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horror stricken and disclaim all responsibility. If this
were not an ancient and honorable practice, of which
the late Czars were masters, we may be led to believe
Oa? son. am.... memo
that the whole stupid, exasperating business was be-
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Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
By RABBI JOSEPH THUMIN
his brood of minister satellites no longer rule in Russia
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
of Congrgation Beth Abraham.
the
truth
of
that
hideous
regime
may
be
told.
We
have
Names.
Intered as Second-clue matter M•rch 6, in I6. et the Postoffice at Detroit.
learned since the passing of Czardom that many of the
Mich.. under the Act of Much 5. 111711.
An Address Delivered ■5 ■ Dinner Given by the Jewish House of Shelter
O Adam, it will be recalled, was
Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Kirby Center.
riots and pogroms staged by the hooligans and Black
assigned the peculiar privilege of
General Offices and Publication Building
Hundreds
were
not
only
approved
and
sanctioned
by
naming
the
animals.
It
must
be
im-
850 High Street West
One of the jewels in the crown of ancestors can also be found in t le
plied that, even in that remote day,
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the officials of the Czarist Russia but actually planned when
Jewish virtues is hospitality. Habit ference in Abraham's reception . ( ,-
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the
father
of
all
men
came
upon
London Office:
strangers and their web ..i, .
and instigated by them. It seemed to us incredible that the earthly scene, the need for desig- and custom have so impressed them- three
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a government which was powerful enough to suppress nating animate and inanimate things selves
icy eon. the house of Lot. The Bible, ire•
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that
he
never
considered
terms by which they might be
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known was clearly realized. And yet
"But before they had lain (be,. •
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ize any movement for the liberation of the people, was in this day and age, and in Detroit, and holidays a poor stranger, an man
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Id the city compassed the I.
at his festival table. To
surely strong enough to prevent the organization of 5555 years since the Creation, ac- "Orach,"
round, all the people fret,' eon t ,,
The Detroit Jewimh Chronicle invites correypondence on 'subject. of intermt
make
stronger
happy
and
content,
to
cording to one version, or countless
.pone bony for •n indomernent of the
to the Jewish people, but disclaims
surround him with a home atmos- ter. And theycslIcd nun. , I. I
pogromists and hooligans.
aeons of years since the sun let drop
Plow. expre.ed by the writers.
Said to him, "Wl eie are the iveo
—
As a matter of fact the ()knout was so powerful the bagatelle which became what we phere, was the height of achievement came unto the this nitrht? Brine 1 , .
for the host.
Kislev
15,
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the earth, there are men and
and had such ramifications that practically any con- call
December 12, 1924
This flame of Jewish charity, while unto us. that we may know thee,. -
women who seem to prefer to be
Talmud further onlielo ,
r' ' n
spiracy against the Czar was discovered before it known by the initials of their given not extinguished today, does net burn by The
declaring that the country . i -
i..<
reached its maturity, and yet we are told with the most names. Indeed, there are some who so intensely as of old, Of old, the dam was very prosperous and ii • ,
...,
The Ministry As a Profession.
host did not regard the "Orach" as
appear mystified, if not horrified, when
became
selfishly
italepend,
i.t
serious faces that the government could not cope with they are asked for their complete the receiver of charity, but himself vs fort,
.
Ti
all fm, ,,
a decree to pr t , \lt
Many young men and not a few young women keen
these ignorant, stupid hooligans. The whole story was names. And in reply to such a query, the receiver of a gift, a "Mitzvah." made from
'a
settling in So.lon. They -mid
with the zest for service to the community and society preposterous. But it is no more preposterous than the many persons, so many as to be in- This attitude on the part id the host ors
"Our
country
is
rich,
we
have
geld
ac
,
'.i
made the "thtch" feel at ease, made
maddening to one who is of
discard the ministry as a profession with hardly a sec-
I
plenty of silver: why then should v •
proposal to close the university because of its inability effably
his heart rejoice freely and contented-
the opinion that men and women have
let foreigners decrease our fortoncs
ond thought on the subject. This point of view :n re- to suppress the disturbers.
given names as well as surnames, re-
ly.
Let us destroy the 'foot theory' in oiis
No
finer
example
of
true
Jewish
"B. King, S. Korn or
gard to the ministry comes from preconceived notions.
We do not know exactly what they have in mind, ply invariably,
Young. Is it conceivable that
charity as practiced of old Call be cited country." sound logic is hidden ill II,.
those preconceived notions stand the test of criti- but we have a suspicion that their motives are not the 1. the M. President
What
than that of our patriarch, Abraham.
of the United States
two words of the Talmud, "foot III. •
cal examination? The rabbi, minister and priest are purest. It would not surprise us if they finally decided would sign state papers with C. Cool- The Bible tells us:
tire."
Ti understand shot the Tabloid
"Abraham was sitting at the door of
than Calvin Coolidge?
persons primarily engaged in theological disputations;
that since the university cannot remain permanently idge, rather
'Woodrow Wilson have been
his tent in the heat of the day. And meant by the "foot theory" would be
saving souls from damnation; painting after-life as a closed and since the students will not attend as long as Would
to
acquaint
ourselves with a univer-
content with a W. Wilson? The only
he lifted up his eyes and looked, am
paradise for those who live humbly and seek God. In Jews are admitted that the only solution is to exclude precedent we now recall for Presi- 10, three men stood near him; and sal economic principle as applicable
when he saw them, he ran to meet today as it was of old. The Talmud 1.,
resort to on initial in the place
short, their whole time and all their abilities are de- all Jews. Our conclusions may not be correct and we dential
then) from the door of the tent and source for this reference is the folbm _
of a given name is the "G. Washing-
voted to other worldy affairs. According to the legend, hope that they are not, but we do get a feeling of ton" signature appended to the fam- bowed himself to the ground. And he ins historical incident: In 375 It. I
, pi,
the ministry did not interest itself in the affairs of nausea when the officials of a government appeal pa- ous letter addressed by the first Pres- said, "Pass not away, I pray thee, when the pleheiatis, the g tounmon pe tic`
from thy servant. I will fetch a morsel of Rome, ret.olted aainst the s
of the United States to the Jew-
the world or, at best, tried to solace and comfort man thetically to the world not to misjudge them and not to dent
because
of
their
of bread and comfort ye your heart,'" eigns, the patricians,
ish community of Newport. But it
Did Abraham know these men? Not tyrranical rule, the influential oratio
with the promise of a life hereafter. But what are the
hold them reiiponsible for atrocities, while all the time must be remembered that in the days
Agrippa, to make them se,.
facts? We have been fed so long in fancy, legend and they are able to suppress everything which militates of General Washington the old Eng- in the least. Strangers were they to Maximus
, ,
lish habit of making colorless initials
in fact, they appeared to hint the futility of dissension and strif
apocryphal tale that perforce we are tempted to state against their rule. We have the same sort of sympathy represent perfectly vigorous, meaty hint;
addressed them allegorically as fel-
as heathens, of very time descent. The lows: "Once all the limbs of the In.
a few of the facts concerning the ministry of today and with the Roumanian government that we had with the names was quite extant in the United only recommendation they had for A .
States. In England the custom gen-
were "Orchim," man body refused to co-operate with
Russian when that government piously implored the erally persists even to this day, as raham was—they
tomorrow.
in a strange land. They each other. Each organ decided to
In our day the ministry seems to have abandoned world not to judge it too harshly for the indefensible those who have seen business signs strangers
were human beings created in the im- assert its independence. The feet re
and advertisements in the British
its heaven-looking attitude and transferred its activi- depredations of hooligans and Black Hundreds.
age of God. How eagerly and glad- fused to walk, the teeth to chew, the
eyes to set—all stopped their func-
newspapers recall.
ly he received them. Ile was not con-
ties and gaze into the hard, material world about it.
It is about time that Roumania cleaned house. There
Why Jews should want to go by
tent alone with appeasing their hun- tions. They beheld the result! They V
And these activities of the phenomenal world engage is no need to close the universities. All that is needed A., B., or C., rather than by Aaron, ger but desired to comfort their found to their surprise that each af-
the other; all had suffered.
the attention and claim the time of all denominations. is an unmistakable opposition to student hooliganism Benjamin or Cyrus is beyond compre- hearts, their souls—make them for- fected
Consequently they resumed their func-
Detroit Jews seem to be ad-
get that they were far from their land
The Inter-Church World Movement, the Council of and it will cease at once. These adolescents of the hension.
tions". "The same," he said, "is true
dicted to the faulty habit more than
home.
Churches of Christ, the Social Service Council of the Roumanian universities do not differ radically from those of other cities and the men who NMI Ah!
If only the Jews of today of every nation. A country is like a
body with limhs; all parts are neves-
.
are
of
the
"initial"
persuasion
out-
would
follow
in
the
ffsotsteps
of
our
Catholic Bishops and the Social Service Department of our prankish, naughty boys who attend our universi-
II/101101A other.
the women ta•ho display a sim-
forefathers in fulfilling that prime sary ard dependent
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations are but ties. Imagine the authorities of the University of Mich- number
virtue of charity. If you, my brother All must work in unison, one for all
ilar tendency.
and
all
for
one."
This
analogy, ae.
a few of the bodies of churchmen who have discovered igan threatening to close because of the pranks of the
in Israel, ore compelled to take your
walking staff in hand and travel in cording to history, deeply impressed
that it is highly important to bring a little heaven on students. As for the Commonwealth of Michigan or
Registration.
strange lands and clinics, and are ov- the people.
earth, to bring social justice closer to the underlying the Government of the United States being frightened
Perhaps today nations need again
ercome with a feeling that you are
ILE recommendation of Secretary
abandoned by both man and God, you to be impressed with the folly of 1 , ,
population and to attempt a solution of poverty, prosti- by a lot of student hooligans, the proposition is laugh-
of Labor Davis that aliens be
will be possessed with an intense eluding peoples of other lands. Na-
tution and the many social ills which affect humanity.
registered and their movements re-
able.
longing to taste once more the sweet- tins today, after becoming prosper-
until they are naturalized is
Are there similar organizations among lawyers,
ness of home life. Long must you sus through the proper functioning of
A little action by the Roumanian government will corded
Si) typical of the eastern European
travel and ut many doors must you all parts, would keep out the im nu
physicians, engineers or any of the learned professions cure this evil very quickly.
habit of espionage that one wonders
beckon before you receive the friendly grant, believing this to he the sup-t
dedicated solely to social service? If there are such we
why it has received consideration at
welcome and are surrounded with a means of continued prosperity. Let
the hands of Mr. Davis. The abuses
have not heard of them and assuredly their activities
home atmosphere. Then the hunger them renumber that the immigrant
to which such a measure easily lends
The
Jews
and
Spain.
of your body will he appeased, but not is a necessary part for the prelim
are negligible or they must be inarticulate. However,
The mention of Spain conjures up days of splendor itself are so numerous and so closely the hunger of your soul. functioning of the whole nation. Let
identified with graft, oppression and
if lawyers were engaged in such work we hazard the
This contrast between the type of then) not follow the example of Sodom
and days of persecution, the auto-da-fe, the Marrano, hounding of men and women, who,
guess that they would give a thumping, noisy, articu-
the thumbscrew and the rack, Today, Spain is on the though they may he slow in securing charity of today and the charity of our and do away with the "foot theory."
American citizenship, are honest, in-
late account of themselves.
Recently we have paid special attention to the verge of a revolution which promises to overthrow a dustrious and law-abiding, that Con-
decayed,
corrupt
monarchy.
gress should reflect earnestly before
speeches of ministers and lawyers and have noted a
The war has made monarchy an anachronism, for, it enacts the suggestion into law. In-
marked inconsistency in the alleged theories and prac-
stead of accelerating the efforts of
in all, 18 crowned heads of Europe have been thrown the aliens to become citizens of the
tices of the professions. The minister and rabbi seemed
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN
on the dust heap of discarded trumpery. If benevo- United States, in a spirit of devotion
to be particularly interested in living humanity, their
love to the country of their
Mount Scopus and with the nucleus
lence or paternalism made monarchy endurable at best, and
From what I have seen during my
adoption, registration, implying as it
problems and aspirations. The churchmen betrayed
a staff, and which it is hotted will
then surely Spain should have long ago rid itself of would an attitude of compulsion and recent visit in Palestine, I am satisfied of
open its doors in the immediate fu-
a social consciousness and understanding, endured the
marked progress has been made
monarchism, for in that country a benevolent, paternal hunting on the part of the Federal that
ture. One difficulty with which the
in
the
development
of
Palestine,
par-
pain and misery of the world and offered a warm sym-
authorities, would exert a contrary
Zionist Organization is faced is that
monarch has been unknown for centuries and, if Vin- effect.
ticularly during the past two years.
Compulsory citizenship, which
pathy to those who were suffering from the numerous
of ensuring that its educational work
The new agricultural settlements
cent Blasco Ibanez is to be believed, the present ruler would result from a system of card-
should keep pace with the growing
maladjustments of our time. They were worldly,
which have been founded in various
finger-printing and visita-
of Spain is a bombastic, vain profligate who is not be- indexing,
volume of immigration. During the
parts of Palestine are beginning to
tion from none too scrupulous official
aroused and passionately opposed to social injustice.
yond lending his name to questionable enterprises subalterns, is the very thing America find their feet. I am particularly im- past few months, 1,200 immigrant
They were of the people anti against privilege while,
children have been added to the Jew-
where a penny may be turned. He is surrounded by a should avoid. American citizenship, pressed by what I have seen of the
population of school age and it is
on the other hand, the laity in the church and of the group of sycophantic courtiers who feed his inordinate worthy of the name, should be the group of colonies in the Vale of Jez- ish
of the first importance that these chit
reel. Malaria, which had at one time
flower of the spirit of democracy, of
other professions were keen about doctrinal matters
chum should be provided with sate-
seemed a serious danger, was rapidly
a conviction that Amrican ideals of
and theological differences. What is more, the law- conceit and make him imagine he Is God's elect.
quote Hebrew education.
and in a considerable area
Soon finis will be writtten at the end of the story of life and government represent the extirpated,
With regard to the political situa-
in the Vale of Jezreel, which two or
yers and physicians, called upon in public, forgot all
malig- highest expression of human dignity three
tion, I may say that the country
years ago was a malarial swamp,
about realities. If you want to hear stale platitudes. Spanish monarchy and none who has known
and political freedom, not a harshly
tear . imposed status, smacking of !laps- I have hardly seen a single mosquito. quiet, and I am happy to report the,
bombastic jingoism and all matter of clap-trap do not nant cruelty and bloody inquisitions w il
relations between the various sections vl
This is due entirely to the work of
burg methods, Czarist rules and the
go into the church or synagogue, go rather and listen But the people of Spain are of the same warm-hearted, unlovely system that obtained in the reclamation which has been carried of the population have become prac-
tically normal. The relations be-
on by the Jewish settlers, assisted by
to the other learned professions when they discourse joyous, hospitable stocks as the inhabitants of Italy Turkey of Abdul Harald.
tween the government and the Jew. ,
the advice of sanitary experts. In
upon social questions. I and France, and we know that they are as devoted to
are perfectly satisfactory and the
addition to the large area purchased
government can be relied upon to
There is no clergyman in America to our knowledge the democratic creed as any people in the world.
for Jewish colonization two or three
Social?
sympathetically the various
To the Jews of the world a republican Spain means fANE of thse days we hope to read years ago in northern l'alestine, a handle
problems which naturally arise in the
who has stirred up as much doctrinal bitterness as has
further 75,000 dvnam (about 20,000
ordinary course of events. As a re
William Jennings Bryan, a layman, a lawyer. The many things. To the wistful, patient, brooding Jew
%.-./ a consideration of the question
acres) has recently been acquired by
sult of the marked improvement in
whether or not, as not a few persons
the Jewish National Fund and the
most orthodox divine is today too busy trying to bring who knows Spain as one of the torture chambers of
the political situation, I am particu-
who hold more or less commanding
American Zion Commonwealth, so
heaven on earth to engage in history, the fall of the monarchy is but the fulfillment
larly happy to notice that the moral , -
positions in the Jewish world main-
that there is now in the Vale of Jez-
of
some
of the kingdom
of the Jewish population is better
tain, the religious point of view of
such acrimonious
controversy. The ministers of the of God's promise to Israel. It has been the inevitable
reel and the adjacent area an ex-
than it was two or three years ago
ne dinespitefu
Jews in this country is determined
tensive and continuous stretch of
gospel have seen visions of human brotherhood and ending of all those who have used the Jew the lorry the
The atmosphere of depression and dis•
not by inner conviction, judgments
land, most of which, however, has
content
has disappeared and the Jews,
would attenuate and minimize doctrinal theological and made Israel suffer. Spain is but o
with reference to Jewish history or
already been settled, so that more
would
instead of nervously seeking what
differences and address themselves to the troublesome list of Jewish detractors and tormentors. But to the philosophical impulsion, but by social land needs to be acquired.
may
be
regarded as political success.
In other words, the
As a result of the development
social problems which can be solved by more under- Jew of Europe who is rather interested in a place considerations.
are now settling down to steady, con -
religion of the Jew is what it is by
which has taken place. Palestine has
standing and sympathy rather than by emphasizing where life is secure and where he may be free from virtue of the amount of prosperity he been enabled to absorb a consider- structive work.
I have returned from Palestine
doctrinal dogmas. persecution and discrimination, the impending fall of has achieved. Does not the implica- ably increased number of immigrants, fully
convinced that the situation i•
follow that Judaism is an insub-
and I am happy to say that the im-
the Spanish monarchy has a different meaning. To him tion
developing
satisfactorily and that.
in
stantial
institution,
a
frail
bark
blown
migration is improving in quality as
The church has become militant and aggressive in it means another land where he may go and live as a
given the necessary sacrifice on th-•
hither and yon by the winds of cir-
well
as
in
quantity.
In
August
the
the battle for social justice and it is a greater sm
part
of
the
Jews
themselves, the e--
human being. The vicissitudes of life shape curious cumstance, hardly anything more? number of immigrants amounted to
the eyes of God to be remiss to humanity than any other destinies for us. There was a time when the Jew and True, no religious, social or philo- about 2,000--a remarkably large fig- tablishment of the Jewish nation:]
home
may
now
he regarded as a'
system is able to resist the
ure. if one considers the size of the
remissness. The other learned professions have be- Spain were so inextricably woven in the fabric of Span- sophical
cured. I do not believe that ther ,
processes inherent in evolution. But
for some months past
can now be any Jew, no matter who•
come the upholders of the status quo, the great gods of ish life that they could hardly be separated. Today we can it be said that the Jewish re- country--and
immigration has been on a larger
views, whovcan regard the wort•
use and wont are now entrusted to the lawyers and speak of the Jew in Russia, Poland. Germany, England ligion, which should express the re- scale than ever before. It does not his
which is being done in Palestine witii
lation of the Jew to God and to his
follow that the present
physicians, and well do they point with pride to every- and America. We discuss his problems, his successes fellow men in terms of heart and necessarily
indifference
or without a desire t ,
rate will be continuously maintained,
thing that pleases them. The ministry, on the other and his aspirations. No one thinks of the Jew in Spain, mind utterance, social and ethical but though there may be a certain take a personal share in contributin.•
to the best of his abilities to its sw
hand, has undertaken the divine task of righting social for he has been (livorced from that land for centuries, conduct, and forms and ceremonies ebb and flow, the prospects for the cess.
All that is required is concerte ,,
conducive to Jewish spiritual vitality,
future are distinctly encouraging.
well-directed Jewish effort. I
wrong and injustice.
(although there is a Sephardic community of 1,000 in is a thing of such flux that for the How rapidly Palestine is able to ab- and
confidently hope that Jews of all ,/
man who works in a factory it is one
sorb new immigrants depends entirely
To those young men and women whe are seeking to
s hades of opinion will take their
thing and for the man who lives in
on Inc development of the economic
,x
express their lives in social service the ministry offer Madrid).
But with a democracy in Spain who will dare say a mansion and is copiously blessed situation. If progress continues to share. The Zionist Organization in-
most excellent opportunities. To those idealists, souls that there may not be a Jewish renascence in that land with material goods it should be some- be made as at present, there is every rites and gladly welcomes the co-
operation of all sections of Jews.
touched by the travail and injustice of the world, we of dreams and fri.grant memories of a former gran- thing which comports well with his reason for optimism.
It is not unworthy to mention that
unhesitatingly recommend the ministry. It may not pay deur? It would be one of the grim ironies of history if consciousness of power?
the recent immigrants included a con-
MARRIAGE AND VISION
as well in dollars and cents. but it will pay in the sense once more the Jew attained in Spain to an eminence
siderable proportion of Jews who
Professorship.
have come to Palestine entirely rely-
of work well done.
even surpassing the greatness which was once his in
Y E I, I. I N. ing on their own resources. This
V
) ROFESSOR
A Jew and Catholic besought my
"natural immigration," as it may he
the colorful cities of the Iberian Peninsula.
I vice-mayor of Jerusalem and the
service recently to officiate at their

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PALESTINE AFTER TWO YEARS

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New Roumanian Outbreaks.

A gem from the jewel bo x of an anti-Semite. Ham-
We are a bit suspicious of Roumanian officialdom.
says:
York, writing in the De arb orn Independent.
We question their claim to impeccable honesty and ilton
integrity. We are not taken in by their pious, "The radical papers. of course, will continue to yell at
spotless
hypocritical gesture of closing the Roumanian Univer- Wall street and grovel at Pine street. but Wall street
Roumania has not will be only a memory. There will be nothing left but
of w isdom merely
sity unless student outbreaks cease.
won our special admiration. It has been guilty of brok- Pine street." This delectable bit their plac e of bus
en promises. of violating constitutional guarantees, of means that Jewish bankers
have
i..
e silences
all the
grant the rights of minority nationalities itn- ness on Pine street, which fact alon at Wall street and
fa ilure to
lv
the Treaty of Versailles, which radical woes, who are free to yelp
posed
upon them
by their fingers crossed and their eventually devour her. We dare say that outside of
they accepted
with
i tongues in their cheeks. Since the close of the war the Mr. York not one per on n i America who speaks of
Roumanians, Poles and Hungarians have offended mst Wall street even had in mind the particular street as a
of has been a symbol for
in large separate and distinct st reet. It
w
in the matter of student atrocities. Jews attend
grou p America ithout
numbers despite the numerus clausus in Poland and the dom;nant
ref-
Roumania, but periodically the students stage a riot erence to address. To make an argument. however,
or a near pogrom, aided and abetted by some particu- out;f nothing these subtle poisoners of American tran-
essor, wie
h l the authorities are quit y hesitate at nothing.
larly anti-Semitic prof

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1

dean of Palestine educators, is a
guest lecturer for the current schol-
astic Femora at the Jewish Institute
of Religion in New York. He is also
conducting a course in Hebrew philol-
ogy at Columbia University. The
language in which he is imparting in-
struction is that which is the subject
of his lectures—Hebrew.
Strange and interesting is this phe-
nomenon. One of the greatest Feat+
of learning in the world honors a
scholar who some flay hopes to teach
young men and women in the Hebrew
University at Jerusalem and honors
him by requesting him to employ his
native tongue in the seminar arranged
for him. Exchange professorship
schedule , entered into between the
great American and European uni-
versities and the university on Mt.
Scopus may be prepared in the next
few years with such regularity as to
lose their novelty.

called, is an important and encourag-
ing feature of the situation. An in.
creasing proportion of the immi-
grants, amounting to something like
30 per cent of the whole, are now
coming from various parts of the east,
as, fur example, Saloniea, Morocco,
Mesapotamia, Persia, Bulgaria and
the Yemen. These Sephardic immi-
grants are a valuable element; they
know the east, are content with a
modest standard of life and in many
cases are experienced agriculturalists.
Industrial development is due
mainly to the immigrants from Po-
land and the neighboring countries.
On the educational side, progress
is marked by the opening of the
Technical Institute at Haifa and by
the arrangements. now approaching
completion, for the opening of the
first department of the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem, which has al-
ready been provided with buildings on

marriage. Having strong conviction
against the advisability of such a
union. I ventured to indicate the ser-
ous pitfall. that lay ahead. I men-
tioned children c.oecially. The re•
ligious rearing of ri , se, I maintained.
is likely to introduce a dangerous
Flotation such as often &marts an
otherwise piai i.1 home. "Children!"
said they. "why we haven't given that
a thought and prefer to handle it
when we reach it." "Haven't given
that a thought." And such people
expect to be happy! They evidently
think that marriage is a union effect-
ed by a minister, with no other
thought than to leave their fate to
the developments of chance. I re-
fused to marry them. It wa.s no mar-
rige that they contemplated. It was
the pairing of two animals. Marriage
without vision is unhuman. Why have
a minister at all?—Alexander Lyons.

