appealed
A
feels the relations of Jews and Gen-
to brute force in combating our Milo-
....
tiles through the ages. The Gentile
ence. When the reckoning is drawn
''s
way of life, his sport mentality, is
up, your guilt cries to heaven; what-
Y
manifested in a thousand ways—in
ever have been your relations ti each
other, we Jews have at least been the
the dominant position of sport in the
common denominator of your brutal-
life of the masses (did not the Roman
rabble cry for pan•m et circenses?):
its. Compared with each other you
in the development of a morality r. -
are gentlemen, Aversions, democracies;
laced to the game, but not necessarily
set
side by side with us, you are but-
s
related to right and wrong; in the
lies and cowards and mobs. You anr
/,`'
emphasis placed on form and grace
unable to meet us en the spiritual
and rhythm; in a religion essentially
plane; you bring the attack down to
polytheistic despite its superimposed
the physical plane, where we are &-
monotheistic dogmas; in the pre-em-
fenseless. You do with us as your
inence of the sport-motif in business,
animal whims dictate; you rob us, you 4
2
' to
at the university, and all the walks of
slay us, you drive us from land
h'.
life; in an insistence on loyalty for
land, and while one of you drives us
its own sake, apart from its relation
forththe
other shuts the gate in our
f
„s7
to good and evil; above all in the glor-
tacos. There is at least one clear note
al,,,
ification of war as the greatest of ad-
in Gentile world history, one consis-
'1 ,..
ventures, the most thrilling of sports
tent theme: 'The note of our agony--
..
and the most perfect opportunity for
the theme of your cruelty? "
self-realization. The Hebrew spirit is
One notes a striking fact: Through-
revolted by all this. Try as he may,
out the book there is not a single ref-
the Jew cannot enter fully into the
creme to Zionism. The word "Pales-
spirit and rhythm of Gentile life. Ileine,"
t [believe, never occurs. For the
is irritated by it, rebels and becomes,
essential character of this particular
in turn, an irritant to the Gentiles.
problem remains relatively unaffected
in their eyes the Jew is, therefore,
by the Jewish effort at national re-
sombre, graceless, lacking in loyalty,
habilitation. Yet one would be blind
',',,'
devoid of honor, unchivalrous, and---
not to recognize the Zionist in the
J
for his abhorrence of war—a coward.
author. None but a Jewish national-
's .
Of this continuous conflict the auth-
ist could have written this remarkable
ts.
or secs no end in sight Compromise
book. In its frank and intrepid spirit
;(<
is vain; assimilation impossible. The
it is reminiscent of the courage and
J.
best that may he hi,ped for is "un-
daring which, in Ilerzlian days, pro-
s.4
derstanding"—a sort of perpetua
jetted the Jewish question into the
.(, )
truce, an armed peace. And it is the
arena of ir.ternatinnal discussion. Its
-
attainment of a better understanding
style has something of Zangwill's
' R
scintillating brilliance and biting sar-
c the author sets forth as his ob-
w hih
easel. Its analysis of the Jewish spirit
is not uninfluenced by Ached Hearn
jeritidviciuti int t hhaist Ith"iskbook will improve
ills is the bountiful season for
G
t lnia
nnJewsand Gentiles
etwee
and his disciples; and in its drastic
e
s
be
ot
Jewish
prayer
r
o
relatl!
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ee
eal
yin.I
hod
ia
booksthose
the
deep
down
in
his
subliminal
vehemence one hears the reverbera- l()
They may verge on
books.
was seeking to scrum-
tains of Nordau's thunderous denun- .5e,
a
or
11
months
in
the
year
but
sr
that,
lion
elation of Christian inhumanity. To -
during the four weeks preceding the plish that. I doubt that he had any
motive
whatever,
other
than
the
aur-
these sources may be tra,ed much of
light
and,
see
high holy days they
ficient and impelling motive of self-
the author's inspiration, the best that
perhaps like the squirrels, they may
was driven to write,"
is in him; and to that extent he is
winter
nour-
expression.
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able to put away
in direct line of descent from the
reharnyenit season of the fru i t which the he confesses on the last page of his
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accurate motivation
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Jewish
plain
the
resistless
swing,
the
rhythm-
scendant—he is in a sense a progeni-
well be seen in the prosperity or the
is power of his composition.
low economic estate of the dealer in
(Continued on next page.)
On the whole, as I have said, a
Jewish books.
Comfort.
F there is anything that can tom-
I fort a mother in the passing of a
bright-minded and dutiful son it is
the knowledge that she is not the only
one who mourns his departure from
this life. The cruel and untimely
death of Leo Pulaski, a youth whom
more than one outstanding Jewish
citizen of Detroit has lauded for his
worth and filial devotion, is a loss to
the whole community. Had be been
spared, the little army of workers for
the public good would, to the extent
of his ability and eagerness for fit-
ling things, have been enriched.
tution will reveal the fact that they were all enablimT e::pAieney ; they were willing to gamble, so to speak,
and widened the scope of the liberties of the, people. and take a chance, but the United States, which had
The eighteenth amendment is violative of these funds-no special need for trading with Russia, could stand
mental and basic principles underlying amendments to aloof and wait until Russian economic policies were
satisfactory to it. American observers in Russia will
the Constitution and consequently it has given rise to
T
soon report to our state department the exact status of
more violators than have the 17 other amendments
Economic
Policy
in
Russian
life,
and
if
Arthur
New
the
combined throughout the history of the nation. People
unconsciously feel that it is an invasion. They resist Ransome's understanding is correct we may soon hear
the law because they have no sense of guilt when they of proposals for recognition of Russia and trade treaties
violate it. In the same sense there is a feeling that it a' ith that country.
This New Economic Policy cannot be anything but be
is not wrong for a person to travel from one country
-
to another. The law is a purely fictitous, artificial bar- helpful to our people in Russia, for it will open up nor
and of the czars when the ter
l of
rier and those who are bootlegging immigrants and the ma► activities in the former
artificial
barriers
built
up
by
Soviet
theory
are
broken
immigrants themselves have no sense of guilt. We are
not for a moment attempting to justify these violations down.
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