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pronouncements of the upholders of the status quo
were not the ultimate wisdom.
Just as much as radicalism per se is not anathema, in
the same manner is it not sacrosanct. Many stupidi-
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Interest
se Indorsement of the
movement because it is called conservative. There is
to the Jewish people. but &Walrus reeponsibility for
expreesed by th• ernes..
entirely too much living by slogans, catch words and
Ellul 27, 5684 downright bunk, while the very soul of a thing is
September 26, 1924
neglected or overlooked.
If after an exhaustive examination of the Yiddish
Are Jews Self Assertive?
of the Illinois appelate and American Jewish press we could say that it was of
Johnston,
Jr.,
justice
Frank
division, wrote an article on religious and racial ran- a high literary order, philosophic, artistic and scientific.
Current History magazine " we could actually be proud of the achievement. If we
cor which appeared in the
for July. It is illuminating, judicial, fair and sound. could honestly say that the opinions were not preju-
It is an acute, revealing estimate of the Jew without diced and fanatical but bespoke courage, conviction
,
that cloying sugariness which too often stamps the and
erudition, the adverse criticism of any group would
be of no consequence.
praise of the Gentile for the Jew.
The goal which should be set is embraced in the
The spirit and attitude of Justice Johnston is
best expressed by two of his quotations, one from Rage- fairest flowers of democracy, and they are that freedom
hot: "Discussion is the main force by which civiliza- matters and the improvement of the quality of hu-

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AS WE GO'
ALONG

A Program For the New Year 1

By ABRAHAM CAPLAN

tribut ion Committee in the relief of
No racial or religious group lives a
suffering did not completely solve the
more complex life than does the Jewish
agonizing problems of stricken Jewry.
community. What with the traditional
,Tall those who regularly or moan.
W hat the hands of war so readily' y &
difficulties that beset it as a racial
stroyed has mot been altogether re-
sionally read the paragraph' in
and cultural minority (it mutters not
trieved. Even if the passions and
column and to those who to not
front what angle One VieWS the vela-
h,
w
hatreds that were let loose by the
d si
tion between the Jew and his environ-
achieving
conquering and vanquishes! nations
hearty an, thoughtful find
prosperous
metal and the equally traditional lack
had not spread their evil passions 0 1 5-
New Year is extended. May the year
of unity between the various elements
On the life of the Jews, the tasks of
about to be ushered in see the asser-
which constitute the Jewish group in
rebuilding would have been of sim-
non of the stalwart Jewish attitudes
'm y' Own ' , agility, it is not surprising
passing magnitude. How much more
which this column, since its inception,
that the life of a Jewish commuity is
difficult of solutions are these lorolo.
iles urged. May the months that soon
a many-faceted and, at times, bril-
lents in consequence of the rapid i s.,
will enter upon the threshold of 5655
handy colored spectacle. Nowhere, it
cline of the morale of the peoples of
be months in which Jews will think
seems, does the living process of ad-
Europe, who, with fe v exceptions, are
less about enemies and conspirators
justment, growth and education (one
paying heavily the piper of Mars".
and more about essential values in
might add the factor of decay without
personal, social, moral, religious and
One comes upon the thought of a
disturbing the living quality of the
cultural effort. May the Jewish peo-
Detroit budget for the various great
process ), assum e such a throb ang %
pie of this city, state and country
works
of healing and uplouiloling for
ibility as it does among a group of
seek to carry nut, in honorable sin-
which the Jew's of Europe cry tout to
Jews.
cerity, the resolutions which they ex-
us. This was a relatively realizable
This character was accentuated by
pressedly and impliedly assume &m-
plan during the war and the years im-
the conditions which have arisen since
ine the penitential season. 1liiy the
mediately hollowing. With the crit i.
the dread upheaval which began 10
Jews of America come upon the
cal nature of Jewish conditions com-
years ago. The least that may be
blessed good fortune of being so
ing home to as in the reports of spir-
said is that, if the Jews of Europe
minded throughout the new year as
itual, cultural, political and economic
went through hell-tire, destruction and
to be able to achieve the high resolves
breakdown, it is of the utmost impor-
death, the Jews of America exper-
which stir their beings when they
tance that something of the afore.
ienced a very definite reflex of the
face, with eyes and hearts bespeaking
time solidarity in the work of Jewish
catastrophe that befell Cher kindred.
candor and purity, the Power who
mercy reasserts itself.
In times of despondency one may
holds all men and all nations and all
And then the question of Palestine,
speak of the callousness of the Amer-
time and all substance in the hollow
which to the minds of many Jews
ican Jew and in a measure be within
of His hand.
cornea as the finale to a moody, Bertha.
the truth. But indifference may ' be
yen-like symphony, the motifs of
a surface characteristic rather than
Authority.
which appeal to the deepest emotions
a true mark of the Jewish mind as
tion is advanced and when a nation reaches the stage inanity. •
W HEN Dr. Stephen S. Wise told
of sorrow, as a conquering lost Move-
it contemplates the situation of the
where it is capable of discussing questions with ani-
o VI/ Major General R. L. Bullard
ment redolent of triunqoh and bright.
Jewish people throughout the world,
that he would not suggest to or ad-
moss. Seen in the larger perspective,
mated moderation, that nation is progressing toward
The problems that press for solution
vise his colleagues in the rabbinate to
the work of uplifting Palestine into
at the hands of American Jews, or the
an improved civilization." The other is from Edmund
preach on Defense Test Day he no
the realm of rational politics seems
Jews of, hot us say, Detroit, are so
doubt left the general wondering
Professor Henry P. Fairchild, speaking ,before the
Burke : "I am not of the opinion of those gentlemen
to be one for all Jews who can see in
numerous and varied that one must
what the synagogue really meant.
the romantic the practical, in the
Political Institute at Williams College, pictures a world
who are against disturbing public repose ; I like a
possess
a
marked
breadth
of
vision
in
Since then, is no high priest to utter
practical the roonlantic, who view the
order to exhibit an intelligent, if not
full of woe and travail unless something is done to stop
clamor where there is an abuse." Justice Johnston
commands either in definitely re-
problem of the physical Jew as being
a catholic and sympathetic, apprecia•
ligious or--within the limits of the
the terrific increase of human beings upon the planet.
wants animated moderation in discussion and he clam-
of the essence of the problem of the
tion of the sum total of Jewish ac-
synagogue as the symbol of the Jew-
.loowish
spirit. In the Service of Pal-
of
abuses
which
the
K.
K,
K.
and
According to his figures the population jumped
tivity. The .lew who assumes that
ish people's religious organization--
ors for a correction
estine, removed from p llamas and un-
nothing which is Jewishly constructive
the Nordic supremacy fanatics have brought into Amer-
from 700,000,000 to 1,700,000,000 in one century and, 'temporal activity, no one, however
necessary emphases, the Jews of De-
is foreign too him verily bears a men,
great his mind or voice, may direct
troit may also think in terms of an
should we continue to reproduce at the same rate, this
ican public life.
tal burden the like of which his nom
his brother rabbi hither or yon. The
' organized program and of a general
Jewish fellowman rarely, if ever, is
fact that the bishop of one of the
planet will have little space left for breathing, let alone
He finds that the Jews are charged with self-assert-
budget.
called
upon
to
shoulder.
One
who
vis-
largest Protestant communities in New
for living. We do not know where he tintls his figures,
iveness and aggressiveness and two instances are of-
But three are problems that con-
ualize,: the Jew as the prototype of the
York and the cardinal of the Catholic
they do seem slightly exaggerated to us, because of the
fered in proof of this charge: First, "that in New York
front the Jews of Detroit as Jews of
world's process of struggle for great
constituency in that city had directed
this city, of this country. The con-
the clergymen in their jurisdictions to
ends may eventually conic to value the
fact that it is inconceivable to us that the population
City the Jews from an humility that was almost ab-
(Trios of Detroit Jewry and of Ameri-
speak in approval (or was it in de-
historic significance of most of the ac-
of Asia, the center of the world's population, has ma-
can Jewry are, in their special cate-
ject years ago have developed to a point where they
fense?) of Defense Day was not even
tivities of the Jews of the world or
gory, eminently vital. We have our
are the most assertive element in the political life of
terially increased in the last century. This conclusion
ae o bb is f
oaacstioin, forra
of any fraction of them.
I remote to cc
problems of the spirit, if not those of
ercive o fasinon.
There is such a thing as an inahil.
influence
is based upon the fact that the methods of reproduction
the city, dictating terms to the Irish leaders--who in-
keeping our children fed, clad, housed
Let it not be understood that rab-
ity to see the forest for the trees. One
example of the same process";
and the means of life have not been altered in China or
bis in America have not had their
and in health. We have moral quos-
who steadily reads the pages if a ser-
deed are an earlier
great Jewish
Pons to solve, problems of salsa-atom
India to any appreciable extent, consequently the in-
ious-minded Jewish paper and does
and, second, "that the Jews have led the movement
p
views sshoanr
t.
°
ckled,
by
athe
to master, coonditions of communal life
,nda
or
sha
note
Icio,
-
port
periodically
otsl,iichagl Isy will t
to exclude the Bible, an historical and fundamental
c ease of population must have been practically negli
r by seniority,
loss
et he
ttoinu
b ipergssove,(oultue-
of those rabbis who,
: i.
to
Ki
i irilrstt o anndwitnr1
"
idtihno.g,
i
ih
textbook on Anglo-Saxon education, from the public
s
sma
issues
saucccoem
in
and,
o
t
ieazli
c(
r
u
gible.
public sithiaitfol ainA
s c meritorious
is
kl; g s what , ih
know
s
'ruinetite .
the development of a vital,
pulpit,
schools and have aided the Catholic elements of our
There has been it decided increase in European and
onality
and
in
the
preset- -
Position in the Jewish and in the gen-
Jewish pfersh
though
lie
alien population, notably the Irish and the Poles."
American population, but 200,000,000 to 250,000,000
h'e
l
h
in
the
import
he
temiun this cTohuentrbvanLs of h thhe
h
et
rtlhincoam
a
ts
ei.a
p
sostais
n
rIov
; ilo
x -
i e-is-
Be goes on to say that. "regarding the first charge,
e
'Ainto-tIc Jewish
ts nwti ossi hv ir'oPon irntiterio th`a
a cting
cannot fathom. Ile, however, who has
WoUld surely , inore than cover the increase. Be that
h,
that, although the institutions eeof
livities tending to give life and p 'er:
i osonhy of
o
formulated
philosophy
ate o _ a t.pv,
it may be asked why the Jews in New York City should
as it may, we are again assured that, with all the alarm -
there
America and the absence of hier-
'''sb history, Jewish
not become active and even aggressive in politics? Be-
sniii
ist fears and calamity howling, the saturation point has
know
i :1
1;1ne
'1 s t re
'r
'' and will
. ''
I
- h' misgivings
w ii- I pre- '
n t l a etle
Ie
n` Z ins teadf ' partial
I.' spared
' relic powers in Judaism allow the
use his own judgment within
support, a community-wide appre:'-ia-
tween 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 are Jews, many of
ebb]
cisely how h1 respond to the various
been reached and the pressure of population is en - rabbi
the four ells of Jewish law, it par-
lion
and
enthusiasm,
an
eagerness
to
is on his mind and on his
demands
whom are of the second and third generation and are
dangering the world'.
the values which are ole-
sthiels,lh ai policy of repeating time-worn
manes
1
:a
ni
-
,
esrsi
t
l
i
tr
h
pc
ri
educated and cultured people residing in the metropo-
hy
e
toi
a
otg
A century ago Malthus told a distressed world that
cleared to be inherent in the work of
Is it. possible for a community like
t he United Ilelorew schools, for e x-
l'alilty. ° I4ie'` pVrtase(!i'l
Detroit to devise a program of work
lis." In this vein he continues to justify the Jew on
population was increasing in a geometric ratio while
a sameness that was irritating. But
rr ia2
ample; in the efforts of the synagog.
its
, o or wt nhe sta
furtherance oftit
..elhi
f
the means of subsistence were advancing at an arith-
the charges made.
t o c ,oir,de;Lressttgo tporeaechh
iti.ch are at.
e
ohna td,1 sa o f rar J ar yt trans
amttch
amt
We would like to agree with this picture of Jewish
motion of (hi' larger Jewish welfare?
tt7h:ol"Ito"tfhttonh ; 'i`oht.ii°ekvstiv
rnetical ratio. ' According to that calamity howler we t
i has in it the Pete-
P
form
a
task
whici
r
i
n l `dt ,11 )er ortVil. - 1
the
Jewish
Institute;
of
Is it reasonable to expect that Detroit
activity, aggressiveness and self-assertiveness. If the
should all be on the verge of starvation today. An ex -
righteous objection.
menu
prises of the Young WMnen's Hebrew
Jewry could bring to the common life
Jews of New York were aggressive and assertive in
._—
amination of the facts dissipates the assumption coin -
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Association
and
the
Jewish
that eagerness for efficiency which the
Children.
m :1
' istinguished
proportion to their numbers, their education and cul-
Jew manifests in his per-
('tub; in the cultural, 11's d
pletely. The one pregnant vice of alarmists and psuedo
brachia
-
st
th
s,
every
Caligula,
o
purposes
from the practical,
THOUGH
i sonar affairs'! ? It is possible.
ture, we think they would play a much more influen-
scientists is their inability to discriminate between fact
Hadassah; in the aspirations of the
Of course, one most recognize that
I veli and Nero was once a child
tial part in the political life of the metropolis. Too
and potentiality. The human family, as well as all
B'nai Writh in this cite; in the fine
there are profound differences of opin-
nestling in the love of a mother, the
•
influence exerted by Young Judaea;
many of our brethren in New York and elsewhere still
innocence and dependence of child-
ipon i with reflrotonl . to certain Jewish
forms of life, has the capacity to propagate at an un-
l i vzirge nat out-.
hood never will cease to stir the heart
in the broad-guaged plans of such or-
bear the stigma of persecution ; they may talk among
usual rate, but it does not do so:
pathetic
so
h the , Temple Men's
looks need not interferee
or the world. Nothing is
themselves of their aristocratic heritage and superior
If the fish in the ocean vvould all survive we could
t fr ino:o o . s, of t h e various
correlated program of activities that
a ll o ' "o 's sh ' is, or
r
:, ,,egneth
11,,,sleacshailnilth t7, dbeiliur aes riunng; noi thst in;z07
l c ' s so-
yo ung
will promote a healthy cultural and
cultural background, but just the same the inferiority,
walk across the ocean without getting wet, but in some
h
so-.
spiritual development among the Jews
cieties attached h1 the . Pe "p
hood in the enjoyment of not Yes eerste' d

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sufferance attitude is rather more characteristic than
is the superiority, self-assertive one. ,
The second and third generation of educated and
cultured Jews are not so numerous because the vast
masses of Jewry have come to America in the last 25 to
30 years from Russia, Austria-Hungary, Poland , and

Galicia and are consequently not of the second or third

generation in America.
The description of New York Jewry may be correct
in 25 years, we think, if immigration is restricted as
the Johnston bill proposes. By that time the Jew in
America will have become integrated, conscious and
urbane. lie will have shed the skin of the ghetto and
the horroirs of pogrom and discrimination will have dis-
appeared from his consciousness.
With a return of the equalitarian spirit of race and
religion, the Jew will flower and expand and will con-
tribute to a homogeneous America that fine aristocratic
and cultural heritage of which he is the bearer. :
Men like Justice Johnston are the surest harbingers
of the day when "animated moderation" will be the

keynote of discussion.

The Yiddish Press and Radicalism.

manner they do not all succeed in surviving and tonne-
happiness. And no people has been
of childhood as
t lice
h ,oll P
quently space is left for ocean steamers to travel.
IPe e, alfor are not the.
Jewis ii h
The danger which is pictured with such scientific
Children of Israel the brood of God?
seriousness is really not immediate, because in the last stned3seew!
why, is not difficult to understand
why, in their prayers during the holy
century in the development of science and Indust* we
(lays, the Jews should reiterate moon
not only have kept pace with the increase of population
the theme that the Lord nitieth His
but have far outstripped it. It is rather difficult to say
people as a father pitieth his sons and
that they seek forgiveness for error
when the saturation point will be reached.
in the name of the children who are
There is, however, something to think about in the
bereft of their parents and of those
who receive instruction in the teach-
of
population
which
is
rather
in
the
field
of
matter
logs of religion and morality.
selective breeding. The biologists in the last century
But who will dispute the fart that,
discovered some of the laws underlying selection,
though we utter these prayers in sin-
cerity,
we fail to live up to our im-
growth and heredity. They observed the operations of
plied intentions. If we speak in the
the laws of natural selection and applied those laws
name of the children who are taught
in the breeding of animals and the cultivation of plants,
the word of God, the least we must do
is to give our own children such in-
grains and flowers with amazing results. The names
struction. If we pray in the some of
of Darwin, Weisman, Mendel and Loeb are really mile-
the orphans and widows, what is left
for us to do other than to preserve
stones in the march of human progress, for-they were
the lives of the children in eastern
the advocates of processes which have enabled us to
Europe who serve as the gaunt and
increase our products many fold. The scientific breed-
wretched testimony to war, to hate,
to nian's deep-seated beastliness, to
ers no longer leave anything to natural selection, while
his fearsome ignorance?
in the breeding of humanity we do nothing to prevent
When we speak in the name of the
children let us be sure that we are
the feeble-minded from increasing out of all propor-
mindful
of our words,
tion, and we do nothing to prevent the slum residents
from multiplying like rabbitk.
Decoration.
government re-
At recent sessions of Congress laws were passed
HE
cently bestowed upon Felix M.
which had for their alleged purpose the selection of
Warburg an honor which, it is said,
immigrants. We have no objection to selective immi-
is shared by but one other person, the
Queen of Rolland. In recognition of
gration based upon individual standards, but our ob-
his services in bringing about the re-
jection goes to the unscientific and discriminatory fea-
patriation of the Ilungarian soldiers
tures of the selection. If we were so much concerned
whom the circumstances of war had
shunted off to the wild wastes of Si-
about keeping out low-grade and unfit immigrants. is it
beria, the regime of Admiral Horthy
not about time that some legislation was passed to pre-
showed an apparent sense of grati-
tude. And yet there attaches a cer-
vent the multiplication of the unfit among those who

Arnold Margolin takes great pains in an article on
the Yiddish press to prave to the Gentile world that the
charge of radicalism made against the Yiddish press
is an unfounded slander. Of the 11 dailies published
in the United States only one, the Freiheit, approves of
Russian Communism. The other radical daily, the For-
Ward, is uncompromisingly opposed to the Bolshevik
experiment, while the remaining nine are either conser-
vative or at best Progressive. One weekly, the Freie
Arberter Stimme• is radical, although anti-Bolshevik ;
are already here?
all the others are conservative or progressive. Among
Up to the present we always prided ourselves upon
the Anglo-Jewish weeklies or monthlies none are radi-
being the largest, the biggest and the most populous
alarm,
be-
cal. We may point with pride, or view with
country in the world ; it is really time that we changed
cause of this conformist, fashionable position of the
our descriptive adjectives from quantity to quality.
Yiddish and American Jewish press in Ainerica.
When God told the children of Israel to increase
The Yiddish press is not at all unique in this regard.
and multiply until they were as numerous AS the sands
An examination of the foreign language press as well
of the sea and the stars in the heavens the population
as the English press will reveal a similar condition.
of Israel and the world was rather small. In our day
.Radicalism has a very bad reputation in America today
we have already become as numerous as the sands of
and consequently a cross section of the population
the sea and the stars in the heaven, and we should ad-
reveal
an
oppositional,
or
at
best
taken at random will
dress ourselves to improving the quality of those al-
an unsympathetic, attitude toward it. especially toward
ready here and prevent the increase of morons and ro-
'at doctrines preached in Russia. But
C
bots and those who are handicapped at birth because
Should we actually
shoul d . radicalism be anathema?
trepidation? Have we in there are too many mouths to feed.
loathing
and
view it with such
many people in the world and will
America always been such shouters and applauders of There are not too
uniformity and regimentation? Were we always not be for a long time, but there are too many feeble-
There was a time in minded. there are too many slum-dwellers. There are
Amen sayers? We think not.
in poor families and not enough in
America when the know-nothing, conformist attitude too many children
considered the hall mark of Americanism. the well-to-do.
was not
We respectfully recommend to Congress and the
examine
There was a time when we did not hesitate to
the roots of things. There was a time when one's Ares- legislatures that they continue the work of selection
decrease appreciably upon sound scientific lines. If they do so we shall be
did not
tige and social standing
the whole credo of the official the finest, the most intelligent, appreciative, artistic and
c
if one did not acept
was a time not long past when the sympathetic people as well as the greatest and biggest.
pooh-bah. There

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tain strangeness to this act. for it is
in Ilungary that the oppression of
the
takes on such an ugly aspect,
b
a cynical disregard for even the crude
amenities of politics, a cruel and cal-
culating attempt to snuff out the
right of the Jew to live as a decent

When a country reaches a stage
characterized by subjection of its
Jewish population with its strong
right hand and gentle gestures with
its left, it is guilty of a perfidy that
defies analysis. We question whether
the order which Hungary has pinned
upon Mr. Warburg will satisfy his
generous and sensitive Jewish heart.

Poetry.
BE liturgy of Rosh Hashonah and
Yom Kippur is replete with
poems of a strange and rare beauty,
impassioned outpourings of the souls
of Jews of the Middle Ages and of
times even more distant. These
poems have been translated by men
like Israel Zangwill and women like
Nina Davis and Mrs. Lucas. To
poetry is to sip from the
know I.
springs of spiritual ardor of the
great figures of the Jewish past. It
would he well if we perused the
translations of these liturgical poems
before and during the holy days.

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of the city, and should constitute no
obstacle whatever to compact effort in
behalf of the struggling Jewish com-
munities throughout the world, strug-
gling for life and dying in the un-
equal attempt to rise above the nos-
fortunes which are mounting above
their heads.
In view of the catastrophic nature
asah
conditions in Europe, it is
i
of
c ° t ive for' the Jews ') :of the
quite ' impsora
United States to bring up on the al-
tar of ,lewish devotion all the strength
and encouragement, financial and
moral, they can muster. The fine, un-
restrained idealism which was mani-
fest in this country during the war
period, when millions upon millions
were offered for the salvage of Jew-
ish life in the battle zones, needs to
he reasserted. The problem of the
refugees in nearly every country west
of the Vistula River, the work of mi-
tigating the suffering and dispelling
the despair of the thousands who had
hoped for freedom and opportunity in
the western world but who have been
cut off from hope an by a keen-edged
sword, mad such immediate consider-
ation that nothing must he left undone
to provide the necessary resources to
meet the emergency. The rescue of
the refugees is not a simple task. Im-
mediate relief, the discovery of means
of effectively anal permanently dis-
tributing the fleeing men, women and
children and the subsequent planning
of their lives under new conditions
constitute the outstanding elements in
the program of aid for the refugees.
And in this program more than one
agency will be called upon to func-
tion and if these agencies will have
to function, Detroit Jews, in so far as
their part in the undertaking is con-
cerned, should strive for a unity of
effort that will involve a minimum of
waste and a great fullness of reali-
zation.
And then there is the very evident
work of economic reconstruction which
is needed to enable Jews in eastern
Europe, primarily in Russia, to pass
from the stage of helplessness as for-
mer middlemen to a condition of econ-
omic self-dependence as farmers and
useful artisans. In this enterprise,
too, in which the Ort movement in
Russia and Poland figures 50 import.
antly, there should he, on the part of
the Jews of the city. (organized inter-
est and support. Here is an oppor-
tunity for the penchant of the Jew
for practical achievement to express
itself and in this opportunity there
lie the seeds of a significant new dr-
velopment in the life of eastern Ears
opean Jewry.
The work in behalf of the refugees
and the promotion of industrial and
agricultural education through the
agency of the Ort do not exhaust the
imperative activities of American
Jews in the interest of their brethren
in Europe. The devastation which
was wrought in European Jewish life
Was too vast to he corrected in the
twinkling of an eye. The great sums
which were spent by the Joint Dia-

the 1 idolish- '
') ""t1"..t
ura I Society.
Zionist
,..),.
sin r u It
groups, and the host of ether
k
st!wietiesg that work, with greater or
!tosser degree of success, for the int .1-
!soctual and cultural growth of their
members and, t that extent, fur the
progress of the community as a whole.

Perhaps the day is fast approaching
when, with the development of the
scope of the United Jewish Charities
(a modified name would be more de-
sietsblel and the enlargement of
.
. the
in its
numbers who are interest:
work, we shall realize the beginning
of the large outlook which this ar-
ticle would stress. Instead of unre-
lated fragments of work there may
be realized a harmony if achievement
that will cosine with greater ease and
less expenditure of effort and re-
sources. Instead oof viewing the com-
munal situation through the eyes of
this tiny group or that tiny group,
the Jews of Detroit may approach
their problems in the spirit of breth-
ren who dwell together in unity, s o
that all that the community needs will
be done and done well, continuously,
and with the happiness and moral :offs-
ciency of every Jewish man, woman
and child as its unceasing objective.

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!,

AN ANTI-CLIMAX

Religion requires restraint, law not

laxity. I wish that many Reform
Jews would ponder and take this to,

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heart. They know almost nothing

about Judaism, they make no effort to

learn, they do as they please in relig-

ious observance and usually please to

do nothing and tell you that they be-

lieve in being liberal. They remind
me of the ship that carries so little
ballast that it becomes the plaything
of every chance breeze while an un-
usual storm will send it to its doom.
The liberal Jew as he too commonly
exists is in danger of religious wreck-
age. Ile may be carried along for a
while by the momentum of an inherit-
ed spiritual impulsion but he will
transmit this weakened unless he adds
to it. A tragic terminus to a price-
less possibility! God forefend such a
collapse! That it IN" prevented the
.new must place the p 'pular liberalism
among life's most serious clangers.
The best in Jewish life has been
brought to bloom and fruitage by the
compulsion of duty as a demand of
God. Most of our liberalism substi-
tutes personal desire for Divine de-
mand. To fail to counteract this in
interest of greater subjection to
authority is to damage and disgrace
Jewish life with the catastrophe of a
distastrous anti-climax. — Alexander
Lyons.

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The Shofar says: "Awake, ye sleep-
ers, and ponder your deeds; remember
your Creator. and g- hark to Him in
penitence."—Moses Mainmnides.

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