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August 14, 1925

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Poland and a Fair Press.

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highest authority in Russia, credited with the state-
ment. It is certainly not a proclamation nor a decree
of anybody charged with the special undertaking of
Jewish settlement. It is the bald statement of a jour-
nal not noted for its strictest adherence to the truth
and with no little vanity as to its influence in Jewish
affairs in Russia.
Against this we have the authentic, temperate, non-
propagandist statements of David A. Brown and Dr.
Joseph Rosen. Dr. Rosen says: "Our work is absolutely
independent of the Soviet government, with whom, of
course, we co-operate." We are asked, Whom are we
to believe? No one can question Mr. Brown and Dr.
Rosen. They have no personal interests in the matter,
while this propagandist organ, Emes, would surely
permit no matter of such consequence as this to pass
without letting the world know that it had a finger in
the pie. We certainly shall accept the conclusions of
Mr. Brown and Dr. Rosen until the officials of the Soviet
government issue a statement which unequivocally
states that the whole plan is to be under the control,
management and supervision of the Soviet authorities.
The ancient red herring has been dragged out of its
barrel and drawn across the movement which promises
more for Jewry than anything offered in ages.
Even though the Soviet government decided to par-
ticipate to a greater extent than the assurance given,
we are of the opinion that the paramount problem of
Russian Jewry should dissipate any doubts or hesitan-
cies which one may have concerning the whole project.
One fact must be borne in mind in dealing with the
whole Russian situation and that is that the land work-
ers of Russia are the specially favored in the SON iet
scheme. Consequently Jews as farmers will come in
the specially privileged category.
If there any sound, convincing reasons against the
scheme we should be glad to hear them, but we are
fundamentally opposed to the red herring method.

Immediately upon the release of the reports of Dav-
id A. Brown and Dr. Joseph Rosen urging Jewish land
settlement in Russia there appears the ancient red her-
ring with its noisome odor in the form of an article in
the Ernes, the Yiddish organ of the Communist party in
Russia. According to the Emes story: "The coloniza-
tion work rests upon a firm basis and is in trustworthy
hands, in the hands of the Soviet government and of
the Communist party. Those who always scent danger
to the Jews whenever the Soviet government is men-
tioqed are ready to ditch the whole land settlement
scheme without any further examination of its merits."
No one even with the wildest fancies would state that
Emes iethe official organ of the Soviet government ; that
distinction is held not by a Yiddish paper. but by jour-
nals printed in Russian, Pravda, and Izvestia. What is
more, the Emes story does not emanate from any of-
ficial source, nor is any member of the Politburo, the

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Honor Senator Straus.

When the Cunarder Mauretania was
made fast in New York to her pier,
one of the first passengers to come
down the gangway was State Senator
Nathan Straus Jr., who had made a
trip to Europe with Mrs. Straus. Ile
was met at the pier by a delegation
of prominent citizens headed by
George Gordon Battle and Senator
James J. Walker, candidate for mayor
on the Tammany ticket. Music was
furnished by the band from the Ile-
brew Immigrant Aid Society as Mr.
Straus walked up 'the pier between
Senator Walker and Mr. Battle to the
waiting room on Pier 56, where a sil-
ver loving cup two feet high was pre-
sented to him.
Mr. Battle, in his speech before pre-
senting the cup, declared that Mr.
Straus was a worthy son to carry on
his father's philanthropies. Senator
Walker said "If it were not for friends.
and colleague, such as I found in Na-
than Straus Jr. in Albany, I would not
be mentioned as I have been in the
press recently."
In speaking with the reporters, Mr.
Straus said that he regarded Senator
Walker as his closest friend and his
political godfather.
"Next to my brother," he continued,
"there is no man for whom I hold
greater affection and loyalty. Natu
rally I would support him for what-
ever offi,e he might aspire."
While abroad Senator Straus visited
the Straus potteries at Rudolstadt,
which his father established 42 years
ago,

Humble of Spirit

Humble of spirit. lowly of knee and stature,
But in awe and fear abounding,
I come before Thee.
And in Thy presence to myself appear
As a little earth worm.
0 Thou, who filleth the earth and whose great-
ness is endless,
Shall one like me laud Thee,
And how shall he honor Thee?
The angels of heaven do not suffice,
How then one like me?
Thou hast wrought good and hast magnified
mercies,
Wherefore the soul shall magnify praise of Thee.

SOLOMON IBN GABIROL

Translated by bract Zanrwill
(Jewish Publication Society./

i.e. A.' V° l*

To Be or Not To Be

By ISRAEL ZANGWILL

(Copyright, 1525, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.)

(Editor's Note:—The grand old man of world Jewry has written
this splendid article as an introduction to "The Real Jew," a collec-
tion of fascinating articles setting forth the Jewish contribution to
civilization in the realms of the spiritual, the arts, the sciences and
other branches of human endeavor, and portrays the Jew as he really
is. The Seven Arts Feature Syndicate has secured the syndication
privileges to this article from the Macmillan Company, who are
handling this volume in the United States and who will place this
book on the market in the very near future.)

Christian and multi-racial constitution
The Jew is still the unknown of
had the chance of doing so; and if the
history. While with the growth of
spirit of Washington and Lincoln had
humanism every effort has been
persisted, millions of Jews would have
made to understand every other peo-
been gradually fused into a majestic
ple, however savage or intellectually
commonwealth, whom the recent clos-
insignificant, even the learned pro-
ing of the gates will now conserve in
fessors have failed to appraise im-
their isolation. Had this limitation if
partially the contribution of Israel
their immigration been an economic
to world culture and progress. Had
necessity so paradoxical II result would
the Jew-perished entirely from the
not have been predictable. But it is
face of the earth, and his civiliza-
only the outcome of a still narrower
tion been only deducible from his
race prejudice than that which had al-
literature, he would have enjoyed
ready, in the form of social discrimi-
a far higher reputation; but his ob-
nation, arrested their assimiliation;
stinate insistence on survival has
and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan is
thrown the world's judgment quite
another indication that the New
out of perspective. Hence this at-
World, no less than the Old, will long
number
of
competent
writ-
tempt of a
preserve the Jew and the Jewish prob.
ers—not in every case of Jewish birth
or faith—to shed light upon various
lent.
Not, of course, that there is any
aspects of his life or thought should
Jewish problem--except for the Jew.
be welcomed by all to wffiont ignorance
To hint the survival of his race under
is not bliss, nor hate a greater happi-
conditions of eternal exile may stem
ness than love.
almost as tragic as its suicide, and,
It seems strange that so many cen-
like Hamlet, he may perpend "To be
turies after the great Hebrew proph-
or not to be." But for the races with
ets nad singers, whose works, more-
whom the Jews live there is nothing
over, have been translated into every
but advantage in his persistence.
language and have surpassed in cir-
Every country is enriched by his in-
culation those of any other writers, a
telligence and industy; and, as a
Mohammedan Missionaries.
sort of apologia should still be neces-
whipping-boy, he is indispensible.
sary for the race and faith that pro-
An influx of Mohammedan mission-
Though his seed may not nowadays
duced them. But even before Chris-
aries into America and Europe to con-
flower into the highest individual gen-
tianity had arisen to complicate the
vert Christians to the faith of Mo-
ius, it carries the greatest average po-
situation,
the
Jew
aroused
among
his
hammedanism was predicted by Erian
tency known to history.
Semitic neighbors, no less than among
Boutros, a Christian native of Egypt
The stamp of Jewish genius is to be
the Greeks and Romans, that hostility
now in business in New York, who
found in every branch of science and
to which a spurious German science
addressed the third annual conference
learning,
and the cities of the world
has given the name of anti-Semitism,
of the Interdenominational Foreign
are full of the records of Jewish civic
a term which current journalism
Mission Association of North America
virtue. The great Mond bequest to
comically applies to the attitude of the
at Stony Brook, L. I. Boutros has
the National Gallery of London, or the
native Semites of Palestine towards
been active in missionary work, and
establishment at Paris of a "Univer-
the Zionist immigration. That Arab
is well known to the clergymen at-
sity Town" for poor students by M.
hostility—however
mistaken
—
is
the
tending the gathering. The speaker
Deutsch de la Meurthe—to whom
only form of it with a shred of justi-
declared that Mohammedan mission-
French aviation is likewise so largely
fication; all other manifestations of
aries were being trained in large num-
indebted—are but the most recent ex-
Jew-hatred require the word Judae-
bers at a mission school in Cairo for
amples
of the way the Jew employs his
°phobia, a word with the right patho-
service in Christian countries. He as-
wealth. The pity is that this wealth
logical
ring.
For
though
the
Jews
are
serted that more Christians were be-
has
not
been primarily applied to re-
far from faultless, the hatred of them
ing converted to Mohammedanism in
moving the badge of sufferance from
is based more on their virtues than on
Egypt than vice versa, and said that
his own tribe. Black as his indictment
their vices, and less on facts than on
this was due to lack of zeal on the
against the world may be, it is not
lies and legends.
part of Christian missionaries sent to
possibly wholly to acquit the Jew of
Egypt.
In a recent letter from an unknown
responsibility for his humilations.
correspondent in Berlin—and surely
The phenomenon of Marranoism-
Is a Jewess.
it is not so much the "want of pence"
of sailing under false religious colors
as the superabundance of correspon-
The author of "God's Stepchildren,"
—is a disquieting feature of Jewish
dence "that vexes public men"—I was
Sarah Gertrude Millin, is a Jewess,
history. It is true myriads of Jews
solicited, in common with ether pub-
thoroughly familiar with the milieu
have died for their religion, but their
lic Jews, from Brandeis to Trotzky
of which she writes. She has lived in
martydom—or witnessing — has been
and
from
Einstein
to
Charles
Chaplin,
South Africa all her life, partly in
more passive than active. The blood
to set up a Jewish museum in a dere-
Kimberly, and, since her marriage to
of such martyrs is not the seed of any
lict Ghetto which my correspondent
Advocate Philip Millin, in Johannes-
church. In our own epoch, among
had discovered in a Swiss village. The
burg. She was only 19 when her first
Jews who have no faith to conceal,
synagogue of this whilom Jewish
short story was published. She has
Marranoism has taken the shape of
quarter, now a mere room for straw,
written for many of the South African
sailing under false racial colors. That
turnips, and dirt, he urged, be turned
papers and is doing a regular weekly
is still more degrading, for it has not
into a depository for documents of the
literary column for the leading paper,
the excuse which religious Marrano-
persecution of the Jews in the Middle
the Cape Times. Her other novels are
ism could offer of being an alternative
Ages.
"The Dark River," "Middle Class,"
to death. But this vulgar form of
Fanatic as was his naive belief that
"Adam's Rest," and "The Jordans."
Marranoism may he left to its own fu-
the Jews on his list could work to-
With "God's Stepchildren," she has
tility. More important is it that Ju-
gether for any object on earth, still
written her name large in literature.
daism, even though openly practised,
Its tremendous movement and sweep,
stranger was the implication that Jew-
should not lurk too shyly in the back-
its amazing simple and terse handling
kb persecution had reached museum-
ground of civilization. One hears of
of a story that covers three genera-
point. Some day, perhaps, the docu-
it only when its method of slaughter-
ments appertaining thereto may be
tions is a real triumph.
ing cattle is called into question. To
collected fur the wonder of a civilized
that attack there is a doubtless ade-
humanity; but in that collection the
Germany Says Skrzynski Errs.
quate reply in this volume, though,
ghastliest of all the documents will
The assertion made by Count Skr-
for my part, I venture to assert that,
deal with the pogrom period that be-
zynski, Polish Foreign Minister, in a
whichever form of killing is the most
gan with our own Great War, a period
speech at the Institute of Politics at
humane, that form is the form to
in which Judaeophobia returned like
Williamstown, Mass., that the Ger-
which Judaism is bound by its own
a tide, even to lands boasting of their
man-Polish Corridor Arbitration
spirit. But what needs exposition
tolerance, and now, like the course of
Court has not yet been invoked was
urbi et orbi is precisely this spirit. It
empire "westward takes its way."
challenged in German official quar-
is nineteen centuries since Josephus
There is, of course, nothing in the
ters.
wrote his noble reply to the Greek
It was pointed out that three com-
Jewish war-record to justify this ren-
sophist, Apion. This virile note is not
prehensive questions were submitted
ascence or reduplication of Jew-hatred
heard again throughout all the Chris-
(luring the first half of 1925 alone to
for the Jews threw themselves into
lion era, for even when Judaism was
the Arbitration Court at Danzig, in-
the war with the same internecine in-
forced to defend itself—and for long
cluding the question of responsibility
consistency as the Christians, and his-
centuries it was absolutely silent—it
for the wreck of the Eydtkuhnen-
tory has few meaner episodes to show
spoke "with bated breath and whisper-
Berlin express near Starograd, in the
than this universal return for their
ing humbleness." As for Mohammed-
Danzig corridor on May 1. The Court
ubiquitous patriotism. No race, in-
anism, only one author throughout the
decided that Poland was not respon-
deed, has proved more tragically the
whole range of Jewish literature chal-
sible for the wreck and denied the
truth of Dente's lines: how salt is the
lenged it at any length. Judaism, in
Germans' claim for an indemnity.
taste of other's bread, how hard the
fact, bears the stigmata not so much
climbing up and down another's stairs
of a superceded religion as of a sup-
Returns After Eight Years
But that the e V; must for centuries
pressed religion. "You are right"
still go on illustrating Dante is admit
says the Jew to the King of the Chez-
Absence.
ted even by the leaders of Zionism
ars in Jehuda ha-Levi's "Khuzari"—
Eight years ago a young boy, 13
Neither
in
the
gathering-place
of
Pal
"you are right to reproach as with
years of age, who was bored with his
estine nor in the melting-pots of the
the fact that our banishment has yet
home in New York, disappeared and
Diaspora
can
the
Jew
and
his
prob
borne no fruit." The stretch of eight
net the whole country looking for him.
lem
disappear.
Fifteen
and
a
hal
f
centuries that has elapsed since this
Several days ago Theodore Ilimelstein
million
people,
scattered
throughou
t
dialogue was written has not tended
returned to New York and told his
-
the
globe,
cannot
either
be
re-integral
to lessen that reproach; and if in this
mother, brothers and sisters of his ad-
ed or absorbed. Palestine, little larg -
day of healthy self-questioning on the
ventures around the world. He had
er
than
Wales,
and
lacking
even
in
its
part of the modern church, the relig-
shipped to sea as a cabin boy and later
coal and iron, cannot receive mar e
ion of the Synagogue fails to present
joined the navy, visiting France, Cuba,
e
than
a
small
minority
of
them.
Th
itself
as still a living issue, it will have
China, Japan, the Near East, Honolu-
United States, by that country's non -
sealed its doom as a world force.
lu, British West Irides, Mexico, Chili,

Author

the Argentine, Africa, Australia and
Brazil.

A GREAT JEW OF FRANCE

Leaves Wine to Daughter.

A legacy of 100 gallons of wine was
included in the bequest in the will of
Moishe Ber Yudelman, who died on
April 26, at his home in Brooklyn.
The clause reads: "I do hereby be-
queath to my beloved daughter, Bessie
Rosen, 100 gallons of wine and $100."
Yudelman left only personal prop-
erty valued at $1,000. After leaving
other small bequests, the testator di-
rected that "all residue of the estate
is to be sent to some institution in
Jerusalem for the purpose of saying
prayers for my soul."

Follows Brother's Footsteps.

gzwisNowisi

ph, Aro, 'ph, Mi. ph.

.zs

HERE AND THERE

Count Alexander Skrzynski on the eve of his de-
parture for Poland asked the Jewish press of America
to be fair; the necessary implication is that the Jewish
press of America heretofore has been unfair. We think
the American Jewish press has been eminently fair,
considerate and hopeful, ready at all times to grasp
at any straw which indicated a more generous attitude
of Poland toward her minorities and especially toward
her Jews. The count wants us to be patient and help-
ful and to incline to a favorable interpretation of Polish
action and we accept the gratuitous admonition in the
spirit in which it was given.
We cannot but recall the recent manifestation of
good will toward the count and the unconcealed jubi-
lation of the Jewish press when the news of the Polish-
Jewish agreement was published. We must beg to be
exempted, however, from that chorus of hopeful opti-
mistic ones, for at that time we stated that as long as
it was not written unto the basic law we had but scant
A Favorable Sign.
faith in the agreement. And what is more, the mess
A
group
of
more than one hundred noted French-
of pottage did not allure us sufficiently to advise the
yielding of our political right to vote against the gov- men has issued a manifesto demanding the abrogation
of Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, which places
ernment.
And now we learn, despite the agreement, that the sole responsibility for the recent war upon Germany.
The chief objection to the clause is its unilateral char-
law which deprives 30,000 Jews of a livelihood has acter. The sanctions were exacted from Germany by
been put into effect. We are asked to solace ourselves
the violence of a threat to reopen the war, which would
with certain exemptions and rights which are reserved
have meant the complete ruin of Germany.
in the law. Those who enjoy the questionable pastime
The manifesto would lose much of its significance
of splitting hairs and discovering occult meanings may
and effectiveness if it were signed only by noted paci-
find consolation in the exemptions and reservations;
but frankly, we refuse to delude ourselves and accept fists like Romain Rolland and Henry Barbusse, but for-
the legislation as a frank and unambigious piece of tunately, and as indicating a return to reasonableness
evidence which proves conclusively that nothing can be and objectivity, it is endorsed by men like Georges de
gained by the sale and barter method to which the Po- Martial and Mathias Morhardt, whose works on the
origins of the war are recognized as the most pains-
lish Jewish deputies lent themselves.
We certainly want to be fair, but when we are out- taking and impartial yet written.
The manifesto does not acquit the Germans and
raged, deceived and deprived of ordinary human rights
place the blame upon France, but it challenges the
we can hardly be expected to speak of those who are notion that the Allies were wholly guiltless. The Ger-
guilty of these practices in the highest terms of praise.
Scarcely is the ink dry on the Polish-Jewish agreement man Nationalists are cautioned against excessive jubila-
when we learn that one of the most cruel pieces of leg- tion for, as the manifesto states, "Let German National-
islation is passed which may work greater economic ism make no mistake. Here is no proof of French
hardship upon Polish Jewry than anything done to weakness, but evidence of French uprightness, a step
toward human understanding. • The Germany of
them heretofore.
Goethe will understand." This is genuine magnanim-
We must perforce face the facts concerning Jewry ity. Any nation which can produce men who speak
in Poland, as we must eventually in Russia. As long
as we permit our feelings to be the only guide for our with such fairness and decency is truly a great nation.
These men have returned to a state of sanity, for
actions in these two countries so long will we run into
no longer are they moved by revenge but hope that
blind alleys with no possible means of escape or solu-
through a sincere attempt at reconciliation and a rec-
tion.
Poland is an artificial state created by the Versailles ognition of the facts Europe will become normal.
It is a most encouraging sign and it is especially
Treaty, made up of polyglot populations without much
heartening because the demand for repudiation of the
respect for or adherence to the Polish rulers. The eco-
iniquitous and untenable war guilt clause comes from
nomic foundations have been unstable from the very
outset with revenues uncertain and unbalanced. The the victor nation.
The vindictive, reactionary spirit which has been
Jews are a not inconsequential minority with a domi- in the saddle so long may soon be unhorsed and be sup-
nating influence in commerce and finance. The Po- planted by a generous, friendly spirit which will heal
lish state needs money to balance the budget ; it is com- the deep wounds made by an inhuman war and uncon-
pelled to enter into business enterprises from which
peace.
revenue can be derived and consequently those who scionable
May we not hope that a similar manifesto will be
suffer most are the Jews. Then, too, there is an official issued in Germany, written in language equally digni-
anti-Semitic group of great influence and power in Po- fied and temperate, with the sole purpose of achieving
land which can see a solution of Polish economic, finan-
an enduring, genuine peace.
cial and industrial problems if the Jews are oppressed
and deprived of economic rights and privileges. The
government recognizes these almost irreconcilable dif-
We wonder if the Jewish publicity bureaus and the
ferences and the alleged Polish-Jewish agreement was Jewish press services think that by ignoring the dis-
the result. But in all candor, what benefit has accrued turbances in Mexico City they can conjure them out of
to Jewry from this pacific gesture At this distance existence. Why the silence about the misery of the
we say none, for the obstinate fact remains that the poor deluded immigrants who came to Mexico in the
law which deprives these thousands of their livelihood hope of achieving some measure of life and inde-
has been passed.
pendence? We are accustomed to tales of cruelty and
The Jew of Poland as well as the Jew of Russia wretchedness and the facts concerning the mad adven-
suffers from a condition for which he is the least respon- ture in Mexico will not upset our sensitive souls. Who
sible. The economic life he lives and the practices he is responsible for the censorship and why?
follows are of a different era. The speculator, petty
trader and financier belong to the Czarist regime. A
The country is much relieved. The Ku Klux Klan
new day has come; which means that the Jew must
adjust and accommodate himself to the new order. In marched in their night gowns in Washington and to
Poland the situation is aggravated by the fact that anti- date there are no reports of casualties to the non-Nor-
Semitism is a recognized method, one may say almost dics. The procession which moved down Pennsylvania
a creed, while in Russia this specific, malignant disease avenue did not impress any observers as a formidable
menace to our free institutions. It was the first nation-
receives no official sanction.
The American Jewish press will be fair, but it shall al spectacle and tee daresay that it shall be the last
resent any attempt to delude it with fair though false staged by the hooded order. If Bryan's tomb were not
promises. Polish Jewry must continue to demand the objective the whole affair would have been a hope-
equality in and out of season, for any admission of in- lessly insipid thing, but the recent death of the Com-
equality will mean that they are entitled to only that moner gave some semblance of reality to the perform-
which their superiors have a mind to give them.
ance.

The Red Herring Trail.

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1/4'rr *fit. offr INC -111-

Dr. S. Sheldon Glueck, younger
brother of Dr. Bernard Glueck, wide-
ly-known psychiartrist and criminolo-
gist, bids fair to follow in his broth-
er's footsteps. At 30 he is an instruc-
tor in the department of social ethics
at Harvard University and consulting
sociologist of the Massachusetts De-
partment of Mental Diseases. He re-
ceived his A. B. degree at George
Washignton University, his L. L. M.
at the National University School of
Law, and the degrees of A. M. and Ph.
D. at Harvard University.

Apply For a Scotch Name.

Nacelle Deminski and her brother,
Antony, of Clifton, N. J., appeared be-
fore Judge William N. Seufort with
the request that he change their names
into one of Scotch lineage. They sug-
gested that Conroy would do very well.
Judge Seufort, who is of German de-
scent, remarked that he was quite
willing to make the change if need
be, but could not make Conroy Scotch.

A• °

L

By S. FERDINAND LOP

Copyright, 1925, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.)

A noble man and a great Jew pass-
ed from the scene of French life when
M. Emile Deutsch (le La Meurthe died
recently, leaving behind him universal
grief; for he was a prominent phil-
anthropist and spent all his life do-
ing good to others. Born in 1047, he
entered a business career early in life.
He was not, strictly speaking, a self-
made man; together with his brother,
who died some years ago, he directed
some important petroleum enterprises
that had been begun by his father
long before, and the two increased the
original fortune ten-fold. Yet Deutsch
(le l.a Meurthe never impressed you
as the conventional industrial mag-
nate. Simple and straightforward in
his manner, and of an unusual court-
liness, he was particularly known for
his love of sport; every sport, from
hunting in Tunis to the farce of
drawing-room life, came naturally to
him. In Paris you could often see him
riding horseback in the Bois de
Boulogne.
Emile Deutsch de I.a Meurthe was a
perfect example of the assimilated
French Jew who is known and ac-
cepted in all French circles. llis aris-
tocratic face was well known all over
France. No sporting meet, no hu-
manitarian assembly, no social event
was considered complete without the
elegant and kindly old gentleman, who
was one of the 100 most popular fig-
ures of all Paris. Still, he never re-

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lased his adherence to the faith of his
fathers; and it was from Judaism that
he learned the philanthropy and ac-
quired the extraordinarily liberal
spirit that caused him to devote him-
self to all sorts of social, scientific
and artistic endeavors.
The name Deutsch de La Meurthe
is closely linked with French aviation.
Many are the trophies and cups that
bear his name. Since the very begin-
ning of heavier-than-air flying he was
an enthusiastic follower and abettor
of its progress.
With a generous hand he contrib-
uted millions of francs to the cause
of aviation; and if it is recognized to-
day that the French aeroplane pilots
led the field in the pioneer days before
the war, it is due to the perseverant
support and enthusiasm of this old
French Jew, who had the vision to
foresee the development of flying.
Of the many charitable institutions
that received his help and patronage,
I will mention only the Hospital So-
cial Service, the Foundation for War
Mothers and War Babies, the Mater-
nity Home, and the Workingmen's

Aid.

Besides these, however, there were
two institutions that had a partic-
ularly strong hold on his generosity,
and to which he gave some of his time
every day. They were the Society for
Franco-American Brotherhood and
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