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Jewish funds collected all over the world. If Zionists
are unable to accept his conclusions based upon these
facts that do not necessarily make of Price an anti-
ISIONSSIPM1 Ma. 1.2•111M1
Zionist. There are many practical, realistic Zionists
VMS OW
Published Weekly by The Josrlah Chronicle Publishing Co.. Inc.
today who unhesitatingly accept the very conclusions
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
based upon the facts presented, for they do not expect
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
the establishment of political Zionism with the racial
animosities in their present state. They do not expect
as Second•clasv matter M•rch I, ISM at to Postufacit at Detroit.
Mich.. under the Act of March S. DOC
-
to overcome the difficulties which Arab majorities have
-------
General Offices and Publication Building
created and they realize that the subsidies and doles
850 High Street West
must be abandoned before a healthy Jewry is settled
C•61. Address: Chroniel.
Telophon•: Glendale 9300
on Palestinian soil. But one is not an anti-Zionist be-
London Office:
14 Stratford Place. London, W. 1, England
cause he admits the facts even though they may not be
$3.00 Per Year
at all palatable. But Palestine need not be a burden
Subscription, in Advance
to Britain for the Jews of the world are able to care for
all correspondence and new. matter must reach this
,
T. loan publication office
by Tumiday evening of each week.
those who may used assistance until they become self-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitee correspondence on subj.ts of interest
supporting. The heretofore subsidized immigration is
to the Jewish people. but disdain, responsity for an indoreement of the
being changed into an independent immigration due to
view. *surmised by the writers.
Nissan 23, 5685 the economic necessities of Europe and the immigration
April 17, 1925
restrictions in America.
It is a bad habit to charge one with enmity because
Dr. Franklin on Hadassah.
he states some facts which we imagine are best left
unsaid. Often our best friends are those who criti-
It is my pleasure to speak a hearty word of endorse-
cize and make us aware of the important, though un-
men on behalf of Hadassah, that splendid organization
pleasant, facts.
whose consecrated task it is to heal the sick, prevent

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fi t(LIE

E

PL

Jews in the History of Turkey

THE DIGEST

By HIS EMINENCE, HAIM NAHOUM

JEWISH COMPETITION IN
ANTIQUES

Their Influence in Development of Ottoman Empire Highly
Significant.

As early us the sixteenth cent to v,
(Continued f roni last week.)
the idea of forming a religious
The great Jewish humorist, Sholom
But with the large immigration
col in .I erustdem, after the style af IS;
Aleichem, once wrote a humorous
Great Sanhedrin, inspired ninny so..
from 'turkey to the great centers of
story entitled "If I Were Rothschild,"
leis of Spain, who soon obtained no.
Europe, viz., London, Manchester,
in which he told how he would utilize
support of II large number of tit.
l'aris,
Marseilles,
Antwerp,
Milan,
the riches of the wealthy Jewish fan-
colleagues of Constantinople and Fn
Vienna, and Berlin, and to many parts
ily to improve the condition of the
lonika. Dan Joseph Nassi gate ,
of America, and together with the ar-
Jews. The Jewish Morning Journal,
this religious movement a modern oo .
rival in Turkey of many Jewish fam-
ia an editorial on March 23 on Jew-
look. He obtained from the Sultan a
flies from Central Europe, new ties
ish acquisition of Gentile antiques,
concession of all rights to the lake of
alludes to Sholom Alecihem s story
were formed and new opportunities
Tiberias for the purpose of forming
for commerce became available. Lim-
in the following manner:
there a modern Jewish calmly. Th..
ited and individual initiative gave
"A later day humorist who will
Great Selim, who had a special mil
way to collective action.
write a new story 'If I Were Roths-
pathy fur Nassi, gave orders to t.
The
Jewish
proprietors
of
small
child' may also include the item that
governor of Syria to help this ent.
banking tiros foresaw the necessity
if he were Rothschild he would not
prise in every WHY possible. 101,1
of
getting
the
co-operation
of
Euro-
permit a Philadelphia book dealer to
11 period of one year, a city was i s ,
pean capital, and thus created there-
outbid him in buying a rare book.
there with the help of Arabian won
establishments
by the great financial
The Rothschilds are not as great now
men.
which helped to improve the credit
as they were in former Clays; not
standing of the country, and extend-
New colonies surrounded it. It it
because they were impoverished, of
ed the boundaries of Turkish com-
Nassi's plan to make Tiberias an ii
course, but the world has grown
merce and industry. This applied to
dustrial center. To this end he plant
richer anti other great bankers have
the early banking institutions founded
tol mulberry trees and began the mats
arisen whose business is even more
through the initiative of great finan-
ufacture of silk. But this work re-
immense than that of the famous
ciers—Jewish
for
the
most
part—
quired perseverance Mid the most
family. When it conies to buying a
with French and English capital. This
widespread co-operation. The gs..1
rare article for a couple of hundred
blindness and save the babies." I fail to see how there
was the case with the Banque Otto-
will and the work of a single perstsi
thousand francs, particularly at the
mane
and
the
Societe
Generale,
both
were nut sufficient, and the plans had
can be any difference of opinion as to the worthiness of
time when one dollar equals about
of
Constantinople;
the
latter
is
no
to lie dropped. .After the death of
20 francs, even the least important
this cause. Whether or not one is a Zionist in the old
longer in existence. Jews were chos-
Joseph Nassi no one could be found to
of the Rothschilds is wealthy enough
It is not of the world we are speaking but of the
en as managers anti directors of these
carry on his activities for the general
or in the newer acceptation of that term has no bearing
to be able to buy what he wants.
banks. The Banque tie Solinque was
good.
New York World, a journal of liberal idealism which
We take it also that the American
founded through the stone initiative
whatsoever upon the question at issue.
Until the nineteenth century Pales-
book
dealer
who
acquired
the
rare
has with courage and determination espoused every
and is managed essentially by native
tine was made up of a conglomeration
picture book for 432,000 francs for
It is a happy circumstance that in the work of
cause which makes for greater freedom and better un-
Jews. So were the other banking in-
of Jews, both natives and those com-
which Rothschild's bid was only 430,-
stitutions as the Wiener Bank, Banque
Hadassah, championed by great hearted Jewish wom-
ing from outside for the purpose of
derstanding. Not that we have always agreed with
000, is a better judge of such com-
Hongroise, Banta Commerciale Bab
continuing their religious studies. This
modities anti a greater connoisseur
the World for only recently they took an inexplicable
en, all of us may whole-heartedly and enthusiastically
iana, and other private banks having
entire colony lived on charity provided
than the Jewish Baron of Paris. The
branches
in
the
various
cities
of
the
stand
on
the
child
labor
amendment,
while
their
cen-
by their co-religionists of other coun-
subject would not interest us particu-
join. Any legitimate means for raising funds for this
Empire.
tries, giving rise to the evils of paup-
larly if it were not for the fact that
sorship attitude on the drama was wholly inconsistent.
While preoccupied with the estab-
splendid organization ought therefore to be generally
erism which have survived up to this
the successful buyer is also a Jew, the
But to show its splendid regard for free expression it
lishment of credit houses, the Jews did
day. But toward the year 18110 new-
well-known Dr. Rosenbach, the great-
and generously supported.
not
fail
to
take
an
interest
in
the
or-
permitted Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun and Mr.
comers from Russia began to devote
est dealer in rare books in America,
LEO M. FRANKLIN
ganization of institutions for public
themselves to agriculture. European
if
not
the
world
over.
This
incident
Cain, an editorial writer, to express opinions on the
business
enterprise.
They
were
the
Jewry looked with favor upon this
in of some interest from a general
ones to obtain capital from Europe
page next to the editorial page,
movement. Mr. Montefiore of Lon-
Jewish viewpoint even to those who
and concessions from the government.
don purchased, in the year Dain, a
are not otherwise interested in old
No one acquainted with American journalism can
The concessions given for the Credit
large tract of land for the purpose of
books or other rarities. Nervous Jews
forget the invaluable investigation made by the World
Fonder Ottoman for the opening of
trying out the practicability of the
who always fear becoming too con-
public
thoroughfares
(Soul
a
which led to the exposure of the Ku Klux Klan. A
scheme.
spicuous may not relish the spectacle
Professor Cuza, the outstanding anti-Semite of Rou-
a l
so high for an Routes), for the Sanaa - Yen(wen red
This
This batik-to-the-land movement was
paper with such a fearless, honest position is sure to
mania, has resigned from the University of Jassy.
Oath - Jerusalem railways, for the
d o in of,. Thereatroe. asoy Jt elep
the most important factor in the
jresticT
wuoc
'f
n
ti
one company of Constantinople,
run counter to all reactionaries the world over, We
has provoked more riots, caused more disturb-
today
y
sources
of
anti-Semitism
awakening
of the desire for the r•-
mang
are exclusively due to the efforts of
and has in general fo-
learn that the Horthy government in Hungary has
that they can hardly be counted; why
population of Palestine, and was it,
ances, stirred more bitterness
Jews such as Salem, Fernandez, Na-
one?
centuated
by
the foundation, on April
add,,Faonrotherh
placed a ban upon it and the paper is now contraband.
etc. These organize-
mented more trouble for the Jews of Roumania than
tv i, on, N
von,
5,1870, of the agricultural school Mike
anti the country and
the
ns have enriched
The reason for this action is based upon the insistent
Lio
other man in the country. When a man manifeftts
yeti Israel under the Alliance Israelite.
this consolation: the.expensive have
ttily
habitants' 'ant prove of great
The enthusiasm fur agricultural work
such consistent hatred, such cumulative animosities, we demand of the World that Count Michael Karolyi be
for the acquisition of which the bank.
its int to the Turkish domain in it s
benefi
became greater and greater. Edmond
-
er and the book dealer competed is
permitted
to
tell
what
he
knows
about
the
present
fitin
contact
with
western
civilization..
are intrigued. Frankly, we are interested in learning
de Rothschild devoted a great amount
not a Jewish book, not written by a
Detailed statiStics would r •vethat,
of money to the purchase of land in
what caused this sort of behavior and what degenera-
garian government.
lew, and not on a Jewish subject.
in proportion to their numbers, the
Palestine. Ile established settlements
a
well
known
fact
among
antique
urc
nail7I s. e:
five influences or defense reactions prompt his actions.
In a recent editorial, an editorial writer poked good- ' Idyl
of
l
uo
Jews
et
s t h e
for the immigrants from Russia and
t naencytitohni n ir iJ
have nationalities
than
Our present age shows an interest not only in the be-
natured fun at the stupidity of the censorship by point - re Letra.stthcoa n
Roumania, anti he built for them
udah
with
ri
skiing in athne alTutt
schools and synagogues. Soon this
havior of the individual in question but is interested to
ing out the impossibility of preventing Karolyi from be
be sold to Gentiles only. This ri's' can e
a
.
dZ
rrtne dinA
tht.u. reoxpePo'a
initiative became very popular and al-
of the reasons why Jewish antiques of finance and
an
P
heard in America inasmuch as his speech in Mon
learn the motivation, and now since Cuza has been de-
business with
p
r a
most general among the Jews.
an u r e. eesrs oefxp j ensivhe, for. there ae
ca. At the same time,
I
from his position in the University of Jassy we
treat, Canada, was to be broadcasted. The attack
ems antsquanan s who
The colonies became larger, and co-
recognized that both the' Greeks
it must and
be
would
not
think
of
buying
them.
And
can take a more detached view anti put our emotional
operative associations with branches
which stupid reactionaries can endure least is ridicule.
ttnihtenAt.r,intionaidiaartitsirearpeasgyulaacilliyveininincsurn;.
Gyn -
ng tthhe price
-
,v
in
several cities, were formed. The
its
utesdva
J
ne
t
tw
l
seena
t
vi
The ultimate test of any position is its ability to with
reactions in the background.
ven
products from the colonies were sent
onhti-1
uint thresi,1,....rs,c1thIpa irn( i t .tny titroef, thcoe hch
The information which comes to us calls especial
stand the rapier pricks which arouse the risibles. The
al-reaTolinega
it that e
for sale to the cities, enabling the
will have to admit
fierce in
ost
humanity some good."
former to become self-supporting.
World has really made the position of our State Depart -
tt ntion to the fact that Professor Cuza was them •
products glassware, hosiery, textiles
With the revival of the Hebrew Ian-
and other manufactured products, is
the land when he
learned
that
is ment appear untenable as well as mirth-provoking.
handed
in
his
resig-
surprised man in
guage in these settlements, it was
clue largely to the Jews.
while
it
has
not
spared
the
government
of
the
Awaken-
proved once for all that the regenera
resignation had been accepted. He
"TALMUDIC CONSPIRACY" IN
Following the example of the Jews
tiny of Palestine was possible.
of Constantinople anti Salonika, the
nation only as a gesture, feeling certain that it would
RUSSIA.
ing Magyars.
a
lows of Aleppo and Baghdad played
It was at the time of the death it
not possibly be accepted and then he could •
Things have really come to a pretty pass when an
to this a n
a great part in the development of
gave

lierzl. that Zionism ti
to the refusal as a vindication of ' American journal, because of its tenacious adherence
Mordt•cai Katz comments in an fir -
commerce in Syria and Mestipot
vi gor
heroic gesture point o
d efi;r:j 1 :
the Jt.wish Daily News, on the
1° "Tha new vi g fan,(1 Pf
tinge
tide
in
business
houses
in
r
41
1 '
Be
etiitiblishilip
all his petty and annoying, as well as grossly vile con-
" 1 °
° ' °
to the fundamentals of American democracy, is denied
of .-
N con
report from Soviet Russia wh ouf • new
history, crystallize
Manchester, Bombay, and amia.
ious
ts glon r
Egypt,
-
discov
Once more the comic spirit must have broken
o f "conspirat•y" that was
ation
in
a
foreign
country.
The
reactionaries
in
kind
this
time
into
an
intense
and
practiea
York,
they
increased
the
trade
of
Per-
duct.
ci rcul
is
sh se
ure ofo thic
(Ted in Soviet land. The Jewic-
wish for the rebuildifg of Palestint
und sia through Baghdad. The in
out in uproariouss laughter over the di
Party fo
Hgr
un a y and elsewhere are no doubt heartened by the
where the Jews should live "s ach us
zi
cm
of thy Jewish business The of Mes
a - tion of the Communisth Slutzk . The
mfit Ths
t
to
allow
K
- social Cuza.
anti
,
our
State
Departmen
in
Comm
." 'Sever:
markedl
tent re fusal of
a secret
-der
sa Ells, established
his vine
in Aden, which
and
de-
fig tree."
"criminal" leader of the conspiracy
spirit is abroad in t he world today and though it smiles consisto speak. But th e World is one of those news -
veloped
the
commerce
between
Sanaa
teps teen. taken to facilitate the in
. ,
mlyi

a
se
t
I
who
.
'
as Rabto i . an on
migration of Jews into Palestine an
(Yemen) and the ports of the Red
often yet the opportunities for r i bald, unr .
papers which cannot be moved from its course when it
fourm onths ' imprisonment
fenced
t
to form new settlements.
Sea in Egypt, are worth mentioning.
ffa tperdo -
far - off
ex ,,
has the feeling that it is right an d is backed by the
.Nr , eraavix
laughter are few.
l
n
uitetha
a
slew's of Turkey contrib-
Thus,
the
In the year 1312 of the Turkish ea
ile participated in
st Univer-
Jasy
iaon the authorities of he
uted to the foundation and manage-
ender, corresponding to 1897 A. 1
We congratu lte
lightened, liberal and democratic elements in America)
establishment of the ll'eshibah
to say
ment of credit establishments, anti
although
we
do
not
the
Grand Vizier of Turkey, Kiutsh.
fe
city upon this act
de
,,J.e•xeirle:. • . also) sentenced to two years
When we contrast the treatment acord
a llow the
through constant and progressive ef-
Said Pasha, closed the gates of Ps
ill h a ve a salutary, d so-
-
hom
a
bat
w
Kossuth,
c
for
forts
increased
domestic
as
well
as
that it is belated. Thi s acti on
i,
L
estine to the new Jewish immigrant
who are e- country ma n of Karolyi
rim this sort
o
tic p wro tagnists
Nis. Katz points out that
foreign business with leading Euro-
and imposed restrictions on the pu
tiering effect upon t in he fana
who is being tried for tleship was sent to insure his safe arrival to his place
conspiracy is a new ce in Rus -
pean and Ameritan firms. Dealers in
chase by them of lands of any resat
h
imistic
about
te
pres-
of
fending the assassin
raw materials Banc. to appreciate the
o
o f asylum,
i..,iian.d, T:if e Jews there were used to all
table size. Ile allowed the Jew,
we cannt n be
very opt
international relations
the murder of the Chief of Police of Jassy. The chief
value of their products. By combin-
matters
of
visit Palestine only when provid
f
affairs
i
ant
state
o
suppress anti-
. attt ir'e'nnuesna'-ire rhtti hu end( ti.1 :11
ing the associations of foreign capital
i tafiresye'w
gime
but
with a "red passport," good for a bri
ice
of
refuge
which
of police was killed while attempting to
ct
and the ancient tradition and pra
and through the concessions from the
s tudying, the Talmud. He compared
period only, anti limited tee the purp ,
emitic
riots
staged
by
students
who
had
been
inflamed
the present day persecutions in Russia
Semitic
the government, public works were
of pilgrimage. By reason of rem ,
and brutalized by Professor Cuza and his anti-Semitic was once the finest boast of America.
inquisition
in
Spain.
The
in-
started which brought cities, so to
with t he
tenons made in the year 1912 by t
The new secretary of state. Frank Kellogg, has not
e Soviet perse-
speak, nearer to each other and en-
quisition failed and
workers. The whole country is aroused over the in -
author, tonnes Chief Rabbi of 'ft
co -
will the fail.
acted definitely upon the request of the friends of
hanced the value of the land, increas-
cotton, he says,l
key, these discriminations against t
murder and Cuza thought it would be a mas -
h

Talmudic
ing
thereby
the
natural
wealth
of
the
defensible
i
f
ne
su,e
Oo
arn
Jews were abolished, and the lat
Karolyi. He ought to revoke the existing order and
co n' 'W%acihe , p proud
country. Furthermore, the work done
ter stroke at this time to be vindicated by the university
were about to receive additional poi
re
in the educational and cultural field
this egomaniac discovered that
w in the respect of those elements in America which a
tires by way of facilitating the tit
listrici of Minsk. Wt.'. ' 'sttr' ee atisao
he
t
lint
for
once
for-
he
authorities;
bi y. San-
through their schools is not to
in earnest about preserving those liberities which en-
Tudor such criminals as Rabbi
manization t.f the immigrants WI
his power was not so great and far reaching as he had
nr-
n oc
s hi ite it, ,, .vsha o cso i.
gotten.
the Great War broke out.
t ,,:ir s t h k y t, and o t associates
td a ° e r m
able men and women to live free from the domination
The Jewish aspirations in Turkey
The declaration of Balfour with
imagined.
of tyrants and despots. It may be a startling asser-
center about the restoration of Pales-
Katz. "As long
seiret as w e have suet:con-
roceeding
of
accepting
his
resignation
gad to Palestine and the Jews been
The whole: p
tine. Before the arrival of the Otto-
spiracies an d such conspirators the
is a confirmation of the position we have taken ever lion to many who accept the regimented life of the
the basis for the settlement of
mans
the
Jews
in
Turkey
remained
Jewish people will not he destroyed;
Jt••ish question. And today, as in
against past decade as normal that there are men and women
by themselves. striving only after se-
o as there are Jews who are sac-
since this malignant Cuza started his campaign
a s lng
past, the Jews of Turkey are mai
the jour-
ti -a
curity anti repose, earning their bread
are c for the study o f
e to whom freedom does matter. And
ing themselves
ritie
ing in the path of progress and 1
the Jewish students in Roumanian universities. We
by hard and conscientious labor, and
etain that no in -
the Torah we
mils dedicated to freedom none has reached a hi gher
ticipating in every movement wl
insisted from the very outset that the authorities could m
cultivating at the same time their re-
quisition will destroy us. In the
tends to raise the intellectual and e
-
place than the New York World.
ligious literature. This is why both
dreary life of the Jews of Russia such
compel him to resign and thereby remove his d1
evast ‘
inertial standard of the count' s
the old and the new settlers preferred
dic conspiracies are our only
ting, ruinous influence in university circles. We know M Jews who know the tenderness and regard of the
has given them shelter in their l
wish
there
were
the
large
centers
fur
their
abodes.
d lights. MA.
Tal mu
of distress. They, however, do
not what pressure has been brought to bear which per- Awakening Magyars we certainly join with the World
But with the arrival of the persecuted
more such conspiracies in Soviet Rus-
fail to co-operate with all their ni
Jews expelled from Portugal, Spain,
cipitated his removal by resignation, but whatever it in their tight for basic human rights in this Karolyi
with the rest of the Jews in the
and Italy, a new conception came to
episo d e.
telleetual, economic, and C141111 11.1
may have been at this time the same causes have exist-
prevail in the mindls• of the Jewish
..estoration of Palestine.
YESHIBAH AND STARVATION
people.
ed for a long time past.

Hungary and the "World."

Cuza Resigns.



1

With the passing of Cuza out of the picture of Rou-
manian academic life may we not hope that finis will
be written to one of the blackest chapters of European

If by any chance the scholars endowed by the Gug-
genheim Foundation should find any evidences which
substantiate the Darwinian theory the state of Tennes-
ant i-Semitism ?
- see will not rejoice. The legislature now in session pass-
ed a bill which prohibits the teaching of evolution in
any of the schools of the state which receive state aid
"Is This Anti-Zionist?"
in part or in whole. This action may gladden the hearts
Ward Price, well known British correspondent of
of William J. Bryan anti the Ku Klux Klan, but no per-
the Daily Mail. wrote an article recently entitled "Pal-
son interested in freedom of thought. animated by an
estine Folly, a British Burden." Because of this ar-
honest spirit of inquiry after truth, can be anything
ticle the Daily Mail is charged with a change of policy
but depressed by such an antedeluvian attitude. Ob-
toward Zionism. In the course of the article Price has
scurantism finds the soil of the south most fertile for
this to say : "Racial feelings prevalent in Palestine
growing the noxious weeds of Know-Nothingism. Cur-
render futile and artificial the Zionist experiment. All
iously, this bit of legislation synchronizes with the ap-
official favor and encouragement would never enable
pearance of the hooded order. Can there possibly be
the Jewish immigrants to hold their own without pro-
any connection? We wonder.
tection against the Arab minorities. Jew 'oh immigra-
tion into Palestine is subsidized and not natural. Im-
on dole which is supplied by Jew-
migrants are living
ish funds front all over the world and they will never
be a self supporting community."
('an one in all fairness charge Ward Price or the
Let my sweet song be pleasing unto Thee—
these
Daily Mail with antizi;onist motives because of
'I he incense of niy praise-
statements? He states sane, irrefutable facts as they
() my Beloved that art flown front me,
now exist and the refusal to recognize them in no man-
Far front mine errant ways!
are strong
ner lessens their effective truthfulness. There
(But I have held the garment of His love,
and stubborn racial prejudices and from time to time
Seeing the wonder and the might thereof),
these prejudices have flamed forth and caused even the
The glory of Thy name is my full store—
loss of life. Then, too. the Arabs are an overwhelming
My portion for the toil wherein I strove:
majority which cannot be overcome by official favor-
Increase the sorrows:—1 shall love but more!
mind to show'
itism, even though the officials were of a
Wonderful is Thy love!
special favors to the Jewish population. And it is an
indisputable fact that immigrants are living on dole
JEHUDAII HALEVI
in many cases and immigration has been subsidized by

Wonderful is Thy Love

Under this caption, Louis E. Miller,
the editor of the New Warheit, pub-
lished a vigorous editorial in the issue
of March 25 in which he calls atten-
tion to the most recent reports of the
starvation of Jewish masses in Uk-
rainia and asserts that it is criminal
at this time to erect a $5,000,000
Yeshibah in New York and deny our
starving brethren in Ukrainia the help
that we owe them. Mr. Miller dis-
cusses the statement Mlle by the del-
egation of the World Relief Confer-
ence, consisting of Dr. Motzkin, Dr.
Eisenstadt, former Chief Rabbi of
Leningrad, and Dr. Oscar Kohn, ex-
socialist deputy of Germany, concern-
ing the conditions of the Jews in Sov-
iet Russia. The delegation reports that
starvation and disease are claiming
hi.ntireds of thousands of Jewish vic-
tims in Russia and appeals to Ameri-
can Jewry for assistance. The editor
of the New Warheit deplores the fact
that our organized charity refuses to
help the Jews of Europe anti chastises
those tvho are collecting now a $5,000.
ono fund for a Yeshihah that does not
actually need even 20 per cent of the
sum.
"t'pon this institution the brainless
philanthropists want to squander the
millions that would be the saving of
the four million of our unfortunate
brethren in Ukrainia," says Mr. Mil.
ler. "It is high time that the Jews of
New York should stop and consider
who their leaders are, and whither
they are being led.
"But this is no time for protracted
no dilation. Remember that in the
Ukraine thousands upon thousands
are starving daily. They need bread
and medicine."

ART OF WINNING IMMORTALITY

There are men who become so im-
pressed anti depressed by a sense of
the futility and transitoriness of all
things that they come to the conclu-
sion that immortality is a delusion and
proceed to order their lives in accord-
ance with that conclusion. They adopt
the slogan carpe diem as the guiding
principle of their existence and seek
to extract as much pleasure and stim-
ulation as they can out of the difficult
conditions of life, conceiving that to be
the only reasonable and satisfying aim
of living.
Very soon, however, they become
the victims of a devastating paradox.
The thing which they pursue becomes
metamorphosed as soon as they grasp
it. Their pleasures become wormwood.
The reason is not far to seek. These
men sought to live in defiance of a
fundamental human instinct whist)
turned upon them and plagued them.
The y sought to stifle and cheat the
urge for immortality which lies deep
d iwn in the heart of every human be-
ing and presses in the surface in the
believer and atheist alike.
Apparently there is no specific for
the achievement of immortality. Men
seek to satisfy that instinct in various
ways, unaware, as a rule, that they
are serving this particular master. It
is a tribute to the God of creation
which lives within them and a proof,
simultaneously, that this instinct de-
rives from God and not from Satan
that its expression nearly always as
rarely that it becomes inverted and
takes the form of burning a temple

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for the sake of winning eternal II,
iety.
The human luring strives to sm
himself in his works, his children
houses, his books, his business. 11
ways succeeds more or less. It v
seem that he who succeeds lest
who knows how to hitch his chari
a star, to attach his works It
things that have upon them the s
of eternity.
A few weeks ago there died in
optamia a Jew by the name of E;
Joseph Shemtov, of whom the
had known little or nothing. Wht
will was opened and read, it
found that he had left his can'
tate, estimated at $700,000, to th
ran Ilayesod. Mr. Shemtov, wh,
have been partly moved to net
did by the significance of the na
bore, must have been faced with
erous applicants clamoring for h
;ter. His instinct for immortali
viously possessed peculiar sit
and intelligence. In selectin
Karen Ilayesod he attached him
something which has upon '
stamp of eternity. Ile hitched hi:
int to a star.
Ezekiel Joseph Shemtov wil
tinue to live in the future .
homeland of l'alestine. He will
integral part of the physics
spiritual elements of the new
people. His life will contribute
health and to its growing min
has picked out that which is p
the most eternal thing in this
things transitory—the Jewish

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