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was handled with delicacy, firmness and a regard
tion was
for the conflicting claims of all parties to controversies
which were always hostile and often ugly. A fact too
alas /WM 1011 ■ 1•00•1, __MOM.
often overlooked by partisians is that a man in a po-
Publlehly C.. lac.
Published Weekly by The Jewish Cbronwie
A
By A PALESTINIAN EXPERT
sition such as the one occupied by Sir Herber Samuel
THE NEW HIGH COMMISSIONE R
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
must first be loyal to the authority which placed him in
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
charge despite his own personal predilections and prej-
(This is the second of a series of three articles dealing with
While the leading Zionists of
ISM at the Postal. at DetrMt.
various aspects of the reconstruction of the Jewish homeland by a
*stored as ilmond-clue matter Yard
udices. Ardent, clamorous Zionists accused him of
America and Great Britain have e x-
Kish., under the At of Mareb IL WE
well known Palestinian who occupies a high position in the country
pressed their satisfaction with the a p-
leaning backwards in his efforts to placate the Arab
and has played an important part in the work of development.—
pointment of Lord Planter as Briti sh
General Offices and Publication Building
malcontents, forgetting all the while that he was not a
Editor.)
to
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succeed Sir Herbert Samuel, there is
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and curing for their comfort through-
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all
Travelling
is an art which most pen-
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ernment charged with enlarging the sphere of British
out the stages of the journey includ-
pie learn with difficulty and at con-
elated. Ths minority, led by the of t-
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influence in the mandated territory, and for the further
ing the trip on hoard ship.
siderable expense. This, of course, is
spoken Jewish Chronicle of Londe n,
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An Inspiring Scene.
especially
true
of
small-town
or
vil-
purpose
of
assuring
friendly
relations
with
the
Arabic
considers
Lord
Plumer's
appoii
Subscription, in Advance
The departure of a ship laden with
mint as a verificaton of Israel Zar g- lags folk to whom a journey to the
must reach this
powers which are of real consequence in the Orient.
sublication.
all correspondence and news matter
immigrants is always a moving sight.
mi
town
may
loom
as
a
Te In
k.
n-
ot
each
wee
neighboring
will's
statement
that
Palestine
is
co
office by Tue.., evening
As the boat begins to nose her way
When dealing with the Zionist problem in Palestine
sidered as a Crown Colony by t he formidable. adventure. To the aver-
subject. of int ttttt
out from the pier into the offing, a host
Tim Detroit Jewish Chronicle in•lies CO...pond.. on
age Jew of Eastern Europe, confront-
British government. The Yidd i sh
it must be ever born in mind that despite the Balfour
s
d
of emotions find release and express
Jewieb people. but dia expre
to
ed with the opportunity and problem
em responshe
press of this country deplores the fi ect
sed by t writers.
themselves in tears and song. The
I) ec I ar ation , the Arabs make up the overwhelming ma-
of emigrating to Palestine, the jour.
that Sir Herbert Samuel was not re-
Sivas 20, 5685 .iority of the population owning practically all the land. tented in office, but some papers • ney with all the intricacies of legal memory of despair and humilitation
June 12, 1925 •
mingles with a new sense of liberation,
requirements and transport ditlicul-
inclined to believe that the char ge
We are convinced that Sir Ilerbert Samuel discharg-
of joy and eagerness. The air is charg-
ties, is arvflidertaking of appalling
may in some way even be henefic ial
ed his difficult office with marked fairness to the Zionist
ed with the spirit of freedom and ad-
to the future of the Jewish hoinela mi•
magnitude.
venture and never a boat leaves its
claims just because he was a Jew, a diplomat and a civ-
The Jewish Daily News, in a It ing
A Guiding Line.
moorings without an outburst of jai-
editorial on May 22, under the c tep-
The Supreme Court decided the Oregon School Law
ilian. Now Britain appoints a soldier, a non-Jew and
st The immigrant must be provided
last singing.
ee-
tion "Samuel and Planter," und
with
a
guiding
line
in
the
labyrinth
case in a manner that will hearten all the liberal, pro-
i
sh
On arriving in Palestine the immi-
we hazard the prediction that he will be interested in
scores the importance of the Je
a
that he faces. Othewise he will be-
grants continue to remain under the
gressive elements in America. The decision was by
The
High Commissioner in Palestine.
maintaining order with particular emphasis, however,
come
lost
in
its
mazes,
and
fall
a
vie-
j.
protecting wing of the Immigration
paper argues that Sir Herbert's le n
unanimous court which is an added reason for congrat-
tint to the various Minotaurs in the
upon strengthening the position of Britain in Palestine.
ts
department of the Palestine Zionist
ant policy toward Arab extrem s
shape of unforseen demands and un-
executive. To begin with, a represen.
The Zionists will be treated fairly no doubt, but their
was dictated by London and deplc res
ulation.
scrupulous "agents" who lurk in his
y
a
d
tative meets them on board ship, pro-
The ruling of the court was an affirmative of the
the fact that Sir Herbert and L.
interests will be subordinated to those of Britain.
path. The guiding line for the Chal-
vides for their landing as well as the
the
Samuel
will
no
longer
occupy
lower court. The opinion was written by Justice Mc
uzim and other Jews who set out on
•
On account of the intense partisanship of the Zion-
transportation of their luggage and
government house in Jerusalem. SI
the road to the New Palestine is pro-
pilots them through the mazes of of-
Reynolds who said in part: "As often pointed out here-
the
marizing
Sir
Herbert's
activities,
ists they failed to realize that Britain had relations
vided by the World Zionist Organi-
ficialism and red tape. Many of them
Daily News says:
tofore, the rights guaranteed by the Constitution may
with other nations that had plans for widening spheres
ration operating with the funds of the.
thereafter, those who have means or
na-
"Ile laid the cornerstone of the
not be abridged by legislation which has no reasonable
Keren Ilayesod.
relatives, strike out for themselves.
of influence, conflicting with the aims of Britain. The
tional Jewish home. Under his ad-
The manner in which this system
ea
i_
The others who are as yet without a
e
relation to some purpose within the competency of the
ministration
e, stractaionn 50t,000nleewJneewislli
Balfour unpleasantness brought to the attention of the
of help and guidance is organized
foothold are received in special sta-
wish
to
Palestine.
came
state. The fundamental theory of liberty, upon which
should be of interest to every Jew who
colonial office the necessity for making adequate pro-
tions or immigrant hostels maintained
mpo
i. rtan ‘ Ru-
towns blosso med. Th e
finds satisfaction in the reports of the
all governments in this union reposes, excluded any
an d
by the Palestine Zionist executive in
was
given
vision to safeguard British interests in Palestine and
g
concession
v.
u
trw
tie
el nibr
increasing stream of Jews from East-
Jag and Haifa. There they are given
of the state to standardize its children
posatlol goy-
cur n
e iceongins izeil i on
the Orient. Notwithstanding the fact that the Arabs
general power
ern Europe flowing into Palestine.
ees ,
food, shelter and medical attention un-
ernment ls
by forcing them to accept instruction from public
The meager report which conies under
in Palestine provoked no violence in Palestine, yet Ar-
til an employment opportunity pre-
railway service and government in-
his eye at the beginning of every
sents itself whereupon they become
teachers only. The child is not the creature of the
m
i
nistral
ion,
c
I
i s,,,a
Un
of thia
de rn
r his
abs in Damascus staged serious riots and compelled
.sl g iot ;las c. t s Un
month informing him that in the
absorbed into the lusty toilsome life
I
s
i
by
s
t
e
a
ubgi
e
b
land
large
state; those who nurture him and direct his destinies
guns. The
course of the previous month there
Lord Balfour to seek refuge behind
of the new Jewish generation in Pal.
het.
Jews and new colonies re
have the right coupled with the high duty to recog-
came into Palestine 3,000 Jews or
estine.
Arab world is not kindly disposed despite the friendly
The work in Palestine was expel lited
Her-
2,500
Jews
among
whom
were
so
ninny
A Directed Strum.
Sir
mert
of i
nize and prepare him for additional obligations."
m accomplishment
helpful attitude of the Jews who migrated to Palestine.
Chaluzim, so many men, women and
This cursory account of the helpful
rs is
five
e
beet
Sa
The deluge of standardized legislation upon sub-
children,
so
many
of
this
and
the
other
The Arabs are suspicious and hostile while nothing
guidance
and scientific direction by
e yea
evident to everybody,
occupation—this dry statistical state-
jects without the purview of the legislatures descended
which the stream of immigration is
which has been done has allayed those suspicions or
"The argument that a Chri: Han
ment
conceals
an
elaborate
organize-
fostered and controlled conveys some
n bet-
o
high commissioner ma
upon us since 1917. There are no immediate dangers
diminished their hostility appreciably.
tion throbbing with life and function-
notion of the large and intricate mach-
ter than a Jew becauyse d heevweill not
or emergencies threatening us which could excuse such
ing with smoothness and regularity in
Those who still hug the illusion of a political state
inery of organization which lies be-
upon to go to extrem, es in
every
country
where
large
numbers
called
u
hind the brief statistical reports of
legislation, but the orgy of regulation, prohibition and
is
at
o bat
rder a scooppiii,iosvtre his A impartiality
in Palestine may soon see the end of these fine hopes,
rest- of Jews are concentrated.
Palestine immigration. The stream
g
that
tti
ha
best
t
standardization has gone on without any apparent
but those who see in Palestine a refuge for the home -
To
begin
with.
the
head
and
heart
cannot lie permitted to flow undirected
Field
est op ti mi s t d c ayn wi sh is
of this organization is centered in Pal-
stop, once the impetus was given. As a matter of fact
or to overflow its borders. For every
less, a place where homes may be built and the culture
Plu mer or any , other
Itrsh
al L or
t
estine proper. There the immigrat-
drop in the stream is a highly sensitive,
it seemed to gain momentum and velocity as time went
C hristian in his place should con Untie
of Jewry perpetuated and recreated will find no cause
tion department of the l'alestine Zoin-
human organism a quiver with suffer-
Samuel's policy. Under no cir cum-
on. The reactionaries, Ku Klux Klanners and Know
to complain because of the appointment of the new
ist executive. maintains continuous
ing and aglow with a new hope.
stances can this change be consil lered
contact
on
the
one
hand
with
the
fluc-
The employment opportunities of
Nothings took courage and invaded every field of hu-
definte
is
a gain while the loss
High Commissioner.
tuating employment opportunities of
Palestine, of course, do not remain
man activity and conduct, determined to compel con-
the country as well as its government,
constant but fluctuate from time to
THE JOINT RETURNS
formity and standardization first by extra legal meth-
and on the other hand with the cen-
time and from various causes. The
ters of immigration and transmigra-
agency, however, which brings the im-
ods; finding such methods ineffective they resorted to
e i a ribu-
t shte. ; Joint D
tion in Europe and America.
t the
The decision
e ei s o n of
migrant to Palestine, that is to say
the legislative bodies. Now comes the highest court in
tonew
drive
tee
omm
it
i
lio
n
C
the Palestine Zionist executive, is not
Selected Immigration.
That meteoric, intransigent, colorful personality,
the land and unarnbigiously reaffirms a fundamental of
in the fall for relief work in Et rope,
content to let the employnient ■ ppr-
by
the
headquarters
in
Instructed
Leon Trotzky, has impigned upon the consciousness of
tevai I
t ticeunItaifol y, i oi,n Rbu s t s illa lxiadsd i sre e eived
tunities be determined by blind eco-
American theory. "The Child is Not the Creature of the
Jerusalem, the Palestine offices which
news-
humanity for over seven years. Now he furnishes us
nomic forces. This agency, operating
are maintained in the large centers of
State." This is a truism which should have become so
h , ative
papers frdm . n tlhe Y ultra - conser
now through its department of labor
with data which may compel the dealers in intangibles
Europe, including Warsaw, Vienna,
Morning Journal to the Com monist
deeply impressed upon every adult person that its repe-
creates employment opportunities in
Prague, Constantinople and other
to revise all their estimates of psychologic verities.
Freiheit that American Jewry must
various ways, the principal method
large cities, make selection from
tition would be superfluous. That it has not become
come to the assistance of the Jews
being to advance funds tee Jewish la-
Leon Trotzky is the -son of a wealthy Russian Jew-
among the applicants who have regis-
an intergral part of us is revealed by the legislative at-
of Europe and help them solve their
bor groups which enable them to con-
tered
with
them
of
those
who
are
to
decided that his son become
had
struc-
ish
land
owner
who
problems
of
relief
and
reran
tract for large: constructive enter-
tempts to deprive the child and the adult of all self-
proceed at once to Palestine. Such
prises, mainly of a public character.
an
engineer,
but
despite
his
father's
plans
he
revolted
selection, of course, is made on the
direction, choice and initiative in matters strictly with-
"When the Joint Distribution C orn_
Through this means, the Sole! Boneh,
basis of information furnished by the
against the luxury and ease with which he was sur-
mittee d ecided to liquidate, dec laring
in the spheres of individual discretion.
which is the principal one of these
l'alestine headquarters to each bureau
rounded, refused to become an engineer, and after the
that its aim was achieved, we st ated "
labor groups, has been enabled to ne-
The state of Oregon under the influence of Klanism
as
to
the
total
number
of
immigrants
says the Jewish Daily News, in an
vast building protects for the
many experiences and vicissitudes of life as a revolu-
complish
to be allowed as well as the (imps-
attempted to prohibit all education other than the pre-
editorial of May 17, "that the j e .
government, for municipalities and in-
times of which the country stands in
tionist became Soviet War Commisar.
f lime d
i t a s wyaert .sti
of America htaod
scribed standardized product. The distinctive charac-
dividuals.
A striking feature• is the
need at the time. These numbers are
Hering
their
their
remarkable adaptability which the
All those who have known Trotzky intimately or
fixed by the government of Palestine
teristic of the Klan is uniformity as revealed by the re-
EIROIT EWISII IIRONICLE
The Road to New Life
THE DIGEST
The Oregon School Law.
What Is Inferiority?
galia they wear, the ceremonies they perform, the
cross burning in which they indulge. Their unwonted
opposition to all variants from the Nordic, 100 per cent
Americanism which they preach. indicates a type of
mind which would standardize the whole world and
leave no room for individual choice or initiative. With-
out mental resiliency, incapable of discrimination, nar-
row, bigoted, they could not conceive of a condition
where the state should not be supreme in every affair
of man's life. During their evangelical, arrogant per-
iod they were the state, and made every effort to stamp
out differences. If they had their way all non-Nordic
non-Protestants would have been deported from the
United States. When they discovered intelligent, con-
certed opposition they turned to the legislature hoping
to use these bodies to establish the principle that the
individual is the creature of the state and should be
directed, coerced and made to conform even in those
matters which have been recognized as unquestionably
brethren in Europe. The facts 1 proved
nihere is a fie ld
ght. T
i
tfhoan ta wneel worsricii
he ele-
n A e , c1 ; :., • pre-
went that has ' contriburtlee
a
vious relief drives,
th t part of Amer.
isa nearer to the
rn ewc ritclews hi(ciihd n
igr t2orJ
Jewry
pate in
the drives for Palestine, and th! y now
pure-
t
t
la
:
i taveh orortu
t them
i
)1.
the
wholeheartedly
wholeheartedly te
was not spoken to contemptuously but was treated with contribute
cu
suffering Jews of the Ukrah e and
orded
wealth
and
position
in
Czarist
c n.' zsa at i o ni .r t e men i n
the respect ac
tRhuessar i in feoar. Tow
on the
Russia. While still young he joined the revolutionary
t of the Joint whenm a dee e ded to
groups where he was recognized as an individual with
Druid ate its activitie s. ii Wit h the
w ill
rare gifts, unusual ability and exceptional personality.
rt Zd. d, rive, this mistake '
have studied him objectively have found no evidences
of an inferiority complex in his make up. His confl-
dent speech and his bellicose manner are not defense
mechanism by which he attempts to conceal his feel-
ing of inferiority, but express his actual dominant
swaggering personality. The reason is not difficult to
discover. His father was the richest man in town, he
personal.
A country is in a bad way when those with infantile
intelligences have control of its governmental machin-
ery, Such has been the case sine our entry into the
war. It remained, however, for a learned court ac-
quainted with the history of the struggle for human
freedom to draw the line of demarcation between those
activities requiring standardization and regulation and
those which do not.
We had neither doubts nor fears as to the outcome
of the case, but we are pleased by the unanimous de-
cision of the Supreme Court on a matter so vital. May
we not hope that the anti-evolutionists and reaction-
aries will profit from the decision of the court and de-
sist from their stupid attempts of legislating science
out of existence?
The American Jewish Committee's brief filed in the
Oregon case was four square on the maintenance of
the democratic creed. As long as we champion free-
dom and work to improve the quality of humanity we
can endure the criticism of our detractors.
The New High Commissioner.
Field Marshal Baron Herbert C. l'Iumer was ap-
pointed High Commissioner of Palestine to succeed Sir
Herbert Samuel. None of the forecasts included the
name of Plumer and ,consequently the appointment
came as a surprise to most of the interested parties.
There will be much speculation as to the reasons
for the naming of a military man but after the Damas-
cus incident in which Lord Balfour figured so promi-
international
nently, we are constrained to believe that
relations contributed no little amount in deciding the
colonial office. The British l'alestinan policy will be af-
fected by these complications arising out of Damascus
which will no doubt have a definite influence upon
Arab-Zionist relations.
It has been stoutly maintained in some quarters
that Sir Herbert Samuel was decidedly favorable to
refusing to use a.strong
Arab claims and protestations.
hand in suppressing agitation because he feared that he
might be accused of favoring the Zionists inasmuch as
he is a Jew. We failed to detect any Arab favoritism
during the Samuel regime, and if anything the sittia-
IISS‘4011‹7114234 haia
h ee
e4
Among these people such qualities were respected
without regard to race, creed or nationality. His life
during the impressionable years was free from those
Ghetto influences which bred servility, inferiority and
sycophancy. He emerged from obscurity with none of
the attitudes which have become characteristic of those
who had to curry favor; listen to insult; and if they
did speak with vigor it was but a defense mechanism
with which they sought to hide the feeling of debase-
ment which they experienced.
The life of Trotzky furnishes us with a very valu-
able lesson and we should profit from it. Jews are not
innately inferior and the so-called Judaic expression
is not congenital but acquired. In the Ghetto where
the Jew was suffered to exist deprived of rights it was
but natural that he should develop a marked inferior-
ity complex. but in a country where there is some hon-
est attempt at equality especially in civic and religious
matters we should ever be on the alert to prevent any
condition which would destroy the equality principle;
furthermore, we should accept the equality principle
and not ape those who are not like us, but whose strat-
egic position is based only upon numerical superiority.
If in Russia and Poland the Jew suffered from the
feeling of inferiority it was due to factors almost whol-
ly beyond his control. It was forced upon him, but why
we here should carry with us those Ghetto ghosts is
something for which we must answer.
If we will but place a proper value upon ourselves
and take advantage of the equalitarian milieu in which
we live we may soon erase that so-called Judaic fear
expression, or that blatant, braggart, offensive attitude
which is all too frequently but a defense mechanism.
No matter what we may think of the ideas of Leon
Braunstein, no one can deny that he is an arresting in-
dividual who has won the respect of even his most bit-
ter enemies. We would do well to emulate him in that
quality which has given him a courageous personality
which makes him feel that he is the equal of the best.
The Fair Maiden
The night when the fair maiden revealed the like-
ness of her form to me,
The warmth of her cheeks, the veil of her hair.
Golden like a topaz. covering
A brow of smoothest crystal—
She was like the sun making red in her rising
The clouds of dawn with the flame of her light.
JEHUDAII
P5r-
i.
'116, 41.
.tb
from time to time in consultation with
the Palestine Zionist executive. Need-
less to say, those selected represent a
small proportion of all who are regis-
tered.
The fortunate ones now prepare in
earnest for their great adventure. But
the Zionist officials cannot leave them
to the mercy of circumstances and
their own inexperience. On the eon-
trary, the Palestine offices take them
under their wing, look after the var.
lout legal requirements and transit
problems, maintaining special shelter-
ing facilities at the ports of embark-
ation at Constanza and Trieste, ne-
gotiating with the steamship eompan-
ies for special rates and conveniences,
SECRETARY OF LABOR C AVIS
DELIVERS THE GOOD
Jewish workman has shown himself
to possess. Every kind and grade of
labor, skilled and unskilled, he has
taken up with enthusiasm and efficien-
cy. Thus he engages in every one of
the building operations, from the
quarrying and dressing of the stones
to the plastering and painting the last
finishing touches to the new scructure.
Some day perhaps the epic of the
new exodus will he written and then
the many prosaeic incidents of the
great journey as well as the common-
place experiences of the newcomer in
the old-new land engaged in earning
his daily bread, will be transfigured
with the thrilling significance, the epic
poetry which they are instinct.
The Future of the Jewish Drama
Under the above caption, t he New
Warheit of May 19 takes Sc cretary
Davis to task for his most recent
By ISRAEL ZANGWILL
propaganda against immigrai is and
foreigners. "There is one ti ing
catures. I have no doubt there are
The Jewish drama in England is at
which Secretary Davis deser ves
Yiddish plays well worth translating.
present experiencing a long-overdue
r
spect," says the New Wsrh sit e
Then, too, there is no reason why
revival of interest, which, it may be
torially, "and that is his Pr- nkness,
Jewish dramas should not be pro-
hoped,
augurs
a
future
of
much
prom-
those
at least in his last speech. A
duced, of which the characters are
ise. The production of the Hon. Mrs.
who speak about immi ation and im-
English Jews, not distinguished ex-
Gerald Montagu's drama. "Yetta I'o-
migrat to usually r . .e their eyes to
ternally from Christians. One of my
lowski," at the Fortune Theater, the
heaven listin ;od as a witness
own old Ghetto comedies, "The Jesv
announcement of other plays of Jew.
that they of opposed t O f nun i.
ish Trinity," deals exclusively with
ish
interest
to
be
seen
in
London
grants and at they do not I. ate for-
English Jews, yet its comedy is in-
shortly, and last, but not least the
eigners. Even President Coolidge,
trinsically Jewish. Such plays need,
activities of the Jewish Drama
when he speaks about ireu migration
however, to be subtler than the or-
League, are all encouraging signs of
and demands new laws for restric-
dinary, because they depend on dif-
a renaissance of Jewish theatrical
tion, does not fail to assure that he
ferences in psychological values.
art. But as the modern theater has
is striving to do the best for th e i n,.
There ia, too, a third class of Jewish
developed,
no
must
Jewish
drama
migrants just as well as for the in.
plays— -plays expressing the Jewish
alter, not, perhaps, in essence, but in
interests of the country. But not Mr.
spirit, in which there need not be any
its form and presentation. What,
Davis. He hates the imr migrants,
Jewish characters at all, but the thing
then,
is
likely
to
be
the
future
of
the
hates the foreigners and it ekes no
itself must be of a Jewish character.
Jewish drama; through what chats.
secret of it. Ile would sup press all
To this class belongs, by the way, my
nets
will
the
art
of
the
consciously
non-Nordics and does not c are who
new comedy, with which Robert At-
Jewish dramatist be directed?
knows it. Ile does not prof ass to be
kins, the famous producer of the Old
Although
there
are
a
number
of
atter he
a Ku Kluxer, but in this matter
Vie, will make his debut as an inde-
Jewish dramatists and of Jewish plays
is considerate of his boss an d party.
pendent manager.
in
existence,
there
cannot
be
said
to
If it were not for that it is quite
As has already been announced,
be any complete school of Jewish
probable that he would tell as frank-
the Jewish Drama League is present-
my
play,
drama. I had hoped that
ly that the Ku Kluxers are not at all
ingLessing's "Nathan the Wise" at the
"Children
of
the
Ghetto,"
might
have
."
th
em
as had as their enemies pair i t
Strand Theater. I think the choice
formed the basis for such a school,
The editorial then calls attention
is a fairly good one, although I should
but though it toured all through
to Mr. Davis' statement th at immi-
have preferred a play by a new
America, it was produced in London
gration is undermining the standards
writer, if a really good one had been
at
the
Adelphi
during
the
Black
Week
of American labor and st, tes that
available. Certainly the lesson of
of the Boer War, which very serious-
de.
union
a
former
tea
Mr. Davis as
"Nathan the Wise" was never more
ly militated against its chances of
leader surely knows that he was not
needed
than now. It is the one classi-
success. Since then, the "Potash and
e
telling the truth. Immigrai is never
cal play that English people ha t
Perlmutter"
comedies
have
perhaps
scabbed on American trade unionists,
never seen in England, and there is
formed part of a school of Jewish
workers
while many American born
a good deal to be mid for the selec-
drama.
took the place of the for eign-born
tion. It will, at any rate, make a dig-
There can be no point in the for-
trade unionists during strik es.
nified beginning, showing that the
matins of a specifically Jewish organ-
"If any other politicia a would
league intends serious work.
ization merely for the repetition of
make the statement that dr. Davis
There is an abundance of material
ordinary West End successes. There
made in his speech we was d merely
for regular productions, and, of
is today an enormous interest in the
consider it a sign of ordint ry ignor-
course,
the league may well create
drama, sustained and fostered by the
ance, but Mr. Davis knows I better; he
such material. It must fulfill two
various Sunday play-producing socie-
knows the trade union move ment well
functions
of equal importance—to
ties, but there is very little great
and he knows that every w• pH he cat-
show the real Jew on the stage and
drama. The modern tendency is to.
tered was fake and humb ug. This
to
express
the Jewish mentality.
wards cynicism and pessimism, with
speech he delivered to rails qty work-
"Goody-goody" Jews are not wanted;
of moral anarchy. The
era when he wanted to bli ndfold so an acceptance
but, on the other hand, even villainy
production of plays instinct with the
that they should not real ire which
should be veracious. There s a
true Jewish spirit would, I believe,
were the vital issues of the moment.
play by an Arab poet, dealing with
do much to combat that.
The only way to keep th e railway
The form of the drama of the fu- the heroic Trumpeldor, which might
prevent
workers in ignorance an
well be considered for production. It
tore
will
naturally
depend
on
the
of the
them from realizing that tl he railway
gives a vivid picture of the life
genius of the individual dramatist.
barons are their only one mies, the
chalutzim.
The
life
of
the
Jew
is
so
cosmopolitan
only way of serving the I Republican
One
of
the
most
valuable
sides
of
that there is an immense scope. There
party, the party of thes e railway
the league's work will be the assist-
is room for historical and Biblical
barons, is to keep the war! ken in ig-
the
amateur
dris.
to
once it will offer
plays, as well as Jewish plays of plies.
norance. This Secretary Davis is
static societies, both by Its library and
ent-day life in which the characters,
trying to do. lie delivers the goods
produe-
by advice on the choice and
whether
good
or
bad,
should
be
accu.
s
for
his
in the job that he hold
tion of Jewish playa.
rately drawn instead of being cart-
party."
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