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IIROAILLE
ing my information from those whose
judgments were based upon knowl- II
edge of the entire situation in Russia.
In the first place, the government •
has taken a vrey definite stand on the
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Arrange•
Cholem
Completing
question
of anti-Semitism. All peo- •
Bir it
ments for Moonlight on Aug. 10.
Ilion, although it was evident to me plea in Russia supposedly have equal
rights
or
the
absence of rights based
I that all that most of them had to
-What 550 Want at the next moon- ' sustain life until the harvest was dry upon their poltiical status. Then
iwlit of the Bicur Cholera Society, I black bread. There is a germ of love again, the government, through legis-
w hich will take place Aug. 10, is a I for land in the hearts of these people lation, has shown a desire to place
.as
By Chas. H. Joseph./
I which will in time grow into full the Jew on the same political plane
(Copywright, 1921.
bloom, and it is my belier that already any other of the groups in Russ i a.
William Silberstein of New York intends to have a future even if hu
its roots are imbedded deeply enough The government has organized the
has to make it himself, su he starts by changing his name to Future. lie
to withstand the strains and stresses Comzet, which I have stated before
tells the court that he has a better chance to make a business success by
which the Jews will still have to un- has as its only function that of plac-
changing his name. R. Sadowsky managed to collect a tidy bit of succses
ing the Jew on the land. •
dergo.
without worrying about his name, so did Julius Rosenwald, so did Schiff
The removal of the Jew from the
Fourth. Is the land which the Rus-
and Untermyer and an army of others.
sian government has made available congested cities and villages would
for Jewish colonists workable by not by any stretch of the imagination „
Were discovering new relatives every day. Now the Jewish Telegraphic
them so that from it they will derive add to anti-Semitism. If anything, it
Agency advises us of the locating of Ophir, reported in the Bible as the
not only a means of existence, but would have a tendency to lessen the
country from which King Solomon's Phoenician sailors brought gold to
sufficient in addition to provide the feeling. Additional colonization of
Palestine. Dr. von Bauch, an Austrian explorer, is credited with finding
essentials for a complete Jewish life? any kind, whether it be Jewish or
this country in Peru. lie met 300 members of an Indian tribe with pro-
If any land in Russia contains with- non-Jewish, makes for a better condi-
nounced Jewish features and who spoke a language akin to Ilebrew. And
in itself the possibilities of providing tion for all of Russia, for the hope
the name Solomon is the most common among the tribe. Ile also asserts'
the requirements enumerated, then of that country lies in the full de-
that there is a legend current among the tribe of a land of Ophir to which!
the land which I saw possesses them. velopment of its agricultural re-
men came many years ago and carried off large quantities of gold.
I The rich black earth of the Ukraine sources.
white
We haven't yet definitely located the Ten Lost Tribes but we are making
The Soviet government, by the
and the Crimea has in the past been
known as the granary of the world. most intense propaganda, has carried
progress.
•
this
message to the peasant and it I
The land which is available to the
David A. Brown, who has just returned to this country after an extended
Jews formerly constituted large es- scarcely sews natural that he would I I
sojourn abroad, says that the Soviet government is encouraging a back to
tates and has a history of productiv- resent the presence of any group that 'II
the land movement among the Jews. Plans are under way to give 100,000
ity not surpassed by any other soil would foster the prosperity of the
Jews the opportunity to engage .0 farming in the Ukraine. In order to
I anywhere. With the trained organic- country.
promote this enterprise it will be necessary for the Jews of this country to
The colonization scheme worked I
I ation of agriculturists who direct the
raise $15,000,000 and the campaign is to be inaugurated this coming fall.
work of the colonists, with two great out by Dr. Rosen includes in part
The day of the Jew as a trailer in Russia is past, according to an important
the
giving of aid to our non-Jewish
I experts such as Dr. Joseph Rosen and
ABRAHAM MAX
Soviet official. in fact, small shop keeping by anyone in Russia as a purely
I Mr. Lubarsky, there can be no ques neighbors. We are at present plough-
private competitive proposition is rather passe because the government
ing
sonic
of their land with our great
representative crowd of Jewish peo-•tion that they will secure the maxi
shares in that sort of thing. The opinion was expressed that after the Jews
fleet of tractors. Our artificial breed- ,
ple who know how to get together mum of results.
went in for farming they might regret their step and become restless under
ing
stations
are covering all sections' '
Fifth. Does the land possess these
and and enjoy themselves," says Abraham
the chafing of an unaccustomed and rather arduous character
of labor
and are being operated on a purely
. .
ffi I Max, chairman of the committee. elements, such as roads, proximity to
have an urge later on to return to trading in the cities.
"Some folks stay away because they large centers of population, railroads, non-sectarian basis.
in question felt that there was no occasion for alarm on that score because
My discussion on this subject with
would effectively prevent think it will be too crowded. But," water, which afford a ready market
many men whose interest in the Jews
of the uncertainty of store keeping in Russia
he further says, "the boat will hold for the products of the land?
Jews from being attracted. It is significant to note that the economic
of Russia cannot be questioned
Without
going
into
detail,
I
am
position of the Jew in Russia is most distressing, because he was never given 3,0110 people and there will be ample convinced that the land which I have brought out conclusively that they
an opportunity to become a farmer during the Czarist regime, and now his room fur everyone."
The committee has been working seen has all of the elements required. have no fear of an increase in anti-
former vocations are closed to him. So the only effective way to give him
hard to complete the arrangements Sixth. Will the people remain on Semitism through colonization but
chance for rehabilitation is to enable him to cultivate the soil. So the
so that the guests may enjoy them- the land should the economic con '- are firm in the belief that it will have '
the
Je ws
America
will be called upon to help.
of
selves to the utmost. The beautiful I thins change and should it again be- a tendency to bring about a better
In'.
steamer Put-In-Bay, which has been , come possible to make a living in the feeling and a finer understanding
Tennessee may be properly said to have earned the title of "State of
tween the Jew and the non-Jew. Dr.
chartered for this occasion, will see ', villages and cities?
Rosen's
judgment
in
this
matter,
Sir. Smidovitch was emphatic in
Ignorance."
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a crowd 011 board ship that night '
which never before has been rivaled the view that the policy of the gov- which I value very highly, concurs in
Some time ago in response to a request from the editor of The Detroit in the city of Detroit, according to ernment was to limit the possibilities the above opinion. Last but not least,.
Chronicle, I participated in a discussion of the question "Should Jewish
of the small trader; that at hest his the Jewish colonists themselves haVt.
Papers Report Crime?" The Jewish Daily Bulletin of New York, Willis J. Mr. Max.
zel's Orchestra, headed by Dave would be a precarious existence; that no fear of any kind and are working
H a
Abbott, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Rabbi Max Currick Diamond,
mil play and Mr. Diamond the governmental policy was to ex- with and on the friendliest terms
took the position against such publication, while Dr. David to Sole. Pool and'
assured the society that the finest se- , tend its own merchandising organize- with their peasant neighbors.
myself agreed that Jewish crime should be reported in the Jewish press.
Ninth. Can the Russian govern- I :
. lections will be rendered that eve- tion and to give preference to the co-
So it is interesting to me that the London Jewish Chronicle has editorially ning. Several entertaining features operatives. It has already been ment be depended upon to encourage •
endorsed the position that we took. After discussing th entire question at have been booked fur the evening, proven that the small merchant and the Jew in his effort to solve his eco-
length, the English paper concludes with this statement:
but the committee will not divulge at trailer cannot live in the tier of gov- nomic problems through land settle- '
the present time just what they are. ernmental and co-operative competi- meat?
Mr. Charles II. Joseph, the syndicated contributor of "Random
This question is not a hard one to
They will come in the nature of a ' tion.
Thoughts" to a number of Jewish newspapers, has now given his
Those with whom I have talked— answer in the light of what steps the
pleasant surprise.
opinion on the subject. He gives a long and reasoned argument:
and there are many- -that have been government has already taken. Leg-,
first asking whether it would not give a false view of human society,
engaged in selling and trailing have islation has been passed to give the
if there were a suppression of newspapers of all reports concerning
no hope for the future. They have jews equal rights politically with the
crime. Obviously it would. "When newspapers reveal crime," says
already given up their small busi- peasant. The Comzet has been or-
ersons into chan
Joseph, "they turn the mind's of thoughtful p
messes to go on the land and are de- ganized, whose only function is to , I
i,
e
termined never to return. "I% e have ho p the Jew settle on the land.
nels of corrective measures for as elimination.
s nothing conceivable that is so
, put all that behind us; it is of the past; Money has already been appropri-',
gone further and said that there i
di
il in discouraging i t as the hing
—
it is a closed period in our lives," are ated and spent by the committee. A
likely to encourage crime and can
of the light of
the answers received to my questions. large amount has been asked and ,
of it in secrecy. Only by the continual application
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any other human frailty likely to become
while doubtless some will return, there are prospects that it will be '
public opinion is crime e o
•
Chapter in Upbuilding of
eliminated. "A crime wave," quoting Mr. Joseph again, "brought to
granted.
, they will be few.
the attention of the public through the daily prints, brings in its
This was a question that I asked
Seventh. What will be the status
,
Palestine.
wake a consideration of those fundamentals which operate to pro-
of the Jew politically when working many of the leading Jews whom I was1
—
duce such criminal abnormalties in the hope that something may be
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.1 — The ' on the soil as compared with the Rus-
done to check the evil." There has been scarcely a criminal reform,
parting message of Sir Herbert Sam- sian peasant, who has always been privileged to meet, and without held-
and scarcely a tightening of the law that has been undertaken in
uel to the people of Palestine, termi- a land worker and who under the ration, although most of them are not
England that was not traceable to the exposure of the, need for them
government's
sincerity
in this mat-
, noting the first chapter of the Jewish S."viet government politically occu- Communists,
they
acknowledged
the
ter. I can see no object that the
by reports in the press.
rebuilding work in the country, made Pies a preferential position?
—
In an earlier part of this report I government might have other than I
. a great impression upon both the Jew- Soviet
We know how times without number we are implored to suppress
ouched which
on legislation
the appears on the surface as to a genu-
gives to enacted
the Jew by
who
ish and Arab population of the coon- t
of cases in which Jews have figured discreditably. When we
ine interest in the solution of the par-
.
try.
explained that we seldom, if ever, print such reports unless they have
settles on the land the same right ocular problem of the Jew.
It read an follows:
se has the peasant. This information
Tenth. Does the Russian land un-
already seen the light in the general press, and thus they have already
as
, “At the moment of vacating the of-
rty, we are met with the answer: "Ah, but the
der which the colonization plan is be-
become public property,
lice of High Commissioner, I desire to came through an interview with Mr.
of the ing conducted afford the Jews the
general press does not matter half as much as the Jewish press,
f
Smidovitch,
vice-president
convey to the people of Palestine o
o
legal status equal to that of the non-
which is read by all our friends." A monition to evil-doers, and, it
all classes and of all creeds, my heart- Soviet republics and president of the
must be confessed, a hardship to those who, perfectly innocent,
goo d i Conizet.
must
the
kindness
and
fur
The
Jew
as
a
trailer
or
small
mar-
Jewish
'
felt
thanks
I am Russian
reliably peasant?
informed by Dr. Ito-
through family connection, have cast upon them some of the splashes
will which they have shown towards chant has absolutely no rights other
of mud into which their relatives have fallen. That is agreed. But
me.
The
ceremonies
of
farewell
due-1
Masi it is inevitable in this world, made up in most part of persons
, inc these last weeks in all the princi- I than that of the bourgeois, while his son, by E. A. Grower, legal adviser
e
lacking in discrimination. But the experience we have van
pal towns, the appreciation that has I limitations are many. The moment of the Agro-joint; by I. S. Missan, :
utterly
lured to mention surely shows that Mr. Joseph is right when h
been expressed of such efforts as I I he becomes a land worker his whole one of
y Moscow's leading attorneys,
speaks of the restraining influence on wrong doings by Jews of the
fession that the Jewish colonist has
have been able to make on behalf of I he
status
and
where he
formerly
had changes
no political
rights,
at once and
b other
of peasant
the legal under
pro-
equal
rights leaders
with the
reporting of the law casesto Jewish papers.
---as-wi•-e--
the country the cordial wishes for the becomes the equal politically of any laws of the Soviet government.
future
hat
have
been
offered
for
Lady
I have my own ideas, but I'm not saying anything. I wouldn't be so
other citizen in Russia.
Samuel and myself, hive touebed us
While to those of us removed by SAY JEWISH EQUALITY
mean. Let the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes speak for himself:
, deeply.
thousands of miles from a country
GUARANTEED BY POLES
or-
"I
recall
the
message
to
the
people
trying
out a new political philosophy
Mr. Bryan is a true Fundamentalist in the sense that his ignntal
f Palestine of His Maesty King
rance is not only fundame
igno
,
George
V,
which
I
had
the
privilege
this
situation
may
mean
little,
yet
to
WARSAW.—IJ. T. A.)—An inter- • ■
since is fundamental.
—it Is universally and apparently eternal as well.. . . Even in the
those who are i Russia and look for- pellation with regard to the civil na-
ending the rest of their
I I to deliver in iv y inaugural address
Biblical field Bryan's ignorance is just as colossal as in th escientitic
tional rights of the Jewish population , tI
five years ago. His majesty than said: ward re,
to it spn
meows much.
lives the
in the Polish Republic was introduced
field."
; ' I desire to assure you of the absolute
Eighth. Would a substantial colo.
.
with which the duties of nization movement on the part of the into parliament by the Polish Com- , I
imparti
Thank you, Dr. Holmes; you have relieved my feeling's and at the same , . impartiality
munist group. I II
the mandatory
will be carried
he power
determination
of my Jews have a tendency to increase or
time probably saved me from
a libel
suit.
The interpellation was introduced in
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u t, and of t
decrease anti-Semitism on the part of
.
() t o %
connection with the l'olish Jewish ,
ernment
to
respect
the
rights
of
f
,
gov
the
Russian
population
A reader in Beekman street, New York City, sends me a page from
I
have
looked
at
th
is
question
from
agreement
and emphasized the fact
New York American, giving a story of a soda clerk who amassed $1,000,000 every race and every creed represent-
ed among you." It has been my ear- every possible angle, knowing that that the civil and national equality of .
in two years, and with it he pins a note:
e
adminis-
there
are
pronounced
opinions
on
the
Jewish
population
in Poland is a ,
'nest endeavor to conduct the
i I by the Polish con-'
ma r mien nt
tei
I I matter
immigrant boy and he is a good
!ration with a scrupulous observance this question
t
queston in
n many quarters.
Mr. Joseph, "Sam" is another
i of that pledge, in the spirit and in the was exceptionally careful in obtain- stitution•
Jew as well as an able business man.
Idler.
"In leaving Palestine I rejoice to --
Sam Marshak is his name. Two years ago he was "tending bar" behind :
a ghetto soda stand. Then he began to get ideas of perfecting a drink to think that the country shows every
help build up weakly children. So he developed a "malted" milk that sign of a growing prosperity. Agri-
babies, big ones and little ones, "cried for." And they have cried to such culture, industry and commerce are
The population is rapid-
i
good effect that Sam is now • millionaire. Clever chaps, these immigrant developing,
ly increasing. There is an accumu-
boys, clever chaps
—
• lated balance of revenue over expendi-
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' ture of more than f60,1.010. It has
Ubille
been possible to reduce the taxation
14-6(.71 1> <9i-ivr
TELLS OF RUSSIAN
SOCIETY EXPECTS
LARGE ATTENDANCE JEWS' COLONIZATION
o v"
GiAS.
JOSEPI-1--, ==
,
H erbert Samue ls
Parting Address
Port Iittroit
Note
Young
Jtbdaea
eav upon the cultivator.
a hily
Club that ly
The railway and postal services are .
efficient and remunerative to the state.
early a thousand kilometers of ne
Nearly
) roads have been built. Public wear-I
ity is completely maintained. Pro-
Balfour Guards.
At last Thursday's meeting of thelgress has been made in the elimination
Mr. and Mrs. Rubin Levine an-
of malaria and other diseases that of-'
nounce the birth of a daughter, Ruth Balfour Guards, Solomann Silk spoke I
life and achievements of Sir • fected the population. Nearly two
Miriam, on Saturday, July Iti.
nn the
Moses Montetiore, the renowned Eng- hundred new village schools have been
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Regular Friday evening services li-h Jew, the fortieth anniversary of ^pened. The antiquities of the coun-
,- ■ the
have been inaugurated at the new whose death occurred July '25. Leo . try, of the deepest interest t
Ashinsky delivered a short talk on world at large, have been carefully
synagogue.
"Anti-Semitism." At every meeting , safeguarded. The government has
B. Levey and Harry Gerson of of the organization talks are given taken every opportunity to promote
•
Detroit are stopping at Gratiot Inn. by different members on Jewish his-, a greater spirit of harmony between
tory in order to acquaint them with the many religious communities which
Sir. and Mrs. A. Holdman and the story of their race. Plans are are comprised within this varied popu-1
daughters are spending the summer being formulated whereby the organ.' lotion, and those efforts had results.
at the home of their parents, Mr. and ization can go as a body to some sum- "Very much remains to be done.
mer resort during the last two weeks Yet the work of these five years has
Mrs. A. Rubenstein.
of the school vacation. Boys from not been unfruitful. laying down my I
the ages of 14 to 15 and living in the charge, I pray for the future welfare
harryFisher,
Leo
Rubenstein,
Jule
harry
o
J. Levey of Port Huron and Abraham nort'iwest section are cordially in- of Palestine, for the union of her
Goldman and Harry Goldman and cited to visit the organization. Meet- pie, for the strengthening of her
several friends of Detroit have left ings are held in Room '7 of the Byron- spiritual influence over the world."
Notes
Philadelphia Talmud Torah, Thurs.
day evenings at 7 o'clock.
Among the week-end visitors to
—
Port Huron were: Mr. and Mrs. I.
Herzl Judaeans,
--
Stone and Mac Stone, Sir. and Mrs.
At the last meeting of the lierzl
CZERNOWITZ.-1.1. T. A.1—An-
A. Dater and family, Mr. and Mrs. S.
Judaeans an e xtemporaneous debate.
Dater, Mrs. S. Shine and the Misses was held on the question, "Resolved, dre Spire, well-known French-Jewish
That It Is Absolutely Necessary for. writer and communal worker, and
E. Levy, P. Prcgant and P. Hess.
Vie Jews to Celebrate Jewish Roll. Mr. Karninka were the guests of
days and Preserve the Jewish Faith," honor at a public reception given
'of ,
when lxleyer Miller, Morris Huber- here by the Jewish community
man and Morris Soloweichik spoke I Czernowitz.
Further details with regard to the
Picnic Supper:
on the affirmative and Paul Broner, 1
The Y. W. II. A. will hold a picnic Oscar Schwartz and Elkin Buehhalter plans for a more extensive Jewi- h
r
every Wednesday evening until fur- upheld the negative. The Herzlite, emigration to South France wee
res-
paper made known by Mr. Spire in his ad-
ther notice at Belle isle. Make
be club paper, was read This
ervations at the club house by the contains all the news of the club of , dress delivered here.
previous Monday at 89 Rowena the sat term, committee reports,. The French government aims to re-
populate South France, where many
street. Meet across the bridge at
items of interest, sports, editorials thousands of acres are uncultivated,
6:15. Charge for picnic supper 35
and jokes.
because the owners were killed in the
Herd
cents.
At the next meeting of the
Judaeans, hat speeches will be given. war. The French government has de-
cided to give preference to Jewish
ANNOUNCEMENT
immigrants on the condition, how•
A. C. Lappin, lawyer-arbitrator,
SUM FOR RABBIS' RELIEF
ever, that they are agriculturally
announces tae removal of his office
BAGDAD.—(J. T. A.)—The sum citialified and that they can pay their
to Suite 948, Buhl Building. Ile will
, e colnniq* re-
remain in charge
of the
which
is loca
moving into of 16,000 for relief to rabbis in d's- own way to France. T'
while the oer
come half pf he crop French
Hayesod office,
opotyamia was
R. Solomon tress in MesLad
thrn-
gove
the
the
recently wr bet ong s
the tame suite.
Flora Samson
ivry attorneys, donated by
and raxwell FriHedland,
will share the suite with Mr. Lappin. London.
on a fishing trip.
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This involves the intelligent
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They are the human factor
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good service, and business
success.
You have the right to expect
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These are our first obliga-
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