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the Brooklyn Jewish Chronicle..
ather tart letter comes to me via
e longs in this I
i
This r
but so Interesting that it b
is rough on my self-esteem ,
column.
i d
Dcar Mr. Joseph:
intrusion, but your feeble warning against writin.•
P ardon
poetry,
the the
like of which won for Eli X Sit•gel the Nation's to.. ey
f
ltd whatever little affection I may have had or you!
prize , has conge
an A
—erese-e--
t
11
plant
man
. k er
,
is
most
gued
terse!
Ins
dh of
and to
NEW SHIPMENT RUSHED HERE FOR OUR SALE OF
Mrs. Mary Fels to Create Foun-
dation for Spread of Ethics
Based on Bible.
WORLD SITUATION MADE
HER RETURN TO JEWRY
Joseph Fels Was Noted Single
Taxer, Philanthropist and
Manufacturer.
-Random
Thoughts."
That your
expressed thoughts anent the Nation's fitness as liter-
y judges were indeed random thoughts may be seen in your de-
lurking behind the stereotyped critiques of such enraged
try'
iloggerelites as is :Maxwell Bodenheini, an excerpt of whose critsm
To
you figured would cover the ignorance of your sinful appraisal.ici
me, as to many, true poetry is passionate feeling expressed: and
diction if not altogether free the verse. Things in life
simple the
as for bombastic phraseology , which did not
yme an yway—
do
not rh Siegel's poem, does Life employ any?
figure in I hope the next issue of the Brooklyn Jewish Chronicle will
. . .
wys
bear testimony to the mending of your S.
a. SAMUEI. TUM1N.
LC
L osn nwskt.t:
JERUSALF.M.—(J. T. A.) — The
rt•building of Palestine as a Jewish
national home 10111 the spreading of
the teachings
ethical ideas based 011
of the Bible, will be furthered to a
great extent by a new foundation
which has the support of the huge
!fortune left by Joseph Febs, the late
reformer,
tax
single
I American
through an institution established by
Fels
of New
his widow, Mrs. Mary F
I am sorry that I cannot find space to reprint all of Mr. Tumin's letter.' York, Recording to a cable received
The Joseph Fels Foundation, which
though I have selected the best or the worst parts, according to where you here.
are sittingin my chair or yours. However, Mr. Tumin is a little more
haritable than the lady who wrote me last week saying that she cannot was organized
in here
New York,
as well
will as be
in
, activities
c undertand how any one with a normal mind can read my articles--and gin it
then promptly procedes to prove her contention by reading them. I con- other centers shortly.
fess my abysmal ignorance of what's what in poetry
when I Mr.
meet
up with
I An inquiry
made disclosed
by the Jewish
prize winner.
Turnin
i Telegraphic
Agency
that a
of incorporation has been
a
s
ellot Days Have Been in Montana" anti find it
'
issued
by
the
State
of
New York to
may consider everything poetry that is "passionate feeling expressed." I , , i
Joseph Fels Foundation, Inc., in
am quite sure that much feeling was passionately expressed t when
poen the
sense that
eNneeSfed
first
appeared.
Of course
my cubist
critic may
beauty
an crazy to me. B which
through
the medium
of even
art. I find
confess
it looks
the corporation
the particular
was
objects
funned for
are which
given
Selling
Wonderful &lett:mit for Tr ?no/7(u 's
It is our opinion that NOWHERE in all
this big city will you find such coats at $25.
Come, today, and see them for yourself.
view'
l'ales-
ration
e CON.
ose of
s. This
. Conn-
paup-
to this
0 new-
devote
ropean
in thi s
f Lon-
1860, a
pose of
of the
tad was
in thy
the re-
was as-
ti April
ail Mil:-
sraelite.
at work
Edmund
amount
and in
dements
:sit and
or them
ton this
7 and al-
.
and co-
branehes
7d. The
/ere sent
ling the
pporting.
rem Ian-
, it was
regenera-
e.
death of
• this es-
t definite
1.-de (qty,
ystallized
practical
Palestine,
"each an•
Several
ie the im-
•stine and
irkish cal-
117 A. 1),
, Kiutshuk
es of Pal-
amigrants,
the ma-
ny respec
e Jews to
provided
for a bri. f
he purpose
f rt.pri•Stql
912 by th.
hi of 'Fat •
against t
the latt, r
ional pi I. Ira Y'
g the toe
-ants oh -
pr with r.
ews becae -
tent of tr.
iy• as in t he
are mar,
ss and pai -
ment
ml and rill
runtry thii ,
1 their hour
ver, do mit
their miglt!
's in the is
commen . iii!
ry
ternal not ,
es to survi7 •
children, LI
tiness. lie ie
ss. It woo I
As bent is I..
his chariot to
works to th.
em the statue
• died in Me-.
re of Ezekiel
om the world
ing. When h. ,
read, it wo-
his entire
MO, to the Et.-
toy, who may
I to act AS he
, f the minty he
ced with num
ng for his leg-
nmortality
ilium strength
selecting the
• hed himself v.
upon it the
tched his char -
ntov will con-
future Jewish
Ile Will !I an
physical and
he new Jewish
ontribute to its
ring mind. Ile
hich hu perhaps
in this work of
Jewish people.
's
Most Are Crepe Silk Lined.
as follows:
standing on one's head one may be able to interpret it but t I I prefer
to
but do not mean , "a. The broader enlightenment of
prose, poetry, painting from the attitude of normality,
' the Jews and Gentiles in the under-
standing of Israel's history and mis-
by that conventionality.
I wonder whether Mr. Tumin would have given more than a single glance I sion; the physical Jewish resettlement
to the poem in question if it had not been awarded a prize': I air not the . and non-political reorganization of
one who is influenced in my criticism by others as much as is my critic. Palestine, and the reconstruction and
Not in a million years would he have ever imagined that such poetry would i development of Israel's life in con-
have deserved recognition. We prance through an art exhibit and turn . nection therewith, to the end that a
dr artistic noses up at certain paintings as unworthy of more than the refuge for oppressed Jews, and an
merest passing notice. But presto; chango! the jury awards the medal of educational and cultural centre for
the first or second or third class and volte face! The pictures are then all Jews,
be advancement
there established.
"b. The
of knowledge
Ripple and side-flare
coats, new Prince of
Wales coats, handsome
fur - bordered coat s,
coats with fine fur col-
,
lars,
satin coats trim-
rl
'', med with fur, coats with
embroidered des i gns,
twill or lorcheen, junior
coats. Sizes 131, 151,
171•
appreciated. I remember Stephen Crane, who once wrote doggerel on the
and generall
back cover of the l'hilistine, and it read like this: "Cats! Cats! Hats, Hats, , •imi economic
enlightenment
in the
awakening
lan d taxation
Hats, Rats! Cats! Slats!" and many there were who praised it. I am sorry, I t field
religct
ion r , .
a x„a of
g eneral, the
Mr. T., but I must stand pat, pat, pat.
.
ious
and spiritual thought; the
of improved economic
Club of the Home I furtherance
conditions, and the promotion of ha-
MOWS'
Well, I amglad that fuss in the Jolly Young
man betterment."
of the Daughters of Jacob, in the Bronx, has been finally settled. ilenry
Mrs. Joseph Fels is president of the
Cohen, who is a kid of Si years, was refused all the privileges accorded the
Alex. Aaronsohn,
foundation, Ca el
regular members who are 90 years and up. It seems that Henry, who for
an acrobatic clown with Barnum's circus, was permitted to 0 vice-president;
Maurice
.,
Fels,
treasurer,
and
Professor Louis
20 years
wedge
his was
way into the club because he could turn somersaults and do the ' °. S.
secretary.
anti wing dance to the king's perfection. But Henry presumed
Asked by a representative of the
him too
in a Wallis,
Agency for the
much for a child, so his elders gave him a stick of candy and put
Jewish Te legraphic
tab-
corner. The fight has been on for two years and the New York papersi
hich prompted her toes
Fels
had some fun out of it. Henry, who celebrated his eighty-first birth- I Iniotives w
Lish the new foundation, Mrs.
have
day last week, was given all the rights and privileges.
, stated:
"I am interested in the application
---........-----
.
one of of Jewish ethical ideas to the life of
I ' I I
Now t grow more serious. D. r Paul
Nathan,
consider der , humanity. Prior to the war, my work •
Europe,
head who
of the I Hilfsverein
o
was cosmopolitan rather than nation-
Jewish observers in all
the ablest
her Judea, in a report to the American Oct makes these grave I alistic because I felt that in this way
, I could be most faithful to the Jewish
r„ /J1%
Deut sc
world platformof justice and peace.
statements:
FIFTH FLOOR
The new international situation which
About 10,000,000 Jews now live in the border countries where
involves a reassertion of te Jewish
military clashes and possibly war may break out any day. Crowded
it in-
t y w
ak
national consciousness, makes
togetherin small towns, suspected by both opposing
forheill
ction,
my work
destru
. cumbent upon me to h
victims of double assaults and threatened with ces,
take a more definite Jewish form
ju e the vi
b
st as they were in the past.
zone of Eastern', while remaining in spirit the same.
_ _
fashion which may make some older
"I have made several visits to Pal-
danger
versity is the first great, constructive
states blush," the paper
Dr. Nathan urges mass migration out of the
and mightier
since the war anti am deeply
and Central Europe into Asiatic Russia. That looks much like jumping I entire
interested in promoting the develop- here and in England and his condi- enterprise of the New Judea. The stated.
from the frying pan into the fire. I am reminded of what Zangwill said .
was that just as much more
will
The Manchester Guardian further
d be raised both in the United formal opening of this university
about the Jews who began to emigrate to Japan, No sooner had they set-
be attended by the Great English recalls that Albert Einstein, one of
tied themselves than that terrible earthquake occurred. So if the Jews I ment of Israel's life in connection lion ul
es and England.
nhnuld
the
greatest scientists of our day, is
statesmen
who
had
the
imagination
least. central FInrone (which they eertainly won't dot, to go to Asiatic with
the ancient of
homeland.
I am the Stat
vice-president
the Bon Benjamin,
Mrs. Joseph Fels is engaged in
and the courage to make it possible. a member of the Hebrew University
an organization of the Jewish young
Russia, something possibly worse may happen to them there.
, farmers of Palestine who share my various activities in Palestine and is
n, This celebration will force the world committee which is helping to make
the B'nai Benjami in
wish proem as vice-president of
to recognize that something new and Palestine not merely a home for a
h e J oe
the mere an organization o f Jewish settlers
Eli as faith with t
extraordinary has happened and will section of the Jewish people but for
written by
be s lved by
ca resettlement
physical
of Palestine. Palestine. She contibuted $40,000 make the world realize that a project the Jewish spirit.
If Milton, Balch & Co. will send me a copy of the book ect of interniar- ' uch.
as a
ig htdaling with the subj
The Manchester Guardian makes •
and, and $10,000 for the establishment of which most people dismissed
and most striking suggestion, saying that
Tobin,
Jews
dream or an p imosturereal
a spiritual awakening of
nth letter th e
nags between Jew and Gentile, I shallo they cl aim f or it ie
Gentiles alike, both within anti with- an Aaron Aaronsohn Agricultural concrete fact and is developing in a
read.
t
oo
d
that of books tha t I have
I out the Holy Land, to the ethical and , Fund, as a memorial to the late
llnio
opi
publis h a
sent me, but I prt• far to
religious life of Israel in world his- Aaron A aronsohn, who was the dis-
---e-iinn-.----
Charles the Baptist. our former Secretary of State. his ' tory. I believe that one is most Jew- coverer of wild wheat in Palestine
equally reactionary successor, our distinguished ex-Ambassador to the Court I ish and most Biblical when one inter- and whose heroic exploits during the
I hope that
Required large hold-
w better) and last but by no , poets the purpose of Israel in terms war Mrs.
are Fels
well has
known.
1
of cosmopolitan justice. Hence
Cast
the third ,
by the way, ought to know
Jr.•
ames
(who,
J
of
le in
air," will
the receive
Hon. W.
R. Castle,
fourth or fifth Secretary
of the
State,
sitecial
copies of the inter- hold that the new Jewish nationalism, ings in Palestine, owning a large
St. s least, the "
aPPearing under the copyright of the , in order to reach permanent success, stretch of land on Mount Scopus, ad-
mean
New York World, on the subject of Michael Karolyi's "gag." If you watt[ must he controlled by the prophetic , jacent to the university building and
view of Senator Norris of Nebraska ,
to know how completely the State Department permitted itself to be yoked , vi ion ttf service to all mankind, and more than 10,11(10 dunam on Mount
the dictator of Hungary. I that Israel's reassertion in modern Carmt•I, liesan, Tit,
near
the other
valley parts
of the
and
of
sad on the spiritual Cordon, Clb-
. life must be ba
and hooked and duped by the unspeakable Ilorthy, '
which underlie Israel's Pal e stine.
foundations
whi
i
reassertion
in
modern
life
must
be
•
Mrs.
Fels
has
continued
the
move-
read this statement of Norris:
. bayed on the spiritual foundations ment for the single tax fund which
ca n be c ompared with
which underlie Israel's greatness. , had been started by her husband and
The attitude taken by the State Department
that of no other government than the old Russian regime under the
Thus my work relates to the Jewish which activity spread to all civilized
, Every American citizen must blush with humiliation that
the ' parts of the globe.
of l'alestine;
Czar,
---_
reorganization
under our flag and our supposed guarantee of freedom it was not
'deeper education of Jews and Gen-
permitted this man (Karolyi) to answer the Hungarian monarchists.
tiles all over the world in the under-.
. . • It should stake every American blush with
humiliation
that
en away
front Earolyi
standing of Israel's•history and nib
taken that precious right
upon our soil the right of free speec
, ,ion and the promotion of economic
n British soil.
by our government, and that in order to enjoy
I enlightennient in the field of land and .Seders:
On both Wednesday and Thursday
he was obliged to cross the borders into Canada, upo
Seder w as
tax reform; these various activities
being co-ordinated to the purpose of evening, April g and 9,a
If it were not tragic, it would be ludicrous.
of-
general human betterment, wherein held at the clubhouse. Many out-
---e-vise•-•----
all races and nations may share town guests were present.
that
fought
the
Jews.
Aaron
Rosenberg
presided
over
the
H ungary
Karolyi fought the same elements in ate D
' alike
1
, els died Feb. 23, 1914, first Seder and finished the evening
• "
, oseph
He is a liberal. And the action of the Stepartment
of the greatest
.t by his will formed funds in 16 , with Avery interesting talk on "The
republic on earth smells to heaven in playing into the hands of a mon-
I am i
I Jew." The second evening Sam Weiss
and
single tax
archival group who protested against his speaking in this country.
to carry on the
took charge.
th a t i countries
at Countess Karolyi is coming hack to this country next fall to lee-
tpaganda, which his wife carried on !
glad
lure. th
Every community in this country should give her a welcome
c o f govt•rnninet. Three iPro W ealthy soap manufacturer, single Lecture Course:
asure rebuke our monarchical branch
hygiene lecture course has
me democratic Monday Opera Club! Three cheers for the demo-1, ' after his death.
As
cheers in
for a the
would
leader and philanthropist, he died
ic A dmiral liorthy! tax
at the home of a friend after a week's barn arranged by the Y. W. II. A. to
or the democrat
ee
making the world safe
at
the
age
of
be
given
every
Wednesday evening
critic Grand Duke Cyril; Three chrs
certainly
at illness of pneumonia,
entlemen, we are
except in the State Department
I 59. Ile was born in Halifax Court at ft o'clock, beginning April 22. The
I tell you, ladies and g
everywhere
on
earth
' House, 1855, son of Lazarus Fels and program will be as follows: April 22,
for d em ocrac
was tutu- "Why Mothers Need Care;" April 29,
_ems..—
Washing ton, D. C.
Ile
Susannah
Freiberg.
cated in the
private schools of Yan- "Microbes and What They Do;" May
I
saying:
as
Charles M. Schwab is that
quoted
the Jews of New York could ask me to do I ceyville, Ile
N. married
C. Richmond
and of
Balti-
6, May
"This 13,
Wonderful
Body of Between
Yours;
Mary Fels
Kett-
"Social Relation
20, "The De-
Men and Women; May
. more.
Be
• 1891.
27, " Commun-
May
,
kuk,
Iowa,
Nov.
lfi
in
nothing
There
In April. 1910, the plan was start- trait Baby," and
that I would not do for them.
' ed in the Fels factory here as they ' ity Health."
f.,
Whereupon "F. P. A.," the clever World columnist, adds:
I distributed $50,0110 to employes
share of the profits made by the Open
Meeting:
The
monthly open meeting of the
I a
As a test case they arc, it is rumored, going to ask him to fast
company
the to preceding
Ile went
England year.
in 1907 as an Y. W. II. A. will be held Sun day af-
representative of his firnd
April 20, at 3 o'clock. Rabbi
-----onanne----
e
next Yom Kippur.
m a • trnoon,
Y. W. H. A. NOTES
paying for their liberation 'English
le tax.
of Today"
and a niu-
of Ru
with their Judaism. With the
raising
of ssia
the are
heel iif the opPressor and with , there he devoted almost all his
time "Jewish
Henry J. Youth
Bt•rkowitz
will discuss
the
Fannie Hurst says the Jews
energy to the cause of sing
l program will be given.
in particular land
=_____—
RUSSilin Jewish girls
have
swung
away from
the unknown,
home and snap
freedom
of action
hitherto
the their fingers at the old-fo*. bless I Since, he gave abut $100,000 annual- . sica
ay are free thinkers, free livers, free speechers. Juda-ily to this cause and
every
part
propa-
a) visited the
n vance
the younger generation of the world tu
large contributor
,
nf their p a r e nts. Th
heap for the time being so far a..
_---
is concerned.
is on the scrap
And the old folk wail and wring their hands as their hearts , ganda• Ile was a
are wrung over the results (4 the freedom that has come to them. It seems to funds for single tax campaigns in Manchester Guardian Prints Number
quickest way to weaken the fiber of Denmark, Germany,
France, Spain,
New
Zealand.
match-
Manch
Celebrating Hebrew Institution.
. Australia a nd
,
nig dollar to dollar against amounts
to be true the world over that thy
-- — —
con.
contributors.
LONDON. -- (J. T. A.1 -- in
Jewish life is to remove outside pressure.
given by other
guarantee to the Fels Fund in
----.........---
His
with _headquarters in ('in-nection with the departure of Lord
was Balfour for Palestine for the purpose
moment that Lewi, Browne's book just hot from the
,
cinnati, was $2a,000 a year. Ile
a Fiction,' is an ordinary history of the Jews, written , ' al.°
one of the financial backers of , of opening the Hebrew University in
Than
Amer"
lf you think for
are and . Jerusalem on April 1, the Menthes-
"Stranger way, you are in for a pleasant surprise. Whenever I think
ISfUe de-
press,
in an ordinary
. the . Arden colony in
ter Guardian
published an
of my good friend, Browne, I think of Hendrik van Loon, because they .• Fair Hope colony near Mobile, Ala., voted
to the opening of the Ilebrew
a single tax re -
of
wrie histories quite the same way. And what is even more
interesting
"animated
maps
where the theory of
50
when
you that
se e the
speaker ' and
graphs of
the issue
micro-biological
and
by Lewis their
Browne
in this new And
book
of his
gives a "Pictorial History i d practical demonstration.
l'niversity.
The
carried photo-
own illustrators.
univer-
are
ye--
are'"' HP
prominent as a
was
effort that you
, writer,
as well as a contributor for • chemical laboratories of the
cause
which
he'
advocated.
and
oily
and
of
the
university
library.
of Centuries of Wandering;' You can imagine without
drawings.
--.
In a special two-column article
' t h e
en- .
looking at Ilendrik van Loon's
I even during his last illness Wile the with diagram, the history of the He-
article on
brew University and its aims was told
book at length in this issue. gaged in preparing an
BEOWIIP'S
In August, 1906, he offered $100,- by Harry Barber. The first editorial
your reading it. subject.
to review 1.ewis
Council of of the Manchester Guardian, headed
haven't the it space
very soon. Ilowever, that needn't delay
(rave a lengthy re-
International
I I shall
But
If you
liked do
the style of Van Loon's "Story of the Bible" or his "Stranger
style of 000 to the
contribution
for
the
Ito
settlement.'
view
of the
Jewish achievement in , I
tion."
I
warn
you;
it
isn't
conventional.
You
will
find
"kick"
the
Jewish
Territorial
Association
as "The
Neu/
Judea,"
"The Story of Mankind," then you will like I.ewis Browne's
in a manner that makes a May, 1909, he offered $250,000 for Palestine.
"The opening of _he Hebrew Uni•
Than Fi c
of the Jews written
a copy of , In
tax campaign for five years I
ever read a history, get
in it. If you want the history
. a single
have n
ion." Macmillan is the publisher.
it i n tere sting e ven to those who
Fict
this book, "Stranger Than
ism
ENGLISH PAPER HAS
UN IVERSITY ISSUE
Member Federal
Hebrew characters
"the terrible
Latin alpha-
should be replaced by the
bet. Now when Ilebrew and the Jew-
ish state are reviving thia should aerve
as a unifying and reconciling force
between the East and the West. New
leaven of
Judea should become the
paper concludes.
the Ea - t," the
Louis D. Gibbs recently was in-
stalled as Supreme Court Justice of
New York.
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F. A. SCHULTE, Vico-President
CURTIS C. ROGAN, Auntant Cashia
JOHN R. BODE*, Vico-Proeidont
LEO D. IIF•APHY, Aulstant C•sIn•r
R. W• SMYLIE, Ve-President
JOHN H. ROOK-S. Moisten. C••hier
IC T. CULORE. Vint-President
HUGH McCLELEND. JR., Assistant CasMot
CHARLES H. AYERS, Vire-President
HERBERT W. BOYES,Ansiatant Cashier
A. Il. MOODY, Vice-President
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C•saniss
AUSTIN E. WING, Agniatant to Psealdont
JOS. E. TOTTEN, *.Atari
Audito r
DONALD N. SWEENY, Cashier
GEORGE T. COURT NEY. Department
C. I. NORMAN, Manager Bon d
RODERICK P. FRASER, Mgr. Fannon DePE.
DIRECTORS
J. HECKER FRED T. MORAN
MURPHY
FREDRICK M. ALGER FRANK
T. RPHY
GEORGE H. BARBOUR FRED W. HODGES FRED MU
W. T. BARBOUR J. C. HUTCHINS M. J.
HENRY LEOTARD W. HOWIE MUIR
MASON TRUMAN H. NEWBERRY
JOHN R. BODDE
ROBERT S.
H. St. CAMPBELL
C. A. DU CHARM