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lead mobs in acts of violence. As long as the judiciary
can weigh deliberately and decide with reason and jus-
tice, we have a feeling that civilization still holds fast
to its moorings. A recent case in Maryland persuaded
us that our judiciary is still on the side of civilization
and decency when all of the participants in a tar and
feather party were sentenced to prison for their inde-
fensible conduct. Before that we had another in-
stance of the sanity' and fairness in the case of the Klan
outbreak at Lilly, Pa. The same spirit which animated
the Chongrad mob impelled the Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania mobs, but the forces of civilization in the one case
were d: relict while in the other they were vigilant and
unafraid.
The verdict impelled two Hungarian cabinet min-
isters to resign, which signifies that there are still some
decent, civilized human beings in Hungary, but for
the most part it was received with joyous demvstra-
tions and festive gatherings.
It is true that American nationals were in no manner
concerned in the affair, but yet Hungary is under great
obligation to AMerica. We have not hesitated to ob-
ject to the indefensible conduct of the Bolshevists even
where our own nationals were not involved. There is
really no great reason why America should not insist
upon human, civilized procedure as a condition prece-
dent to any American financial assistance.
The Chongrad bomb outrage was a depressing spec-
tacle but it is as naught when compared with that in-
finitely worse spectacle of a judicial proceeding which
makes possible the escape of these lunatics. Civiliza-
tion is surely at low title in Hungary today and the in-
nocent suffer more than the guilty.

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AS WE GO
ALONG

A Bit of Political Retrospect

By ABRAHAM CAPLAN

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tiggratate,1 the situation r•,, ,,
Most people still believe that, after
eased it
For do they net !:,
matter
the defeated candidates congratulate
af , tc ,r r
entered as Second
Information.
selves open to the charge t,
those who triumphed in the vete hat-
prefer "safe and conservattr. .
tle
tie, the erstwhile heated Wrangle van-
chairman
of
the
New
York
E
General Offices and Publication Building
is conditions," assuming II'::'
isles in thin air and the "issues in-
State Senate committee on pub.
850 High Street West
ty rather than another ,
valved" in the campaign that had conic.
lie education in a recent statement
Cable Address: Chronicle
commissioned to achieve l"
Telephone. Glendale 9300
to an end no longer are issues. Vic-
declared that the foreign language
London Office
to righteous disapproval, e re, •
tors and vanquished join hands in tic-
press in the United States during the
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it may involve temporary ••••
claiming their readiness to aid in the
last several years has given its read-
loss?
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development
of
the
country,
whatever
ers more facts concerning government
Subscription, in Advance
I thought the Jew, sf
that may mean in the language of
and
civic
matters
than
may
be
found
To insure publication, all cormspoadence and news matter most reach this
States would remember T..
skilled
politicians
or
of
hard-boiled
in-
in many English papers and pointed
office by Tumday evening of each week.
and all that was ass.u•Odel
dustrialists,
to a conclusion reached by investi-
Never perhaps in the hi•t. • .
The thought uppermost in the minds
The Detroit Jrwl.h Chronicle invites corrmpondenr• on subjects of int..
gators for Columbia University that
to the Jewish people, hot diselalrns responsibility for an indorsement of the
country w i ts power in c -
a the American public at this moment
"the foreign-language press excels
vw.
ie exprevsed by the writers.
--
more flagrantly abused th,, ,
has to do with hard, very hard, Ina-
the English newspapers in the matter
men who figured in lb,
spokesmen,
Repuhlitlin
terialism.
of printing accurate information
t
ness
transactions which the SennI ,
of
November
amazed no doubt by the vas
about government activities and du-
cation conimittt t• unearth. , I
the
power
vested
in
them
by
the
coun-
ties of citizenship."
was public indignation to, It •
try, predict a great wave of prosper-
This statement is verified by Itemd
ed than during the revelati• ,
ity, although they will fail to disclose
Lewis, director of the Foreign Lan-
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, we celebrated the sixth anni-
lie betrayal last winter. It •
the economic reasons for the 'medic-
Image Information Service, which
utal that Jews should inve,ct
versary of the ending of the most frightfiTl war in the
don. The Democrats and the Pro-
supplies carefully translated reports
corruption ill ' , 011ie office :it , I '
gressives, stunned lip the conclusive-
history of civilization. Everywhere men and women
and special articles prepared by bus
.h. wish press should dent:, : ..
ness of their defeat, will set back and
reaus and agencies of the Federal
passed resolutions to work for peace. The most proud
expiation for the inisliandlth.
await the prosperity windfall which
government and by semi-public agen-
lie property of such vital dr
and most hard-bitten chauvinists joined in numerous
their conquerors are certain is due
cies of high standing. These articles
mental importance to the not.
to arrive. Whether or not the K•onent-
demonstrations for a lasting, honorable and just peace.
are prepared without bias or predilec-
fare.
Did the Jews f I
is situation, taken in the large, world-
Lion.
Without it dissenting voice the movement for the re-
States
declare
their
1
wide sense, favors the assumption, no
Readers of the Yiddish papers in
against the party upon tt III. I
one has conclusively demonstrated.
duction of armaments was vociferously approved.
this country need not be told how
sponsibifity for the defaho•
deed, there is substantial evidence
n
I
Frankly, we view all this clamorous pacifism with
rich in content and, to a growing de_
betrayal
lai :1?i hsh
ey
,t.
I.•
,
sssetti., indicate
gsee, in literary q uality are the spe-
much suspicion. The war and the peace have taught
Than
did
thi
world's
ri'lICI: al friti
the
i'i the
w
vial articles which appear in them.
with
the
prosaic
run
of
po
,
u
unless ser:ous elf. •ts are put forth to
tis that during war everybody favors war and in time
Indeed, if there is one thing which
ion, which in the rec nt e e I. • •
t•st ablish rational •olicord among the
Yiddish papers stress more than any-
of peace everybody favors peace. It is the most excep-
anything but conductice to t•.
nations of Europe, remove suspicion
t hiag else, it is the informational and
lation of tine public oho old,
tional man or woman who is able to withstand the in-
and resolve the artificial irritation
The Yiddish press
the belletristie.
The Jews might hare 1• •• .•
which holds the peoples of the Conti-
sistent, uninterrupted and united voices of the press,
takes it fur granted, and not without
the present administ r III 1,1 I.' ,
nent in thrall, there is poor lope for
reason, that its readers are intelligent
the pulpit, the universities and all the instrumentalities
rooted ill
Oil the federal statute ho. I, . t ,
Prosperity,
tot'
prosperity
is
Dr, Chaim Weiznutnn, in a farewell address before
men and women who have a notorious
son-Reed immigration I, v
which mould and fashion public opinion. Consequently,
the free and confident interplay of the
bent for independent thinking and
the Palestine Executive Committee, struck a note of
time the nu asure was adopt. d
forces in the world's evonoini•• life.
who, if nut exquisitely cultured, per-
when the country i s at war all favor war and when at
pro ved a wave o f c,.. mcn ,.„, ,
But if "prosperity" does come and
singular realism in the following language: "It is ab-
sist in a traditionally Jewish eager-
peace all favor peace. This view may strike some as
a m„ni.:. t h e .news „f the
the ,.,,,c„
o• two there will be
abides
a
year
•
ness to acquire as full a measure of
solutely useless to worry about political questions and
' legion who will
had seen the loot eitadel .•1'
statesmen in numbers
pessimistic, but we disclaim any pessimism. We surely
essential knowledge as possible.
,.,, , •
•
• vocitcy
the possible changes in the British government ; our
t
and
hospitality
for
oppr. .
n
the
m
e
tifi
d"
i
have been " j us
wish to avoid the charge of sentimentalism and utopian
But let it nut be supposed that the
fall into abject ruin. Th, v h
of the party which was swept into
best political arguments are the Jewish towns, villages
Yiddish
press
has
reached
the
ultima
this
fortification
crumble
I,
dreaming on this vital matter.
power by millions of American rut-
Thule of journalistic enterprise and
anti colonies in Palestine." At another place he em-
was attacked by multi,-
Obviously, the present generation is shot through
ens-
, f.
art. Yiddish newspapers are parti-
ce
l
ci
u
ht
n
„
d„
Thee,.
was
phasized the value of the Keren Hayesod in these
It WIIII precisely the overpowering
with the psychology which precludes the possibility of
san politically and at times agitate
their mind that lurking fa, •• •
"economic" considerations that led the
words: "The Keren Hayesod is the most important
for men and measures distinctly con-
thinking about any of the problems of the day without
cesses of the anti-inunigratt• I •
Jews of the United States ti dt•nion-
trary to the ideals which they set
factor in the upbuilding of the country and will remain
tally was the bitter, unreel, d •
strate their inability to stand by their
sonic consideration of the effects of the war.. It is not
forth year in and year out, at least
; ic
bsesses the though.
..
od
guns on election day. The expected
e w i hi ; c h o
so for the next 10 or 20 years." While apprechiting
by implication.
surprising that some sound, realistic thinking has been
anti-Jewish forces in (fermi, r.
vote of condemnation for the man who
the value of towns, villages anti colonies and the money
To revert for a moment to the
mini,' and Hungary and whi. !
lacked the courage to declare in forth-
done by men of good-will and sound judgment capable
Americanization process which the
which the Keren Ilayestid and the enlarged agency will
es hold
in Europe
opinion of • t•
ing
of
right manner his stand on the Ku
of logical reasoning. Noisy fulminations, pietistic ges-
foreign-language press promotes. A
p e :Ind elsewl.. , •
pl
Klux Klan did not make its appear-
bring, he is not unmindful of the human factor, for he
story which the late David Blaustein
tures in times of peace are of no avail when we are
traditional policy •.f the l'eo, i
ante. There is reason to believe, judg-
said, anent immigration: "We must guard against the
once told is a case in point. Dr. Blau-
which but a few v ea, . I ,,, l ..
caught in the whirlpool of war and not even our abhor-
ing by the' vat's that President Cm'.
stein, who Wan superintendent of the
admittance of unproductive elements. While it is nat-
waxing gi t at Ihlutise It ,:l ., I•
idge amassed in these cities where
Educational Alliance i n N ew York
rence for slaughter or the enormous waste involved has
on the d•letrine that all men a,•• •
that a part of the Goluth.will come to Palestine,
• lews form a large part of the popu-
years ago, was one of 'the enthusias-
any deterrent effect once we are swept into the vortex ' ural .
in the eyes of God and of tt,
lotion,
that
Jews
voted
for
the
[fresh
Palestine must insure itself against a stream which will
tic intelligentsia which a generation
which boasted that its eon. t • .•
dent rather than for John W. Davis
id e th e m.
of nuttiness.
or so h ac k were a l mos t bes
policy derived from Ili bre , -I , • •
injuriously
influence
the
future
of
the
country."
-
or Robert IdiFollette. And now that
One may conclude from the preceding that from
selves in their effort to Americanize
was changed overnight, as it
ho, regardless
they approved a man who,
Dr. Weizmann anticipated the change in' the British
th
the Jewish immigrant. But; being a
our view point war is inevitable. Nothing could be
and was FUCtIt•i-c1,11 by a point ••,
of the worth of his inner intentions,
man of insight, he appreciated the
government which has once more placed a Conservative
that is only American only l•••• • .
if satisfactory they are, hedged about
further from the truth. War is not a concomitant of
fact that the work of making foreign-
has been adopted by the l'nite.1 •.•,..
the question which they agreed was
human relationships, but once war breaks out the ape government in power in Great Britain. The Conserva-
0
u : into mgrml on citizens ,,,,,
,i,tzrzn
of America.
the
dominant
question
before
the
pub-
be carried
and the tiger in man, whipped to a frenzy' by anger' five government has a c:ear majority of two hundred tr
The Jews of America might • ,,re
lic, bt.cause it involved the very fun-
terials readily available. Thus, while
and can be counted upon to remain in power for some
voiced their protest against th. ;
damentals
of
American
political
mor-
anti fear, have full sway. Superficial people have con-
he urged immigrants to study Eng-
ent administration on this son,,
ality and justice, what will be their
is a years. But whether the government be Conservative,
list
But they did not. From , of the hest
eluded from m en's conduct when ill war that he
attitude should the Klan menace per-
dvidehine7tt,
Liberal or Labor, we repeat, as we did at the time of
ta. Cot stcoionmake
minds in American Jewry, men rill—,
animal. lie will fight to save his life and, once
sist,
its
it
undoubtedly
will,
in
view
of
for his Americanization work.
lives were supposedly dedicated to the
the accession of the Labor government to power, that
its striking victories in a number of
the fighting is on, he is carried far beyond his original
But he had his struggles.. Once a
cause of their people, who neve, I, st.
middle and far western states? Will
intent. New emotions are aroused, new resistances are their policy on Zionism and Palestine would be dicta-
member of the Educational Alliance
toted to speak openly against uehor•
the Jews continue to maintain a jour-
board of directors, who regarded yid-
led by the realities and not sentimentalities,
ness and injustice, failed to "I a
built up, new satisfactions are craved, and man stands
nalistic fusillade against the purposes
er the language
dish a s though it we
righteous example. They voted f•d• a
Homelands, states and nations do not come into
of
the
Klan?
Will
their
protestations
came
forth naked as a tearing, destroying and slaughtering
ttf sorcer ers.,
ns
f conspirators
party and fur doctrines that had •!ere
convince?
being by some magical art or trick of legerdemain.
s ir
; lau
dernari
f uming into
violence to the best principles it ani-
I
incline
to
the
belief
that
since
the
animal,
know why huge and
demanded D;,,,
erictinism. They failed in to hi-'' tr
From a lack of understanding and the inability to . They are growths, solid accumulations of homes, towns,
Jew's of this country faded to declare
with hold Yiddish words on it stood
opportunity. Only time will tell h , nc
themselves in a unanimous protest,
discriminate between man as a fighting animal and villages and agricultural and manufacturing products;
near the entrance to the building.
signally they failed. And tilt •sa
c..
"1: however int.ffeetual it might have
man as an animal that will fight have come most of the professions, trades, commerce and social activities. It
," mniirg.ratusttoein,
must be said of that part of the .I. , w-
been, against the Klan and its subver-
d
D
t
'
O
aii
Tnh%V s
ish press which permitted atIIII:clon
fallacies and delusions of both jingoes and pacifists. now comes to light that the strongest argument in fa- ani " invitation
sive intintions and at the last moment
to the Educational Alliance to learn
with one party rather than with all.
thought of the "flesh-pots of Egypt"
vor of Zionism which a commission of the British gov-
One group stoutly maintains that man is a fighting ani-
nglish and. facts concerning Ameri-
other to cloud its vision of what tr
rather
than
of
the
principles
of
pure
ernment found during an inquiry made in 192 was the
c an citizen sh ip."
itical decency and to resort to ts tet-
ust
as
vigorously
denies
it.
or
Americanism which, in their anti-Klan
sal and the other side just
'
lectual cant.
efforts, they eloquently voiced, they
The truth is man will fight for self-preservation, and fact that the Keren Hayesod had collected more than

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Ill r e ;h at E lp

14, 1924

'ostuffice at Detroit.

Cheshvan 17, 5685

Armistice Day.

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British Government and Palestine.

The
when he believes himself, his family and his country one and a half million pounds for work in Palestine.
But most important of all in the building of this
menaced and their preservation endangered, his feroc-
homeland, which must eventually compel autonomous
ity surpasses that of any animal.
The problem of war and peace is the question of recognition, is the human element. If all the newcom-
avoiding those causes which in the past have both im- ers measure up to those who are now leaving Poland,
pelted and compelled man to fight. Can man settle our fears for the future are readily dissipated. Let one
his economic, political, social and religious problems who seems to be more strongly converted to Zionism
without arousing the feeling that his life is endangered, give us his reactions. Ludwig Lewisohn gives a vivid
unless he takes aggressive action? Up to the present picture of Polish Jews leaving for Palestine:
"Our Warsaw leader is a model of quiet efficiency.
no scheme of human relationship has been devised
which has enabled man to discuss, arbitrate and settle In half an hour he has his people in their proper com-
partments. No bundles must be lost and no children
these fundamental disputes.
Man has made tremendous progress in the fields of misplaced. For only one-third of today's groups con-
mechanics, business organization and science but in the sists of young men and women, of chaiutzim or pio-
field of social organization and economic relationships neers. The rest are families who have the necessary
he has lagged behind woefully. The complex, hetero- minimum of capital which entitles them to go to Pal-
geneous world of today has not been grasped by the estine. The heads of families are carpenters, lock-
man of today. The panorama passes by. Ile is bewil- smiths and expert workmen in the building trades.
tiered by the mass and number of confused impressions. They are more than that. They are idealists and, in
Intellectually and emotionally he is a child living in a a certain sense, scholars. They are all speakers of
man's world in terms of mechanisms and science. Once Hebrew in addition to Yiddish and Polish and they have
he relates himself to this immense world he has created all liberated their minds from the restraints and inhi-
but which now eludes hint, we may confidently expect bitions of the current orthodoxy and have seen an un-
a solution of these problems without arousing the ape heard-of vision and had the hardihood to break through
a thousand shackles, overcome a thousand difficulties
and tiger in him.
Armistice days are reminders of the huge task be- on their way to this tremendous adventure."
With a broad visioned, idealistic but withal realis-
fore us.
tic, leadership, together with the indefatigable efforts
of the Keren Hayesod and an extended agency, these

Mock Trial in Hungary.
the lunatic fringe in Hungary threw a bomb idealistic immigrant workers will yet achieve a Zion

When
be of prophecy but will surpass in grandeur
while a Jewish dance was in progress in Chongrad, the which may
sense of outrage and feeling of indignation was univer- and beauty the most ardent dreams of those who lived
sal. The perpetrators were arrested. Their guilt was not in a day when the things which we know today did not
questioned. Everybody felt that, despite the mad even cause them want or deprivation. For it must
orgies which have befuddled liungary, these madmen be remembered that the ideals of that age are the mere
commonplaces of' today and we enjoy things of which
would surely receive the punishment whic h
they did not even know the existence. And what is
ish act
merited,
After
months of delay the monsters incarnate were more, the dream of a Zion given to a people cannot
ever give the joy which a Zion of our own labor and
brought to trial. All the shocking details of the crime
idealism can give.
were properly adduced, the guilt was unmistakable,
Ancient visions and ideals may satisfy those who
yet
Hungarian
justice
pronounced
a
verdict
of
not
and
are not of the hurly-burly of life, but those who are
guilty. The attitude of specious superiority of the
Awakening Magyars indicates that the murder of in- want new ideals vitalized by work gni visions of a rich-
and social comity than those of our fore-
offensive Jews is no crime. To what decadence these er brotherhood
fathers.
people and the precarious state of civilization in Ilun-
The groundwork of the new Zion is being laid.
gary have sunk is more clearly and vividly demonstra-
Time, work, capital and idealism will complete the
ted by this verdict than almost any act which these
structure and when that is done the British government.
sophisticated savages have committed.
We in America are accustomed to many brutal whatever its complexion, will extend autonomy.

manifestations on the part of our aristocratic. benighted
To those who died or were molested or were ray-
citizens of the southland. These occurrences give us
undds
re of the Czarist
much food for speculation as to the low estate of civi- aged by the Russian Black H
regime the announcement of Grand Duke Cyril that
lization in our own land, but if the authorities should
he would grant religious freedom to all in Russia, must
connive with and become implicated with these fiends
any judicial proceeding then, indeed. the most come as a cheering bit of news. We call this making
in
amends with a vengeance. However. vic e prefer that
gloomy and pessimistic prognostications are mild.
our dear. magnanimous Cyril remain a private citizen
-
In every society there are degenerates, sadists, nor

There are bigots and men of uncontrolled passions who the Russian and the Little Father of the Faithful.

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Education.

EDUCATION, when spoken of in
these days in an Anglo-Jewish
journal, is taken to mean Jewish edu-
cation, for the problem of American
Jews, in to far as secular education is
concerned, does not involve limitation
or repression, as in certain European
countries. While petty acts of bigot-
ry occasionally annoy the Jewish col-
lege student, they are so few and tar
between that they are negligible. At
least, they are not official and do not
spring from such dogmas as "percent-
age norms" and "numerus clausus."
The Jewish boy and girl whose father
is a contributor to the communal
charities are more likely than not to
go to college when they leave the
august halls of their high school alma
nutters. Whether or not they become
truly educated, is another matter.
Jewish education is receiving prime
consideration at the hands of Jewish
leaders. Everyone recognizes the
need for it, from the instructors in
Kirby Center (to speak locally) down,
or up, whichever way you wish, to
the board of directors of the United
Jewish Charities. But the reasons
for such insistence vary. One will
say that knowledge of Judaism is
necessary for its own sake, for the
cultural influence it exerts, for the
spiritual strength it occasions, for the
consciousness of Jewish worth and
ideals which it stimulates. Another
will point to the tact that Jewish edu-
cation protects the boy and girl from
temptation, insures them against pit-
falls, serves as armor plate against
the commission of wrong.
Whichever point of view is offered,
it is an effective argument for the
cause of Jewish education. The out-
look of one may be superior to that
of the other, but this may he said in
n e of tnihei,y l att,,er concept-
te lt.ic atet nunattl(iini

a u way atoP°Jhle.
tine character 't and give
idea that Judaism as the guide and
inspiration in Jewish life is impera-
tine because it is good in and for n-
self, regardless of the fart that it
represents good social prophylaxis.

Jerusalem.

AVE ALWAYS had an idea that
VV not a few people, when speak-
Ing of Jerusalem, mean Palestine,
and vice - versa. This confusion (we
vnverraencabout to say ignorance, and ig-
e of the map need not be
placed in the category with a lack of
lativity h of an
knowledge of
underlyingg
the facts und
airship) . is not confined to the unin-
formed general reader. A headline in
4 of fi the Jewish weeklies reads
City
rt..Cnkoes
d oiunnfetruRseasloem
l'.Z'a onistcent
rueteT
B e ( ''n
from the fact that the headline dote
st rn iuntaic,laeptehv,in
ietse,ntat n tih„ e ...,bei •m

wrt
writing,
o epr

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dence Jerusalem is a country and
perhaps, a suburb of the
P
Holy City.

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WHY JEWS LIVE THE LONGEST

By FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN,

Statistician,

Association of American Life

Regardless of the age-long perse-
cution, often indescribable poverty,
poor housing and exposure to many
life-destructive conditions, the Jews
live longer than any of the races or
peoples with whom they have come
in contact.
Often seriously hindered in their
numerical progress, frequently herd-
ed worse than cattle in the foul quar-
ters of the ghetto, yet the Jews have
survived, and today are more numer-
ous than at any time in their extra-
ordinary social and economic history.
The superior longevity of the Jews
is attested by every admissable
method of inquiry into mortality in-
vestigations.
The same results are disclosed in
Budapest or Frankfort as in the east
end of London or on the cast side of
New York. It is an extraordinary
phenomenon of human survival with-
out a parallel in history.
The why and wherefore somehow
hides the secret of man's mastery of
human problems—the prolongation
of the maximum duration of human
life.
The term "Jews" for the present
purpose is used in the generaly ac-
cepted sense. The Jest's are not a
race, but a people, and many of its
members no longer can claim purity
of type or freedom from alien admix-
ture.
It is, however, chiefly the relatively
pure type of Orthodox Jews that is
referred to when the claim is made
of a superior life tenacity and sub-
stantiated by statistical evidence de-
rived from a large field of trust-
worthy sources.
How far the claim applies to mixed-
blood Jews cannot be stated with cer-
tainty, but it may safely be asserted
that the life span of the Jews de-
creases in length with increasing de-
parture from the simple principles of
the Orthodox faith and in conformity
to the traditional customs of the peo-
phe of Israel.
For if the Jews are nut a race, or
a clearly differentiated species of the
human type, they are the most
thoroughly segregated of the religious
sects, but a sect which in its adher-
ence to the laws of its being has
shown both a wonderful tenacity and
rational conformity.
The root difference which separates
the Orthodox Jew from the dissenter
and the Gentile is the rigorous insist-
ence upon a dietary which itself rests
upon the broatli•st conception of com-
mon sense as well as upon Mosaic
wisdom, acceptable alike to science
and the unconditional beliefs of the
'faithful.
When the mortality of the Jews is
subjected to critical analysis an as-
tounding contrast is presented in a

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comparison of the death rotes with
those of other types of mankind.
The Jew is less subject to mayy in-
fections, less to tuberculosis, le, as
a rule, to malignant diseases, but
somewhat more subjected to net- Is
diseases, to insanity and consider
so to diabetes.
The infant mortality of Jews.
a rules, surprisingly low, even
worst of slum areas, while the
rate is generaly much higher
, •
the rates prevailing among non
Old age is extremely common.
here again the worst possible •
lions of life and habitual undet I
isment, often with vile surround •
seem to be without a seriously
mental effect on exceptional I, ,
ity.
The Jewish dietary laws are r..,
r•
a code of morals in matters of
sonal hygiene. They touch upon

of the essentials which affect th• in-
dividual's predisposition or liaH" v
to diseases generaly considered ■ ••s-
ventable in the light of modern nu h-
eal and sanitary research.
First in the order of import,i••• ,

come the Jewish regulations comerr•
inc the consumption of animal f • •
Ritual slaughter and carcass imp •••
tion were the forerunners of th' •':
ficial meat inspection of the pr•-
day.
The term "kosher" denotes '' •
substance or foodstuff which by " r• -
tare of its salutary nature is :
ducive to the proper nourishne• •
and maintenance of the human ec' . ' •
omy without giving rise to any o
turbance after being ingested."
This ancient conception of wh •'. -
some food as clearly differentia'.
from food not wholesome has "vii'
within very recent years become gt
eral among non-Jewish people.
But even today only a beginri•
has been made in the development ••`
rational methods of nourishing
human body by food adapted to the
human economy.
The Jews, long before other peolcl''.
had realized the unsuitability of many
substances which are consumed eN,
at the present time by non-Jews ;17' 1
unquestionably do much harm.

Heimann Weinstine of St. Paul.
Minn., was recently awarded th"
scholarship offered to young violinists
by the Guilliard Foundation of New
York City and will study at the four-
dation. Mr. Weinstine won the Auer
Scholarship offered by the Chicagd
Musical College two years ago and
last year appeared in concert in Sac
Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles as I
Modesto, Calif. Ile is recanted a' of •
of the most promising young vi.tlIn'f . f
in the country.

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