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WORLD FAMISHES FOR FAITH AND LOVE

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By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN

Impressed as one who has just returned from Europe
must be with the fact that it large part of the world is dom-
inated today by the spirit of hate and suspicion and fear,
one can only wish that, in the coming year, these baser pas-
sions may give way to the nobler emotions of faith and love
and brotherhood.
Of these high virtues, the Jew has always been the
sponsor. May it come to pass that under the inspiration of
his age-old teachings, the bonds of human brotherhood
may be cemented where they' have been severed and that,
through him, men the world over may be taught anew that
"it is good and beautiful for brethren to dwell together in

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(Copywright, 1921.

By Ch.. N. 1•6, 0.)

the year !Blair bring you all the good Ming+ of life
ide the things that are 'zoo& "A Haply New Year!" It may mean
one. To others it may mean golden thoughts, which
plated
-
t ,, s , • a gold
crier all, the only legal tender with which to purchase happiness. Yes.
ov that "writers" have "queer" ideas and are "impractical." NeYer-
wr
thi -- we wish fur every reader of this page the inclination to do at least
one ,scent, unselfish thing every day of the coming year! That sort of
thing grows on you like every other habit. Try it. I had better stop all
this wiconventional wishing and hold out my hand and say "A happy and
new year!" That sounds familiar and comfortable. What's the

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the European .1 'ii
h ...e
The outstanding tragic circumstance in I..e
dur.:er the past year was the closing of America's gates to him. It put him
chap
chasing
you
all around a yard
a wkward poon. Imagine some
at o bayonet's point and the only avenue of escape W11 , suddenly cut oft
s you were making a desperate dive to get through. Well, that just
u
Just
about sums up the situation for some of our unfortunate brethren in Europe.
They are being inhumanly persecuted and haven't a single avenue of escape.
closed up the entrance to your getting
would imagine that the man Who
one
out would of decency's sake tell the man who is chasing you to let up.
May there mill come n day when the League of Nations will lay down the

law :

HELPING HAND AND GENEROUS HEART

to the European bullies.

The Klan reached the height of its development during the past year.
hallow of decline has already fallen on it. The candidates for Presi
The
dent : having denounced it, having been defeated in its alleged strongholds,
having begun to provoke the disapproval of eminent Americans in all walks
of lift, having been revealed as a money-making machine for a group of
the American public is beginning to get tired keeping alive re-
higher-ups ,
ligious and racial hatred in order to make a holiday for sonic men interested•
in getting quick money. In other words, the sound, common sense of the
average citizen is asserting itself and we predict that the Klan will soon be
on its way to join its Know Nothing brother,

Aside from a few professionals who make a living out of it, there is a
tendency to soft-pedal religious fighting in this country. Men are busy
with their businesses. They haven't time to sit down and hate each other.
Ford is still working his Dearborn crew overtime, but even with all the
agency-inflated circulation of his paper, it's as dead as a doornail and has
no more influence with men of intelligence than any other third or fourth
rate scandal weekly. That was also a passing phase in American life. I
often wondered why a sensible man like Edison, who undoubtedly has influ-
ence with Ford, never took him aside and showed hint what a fool he has
been making of himself. But some of those odd-minds are stubborn as 'I
mule's and possibly no one could budge him. At any rate. except for
few nests at Dearborn, Ford's paper has no value. That's
feathering a
another anti-Semitic force that has been rejected by the American people

during the past year.

There has been during the past year a pronounced tendency to a closer
the question of Palestine. And it
relationship by all elements in Jewry On
looks very much as if there is to be even a greater degree of harmony among
all the leaders in Jewry looking to a practical solution of the Palestinian
question. There is a tendency toward less theory and more practicality,

Before I dismiss the theme of the New Year I want to take this oppor-
tunity to thank my friends and my enemies for a pleasant' year. Both a
pronounced tendency to a closer relation and kindness obtained. They
have been most kind and attentive to Tie. They have added zest to life. I
have opened all mail, including even strange and unusual looking parcels,
without the slightest fear of catastrophe. I must say that my enemies
have fought in the open and an enjoyable time was had by all. I ask for
forgiveness of the Z. B. T. boys and trust that the coming year will be one
of peace and harmony. I ant prepared to forgive even the editor-in-chief of
the Standard Dictionary, if he will promise to eliminate that hateful defini-
tion. Seriously, I want. to thank the thousands of readers who belong to
the Random Thoughts family. It is a growing family and I feel that there
is a close and friendly tie that unites me to co-religionists in every part of
the United States. I ant glad, noire than glad, to hear front them. I wish

they would write oftener.

if European Jews would find in Mexico a haven.
For a time it looked as
Many organizations and committees, important and unitn purtant, looked
over the situation and reported unfavorably. President Obregon invited
to come and settle in Mexico. It seems that Jews thrive quite well in
Jew ,
that country. Not much is known about Jewish communities there. So it
was with keen interest that I read Anita Brenner's article on The Jew in
Mexico," which appeared in a recent issue of the Nation.

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There is no Jewish question in Mexico. One, remembering the average
lieetual level of the man-of-the-street or his brother, the man-of-the-field,
understand the situation as described in the following paragraph:

° (Jew) is purely a Biblical
"To the average Mexican, the Judi
ed Christ. And as such he
demon. He is the traitor who betray
burns hint in effigy during Holy Week, and as such he curses him and
shudders at his name. Serapia, my old nurse, had always solemnly
assured me that all J adios were horned and tailed; and I did not
know until we had left Mexico that by all rights we ourselves should
possess the wicked little horns and carefully concealed tail. Even
today, with the exception of some members of the upper middle
Masses and the intellectuals. M rules still believes the old church
myths about the Jew, and what is still more wonderful, Mexico be-
lieves that all the Jews are either damned or in Jerusalem. This in
face of the fact that the Jewish population of Mexico City alone
numbers several thousands. Jewish immigrants are flooding Mexico,
from Poland, Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Arabia, even Pales-
--
tine. Yt e all of them are called simply 'extranjeros'--foreigners
Or more specifically Russos, Alemanes, Turcos, Arabes."

By HENRY WINEMAN

It' one were to ask the average American Jew what
are the problems that confront hint today, outside of the
mere matter of gaining a livelihood, I believe he would an-
swer that, as far as he is concerned, there are no immed-
iate problems, True, we have to meet in our daily' lives
the ancient prejudices that, if not apparent, are at least
latent in most of those outside our faith. But that is all the
more reason for directing our lives in a manner beyond
criticism. The Jew is 011 trial at all times, and it is this
fact that should help to govern hint in his actions—in his
business, professional and social life.
c-
The real problem that the Jew' has to solve is subje
tive rather than otherwise. The Jew' whose plea for tol-
erance has been eternal, should learn to be more tolerant
himself. It is rather strange that, of all humans whom you
would expect to display that quality of mercy which they
demand from others, the Jew himself has failed to learn
the full meaning of this attribute.
Intolerance toward his fellow Jew's is highly notice-
able these days, especially among those who have been
particularly blessed in a material way. The helping band
and the generous heart are characteristics that are all
too few among our people today. Life is too swift, life is
too busy, for the pleasure-loving and the pleasure-seeking
to bother with the other fellow's troubles.
The approaching New Year is a good time to pause
in our daily lives and ask ourselves, "What are we doing
for others?" In a city the size of Detroit there are many op-
portunities, for those so inclined, to be of service in help-
ing others less fortunate than themselves.

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PRESERVATION OF THE JEWISH SPIRIT

By DAVID W. SIMONS

Jewry need not look far for its problem. In Europe
the Jewish problem is the problem of unprotected and un-
wanted minorities. The Jews there ask but for the physi-
cal means of existence—their problem is one of food,
shelter and security. Given these they must continue to
live and thrive as the bulwark of Jewishness the world
over. The Jewish problem here in America is just as ur-
gent and far more momentous. A complete commercial
and political assimilation and increasing social intercourse
with our fellow citizens endanger the whole fabric of Jew-
ish existence in America. Our problem now is to preserve
• our Jewishness, to mold and harden it and make it im-
pregnable to those influences far more subtle and more
dangerous to Jewry than persecutions and pogroms. To do
this we must educate our youth. He must thrill at the
sublimity of Jewish greatness in the past and envelop him-
self in the glory and beauty of Jewish tradition, in order
that the Jewish spirit that is born with every Jew may be
revived and nurtured. When there comes a Jewish con-
sciousness, there will come full Jewish responsibility and
there will be no Jewish problem in America.
The cause of Jewish education is not to be advanced
gently or half-heartedly. It represents the only answer to
the problem of Jewish existence in America, and all
thoughtful Jews must merge differences of creed, opinion
and origin and work militantly for the strengthening of
Jewishness in this country.

One begins to get the point of the matter. The Jew to the average
Mexican is a distant figure, unreal, not belonging to present-day life. He
sees them only through the spectacles of superstition and legend. Ile thinks
of hint in terms of Biblical history as interpreted for him, of course, by
the church. But as Anita Brenner suggests, the "Juilio is never known as a
.1 its: to Mexicans." The Jew Mexicanizes himself. "The Jew is everywhere,
a long estab.
but astoundingly unperceived." The eastern Jews, who have
semi-colony in Mexico City, monopolize the silk and rug markets.
The western European Jews are to be found in the big businesses, the banks,
th!' mines, etc. Jews hold important government positions; they are proini.
nent in the higher professions. The Jews and the Mexicans are intimate
socially. The very tolerance of the Mexicans weaken the Jewish solidarity.
The Mexican Jews is indifferent to lack of rabbi and synagogue. The assimi d
lationists are very busy denying that the Jews ha G' any divine miss s an
up:
that there is no reason for them to remain apart. So Miss Brenner

"Consciously or unconsciously, unwilling, acquiescent or deliber-
ate, the Jew in Mexico, whether he is Arabian. Turkish, Russian, Eng-
lish, Polish or German, whether he is a merchant, teach.r, neddleri
artist, educated or ignorant, is becoming as Mexican as the descend-
of the 'conquistador' or the :son of the native Indian."

Mexico promises to play a most important part in the future of the Jew.

...Mencken, in his latest "Mercury." indulges in some buncombe. He is
ing about religious prejudice and as he travels alii•g he reaches this
cart
Point of absurdity:

"The immunity it (the Catholic church) enjoes is not unlike that
enjoyed by the Jews 20 years ago when practically all American
editors were under the thumbs of Jewish advertisers. That old
immunity, I believe, was broken down by the Jews themselves. They
grew so bombastic and oppressive in their demands and pretensions
that they suddenly found themselves face to face with a vigorous
anti-Semitic movement, and presently even some newspaper editors

gathered some courage from it."

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I would expect that Americania dementia from sonic small-town Babbitt,
but not from a Henry Mencken. I happen to be in a position to discuss
intelligently this ancient piece of "bunk" that has traveled for years and
from one end of the land to the other. Without going into details,
year,
may say that I have placed with newspapers many millions of dollars
I
rtising. And I know inside out exactly what all this so-called
worth of adv e
Jewish domination" of the daily press amounts to.

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YOUTH OUR CHIEFEST CONCERN

By DR. ABRAM SIMON,
President, Central Conference of American Rabbis.

American Israel faces a future which our predictive
talent cannot delineate. Yet it requires no unusual men-
tality to draw upon the past for a fair outline of our prob-
able development with a pencil sharpened by hope and
faith. American Israel is not lost in a jungle or broken in
the valley of despond, or slipping on the edge of a preci-
pice or, on the other hand, parading in a fool's paradise
of undisturbed security. As one's optimism runs high or
is bankrupt, so is one's envisagement of Israel's future in
our country. Forces over which we have little control are
still in operation. Defeatism and reactionary nationalism
have brought us the havoc in terms of hatred, prejudice
and factionalism. We Jews have been their readiest vic-
tims. We are, however, safe in saying that the Klan and
Fordism have lost their battle, although they had spread
malignant poison far and wide.
It is prudent to say that Jewish conditions in America
will feel the effects of restricted immigration. In lieu of
the increase of our people from abroad, the development
must come wholly from within. Our growth in cultural,
philanthropic and religious departments must be along
intensive lines. Our organizations will become increas-
ingly more co-ordinating and compact. This will call for
a survey of our opportunities and equipment; necessitate
co-operation and cohesion, 811(1 make for a more uniform
progress. The energy spent on immigration questions will
he turned into channels of social and educational service
in the interests of the second generation. The synagogue
and the religious school will likely gain in well-directed
enthusiasm and purple. Religious education will loom
largest in our American Jewish program. The youth will
be our chiefest concern. *Were religious education and
the progress of our adolescents to grip the imagination
and to enjoy our fullest practical support, the future of
the Jew and of Judaism in the United States could be faced
calmly and courageously.

GARMENT INDUSTRYif,,111;
PLANS INSURANCE

"The installation of unemployment
Association and the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America. They insurance in the men's clothing in-
dustry
is another step in the applica-
will be selected from names to be sub-
tion Of constructive policies in this
mitted by these organizat
city," said Mr. Billikopf. "Year In
and year out the whole industry stops
Leader. Present.
for long periods and men and women
The committee will work with a workers are forced to shift for them-
wimmittee on wage scales and pro- selves, supported only by their men.
duction standards. It is hoped the ger resources. It in hard to conceive
two committee's can so stabilize the of any condition no demoralizing to
'ndustry here that costs will be the individual and to the industry.
brought to a fair level.
The two mod serious forms of 'mem
Those at the conference were Ju- ployment, the cyclical and seasonal,
lius Levy, president of the New York have been more widespread and their
Clothing Manufacturers' Exchange: intensity gr,ater in the garment in-
• David Dreschler, its a•orney; Philip dustry than in the common run of
Cohen, president of the New York industries.
Men's Clothing Assaciation; Sidney
Concerned Over Problem.
Hillman, president of the Amalga-
"It is particularly gratifying to me
mated Clothing \Yorkers of America,
find
since I took ofTiee that the
and Dr Leo alma,, , in charge of
the research work of that organiza- man ufact urers in New York are so
concerned
over this problem. They
:ion. Mr. Billikopf presided.

impartial chairman, Jacob Bil-

It is likely, it is said, that the plan
which went into effect in Chicago on
May 1, 1922, will be adopted here
but modified to meet local contlit'one
It has been agreed that employers ane
employes shall contribute I ia per
Factor In Stabilizing Trade cent of their payrolls and wages to
an unemployment insurance fund
Receives Consideration
each month. More than $1,000.000
At Conference.
Was thus realized in Chicago in a yeas
and, as the New York market is a
NEW YORK. —The first confer- much larger one, it is expected the
fund here will greatly exceed that
, ence between representatives of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of amount.
It was decided that Mr. Billikopf
America and manufacturers of men's
should name a committee to be made
clothing in this city to determine de-
up of representatives of the New
tails of the unemployment insurance
York Clothing Manufacturers' Ex I
Plan which is to be instituted here
, '
was held recently at the office change, the New York Contractor

In the first place and the second place and in the last place, the news-
papers in any large city were never dominated by Jewish advertisers. It is
rerfeetly true that there have been petty items kept out of the newspapers,
and items are being kept out every day. But they are kept out not by
ethan by any other group that
Jewish advertisers in particular any mor
may be friendly with the publishers. But I don't believe
that any important
a dvertiser never bothered
item could be kept out of the daily press. The
his head about interfering with any newspaper's position, for example, on
public question. Even if he had, the paper wouldn't have paid any
any
attention to the protest. To read all the nonsense that is written of the
dvertisers, one would imagine that
a
domination of the daily papers by big
a dvertising departments
great issues were passed upon and censored in the
of department stores. It is tommy rot, pure and simple. I could cite scores
of instances where th biggest advertieere in the country have been com-
e papers and where the papers went even further than
'Dee. 1
ignored by the
P iet elf
the
situation warranted to lay before their readers scandal stories.

believe that the working out of the
unemployment insurance is the cen-
tral !step in the joint program of the
union and the manufacturers in sta-
bilising the men's clothing industry of
New York.

"Our problems are considerably
simplified by the experience with a
similar scheme in Chicago. In that
city the unemployment insurance
agreement has been in effect almost
11 year and a half. Under it more
than $500,000 already' has been dis-
tributed in benefits to union members.
Up to Sept. 5, 20,067 checks had been
issued, the maximum being $100 to
a member in a year. There is ap-
proximately 3900,000 in the Chicago
fund now. Many of the problems of
administration have been met there
and their solution will make easier
the operation of unemployment in-
surance in New York."

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