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established by Mr. and Mrs. Felix M.
We come now to the lowest stage
Warburg for te support of the. visit-
•LETTER. BOX
of the Jewish purgatory—Russia.
ing nurse service of the Henry Street
This is the only land in which Jews
ttlement in New York and the gift Managing Editor,
suffer from religious persecution. 13o1-
f Daniel and Murray Guggenheim The Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
o
shevik theory is opposed to anything
of a series of free band concerts to Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Sir:-1 have been advised ' that smacks of nationalism and the
the people of New York City and of
$500,000 to New York University for that the Detroit Jewish Chronicle will! Soviets, therefore, suppress Zionism
a school of aeronautics. Simon Levi soon issue a special Jewish New Year and the Hebrew language. At the
same time, Jewish communists do
of Terre Haute, Indiana, bequeathed edition.
May I take this opportunity to corn- everything in their power to destroy
$50,000 to that city for the promotion
o f concerts in its parks. These and mend your excellent publication. Your . Judaism as religion. They instigate
m any more princely gifts came from newspaper is serving a worthy mis- , the confiscation of synagogues which
men and women who w e re generous sion and as a result of the conserve- I ore turned into workmen's clubs or
also in their support of Jewish co-Itive and commendable editorial policy' are used for other secular purposes.
pursued it has a strong influence for, Last fall, during the high holydays,
munal undertakings.
many Jews of Kiev were compelled
What Jews have meant and are I good.
May the New Year be more pros- to worship in the open air. Jewish
!waning in American life woe per-
hops most strikingly indicated by torus to you and your readers than communists also hold anti-religious
demonstrations and carnivals on Yom
some of the names on last year's , any of the previous ones.
Kippur in various cities.
Very sincerely yours,
necrology: Arnold W. Brunner, ar-
thitect; Sam Dreben, war hero; Jul. ' ALEX. J. GROESBECK. As Soviet law prohibits the teach- !
' ing of religion to children, clandestine'
ius Goldzier, former Congressmen; :
Samuel Gompers, labor leader; Julius ;schools have sprung up. But severe
i I punishment awaits those who are dis-
ir-time select- to have assumed active leadership in
Kahn, father of the war-time
Iva draft law; Gus Karger, dean of this vicious and shameful movement. i covered to he conducting them. Teach-
Washington newspaper men, to men- In Austria students rioted against, ors are arrested and imprisoned and
Jewish lectures, in one ease against a one rabbi was exiled for conducting
thin the most prominent.
Turning now to internal communal professor whose fancily has been . a secret yeshibah (seminary).
affairs we cannot fail to not a per- Christian since the middle of the I Added to these spiritual sufferings
ceptible trend toward co-operation eighteenth century. In Germany cem- i is the precarious economic condition
among Jewish organizations. There etery vandalism was perpetrated and of the bulk of Russia's Jews. Only
was for one th i ng, th e meeting last fanaticism rose to such a pitch that three categories of people can exist in
quasi-
June of representatives of the various
io even a monument erected in Potsdam
wings of Judaism who determined to by Emperor Frederick Willia m
in 1662 Russia today—governniental or quasi- I
unite into a conference to further in honor of the gifted French-Jewish governmental
employes.
factory
work-
era and peasants.
In the
various
up-
was pulled down
their common interests. In April ten actress, Rachel Felix, as
Un heavals that have shaken Russia to
-
bodies interested in Jewish and
shattered.
Students
at
versity of Frankfort cavalierly its foundations, the agricultural work- ,
de- er has always come out on top. Be-
d ation met in council at Cambridge, 1
Mass., and discussed the promotion of cided to exclude foreign Jewish app-lei: sides, only the most naive can still
religious and welfare work for Jew- cants; in another university the std- hold the view that the present regime
forced
a Jewish Minister
teacher to
ish students at colleges and univer- dents and
the Prussian
of re-
Ed- is on the eve of overthrow—its "ex-
pectation of life" increases annually,
sities.
ucation
ordered
school
authorities
not
The various institutions of higher
so that will
for an
to come
he indefinite
no place time
for the
small
Jewish learning were in a flourishing to appoint Jews as school superintend- Russia
ants. Because the poetic genius Heine trader or petty merchant. Many Jews
condition last year and a he
was a Jew, his works are banned in have found and more will find their
Jewish
col-
w
to establish a Y
lege, went forward successfully. In- many of the high schools and colleges. way into industry, but this branch of
terest in Jewish music was lively; the In both Austria and Germany a move- state housekeeping was never mighty
Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati ment is afoot to establish "Aryan developed in Russia. Agriculture ap-
established a special department in theaters, from which all traces of pears to be the one way out for the
that subpect and a national society "Semitic" influence are to be avoided Jew and the Soviet government ap-
pears to be sincerely trying to help
for the advancement of synagogue like the pest.
Next to Russia, Hungary is perhaps him economically, if it is destroying
music was organized. The Jewish
Educational Association in New York the darkest spot in the Jewish picture him spiritually, and there is a dis-
had a successful year in its endeavor of the past year. The Education Law tinct movement of Jews toward the
to bring to more and more young peo- of 1920, embodying the shameful nu- land. This has been investigated and •
ple the advantages of education in merus clauses, is still in effect and I probed by representatives of the Amer
Jewish religion and history and simi- the government instituted proceedings icon Jews are now discussing various
lar work was begun on a city-wide against the Jewish community of Bu- phases of this problem. Anxious to
scale In Cleveland. A national train- dapest for appealing to Jews in other help their Russian brethren, they are
ing school for Jewish social work was countries for funds for the victims yet skeptical as to the permanence of
of this barbaric device. Though this such results as may be achieved. The
a Iestablished during the post year
Yiddish theaters were prosperous and suit was withdrawn, one of those re- fact that the de facto government has
artistically successful. There are in- sponsible for the appeal in which the not been recognized by the United
diretions that the time is not far dis- numerus clausus was justly called "a States and that it is suppressing the
tent when these will become English- mockery of all culture and all human Jewish religion and culture are the
Jewish theaters. rights," was found guilty of having two chief stumbling blocks in the way
insulted the Hungarian nation and of an agreement among American
171 the midst of their attention to ;
domestic communal problems, sight was sentenced to a year s imprison- Jews . There are also that wing of
was lost for a time of the fact that ment. Is it any wonder then that the Zionists who hold that the Russian
colonization scheme is a waste of ef-
the condition of Jews in Easter n , students in one university went on
Europe was still unstable and unsatis- strike against the admission of Jews, fort and that all such settlements
factory, but the visits to this country , or that Jews were attacked during should he made in Palestine. But the
of various delegations brought about I divine worship on Yom Kippur, the recent Zionist Congress took no posi-
a revival of interest in overseas prob- . Day of Atonement, or that a Cabinet tion in this question.
Isms, leading to the proposal for the , crisis impended when a court acquit-
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launching of a drive for $15,000,000 , ted the self-confessed perpetrators of
for a sort of overseas chest, for the the Chongrad outrage of December 24,
PALESTINE
benefit especially of the Jews of Rus- 1923, who threw a bomb into the midst
of the dancers at a charity ball, kill-
The past year has shown, we be-
sia.
. log two and wounding 40 more, or
se, that in the rebuilding of a na-
. that the government granted amnesty
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I to 64 "Awakened Magyars" who in tl home for Jews in Palestine
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
1919 murdered as many Jews of Keos- little tangible help is to be expected

We came now to consider the most kemet, pardoning them on the ground from the Mandatory Great
Power.
Som 's
Britaine.
atriotic
ex- has
attitude
"benevolent
neutrality."
significant events affecting Jews in tha they "acted under
p one
aptly
dubbed
British statesmen have not been nig-
foreign countries. We may dismiss citement"?
It would be unfair to the vast ma-
in their praise of Jewish
ardl
very briefly the two American contl-
women in
nents and the more enlightened coon• jority of good men and
tries of Western Europe. In Canada. Europe to allow the impression to pre- . that
achievement
the Balfour
or Declaration
in their assurances
will not
communally speaking, the most note- vail that these outrages went on with- be scrapped, but of actual help there
has
been
nothing.
Quite
the
reverse
worthy event was the opening of the out protest. Both the Swiss and Ger-
country to 5,000 Jewish refugees, upon man sections of the international , instead of facilitating the immigra-
tion
of
Jews,
this
is
restricted
by ad-
the guarantee of Jewish organizations Women's League for Peace and Free- —
that they would not become public dons condemned anti-Semitism as "the . ministrative red tape; the close set-
charges. This action was partly fi- sin of the civilization of the twen: tlement of Jews on the land has not
I
!lanced by the Emergency Committee tieth century"; a Hungarian Roman been
encouraged in any way, nor have
re against! state or waste lands been given over
for Jewish Refugees in the United Catholic cardinal thundered
Ifor
reclamation by Jews, as stipulated
States. This committee also took over the anti-Semites; a Hungarian dep;
numerus clausus and e , in the Mandate. Then, again, the
the problems of the five or six thou- uty scored the numerus
office has practically ignored
sand Jews who were induced by un- a Cabinet Minister resigned because
scrupulous steamship agents to go to of the gross miscarriage of justice in i the Zionist Organization. Though few
o• would have expected the government
these p pr o-
Cuba, on the false promise that their the Chongrad case. B
entry into the United States would tests were futile because, as the home- to appoint a successor to Sir Herbert
be thus facilitated. The committee ly Jewish proverb puts it, "when a Samuel of Zionist choice, yet it found
the
also sent experts to investigate Jew- fool throws a rock into the garden,1
e , have been a g ra ceful gesture
organization had at least been con-
ish possibilities in Mexico, President not even ten wise men can remove it
Men
In Roumania the Jews seem to be in suited. Even the League of Nations
Calks of that country having extend-
the same had case as in Hungary, a nears to have grown lu earl
to avail themselves of its rich agri-
with the difference that in the former 'I
cultural opportunities. The report of
the government is not on the the
the Permanent
Jewish cause.
The comments
of
Mandates
Commission
these experts has not yet been pub-
, on the annual report o
lished. As for South America, the side of the Jew-batters—at least
only item of interest is a sad one--1 openly. But even in Roumania the Administration were quite unsympa-
the appearance in Brazil of a Porto- government
is either
so weak
or so in-
t that
a university
student
wholthetic. And yet despite these politi-
al setbacks, Jewish work in Palestine
. 1'' d I
guese edition of "The
doing has gained momentum. The Hebrew
that fiendish English pasquil in which assassinated a police prefect for
ev
University
was dedicated and there
the notorious forgery "The Protocols his duty and apprehending several
has been notable progress in the re
I
of the Wise
acquitted
by
the
habilitation
of the land, as s hown
high stations,
exploited outside of Russia.
b the memorandum which the Zion-
In England, due to the anti-Jewish! court and permitted to go up and by
the
propaganda of 1920-22 and to the , down the land and incite the populace ist Organization submitted to
widespread unemployment, an anti-Ito perpetrate new outrages. Several League of Nations last spring.
The progress of the past five years
alien psychology, analogous to that university professors lead the youth
of the United States, prevails to such in the "Holy" war against the Jews was succinctly summed up by Sir
and, quite recently police authorities !Herbert Samuel in his farewell mes-
an extent that Jewish organizations I
rni for a mal-
sort ' sage in the following words:
discovered that these p ecious
rapidly increas.
felt called upon to send a delegation ,
' "The population
Secretary in order to I contents were laying plans
. ag.
isan isaccumul ate d bal.
to the Home
ink of revenue over expenditure of
endeavor to prove to him the baseless-' of St. Bartholomew's night, upon once
nee of this sentiment. But this ac... which all Jews were to be extermi- , more than 600,000 pounds. It has
I '
tion was futile. The campaign of ' nated.
eossible to reduce the taxation
Student anti-Semitism exists also ;. been
b
heavily upon the cultivator.
some extremists among the supporters
of humane societies against Shehitah,1 in Poland, but in that country the [ that lay
the Jewish method of slaughtering an-' greatest suffering of the Jews is in' The railway and postal servries are
imals was not resumed and to non- the economic field. That section of I efficient and remunerative to the
Jewish experts after an exhaustive in-lpolitical leaders who, before the war, I State. Nearly 1,000 kilometers of
quiry declared the method unexcep- held the view that Poland was not new roads have been built. Public
a is completetly maintained.
tionable. big enough to afford a living for both security

France loomed up, during the past Iroles and Jews, or that Poles could Progress has been made in the elim-
a possible country of immi- never compete on equal terms with ination of malaria and other diseases
as for Jews who desire to engage Jews, has been in power since the that affected the population. Nearly
year,
gration
in agriculture, France's man-power foundation of the new republic. The 200 new village schools have been
having been so tragically depleted by I exponents of this theory have opened. The government has taken
the World War that she welcomes ad- ' lously cultivated a trade and profes- . every opportunity to promote a great-
ditions to her productive population., sinned boycott of the Jes and hare 1 er spirit of harmony
between
the
communities
which
e ffecting their aim . many religious
In Italy, a new school law did not find . even succeeded in
are comprised within this varied non-
b-
favor with Jews because it prescribed by statutory means, principally v ulation and those efforts had results.
religious teachings in the elementary declaring certain articles of manatee- i
These splendid results, are they not
schools according to Catholic beliefs; tore and commerce which Jews con- I
peril to Jews lurks also in the cam- , trolled to be government monopolies due almost entirely to the idealism,
p Poirot of Mussolini and his followers and substituting for the Jews who ■ self-sacrifice and toil of a compare-
section of the Jewish
a livelihood from , ti ee l y small
,. against Freemasonry, with which, had been gaining
people? Is there not good ground
some Fascisti newspapers falsely , them, non-Jewish veterans of the,
for the hope that progress will con-
was
, wars. Anti-Jewish discrimination
Jews
are in
alliance.
,, charge,
movement
to collect
a fund
for the A'.
' practiced also in the army and in the , tinue even
without the active encour-
have agement of the Mandatory? Much is
of non-
erection of a monument to Moses Mai- civil service. These measures
expected from the enlistment en arge
'. monides, the 12th century Jewish hu- resulted ni the financial ruin of many
inaugurated in Spain, the long-established business firms, or- Zionists in the work. n ld
d by a n epidemic of suicides; ' Jewish Agency representative of both
manist, was
also promulgated
nlgate d : companie
s and small traders Zionists and non-Zionists is about to
, government of whi
anish' ,l e wish worker
anish
be formed. Perhaps the new body
p
an interesting decree
offering S d their eyes toward Pales-
all those
of have turnet is from Poland that the may obtain greater support from and
citizenship t o
ubjects
who
care
tine
and
i
s comply with a few lily land is drawing the bulk of its may be taken more into the confi-
h Spanish
about it to
former
1 fidence of to Gritish government.
enou g
and al-
only begun h
simple formalities. It is not yet middle-class immigration. delet eriou s
The w ork
ha had a
of whic Jews
is
l stan d - read y t here hasmuch
known how this invitation has been' This condin
land'
on Pos
er more may be proud. As Dr. Weizmann
of her
received by the hundreds of thousands effect broad
up
and severalhave
a
to Intimated at the recent congress bet-
th e Mediterranean basin ing
of J ews
Spanish
s, a m ore to favorable "stim-
m igris on of tar timeare
in their an c
who trace
the tan-1 realize ,hat
that the enforced
atinot
a sure "
the
ple peo
forebears an d who still speak
bon, Portugal,
has
in-I upwards
practical possibility, that Jews, too, meantime, Jews all over the world,
age of Cervantes.
The Jewish
cam-
goose
. and
for'
must
live
in
Poland
and
that
no
coun-
in
taking
stock
of
their
position
Li
s
of
their future fate, should bear intheir
•
er in which ag.
augurated a movement to
hearts the words spoken by God to
n
usa ds try can proiip
ho
Judaism
the children
of the t and has is continually fomented between the Joshua, on the eve of the passing of
of Marannos
or crypto-Jews
elements of the population.
•
result of this realization, s so rot t he Is lites into the Land of Prom-
appealed to foreign Jewish communi-
As a odds vivendi has been agreed tee
ties for help in this direction.
"Be strong and of good courage;
Coming now to the countries of Cen- upon by the government, on the one
be not affrighted, neither be thou dis-
tral Europe the picture becomes dark- hand, and the Jewish representatives mayed; for the Lord thy God is with
er, for in Germany, Austria, Hungary in the Sejm or Parliament, on the
thee whithersoever thou goest."
and Roumania there were many riots. other. This "treaty," which has been
(Copyrighted, Seven Arts Feature
The saddest feature of the picture is greeted almost everywhere in Jewish
S yndicate.)
circles
with
skepticism
and
suspicion,
that the younger generation, especial-
ex
aPPean
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5686 1925
ROSH
HASHONAH
GREETINGS

A MESSAGE TO DETROIT JEWRY

On the occasion of the New Year we take this op-
portunity of expressing our good will. During the re-
cent opening of our new store thousands of old and new
friends and customers showed us by their well wishes.
congratulations and patronage that they appreciate a
store of the Scholnick standard. In return, we sin-
cerely thank you, good friends, and promise during the
coming year to always merit your good will and pat-
ronage. We will build up for you a store where service
and quality in merchandise assures you of the best
first, and where men and boys, fastidious to the utmost,
will always find the clothes they are desirous of wear-
ing. Again, dear friends, let us thank you and hope
that the New Year may bring to you a full measure of
health, wealth and prosperity. Accept this as a hearty
and warm hand-clasp from
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