scu. PLENETRist ?AGE FOUR • -gs,„ •■11 Asa . 1t1 .491- ie../ • V. tools and baggage but they transported bodily their cultural and religious baggage intact. But to trans- plant a people whose only bond is persecution is an- IMMO NOINalli magma AIMS other matter. The Jews of Europe are loosely organ- Jewish Chr•ekto Publielsiag C•.. lo. rehllsited Weekly by TI. ized, heterogeneous, for the most part unaccustomed Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor to hard labor and untrained in the industrial arts and Jacob H. Sehakne, General Manager agriculture. It was proposed to settle these peop re.tass at !m.o. matter rtes 8, 11111. at the Uganda as an agricultural people. The project strikes soOO o seemed-,lase Ilkh., baler the Aet tellb112 .. iL us as even more blundering than the Mexican offer for General Offices and Publication Building in Mexico there is a more highly organized urban civi- 525 Woodward Avenue lization which would enable the urbanized Jew to tic- :Cable Address: Chronic'e T•hiphos• Cadillac 1040 Led. orate commodate himself to his new surroundings. Stratford Place, Load.., W. I, Easland 14 ____ -_ _- It is with no little gratification that we greet the Subscription, in Advance.......____. ................... _ ....... $3.00 Per Year definite ending of the Ito. When a distracting influence ti. ,.. ■ oi ....p.a... .01 ......tt....t is removed it enables people to address themselves to r. too. n seouo. °face by Tuesday ming of .. week the actual problems which confront them. on euate of Interest bt the The Detroit Jelshh jhromlele Invitee correspond.. be the .1.1. people, but dleelaltne reeponelhOlty for . indorse... of The Jew should have learned by this time that there .1..rs expressed by the •Iiters, are no short cuts and no easy solutions to difficult social Tamuz 11, 5685 and economic problems and then too, the land of milk July 3, 1925 and honey at the rainbow end is sheer myth. One can hardly be blamed for trying all sorts of expedients or ill'ELM1' BWISII ii-RopacLE r■ Baiting the Alien---an Old Habit New York Letter By KIMBALL YOUNG By WILLIAM Z. SPIEGELMAN The sum of $500,000 for the pur- pose of establishing a school of aero- nautics at New York University was announced as the gift of Daniel Gug- genheim. In a letter accompanying the half million dollar gift the teem- her of the Guggenheim family, one of whom recently set aside a fund of three million dollars for a scholarship foundation, visions the development of air traffic in America similar to the development of the railroad. At the same time the British press gives eloquent expression to praise of Sir Philip Sassoon, Undersecretary of Air in the British Cabinet, for his fos- tering the scheme to form air squad- rons at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge for the education of the undergraduates in aeronautics. A strange coincidence, yet not so strange at that. The Guggenheim family has per- formed one of the greatest services for the upbuilding of this country's indus- g out the copper tr tries by bringing e fw thpeoeetaictuht. ilpw did the ancient ores ttet,rore Along with religious intolerance, econotnic violence, and the misuse of the indigenous Indian, the agitation against the foreign-born resident is almost as old as the United States it- self. Following the days of the Alien and Sedition Acts, when there was a storm burst in such fury that before the day was over several persons had been killed or wounded rid property of considerable value destmyed by fire. In the rioting that followed more peo- pie were killed and several Catholic churches and schools Awe burned. Both sides became more and more en- good deal of popular indignation con- raged, although impartial historians cerning alleged intrigue by European are inclined to compliment the Catho- agents in this country, there came a lie clergy for their self-control and ef- period of conflict with Great Britain forts at mediation. which took up our excess energies for Out of such conflict leg , ads are sure a time. After 1812, and especially at to arise, as they have arisen in all his- the close of the Napoleonic Period in tory, large and small. S.% in this lo- Europe, there was considerable mi. cal struggle, a martyr was found. One gration to the United States. There was, at the same time, a large move- is tempted to say "had to be found," no unversal is hero-worship. He turn- ment of our own population to the ed up conveniently in George Schiffler, Ohio Valley, and the immigration from a youngster of 18 years, the tradition- Europe began to fill up the gaps left by those who moved over the Alle- al son of a poor widow, who, so the story runs, was shot down by an Irish ghanies. Amer. Amer- With the death of Robert M. La Follette there even experiments when one suffers and no relief is in About 1817.18 certain fervent news- mob as he was "defending the ican flag." The scene of his death was sight. In such a predicament it is easy to forget that ting on the in- papers began commen mmigration. The tariff of painted on the banner of the Native the cure is often worse than the disease. the American scene one of the outstand- c reasing i I •. d f 16 had enhanced the need of cheap American associations. A hose com- We do appreciate that it is easy for us to be dm- pany which was organized shortly af- ing figures of the first quarter of the twentieth century. labor in our cities. various immi- eties The which assisted the terwards proudly took his name. And Like the great figures of the nineteenth century, Web- passionate because we are comfortable, but just the grant aid societies a popular blind rhymster of the day, Clay, Calhoun, he never attained to the Presi- same we realize that emotional outbursts, stupid blond- newco mers to settle here were unfav- "Suly there is a vein for the sil- J. Sproul, wrote a poem about him ixorable make t regarded. By 1817 the total J. orably es will not Jewry. , arid iat. place for the gold where t7 ,ry unsoun d annual immigration had reached over which was sung by the natives to the - that he left as deep an im rnil• nine nine r was foreign tune of Auld Lang Syne. theoriEuropean dency, but it is fair to say ering, facts which co nfront e 30,000. One-half of this numb lten k out of the earth, and n is ta did any President during his lion between the Rhine and the Urals have pressing, Irish. The older population began to pression upon his age as out of the stone. "rois brass Americans attention give view the situation with alarm. Thus "One putteth forth his hand upon often desperate problems which demand instant solo• Il sing a solemn lay, lifetime. the American Daily Advertiser re- the rock; he overturneth the moan- In memory of a much loved one, tion, while the continuous, persuasive problems are le- Ile was anathematized by those who saw a new marked: loins by the roots. Slain on the sixth of May. glom These people are trapped in that area, practical- Re nutittelt,ins oeyu et s r,i tzrs among the "Let us not forget, before it is too danger to the established order, if the threat was only teeth every m p- ly every road of escape being closed. There is no long- late, what motives brings these people I die! I die! he nobly said, a mild criticism. He was admired by all who apprecia- ious thing. to our shores. Let us remember that But in a glorious cause; er an America, while the limitation of Palestine need "But where shall wisdom be found? it is cheap lands, high wages, food in In exercise of Freedom's right, ate honesty, courage, devotion and determination. He not be explained again. These fanciful mass immi- and where is the place of understand- My Country and its laws. . . . plenty, and freedom from military ing?" service; not a love of our institutions, was always in the vanguard of any movement which gration schemes are slowly but surely dying. We do Two thousand years of development or a belief that our form of govern- l'rotect your country and her laws not wish to minimize the seriousness of the situation of he thought would improve the life and increase the has taught a lesson; vision supported ment is better that they have. Let Come to the rescue, come; European Jewry, but we do insist that a proper appre- by labor paves the road for further us remember that they come with all And put all foreign influence down, happiness of the common man. If by that curious con- and higher development. the prejudices which are the result of Arise, protect your home. ciation of the fact that all of Europe is suffering will The New York University in com- tradiction which is often discoverable in those with race and early training, and that in give us a clearer perspective and a sounder understand- menting upon the gift stated: "there Our flag's insulted, friends are slain, welcoming what seems to be the op- strong feeling he espoused reactionary economic or is no denying that the United States pressed of other lands, we may really And must we quiet be; ing of our own problems. has lagged far behind Europe in the No! No! We'll rally around the flag, he taking an adder into our bosom." political theories, it was because he proceeded on the At this time all efforts must be concentrated in Eu- development of commercial aviation. Already in 1817 the notion had aril- Which leads to victory. assumption that anything which the corporate inter- rope. Land settlement must be speeded, the Ort The air map of Europe is literally en that it was love of governmental eriss-crossed with airplane lines. Nev- Between the opening of the Mexican forms, love of liberty in the abstract, schools must be assisted, the Oze and World Relief ests favored should be opposed. ertheless, the situation of the United War and the rise of the Know Noth- which Welted the mass of early col- Organization must be enabled to carry on relief work Ile was the hero of that middle class and those States is more hopeful than a hasty ing Party the political activity of the onists to come to America. Men op- examination would indicate. Whereas among the destitute and sick. The problem of Euro- parently can not admit, in retrospect, nativists was inconsequential, but the farmers whose economic ideas are those of the compe- the attitude toward commercial avia- that they are motivated by "cheap spirit of the movement was kept alive pean Jewry is a European problem and must be solved tion in this country even six months by such non-political groups as The lands, high wages, food in plenty, and tition period antedating the era of trustification. there, if it is to be solved at all. After much wandering ago was inclined to be pessimistic, freedom from military service," in Order of United American Mechanics, He attained to his greatest prominence when there is now noted a change of heart The American Protestant Association, their migrations. Rather they prefer we are back where we started ten years ago. Follette facts did not toward decided optimism." to prattle about "love of institutions" and the Order of United Americans. America entered the war. To La Evading unpalatable facts does not help us. We These were anti-Catholic and anti- and other abstract virtues. change because a war had been declared. With a fine are persuaded that none of the proposed solutions have During the first flare against the foreigner, yet their concern was George Blumenthal, New York historic mind it was impossible to persuade him that immigrants, Congress passed a resolu- rather economic and religious than any semblance to a genuine solution for the acute as hanker, donated $50,000 for the Uni- tion instructing the national executive the Great War differed essentially from the wars of political. versity of I'aris for the development well as the chronic illnesses of European Jewry. to furnish that body, periodically, The Know Nothings come into Po - of French culture. the past. The hokum and cant failed to take him in. with the names of governmental em- litical notice about 1s52 with a plat- • • • form advocating free schools, the Bi- ployees, with ages, birthplaces, and He knew that greed, love of power, hatred were the It is not characteristic of the pro- lengths of service. The object of this ble in the schools, and native Amen- motives which actuated the war makers. Ile was ex- gressive Jewish mind that after bring- conjoin. The organization was strict- order, of course, was to discover if ing out the treasures of the earth its coriated for these things because the people of the foreign-born citizens were usurping ly secret. When any member was vision is turned to the heavens and It must be a source of genuine satisfaction to all evo- country were gripped by fear and hatred. Woe to the Federal offices. A storm of protest questioned as to his possible member- simultaneously two members of the went up. Certain postmasters actual- ship, he declared he knew nothing lutionists, modernists and the generality of forward man or woman who does not hate sufficiently when Jewish race on both sides of the At- ly had the audacity to refuse to sub- about the society. Thus the name looking people to learn that Clarence Darrow, Bain- lantic "looketh to the ends of the earth hatred is the order of the day. However, he lived to mit the data, and one government "Know Nothing" arose. An individ- and teeth under the whole heaven." bridge Colby, Dudley Field Malone, Walter Nelles and enjoy the day when President Wilson at St. Louis re- printer in Ohio openly defied the or- ual to be eligible to initiation must he • • • a native-born American and "not in ders by refusing to print the blanks Samuel Rosensohn are to represent John T. Scopes in peated the very sentiments which he had voiced when Vision is also manifested in the upon which the information was to be any way either personally or by fam- his forthcoming trial at Dayton for violating the anti- it was both dangerous and unpopular to do so. He achievement of Dr. Judah L. Magnes given. Subsequently the government ily ties connected with the Roman who sailed back to Jerusalem last evolution teaching law of the State of Tennessee. enjoyed the further triumph of election to the Senate rescinded the requirement and this Catholic Church." The order consist- week following a stay of several weeks early attempt to sift and classify peo- ed of three degrees of glory. The first hst- by the largest majority ever given him, notwitand The idea of prosecution by the state is a practice of in the United States. of these included the great mass of ad- pie failed. Dr. Magnes, dean of the recently- ing the fact that his anti•militarist war record was such long standing that we accept it as the normal con- During the early thirties local na- herents and to them the actual name opened Hebrew University on Mount tivist societies began to form. In 1835 of the organization was not made dition, while the notion of a public defender has re- used against him. *T; Scopus, without the usual bombastic a group calling themselves The Demo- known. The second degree was made Upon an examination of the life and activity of La calved but scant consideration even in the most ad- accompaniments of campaigns, se- erotic Association of Native Ameri• - of those members who were consid- cured an endowment fund of over one vanced communities. This latter attitude may be ex- cans pledged their support to Horn- ered fit for office in the society. These Follette one discovered a close adherence to the prin- million dollars and an annual income presidential maneuvers of up persons knew the real name of their in the son plained on the theory that there is too much coddling ciples of freedom contained in the Bill of Rights to of $150,000 for the maintenance and organization which was "The Supreme that year. So, too, in 1836, in the lo- of criminals; too many technical defenses and loopholes expansion of the Hebrew University. the Constitution. He labored earnestly to guarantee cal mayorality elections in New York Order of the Star Spangled Banner." arburg, who started the W Felix NI. The third degree consisted only of and New Orleans, political organiza- and that any further regard for the man charged with these rights, with the idea in mind of extending the fund by a contribution of $500,000, Lions under the name of Native Am- those who were thought capable of crime will encourage crime and criminals. Then, too, sphere of personal freedom consistent with those fun- will head a permanent American corn- holding political office in local, state, erican societies had candidates in the which underlies the theory of m ittee for the support of the univer - h following year national ne national government. Ass, notig. . flu, bi eance complex In the veng ...... vengeance • - - ------- - --- "";'' - J city. It is the same vision of the Jew The Know Nothing movement, like field began to arise. 111 Jul y, 1837, punishment has acted as a deterrent to enlarging the La Follette took free speech, press and assemblage ish race applied to an institution for some seven hundred citizens of Wash- similar organizations since, reveals scope of activity of the public defender. the Jewish race. literally, not only for himself, but for the most insignifi- ington, D. C. initiated The Native the tremendous appeal which secret • • • American Association of the United orders with their ritual, regalia, and cant minority group even though that group consisted The phenomenon of these able, conscientious, so - A sign of broader vision was the States. Its platform advocated the fantastic wordiness have upon us all. of but a single individual. The last test of the man cially conscious lawyers offering their services gratis "Common Council" held in New York repeal of the naturalization law, the McMaster reports that the members - came when the Klan issue was at its height at the time City between representatives of Re- i exclusion of foreign-born citizens from "recognized one another by signs, i s a new departure which promises much toward die form, Conservative and . Orthodox political offices, the prevention of any for resident Presi on grips, pass-words, signal of distress, couraging meddlesome busy bodies and encouraging when he was nominated as ca European influence in Federal affairs, f(r, royo e:r, tar t s ri rasnt d , t test questions, and rallying cries." all those who are seeking to improve the quality of hu _ . htilise- im peerhi an psthin the Progressive ticket. Ile came out with an unambigu- and the fostering of native American Any mention of the name of the so- general history of the Jewish people. sentiment throughout the country. °us statement attacking the Klan as an organization ciety or of its activities was forbidden. manity ' The Union of American Ilehrew Taking the lead from the Washington When meetings were called or candi- which violated every practice and tradition of freedom If John T. Scopes had to employ his own counsel Congregations and the Central Con - group other associations were founded dates were to be supported, the whole contained in the democratic creed. He saw in this or- ference of American Rabbis, repre- and pay them from his limited resources he would be elsewhere. business was managed by the use of senting the Reform wing of American As a result of this renewed agitation ganization of dark people a menace to religious free - curiously shaped or colored papers die- very badly handicapped. The issue in this case is far Jewry, the linited Synagogue and the the first actual violence occured be- tributed to members or scattered in It represented to him a return to medievalism dom. Rabbinical Assembly, representing the tsveen the two groups. In Boston, in and obscuratism. Ile did not question the political larger than any individual. Scopes is merely the sym- the streets or posted in conspicuous Conservative, the Union of Orthodox June, 1837, a serious street fight took hol of freedom and enlightenment and opposed to him places. Naturally this aroused the Congregations of America deliberated place between a party of native Am- wisdom of his attack. It struck hint that this order curiosity and fear of the general mai- are the forces of reaction and obscuranism. It is heart- together on how to bring about a erican firemen and a crowd of Dub- lotion and doubly enhanced the power stood for everything which was Odious and hurtful, spiritual unity in American Jewish liners on their way to a funeral. Only ening to find lawyers representing all shades of relig- of the Know Nothings, just as the and in his straightforward manner he denounced it in life in many countries, a problem al- the militia was able to quell the Ms- ious belief championing the right of the teacher to masked, clandestine functions of the most as difficult as squaring the cir- turbance. In the bank riots of Cin- language which left no room for doubt as to where he present Klan often incite terror in the teach the subjects touching man's origin and develop- cle. cinnati, a year or so later, which grew hearts of innocent people. ment consistent with the latest scientific discoveries. stood. Statistics show- a deplorable state out of the monetary, debacle of the A letter from Lincoln to his friend with regard to Jewish congregational "shin-plaster banks,' the nativists Naturally he was friendly to Jews, for they were This action should have a sobering effect upon the Klan Speed, in 1855, furnishes an incisive membership. There are 750 congre- blamed the German population for the comment on the whole movement. Lin- a people who suffered from prejudice and discrimina- minded Know-Nothings who have run amuck, passing gations belonging to the Reform, Con- mob-spirit, although there was little coin wrote: tion. In his philosophy men were equal politically. servative and Orthodox wings, with all sorts of prohibitory and reactionary legislation since or no foundation in fact for this ac- „I am not a Know Nothing, that is total membership of 750,000 individ- cusation. Any act which denied that equality was noire to meet the end of the war. It is about time a halt was called certain.... How can any one who ab- uals. In addition there are 1,000 During 1830 and 1039 petitions to hors the oppression of Negroes be in by the socially conscious, clear headed and broad vis- with his opposition. smaller congregations unaffiliated Congress continued to come from dif- favor of degrading classes of white with national bodies. The combined ioned men and women of this country. We were rapid- ferent sections of the country. The The country has suffered a great loss by his death, people? Our progress in degeneracy membership of the 1,750 congrega- citizens of Sutton and Millbury, Mass- appears to me pretty rapid. As n na- ly becoming the laughing stock of Europe. We were for no matter how many courageous, honest, intelli- tions, he added, include approximate- achussetts, for instance, asked Con- tion we began by declaring that "all earning the deserved reputation as the protagonists of gent men a country may possess, the loss is sure to be ly one and a half million pepole. gress to inform them, among other men are created equal." We now prac- • This would indicate that not even every stupid and bizarre idea which the dark people things: tically read it "all men are created felt. one-half of members of the Jewish "Whether there are not designs equal, except Negroes." When the of America could conceive. These benighted folk were community in this country are identi- against the liberties of our country by Know Nothings get control, it will fied with Jewish Congregational life aided and abetted by designing ones who made capital means of this great influx of foreign read "all men are created equal, ex- or with Jewish organizations. Co-op- emigration? Whether the character out of the hatred and malice engendered by war. The cept Negroes and foreigners and Cath- eration between Jewish and non-Jew- of many of the emigrants does not olics." When it comes to this, I shall fishers in troubled water carried an insidious, uninter- ish religious bodies is progressing. Its Israel Zangwill called a conference in London to augur a vast increase of pauperism prefer emigrating to some country ultimate success however, is mainly rupted campaign in the hope of poisoning the minds and of crime in our land? Whether where they make no pretence of loving discuss the future of the Ito. the territorialist organiza- dependent MI the possibilities of co- there is not a foreign conspiracy ex- of the people already filled with rancor and suspicion. liberty—to Russia, for instance, where founded by him in 1906. After a careful consid- operation within the Jewish commun- tion isting against the government of this despotism can be taken pure, and Once prepared by this propaganda they became the ity. eration of all aspects of the problem the delegates de- great republic and measures adopted without the base alloy of hypocrisy." In view of the situation the Council pliable tools who carried out plans which have dis- and plans now in operation for its exe- In the end, the Know Nothings and cided to liquidate. As a matter of fact this conference decided to recommend the calling of a cution?" graced us and made us ridiculous in the eyes of the their imitators were lost in the great conference composed of national, con- Here one discovers the universal was but a gesture inasmuch as the Ito has not func- civil strife which engrossed the coon- gregational and rabbinical organiza- whole intelligent world. battle cries: designs, conspiracies, for- tioned since the beginning of the great war. If it had try after 1860. It remained for an- tions in America for the purpose of eign powers. Our attention is today We were beginning to feel strangled by the ava- other century to raise the same old acting unitedly to further the relig- any chance to be revived the Balfour Declaration plus directed to more recent arrivals, but banners over new cohorts with new lanche of ante-deluvian laws and were wondering how ious interests of the constituent na- the actual settlement in Palestine destroyed every pos- the formulae of attack remain the names. The soul of Hundred Percent. tional organizations which they share Forte. long it would continue. a o ism g es marching on.—The N tion. sibility. Were it not for the personality and influence was in Philadelphia that the most It is to be reasonably expected that this nightmarish not time of Zangwill the organization would never have attained he rer n. %a:rtih at ni tce;TeTing pious or ad- violent conflict ensued In the City of - deluge will be clammed up for a time, with the further ministrative autonomy of any con- to any prominence. It had no social or economic valid- Brotherly Love the streets literally Many, no stituent organizations. The many men and women in hope that soon we shall be able to write finis to a book doubt will resent this Common Coon- Tan with blood from m early in May, ity to recommend it. The mass immigration sugges- 1811. until the late summer following. America and many others here and 1844 which for stupidity, retrogression and discrimination cil. 1t. is, nevertheless, a healthy sign tion to Mexico is an even sounder proposition and its elsewhere who know or know of Re- The origin of the trouble lay in dif- of vision. feremes of opinion about the voting bekah Kohut, who has long been iden- has never been equaled in the history of this country. failure to evoke a response on the part of a Jewry seek- privileges of the immigrants and es- tified. with important religious and ing any sort of escape indicates clearly how unsound Do not be in a hurry to succeed. penally it concerned itself over the civic causes, will welcome and delight What would you have to live for and impractical such movements are. in her memoirs published by Thomas question of the Bible in the public afterwards? Better make the hori- Seltzer of New York under the title schools. The Protestants had forced The movement of an agricultural people from one zon your goal; it will always be ahead of "My Portion." It is an engaging Bible-reading into the regular educe- country to another, even from one continent to another, of you —Epigram • record of a spiritual life lived tinier, tional diet of the children of the town. I ask him nought but to remember the day of our has been accomplished without any serious dislocation the spell of both admiration and defy. The Catholics did not oppose this, but It abounds in informing and interest- did request that their children be giv- A man's mouth may be shut and his as instanced by the removal of the Tolstoyan Donka- parting. ing reactions and reviews of people, mind closed much more effectively a Catholic version en permission to use bourn from Russia to Canada. This was a homogenous, I lift my greeting on the wings of the wind places and events which make a toe- by his knowing all about a subject of the Scriptures. closely-knit religious agricultural community which To my friend• when the heat of the day beginneth ful contribution to our knowledge of than by his knowing nothing about Meetings to discuss the question the Subjects she treats with so much a.—Epigram. a torus. The op- brought matters to ought freedom from religious prosecution and decided s to call. I bespeak for posing camps began to hector and to clarity and charm. to emigrate en masse. They found large tracts of When he made a covenant of love by an ap le tree. disturb each other at their respective "My Portion" a widespread Telling. Liberty means responsibility. That arable bold in Canada very similar to the ground they ALEVI gatherings. On the sixth of May the —Dr. Alexander Lyons. JEIIUDAH i s w h y most men dread it.—Epigram. La Follette. • • Champions of Evolution. The Ito Ends. it "MY PORTION" id B Y AN APPLE TREE tilled in asia. They brought with them not only farm .2.05.. • N, ,o. • v .. „ok 11, .240' 'II 16,- Stbe •3‘,.. Yi st 16, re. re. Jo). re. rt. it.. ro, se, se •