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of the Palestinian project in terms of the settlement of
the Jewish problem.
Britain did not know the depth and seriousness of
Arab irreconcilable hostility. It took just such an oc-
PahlIslsol Weekly by Tle Jewish Chraalci• Publi•lsied C•.. Inc.
By A PALESTINIAN EXPERT
casion as the visit of Lord Balfour to bring it to the
THE OREGON SCHOOL I LAW
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
surface Britain did not know the extent and ramifica-
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
The outstanding event of la st week
(This is the third V a series of articles by a Palestinian expert
t i ions
0 o f di p lomatic intrigues fomented and encouraged undoubtedly
was the unanim ous de-
of the highest standing who has himself played a leading role in prac-
II•Mnil 6• Sesead.elees matter March , 911, at the Poster. at Detroit.
by
nations
with
ambitious
schemes
for
enlarging
: upreme
eision of the Un ite d States Supreme
tically every phase of Palestinian development.—Editor.)
Mich. under the Act of Werth A 1879.
l w of , Oregon
1 hea
spheres of influence in the Orient. Britain may have court r heilier.e.nr i nup
g 1,7
.----------7---
the age if 10 he
General Offices and Publication Building
uspected all this but the outbreaks assured them that
cry plot should be built upon and, al-
s
It is not generally known that the
arochial
525 Woodward Avenue
so, that the houses should be &exch.!
gr
building of houses, villages and towns
tional.
Cable Addrem: Chronicle
one from the other. These rules were
Telephone: Willa. 1040
in
Palestine
is
not
left
to
mere
chance
al
char-
h callsor conc
Londe., Ofi••:
taken from the German "Garden City"
or individual caprice, but receives
g s a"erer't. tory for
14 Stretford Place, London, W. 1, England
ev' the
t .h sh deciosriCimin a
plans and have been adhered to in Tel-
abs and the' avoidance of anything which may create acterzes
careful
control
and
direction
by
com-
real freedom. "We are oppos ed to the
Aviv. There are no slums in the city.
$3.00 Per Year
the feeling that Britain is trying to foster any national Oregon law," the editorial of I he Jour- petent authorities with a view to Tel-Aviv
Subscription, in Advance
continued to develop and new
avoiding mistakes made in other lands
decision
natter must reacb thie
nal
of
June
10
says,
and
the
me.
sections were planned for Jerusalem
ambitions hostile to Arab aims.
Te Ware pablication:all correepoadence and
and with a view, also, to provide the
office by Tuesday •vening of each levet
the Supreme Court is a vi ctory for
and Tiberias. The situation was be-
When the New York World commented editorially of
best type of dwelling and the most
us as well as for the Cathol ics. We
coming daily more complicated and the
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle P.R.. correepondence on subjects of interest
on the justice of Arab claims a storm of protest broke believeb at t h att. ot the r Catholicsse ra re going desirable community structure both need for experts who could help to cor-
M the Jewiels people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the
from the point of view of usefulness
separat-
flews eepreseed by the writers
f
a
from Zionist sources; however, the fact remains
rect pest mistakes became imperative.
100Se
as
well
as
beauty.
It
is
interesting
to
t
like
the
education and we would no
Enter the Town Planner.
Sivan 27, 5685 that the World took an impartial withal objective view ist
trace the steps by which the first un-
Jews to follow their exempt e even if
The Palestine Land Development
June 19, 1925
controlled
building
activities
carried
it were possible. A separat e general
Company thereupon decided to call
of the situation as it exists.
on by Jews in Palestine obtained the
in a Jewish atmosp here may
to Palestine a town planning expert.
Zionists must reconcile themselves to facts. They education
guiding help of trained architects and
be well enough for the par ents who
The Jewish Artists of Detroit.
Richard Kaulfmann, who had been
t must perforce realize that ambitious plans may stimu- want to train their children for Jew- town planners.
trained in Germany and who had
In the Beginning.
When any group of young men and women marts
late the expansive emotions and may give a roseate ish learning and leadership in spirit-
worked in Christiania, arrived in Pal-
In the first period of Jewish coloni-
ual and social affairs. The children
in 1920 and opened the town-
themselves in art, literature and drama with
a genu-
ble pride
and tinge to hopes long cherished, but yet the creation of of the masses of our people I should at- zation, the building industry in Pal- estine
planning office. This new department
was entirely in the hands of the
a
is Jewish
then if we show an autonomous state is not the work of a few years, nor tend the public schools and learn He- estine
worked not only for the Palestine
whe serious purpose we
is ts take
inely
Arabs. The Jewish home builder was,
brey after school hours.
Land Development Company, but was
n the group of art
therefore, obliged to accept the plans
the product of ambitions and hopes.
But we want to have th , e freedom
at the disposal of all other
At this time, even at the risk of repeating trite and of choice. If we want to se id but one and materials of the. Arab contractor placed
marked elation it is evoked by a feeling born of a long
agencies fur the laying out of new
whom
he
engaged
and
who
worked
in
to paroch-
monplace
facts,
we
insist
that
the
problem
of
Jew-
per
cent
of
Jewish
children
colonies.
commonplace
deferred wish.
accordance with the age-old traditions
schools, or 10 or 20 pc r cent, it
to which he was accustomed. Of course Simultaneously with the opening of
Recently in Detroit a number of Jewish artists ry is to build as many homes in Palestine as is consist- ial
should be our own affairs. We do not
the town-planning department, a sure
these traditions were entirely out of
ent
with
the
economic
capacity
for
absorbtion.
If
suf-
All
that
formed an art club with a program for the furtherance
want to be hampered by law
harmony with the standard+ of hous- veying department was opened and the
and is that
the
state
has
a
right
to
den
two co-operated closely. From this
of aesthetics that presages a nascence of artistic effort ficient numbers are settled and homes established the
ing conditions to which the European
the children should get an American
dates the laying-out of towns in
which will dissipate many a canard which has been not peaceful penetration will then enable the Jews of Pal- education as prescribed by law, leav- Jew corning into Palestine was accus- time
a scientific manner. Much remodeling
tome&
liut
there
was
no
help
for
it.
injustly hurled at our people. It gives one a confident estine to expect some measure of autonomy, but as long ing the parents the freedom to educate It appeared, therefore, that insofar as and building was dune in Jerusalem
in private institutions or by pri-
in the new section called Beth !la-
feeling
that the
grandsons
do credit
to the
spirit- as there is such a disparity in population and ownership them
matter of housing was concerned,
ual, aesthetic
and
scholarly will
qualities
which
character-
to do so.
Kerem. Old plans for building in Tel.
er- the idea of Jewish domination or even control should vate teachers if they see fi t king
the Jew would have to adapt himself
from
The Soviet methods of to
Aviv were corrected as much as was
to the standards of the native.
over their
parents
the
jurisdiction
possible.
be abandoned.
When it came to the matter, not of
ized the grandfathers.
jurisdiction in educational r natters are
It was most interesting to see how
We
cannot
and
will
not
indulge
in
fanciful
dreams
individual house plans, but of cum-
Those who know the learned, kindly, appreciative
h
not in accordance with the American
differently the new colonies are laid
munity building or town-planning, the
ill
be."
grandfathers of the Israel of the Ghetto have deplored when the cold hard facts controvert them. The task spirit and we hope never w
out from the old. The plan of the old
very concept was absent from the
The Socialist Forward, i t 1 an editor.
colonies usually called for a central
.
f the pioneering, success-seeking im- is enormous and disillusion will not make it . any lighter.
mind of the Arab contractor. Practi.
ial on thissubject on t e same den'
mater 'alt
road with a now of houses on either
the
at
migrant sons of America. These fathers have sons who Palestine as a legally assured homeland is a is an
f or the - cal town planning is of comparatively side. This was, of course, an extreme-
finds sonic justification
recent
origin.
It
presupposes
a
high
on to com-
out-materialized the fathers, but then, too, they have prospect. Palestine as a place for a number of Euro-
ly primitive method and disregarded
tempt of the state of Orel
of community conscience and
reality. pet child ten to attend the public degree
the future development and the spec-
many sons who captured the elusive, spiritual, aesthet- pean Jews to settle and build homes is a living reality
communal organization; and there are
schools; it points out that the Oregon
ial location of the settlement. The idea
many cities and towns in civilized
Those who want the whole loaf or nothing will be dis-
as it pro-
Was
of the town-planning department was
is passions which made the grandfathers such charm
countries whose residents regret the
titutions a s the Ethi-
satisfied, those who will accept part of the loaf today law
such
to make the settlement fit its environ-
fact that no guiding influence was ex-
ing, catholic individuals.
cal Culture Schools and s imilar pro-
ment or in other words to make it a

THE DIGEST

Fy EntorrENSIIIIRONICLE

The Builder and His Vision

-

ercized in their construction.
part of the landscape. The plans for
First Attempt..
Nahalal and Nouns and the other
The first effective demand for a de-
Keren Ilayesod colonies in the Emek
mature from the helter-skelter meth-
Jezreel set up on the land of the Na-
e
ads of the Arabs arose in connection
Genet Fund, show the advantage of
with the establishment of Tel Aviv in
utilizing
the
individual
locations
to
the year 1905. Many of the first mend-
the fullest extent.
bens of this new community came from
The New Ere.
highly civilized and even from archi-
The old Turkish government, if it
tecturally beautifully communities.
can be dignified by that name, had no
They had before them, also, a model
laws governing building operations.
of a community which they did not
Anyone able to pay for a license could
wish to follow, namely, the dingy old
go ahead and build. However, the
city of Jaffa, their neighbor. Nut
English government, realizing the im-
much technical assistance, however,
portance of good ordinances in town-
could be obtained by the builders of
planning, has p assed laws governing
Tel Aviv. There were no competent
the building of houses and towns. And
architects and town planners avail-
with the co-operation of the govern-
able and, above all, the building indus-
ment and the building department of
try was not yet in Jewish hands.
accomplish-
the
Palestine Land Development Com-
Something, however, was
pany and with the practical example
ed
with
the
help
of
the
surveyors
and
1t
heit the principle u
of
the model Keren Ilayesod colonies
through the efforts of the town of-
ound, but the
ux Wan basal
already established, it is assured that
When, however,
ticials themselves.
a :': 'a'si awael''etsr iment to this
n N
1('"on Kl w
Palestine will grow very quickly into
the Iladar-ha-Carniel was started it
'lilted by the
a land of modern and beautifully plan -
fact that it was snip
was considered imperative to get bet-
it l was srdat if a e light of the
net communities. Every plan for a
ter technical assistance.
black shadow.
How to get experts was a problem. house must be approved on technical
le.fla T of tlYie de •cision of the
and artistic grounds. Room measure-
It was risky for individual engineers
behind
the
Cort
u became
ments, even rooms for domestic help,
to come to Palestine. there being no
u Klux Klan
must be up to the minimum require-
guarantee
of
sufficient
employment.
e Klan receives
at h(thK
t
ments; bath rooms are now required
After due deliberation the Palestine
is a victor y for every au man being in
by law. The towns have restricted
Office
(as
it
was
then
called)
of
the
not belong to
this count ry that doe
residential quarters, separated from
Zionist Organization decided to bring
the Klan." .
the business sections. Public build-
to
Palestine
two
engineers
of
good
ial on June 2,
standing from Germany and to assure ings, parks, playgrounds and syna-
calls this decision pet ,gressive and
gogues are provided for. What makes
fixed
salary.
The
Palestine
them a
says: "America is now I acing a grave
all this possible is not only the laws
Office planned to provide, in this way,
danger. The spirit of the Ku Klux
and expert guidance, but, above all,
technical assistance to any builder
of cell gious intoler.
spirit de
Klan, the the
the fact that the building industry is
who
desired
it.
In
1913,
therefore,
a
to
establish
a
ncy
ten
ance rend
now entirely in Jewish hands.
so-called technical department was es-
religion
te s a n and oppress those
sort of
Palestine is therefore not being re-
tablished
and
for
the
first
time
it
was
I Anglo-Saxon
st a Protestan t
built haphazardly. The work is always
possible to obtain modern house plans.
constitutes a spiritual a nd political re-
being done with a regard to future
Building
activities
increased
and
the
action that endangers 1 he very exist-
Individual wishes are
necessities.
work of making the houses architect-
of the American I iberties. This
taken into consideration but a com.
urally beautiful as well as comfortable
rowing. tac h e new genera-
(Ina 't lg
i '
was making headway when the war munity, after all. must he built for the
with
the
great
gt all c on Tt
has is los
ti on er
broke out and the technical depart- common weal. The beginning of a col-
American principles a id it seems to
ony, as indeed the beginning of all
ment had to be discontinued.
be ready
ready to support ev cry reactionary
things, determines its development.
With the renewal of building activi-
Governor Smi
Do th was right
A wrong start cannot wholly be ree-
ties
after
the
war,
a
number
of
pri-
when he said at a ec ration Day pa-
tified. It is for this reason that the
vale architects came to Palestine and,
"that most of the young people
r
rebuilders of Palestine are takng such
as
usually
happens,
the
field
became
rticipate
)aayt e i n the e observance of
at
r l i ciip
over-crowded. it was now possible to pains to make Palestine a place of
understand the
beauty as well as of usefulness. The
build
houses
right,
but
an
expert
in
tion Day and
signi ficance of Decors
Jews of Palestine are obviating the
town-planning was still lacking.
to freedom and
possibility of their posterity holding
When Tel-Aviv had been laid out,
editions.
'
them responsible for mistakes. The
in-
Was
the
first
committee
of
the
city
spirit
that
we
is against th is
future generations of Jews will he able
duced by the Palestine office to rule
must fight and the e decision of the
to bless their ancestors.
that
no
more
than
30
per
cent
of
ev-
Supreme Court, theref ore, is progres-
ee, ' hen the young
laudable. Sorg
sive and coun
et their elders
try
of the
stand on guard
tshouldret
t o maintain the
he and
Aim .rican eonstitu-
tionn:I ''i
Even
." the Communist Freiheit thinks
By ABRAHAM GERDY
that the Supreme Co urt decision in
case was quite li beral. It editor-
es
with
the
fol-
Jewish children is an essential part
ial of June 3 con clud.
For some reason or other Jewish
lowing statement: "W hatever may he
parents are more concerned with their of Judaism, Jewish children have the
advantage of receiving a better bring-
said about this decis ion, it must be
children than the Gentile parents are.
ing-up than the others do. It is not
admitted that it will, for the time be-
This may he due to the fact that the
alone the education that imparts good
ing at least, dampen the ardor of the
Jews form a small minority of 10,000,-
iota
who
are
do-
intentions into the minds of the
hundred per cent pate
000 persons, whose very existence de-
youngsters, but the closeness, the
ing their utmost to tui n the education-
pends entirely upon the rising genet.-
ilitary
barracks
IV
comradship, between a Jewish father
al institutions into
ation.
It would have been more appropri- and his son to look for other company.
and to throttle the e radical labor
The Talmud made it essential to look
schools."
ate to head this article, "Judaism and
after the children and some instinct
Its Rising Generation," because our
has always preserved Jewish learning.
CRITICIZE JOINT I DISTRIBUTION
discussion of crime to a great extent
Not that the Jews have other traits
COMMIT TEE
will involve the children. For after
than the Gentiles, not that their hal,.
all
it
is
the
children
that
later
become
ti ng in the New
its of living are different, not that
WA. Wohliner
criminals, and it is the environment
their minds are better, but just as we
5 characterizes the
rheit of June wri
that shapes most of our lives.
n
sitteras
a
re-
.o
n
n
(
to
would rather live honestly, than cheat-
m
a
.
ti
.ietft
taint t 1)1,,st rih
Jewish parents have reason to be
he e faults of any
ingly, as we would rather act decent
trust with
interested
in
their
children.
Imagine
quite
probable,"
than indecent, so have Jews rather
It is
other trust.
n race of people existing thousands of
wanted to preserve their beautiful
Mr. Wohliner says, 'that our charity
years and only numbering IC million
e
and
to
a
certain
traditions, their Talmud, and other
trusts are unavoidahl
people. We at once realize that the
peculiarities. And as long as there
extent even useful be t they work hav-
Jews have either lost their identity or
WAS this instinct, Jewish parents were
oe in the meantime by robbing the
their death rate exceeds the birth rate.
of all initiative
forced to look after the children, if
We then review our history and find
they had any practical intentions of
an d CI; orfultintleg Pd e o Plo(' tically over them
that in Spain thousands of Jews, with
ity
sometimes
to
preserving Judaism. It was just like
sP
buting
char
in di stri
the only alternative of death, chose to
a family that any large and suddenly
he detr iment, the se. anie, and the de-
abandon their religion. During the
ny people whom
became small. Some children died.
Middle Ages this condition prevailed
others went traveling—and a few
everywhere,
until
the
unfortunate
n
favor
of
helping
were left. This made the others ern-
am, of course, i .
Jews, who found it so difficult to r•-
brace each other and each one looked
the Russian .lews to settle on land and
fain
their
religion,
were
no
longer
an
a
int
is
doing
after the welfare of the other. It in.
in this matter the Jo
increasing natjen. And this fact fore-
deed aroused the mother to valueher
ful work. But this is not the only
ed Jewish parents to take a real in- c ildren that she fortunately still nes-
problem. It is (peel stionable whether
•terest in their children, who later
erased. The very existence of Jude-
the Joint has a rig l It to go into this
•ould he left to preserve Judaism.
ism has depended upon the rising gen-
haiu .t onsulting neither
ere without
enterprise
t
nm
They were not exactly forced to take
an Jewry.
eration and we will now tell you why
this interest, out it cannot be denied
we have spent no much time talking
li eve, that the Ort, Ouse
further be;t
that some instinct keeps the Jewish
about children and that Jewish lath-
it elie f t'ein f . erence and other
race alive, and peculiar, in their spirit-
hould unite and
ens especially sought to bring them up
ual existence. It cannot he denied that
r
share
of
Amer-
right.
they should get thei
some Power, not Jewish strength of
but the American
Crime, in itself, is a cancer upon the
arms, nor Jewish' capital, has often
Fatly of civilization that is hard to
t cif, e democratic with
jt ei i i ienepda rftundparti?, oV
offered assistance in times of despair.
the various relief
cure. We talk no much of hanging
'
Because Jewish boys are destined to
criminals, of punishing them more se-
organizations. The Joint ought not. to
he "Kadeschels," because every Jew-
verely, but punishment or brutality
di. censer of charity,
teanadc autocratiOci di!
ish
parent
that
believes
in
God,
con-
as it pleases, re-
never and will never eradicate
and ii
ha°
eiders it his duty to educate his boys
, ple and punishing
crime from the world. We must talk
in Talmud. and to preserve Jewish
t. This is an im-
more about the youngsters and how
others as it s
traditi•n which is an important ac the
porta nt matt A r are 1 the Jcint so far
(Continued on next page.)
Torah itself, because the-education of
S atie."
proved to be autoct
.

gressive educational exper iments that

should be encouraged by the state.
made up its mind that the only passion which moved will continue to work as hard as before.
Such schools, the schools t he Forward
the few was the passion for commercial success and,
says, need not be compl etely under
private control. They see a mid be sup-
Jews and d Gold Lords of Europe.
superficially, this derog tory opinion was well founded,
the pa rents
by the state
be
for it cannot be denied that commerce, mercantile en-
Since the deluge of Ford propaganda it has become ported
d heir children
free to sen and
should
ises
and
finance
engaged
the
fathers
almost
ex-
an
fashionable
to
believe
that
the
money
of
the
world
is
terpr
, unit Cr which the
aairs
ff was but natura l bn- concentrated in the hands of the Jewish bankers. These to , Oregon
such circumstances
elusively. This
Law was adopts d were had
as
co
ial
age
such
in
commerc
ut thrifty, hard bargaining fellows can scent a profit any- a r nd the influence in back c ,f it was :let-
pioneering and
expanding, pie
ird, "and we
yof civilization is , the where and no bargain brings a larger return than war
ditio ned our fa of ut Tilhe history
Court
irme esnat tilf:'fiesdaythatit7t:e orS%u . preme
and ornamentm
alismerica
is
the
way
the
legend
runs.
Consequently
the
irre-
a
cycles
ers.
itutional."
of
a series
declad
re this law "' eas t deplores the
ractical
always
preceding
the
artistic
;
and
A
p has been no different in this regard, while the fathers fragible logic brings them to the conclusion that the
r o l I freedom of
ei ple
pri nci
Jewish bankers causes wars. If such a forthright proof fijrthethr t 't he :P
to ci mtrol of pri-
n
program. If a could be adduced then assuredly we would have a most educationn
d
Gentiles
in
this
hav e e been spoil.
the
f
vate g
nary body in
he
immigrant
from
the
Ghettoshowed
!mired
by
the
most
reactio
perchance
t
more intensely
absorbing interest in material success delightfully busy time trying to disprove the accusation America, the Ku Klux 11 : Ian. In the
he
New War-
r
of
tl
the
editopon
n of
the reason can be found in the poverty which he had made.
It is encouraging, to say the least, to discover that (O ion
hich the Ore-

experienced in the Ghetto. Shut off from
many oppor-
speculation
and the gold lords of Europe are not of the sinister calculat-
his
w sphere
wits in of
competition with ing tribe of Israel, as the anti-Semitic world would have
s in the narro
ities iv i ng
tun,
ng
l , sharpening
barga
astute ini dealers,
it was but logical that he should mani. the morons
believe.
In a book recently
published Ver-
in p ur ninc,iptlrt,•;
any "Der
Unschichichtung
Der Europaisher
m
Ger
Am-
the e unrestricted
m- molten" (The Change in European Riches) the author "We were
fest a spontaneous, vi vid interest
inh
c
hic
w
ld of countless
fie
ericaoffered.
His opportunities
abilities were given free play, his Richard Lewisohn explodes a time honored fallacy supreme \;,.lo:v.at'h
concerning the ownership of new large fortunes in Ger- °Hr7ige7eriya
er
of But many. The book is not written for the purpose of plac-
the tang
kings.
energies were unleashed, he enjd
oye underta
bility found
of large
cess
responsibility
now and
the the
grandsons
have
that the material suc- ing blame or exonerating any group, but is a painstak-

th

rather pale and tasteless, their boundless ener- changein European riches.
Ile gives a list of those who piled up monster for-
ly many of the grandsons have deserted the paths of
the fathers and prefer the older, spiritual paths of tunes, among the most voracious are Wolff, Strauss,
of the grand- Stinnes, Stumm, Herzfeld, Jacob Michael, Bosel of Ger-
for values
aesth etics. The return to the these values have per- many, Perrones of Italy, Kruger of Sweden, Leverhome
not at despite
all surprising
fathers for
is ages,
the accusations of the Gentile and Loucheur, de Lubesac and the Combon brothers.
sisted
fo knew the visionary, dreaming, speculating The muster roll of the Big Berthas of finance reveals
who never
not even one per cent of Jews. The men who made
fortunes out of rising or falling currencies, who specu
and artistic grandfathers..
The older Jewish communities in America . know. Sated in marks, francs, lires, pounds, rubles were not
move.
Jews but Lutherans, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presby
the fine musicians, painters, sculptors, • era
n,
legitimate grandsons of the scholarly, refined, aesthet- terians. Anybody could have been taken in,
d on
•Iernr)r
pa ai
ic grandfathers—but now in Detroit there has emerged the clamor raised by the noisy anti-Semites and believ- who
ed that the offenders during the period of distress and
a group who will carry on the best traditions of ideal-
storm were Jew's.
Jes. The petty speculator, the "tuft- seem
istic Israel.
rfentt
if.arn r
m grei
t at he Aim ndeiT
Our young men and women have the same gifts mench" of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania was often a Jew, tre "It
but
his
transactions
were
frequently
so
insignificant
and capacities for appreciating line, color and form as
have their Ghetto neighbors. They have as intense a that the total would not equal one per cent of the prof-
passion for beauty and as ardent a devotion to pains- its of the man-eating non-Jewish sharks of finance.
In America the same story is told and due to the
taking workmanship. Their creative impulses are as
warm. varied and productive as are the others, but number engaged we are often induced to believe that
unfortunately the fathers have been absorbed in com- Jews are preponderantly successful in major business
mercial pursuits to the point that the superficial ones and financial operations. A few Jews have amassed
eat wealth here, but Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, this
concluded that the Jew was incapable of any other ac- great
Frick, Vanderbilt, Morgan and countless others are not
tivity or interest.
We feel certain that the Jewish artists of Detroit Jews. Still the fable persists that the money o
will do excellent work and will help our people to their world is concentrated in the hands of Jewish bankers,
rightful place as an integral factor in the promised ar- who have plotted to control the world. Perhaps we
are in a measure to blame for many of our people do
tistic age into which we are entering.
have an exhibitionist complex and do delight in parad-
ing their material possessions in a crude, vulgar and
ostentatious fashion. We do not object to their doing
The Zionist Flag Down In Palestine.
so. but the hostile critic of the Jew finds much cause to
e really should
The police order to haul down Zionist flags from complain against us on this score.
Jewish stores in Jerusalem on the King's birthday may
carry our material success with greater humility and
be but a tempest in a tea pot, and yet it may presage a less show. Howev r this too will come, for the new rich
e
definitely changed attitude of Britain toward Jewish do love to display their recently begotten wealth as
children like to apprise their friends that they have
aspirations in Palestine.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Zionist flag is not some new bright toy.
considered the emblem of a foreign power, yet the dis-
Richard Lewisohn has done us a distinct service for
play together with the Union Jack caused some ill feel- he has collected data, examined it critically and now
ing which Britain is trying to allay. The Arab popula- submits undisputable proof that in the orgy of specula-
tion can hardly be expected to draw hair line distinc- Lion in which Europe indulged the Jews were not the
tions in matters of this sort. A flag is a flag to them.
ghouls. We have no objection to Jews being well off, gradation et
and flying the banner of Zion is indicative of toleration but we its Object strenuously to the charge that they
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if not of actual permission which is readily translated trafficked in human misery and profited from the un-
speakable travail which encompassed Europe o
into recognition.
We hardly expected such speedy change of front
the appointment of Marshall Plumer, but yet last decade.
We are not hopeful
hful that the vindictive embittered
following
the appointment was dictated by a changed attitude to Hitletes
of B avaria wil lessen their an imosities be- A
ri
complications which came to a head at the time of the
entific work for these
of Lew is ohn 's scho larly. scientific
••
Balfour visit. The naming of Plumer without consult- cause
i
people are purblind and moved by emotions of hatred. 1, • :1.1 i d
institutio ns
ing the Zionist executives should have been sufficient
notice to bring any one with a trace of realism to appre- But there are many reasonable, fair-minded men and
is these people dour
mendacity couldconceive and
abouther general interests in Palestine than the special will change
and it attitudes towar
interests of the Zionists. Britain is not unique in this peoplewhen they learn the facts. The cumulative ef-
pe s ,
for there is no country in the world today that would p feet of scientific work shall eventually disprove Nordic h ward ing coeurtta es
act in any different manner under similar circumstances
and with prizes of equal value at stake. When this fact fallacies, Elders of Zion plots. Jewish bankers control.
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penetrates the minds of Jews who are otherwise prac- and all those propagandist tales that are designed to
d suspicion and malice.
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