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liEDETROVEIVISH 61- RON ICLE

Clean and Sound.

DIGEST

Judah P. Benjamin and the Ku Klux Klan

The movement of land settlement in Russia spon-
By DR. HERMAN FRANK
sored by the J. D. C. is adequately described as clean
sound.
It
contains
few
of
those
elements
which
the
find
Zangwill's New "Credo"
man who is opposed to me were herd-
The modern Ku Klux Klan is rooted
ethically fastidious deplore.
ing swine i n the forests of Scandina-
in the past and consequently should be
matter March 11, 1916, at lb. Podolia et Deiteeek
Israel Zangwill's 'New Judaism;'
lard ea
via." P. Butler, the author of an ex-
It
is
not
a
hot
house
adventure,
born
of
fancy
and
► 11, 1679.
the Act of March
111th..
ofethhiosdtoar n i cda I
as proclaimed by him on the sec. ond
ecg t e in itthsenlight m
haustive biographical study on Penis.
Et full blown, spontan, daayil
IS
matured
by
propaganda.
It
par
Building
osh
Ilashonah
in
the
London
jzd
min, which is by the way the only one
of
R
,
p
General Offices and Publication
of its kind written about an American
KIrzin
P
eons
movement
sprung
from
the
deepest
and
most
sub-
Woodward
Avenue
525
prefaced this anecdote with the
Cablo Address, Chronicle
I 'xmPrents' inhatsheca luvsi ld.ddiSchonsid"- of the Reconstruction days. It is ob- Jew,
Tolephose: Cadillac 1040
stantial
feelings of Russian Jewry. No people appre- able y com
following commentary: "Since it is
:
Lando. whew
All of this comment is unfay.oraPblre"tso. phernalia
were
by the
vious that
we suggested
must go the
Klan of
told about both Disraeli and Benjamin,
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, Emden.'
t e th e value of basic labor more than those who have
the noted writer and former leader of
1865-1871, with its hideous masks, its
I doubt its authenticity as regards
$3.00 Per Year
either of these great Jews; but sin c e
ever been "Luftmenschen" and in this particauar in- the Ty is Trit.orialist organization.
Subscription, in Advance
skeleton hands and its false heads, for
it is a fine bit of the retort that ful-
n s
ecedents of 100 per cent Ameri-
To Yawns rahliutlon. all eorrespandese• and now. natter oust reach this
Says B Shelvin in the Morning
stance the "Luftmensch" experienced all the dreaded
minates and blasts, I give it."
of each week.
oat. by Tuesday
organized by
{
Journal of Oct. 1: "Zangwill is one Of the ant . Ti tle new
n ted Klan,
As has been satisfactorily proven.
miseries which speculation and parasitism promised. those thinkers, who are too impatient William
S immons, include d
no Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitee enrrespondenr• on subjects of hitereet
Benjamin, although a vehement adve.
le flee Jewlek people, but dnelahne responsibility for as lade...meet ot the
The anti-Semite would have the world believe that the to wait until th eir to oug ht , o r doubt , four mbe araseoPf the 11 /
cate and warm defender of
•Iews exert/nod by the 'writer..
-
9e1r5
a
oa
f
1P
adventure the Klan charter
cof Shylock that will crystallize in their mind, but will may be looked upon as a sort of legal rights, was not regarded as anat ea xt'
Tishri 21, 5686 Jew is different and even the insistence
hasten at once into public, though
tremist or classed as a "fire-eater.' :
October 9, 1925
nation of the
the Jew has hands, ears, dimensions and senses has not their thought will touch a deeply root- old Klan traditions.
Ile especially deplored the personal
ed faith, where one must be cautious
curious
irony,
the
revived
Klan
estrangement
that became more and
The President Speaks Out.
d
persua ed many a hard bitten hater. This demand for in uttering such thought and make
By a
en
as the
more intense among Senators
President Calvin Coolidge In his speech before the land and eagerness to work it will do more to prove the sure it would not provoke unnecessary professes the crude faith of fanatical political conflict progressed until it
hatred towards the Jews, whereas the
reached the fatal climax. Ile sough!
resentment."
American Legion at Omaha, Neb., denounced those who humanness of the Jew than all his articulate protests.
I.
original Klan, so far from being anti-
to ameliorate this condition by givine
The writer characterizes Zangwill
would prosper on racial hatreds, religious animosities
Semitic, had many of its staunch sup-
and other entertainments to
It may be asked why all the shouting about the as a straying and erring min I and porters among the Jews. In a recent- dinners
which
he
invited
partisans
of
all
and national enmities in such an explicit and forthright
one of the trio of paradox and sense-
Jews settling on the land. The Jew is entitled to land tion-hunting writers in England of ly published book, "An Authentic His- shades and threw them in one anoth-
manner that no longer can these fomentors of internal
our days, the other two being George tory of the Ku Klux Klan," by S. L.
en's company. It did not take him
just
as
is
any
other
Russian,
but
the
Russian
was
in
the
Davis, the part which Judah Philipp long to find out that the Know Noth
dissension find comfort in the silence of the chief
Bernard Shaw and Gilbert K. Ches-
main a land worker already on the land, which meant terton.
Benjamin played in the organization
ing, or American party, being founded
Zangwill's field, however, was
executive.
no turmoil, dislocations or re-adjustments. But the wider than that of those two writers, of the hooded order is clearly and im- upon principles both pernicious and
The President realizes that it is time to put a stop
delineated. In the. inceptive
unsubstantial, could not eke out its ex-
case of the Jew was just the opposite. A city dweller, for it includes the vast world of Jew- partially
phase of its existence, the Klan w as
istence beyond a few years; no he took
to the forces which were conceived as necessary in time
interests. Zangwill's entire ca-
trader and speculator, denied access to the land for ish
given badly needed assistance by Ben-
the only logical course that ' remained
reer appears to Mr. Shelvin as one of
one
thing
to
loose
all
the
it
is
of war. We know that
centuries, presents a situation which means new orien- a satirist. lie began with satirizing jamin, we are informed on reliable au- whih brought him to the Democratic
sinister forces and yet another to stay them when the
thority.
told.
the
English
Jews,
but
his
field
gradu•
tations, abandonment of all hopes and ambitions and
in order to understand properly the
d Fiat atoaokttit n a
emergercy which released them is past.
Now, in the light of the historical
fire expanding,
jewi a waa until
requiring
effort
at
complete
re-accomodation.
ane g
i p of Benjamin to the secret
eth
Ze
matt
atio
ash
developments of one hundred per cent
A year ago President Coolidge did not think it
order, it is necessary to outline the
will avoided discussing Judaism. This
Americanism, front the rude Know
Another
pleasing
aspect
is
the
absence
of
that
dis-
,
necessary to condemn the organization which was caus-
was during the period when he was life story of this great American-Jew-
Nothing movement to the revived Ku
ing all the mischief. Perhaps he thought that those im- tressing phenomena of speculation in land values, a connected with a move ent and did m ish statesman who was so active in the Klux Klan of 1915, it is appropriate
politics
of
this
country
at
a
very
want to antagonize anyone. Now,
to realize to what extent the idea of
plicit fundamentals of our constitution would even- concomitant of all land settlement movements in the not
however, that his I. T. 0. is dead and stormy period of her history. American democracy has been traves-
tually destroy the sectional groupings. If such was his Western World. Even Palestine has not been spared he is no longer officially connected with
tied by the belief in the "predestined"
Judah P. Benjamin was born in
opinion he was wrong, for although there has been a the disgrace of frenzied land speculation despite all Zionism, there arose in him his old 1812 on one of the British West India superiority of the Protestant majority.
habit of saying perverse things on Ju-
By an irony of fate, Judah P. Benia.
isles while his parents. as emigrants
honest
attempts
to
prevent
it.
It
is
hardly
conceivable
marked lessening of hooliganism, there has been a de-
daism also, in order to satisfy his
min, the champion of state rights and
from England, were on their way to
cided increase in separatism based upon the very things that such a condition can arise in Russia for possession thirst for originality.
the South, where all the pure Ameri-
America. Upon graduation from Yale
rests
upon
use,
the
most
ancient
and
satisfactory
meth-
can movements sprung up, more than
College in 1528, he came to New Or-
Mr. Shelvin resents this latest
he now deprecates.
once condemned in words of rare di-
leans to begin his extraordinary ca-
blunder
of
Zangwill
who
"ought
to
od
of
land
tenure.
The
most
militant
antagonist
of
Ile leaves no room for speculation as to what he has
rectness and foresight the degradation
seer as a notary's clerk. A few years
know that the Jewish people cannot
private
ownership
in
land
cannot
complain
against
the
of democracy into a charter of free-
later
he
was
admitted
to
the
bar
and
said:
forgive
those
who
will
attempt
to
in mind, for he
Soviet scheme for there is no advantage to be gained slight its dignity, as well as those who soon obtained a merited re utation as dom for a privileged majority.
derived
a
P
would
make
of
its
religion
an
object
a
lawyer
from
which
he
The fact that Benjamin financed
Whether one traces his Americanism back three cen-
by holding land out of use and no unearned increment
hae a p p e i r -
1
the Klan in 1807 cannot but speak for
for their irresponsible witticisms"
turies to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is
can accrue from increase of population.
member
1g
on cthnc71:Crlirjceitl Inge
his good intentions and breadth of
leadrge
not half no important as to whether his Americanism of
In another issue of the same news-
the Constitutional Convention of
mind. This occurrence, in itself of no
today is real and genuine. No matter by what various
Even those sensitive souls who are averse to all paper an editorial is devoted to Zang- of
Louisiana. Ile took a leading pa t '
great importance, is of grave signifi-
crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
new confession of faith. "A bad
philanthropy can find little to which they may object. will's
g
r
ations
of
the
convention,
be-
cance
for the correct understanding of
If we are to have that harmony and tranquility, that
dream," the writer calls the opinion the deliberations
ing especially earnest in urging that
It would be much more satisfactory if the present finan-
the character of the modern Ku Klux
t the "dreamer of the Ghetto" that
union of spirit which is the foundation of real national
to
na-
be
rstrict:I.
ai
a
ps
sh
.rn
aotris
bo
av
rc
a
Klan
in
contradistinction with its pre-
ti
h
aea
g
genius and national progress, we must all realize that there
cial condition of Russia made it possible for the land tbliye wj eTztripte, toseh oausl da bleegaidtiomptaetd, t
decessor of 60 years ago. In elabora-
are true Americans who did not haen to be born in our
the
-
n
ee
s
sre
settlers
to
proceed
with
their
work
without
calling
up-
a
u
e
.
Iwth
Po
ru
eg7i
—
d
aen
tainly
disintereste
ting this assumption let us examine
ate end our place of re-
section of the country, who do not
t
part of i s Bible.
recollect his own antecedents. Ten
some of the data touching the origin
ligious worship, who are not of our racial stock, or who are
on any outsiders for assistance. We believe that the
"The straying and restless spirit,"
he was elected to the
of the modern Klan as recorded by Dr.
not proficient in our language.
whole scheme could be consummated without outside the writer says, "who could never years d later
States Senate.
J. M. Mocha in his excellent book,
along in the dark; the dream-
"The Ku Klux Klan A Study of the
We do not believe that this much merited rebuke help, but it would be a much slower and more labor- wander
Upon his great success in the prac-
er, who always made sure that devery
lice
of
law,
he
made
a
fortune
out
of
American Mind." .
affect the self-seeking breeders of hate and Isola- ions process. The money which America is called upon
new dream of his s should be broa cast-
will
parts of sugar planting in South Carolina. Ile
Simmons, the founder of the mod-
p
i
cabled
to
all
ed by radio an
Lion, but the vast majority who are victims of clever to contribute is a loan to the Jews of Russia. Every-
lost $60,000 by indorsing a note "ersn Klan, has proved himself a capable
the globe; the man who sought God once
one
knows
the
difference
between
a
loan
which
is
an
friend.
The
plantation
was
til
a
bid"
—
he
for
elln
er bt u an im
,
propaganda will now realize that they were duped.
and pu blicity simultaneously
ability.
for- ruined by a flood, but through ups and
dreamer
Peamer with little organizing ability.
r lend themselves to the strengthen- outright gift and one which is a loan. But in the case lives in constant fear lest he be onge
They will no l
downs
and
odd
turns
and
freaks
of
His
society
was
in
financial
straits;
And in order to continue be-
ing of Klan prestige, Nordic superiority clap trap and of the Jew of Russia, we have a people independent, gotten. eresting
both for himself and fortune Benjamin was neverbdiscour- at most it numbered four or five thou-
in t
pporting and generous who, due to circumstances mg
a
never depressed.
Bybecoming
sap d mein b ers ' an d was app rently
self-su
an d to continually draw aged, ave
for
others,
an
isolationist chauvinism.
•
o wner , he cast his lot with the doomed to go the way of countless
ond
their
control
need
assistance.
All
their
assets
g
eneral
attention
toward himself , h e a s l
i
be ,
These disseminators of 100 per cent Amercanism
anti-Abolitionary
South,
and
as
other organizations of similar nature.
keep on Wandering.
lawyer he earnestly and zealously
used the silence of the President to further their own can be made liquid. These assets consist of the largest must
At this juncture, E. Y. Clarke and
"After his political dreams had led
as Elizabeth Tyler came to the aid
for his client when making a
ends. They persuaded many a sound, wholesome supply of raw material and human potentialities in the to. nothing, and his leadership had lost fought
l . i m r
of
e
s
e
a
ntioarmtihne
made
of
Wizard Simmons and his struggling
brief
Be
a n a
sattarpaaca en e s s, he Here t s a n
American that President Coolidge had endorsed their world today. A concern with so much ability and unex- i t ttait
power y
and rescued it from oblivion.
not
t i vreligion.
ploited
resources
should
receive
a
large
line
of
credit
They
ears in
stand, for he did not specifically repudiate their doc-
repeating, but again a seeker of new sion upon the senators by his unexcel- society had been associated for years
from
business
men
with
a
social
version
and
world
out-
led
oratory,
lucidity
of
intellect
and
the
Southern
Publicity Association
one
may
come
out
trines. Henceforth they shall seek other sources of
.hereen
tweirgaoariees,a e s sw
o:-
.
p
r
a
and
had
been
successful
in
drives
for
NV
henth
e
C
xtta
faoarlabor.
capacity
f a
came
strength, for after the Omaha speech the ground is look.
existence,
a sueh
raa
, organizations
ogragaaniz ationfas
funds
Jewish
D aily
lon.I
.
o
f
sthe
s
L.
Bril
I.
inted
him
Cu
This present undertaking promises to make the
the
o
Anti-Saloon
taken from under them.
u calls Zangwill's "New J daism" dent Jefferson Davis app
News
st
Fund and , the Near Eaet
the pcestiloftt!i ttoT general. During
In the forthcoming election in Detroit the people Jews of the country and not merely in it. The excel-
child." Ile writes: "Israel
Relief. They listened to the schemes
B e n jamin
C
iv il
For
almost
dent
of the city will have an opportunity to show whether lent position of Russian Jews, of before the war when ;"stilltarn
man , serving
Pr i - of Simmons and thought they saw fl-
e
a right-hand
I
anyeari si : s has
nancial
possibilities in the Klan. A
successively as Secretary of War and
the words of the President made any impression. They they were found in all the basic occupations in fair pro- 40
in Jewish life. He
defeat cont act was drawn up by which
r has played many
Secretary
ofe
tS
;ctrcttaa r& of
will prove whether they want harmony and tranquility portions will now return.
pillarytsw;ritge:tcheliiuTrayselaists,thlessamyniasnt, and
State. it left America
dalapraktetatbraat ma.e.ihttet ad of ttheta
C
Confederacy
char g e
u rasa a e a x s-
ewry will always have its quota in the learned pro- deavoring to solve the Jewish pros• for
av ianag, a shay. l years
a
gal carved Flaying,
or disharmony and disorder.
J t 0En:
'F r,
success
organization 'as Aided I, e Mr s. Tyle
ration,
The Klan must be overwhelmingly repudiated be- fessions but it must have a proper proportion in Indus- lem,
been
a
dismal
failure.
lain he has
y
an organizer s a. an d
s
his portion, now in his fifty-fifth year,
who e gifts
fore we can claim that we are sincere in our attempt try and agriculture. The land settlement movement
"Zangwill wanted Jews to forget
only to
oo-
he was constrained to begin his labor
motel. he asserted were second nonlprt
Eretz Yisroel, the land of their fath-
a
anew,
for the sFa Federal uthorities
property had his own, they proceeded to "sell"
promises to bring about this desirable condition.
to re-establish peace and understanding.
ens and they refused to follow him.
y p ear
Klan to the American public.
roosssioynconfiscated
sepu „ on n1.. t l his
ppm
If there is any fear as to the cultural, spiritual and They awa i al If aasnelwittljeerhu es eadmhim a s the
suffered
Iyni
The only
has not been realized as yet how
by him at the hands of the Northern-
religious health as a result of land settlement, we can
mtltath the purely commercial motive
The Installation of Rabbi Fram.
Benjamin spoke with
"We
are
sorry,”
the
writer
con-
ems
of
which
1 the successful promo-
had
to
d do with
. the Klan. We must go to the
Among the congregations of the land, none has a only say that Russia discriminates in favor of no re- eludes, "extremely sorry for Israel anything like bitterness was that they .•on
ligion. It is a fairer field than many which are con- Zangwill, once the acclaimed leader had drank his Madeira and burnt hi s ti most of modern type of efficient sales-
prouder record of achievement that has Temple Beth
not only of English Jewry, but of
law library.
made)
a the system
El of this city. During the 75 years of its existence it sidered fair.
world Jewry as well. Disappointed,
t
when
Jru L
Within a few years he rose to the
built hu ipP i nf o June,
The
venture
opens
many
deligtful
prospects.
It
is
aged, he is now groping in the dark.
p osition of England's foremost bar- ment between Simmons
the two
'
has nobly served the cause of Israel and of humanity.
His sons will certainly not be Iewe
rester and once more became very "salesmen of hate" was signed up.
In many directions, it has been a pathfinder. Certainly clean and sound.
and thus the name Zangwill will not
The entire country was divided into
wealthy. It was the third fortune
no congregation in the land has done more than Temple
be more than a memory among the
wrought from the brains of a man who eight "domains," or geographical sec-
Jewish people."
tions. A hierarchy of Kleagles, or
started as a penniless clerk and climb-
Beth El in the matter of the democratization of the
When
Is
Speech
Free'?
All of Zangwill's assertions are
business agents, on lines of a consist-
ed to the conspicuous leadership at the
synagogue. It was the very first great congregation
liar of both of
' the English speaking ant subdivision of the counties anddis-
grossly illogical, one writer maintains.
The address of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg Why not say simply that the Jews countries.
to introduce the system of unassigned pews by which
trios was created. The membership
In 1867 Benjamin learned from fee was $10.00, which were divided as
in the house of God the poor man and the rich man before the Interparliamentary Union failed to carry must embrace Christianity and there-
follows: four of the $10.00 went to
by effect a solution of the Jewish prop
A
Richard
H.
Wilmer,
a
spokes-
According
to
stit-
11
fh
II
s,
„ad,
all
UpU
ay sios,
this, o.
upon a F lan e of equality.
UtIN3 upon
angwill ayes not say
the nieagie, or local solicitor, when he
Ion? -
If Z
Langwiii
were put
man of the veterans of the Confeder-
tistics,
almost 100 congregations scattered in every part conviction because the very
signed up a new member; one dollar
is implied in what he does say. All
acy who was visiting London, that a
of the land have followed its leading in this regard. beautiful sentiments of tolerance, freedom and equal- his reasoning is, therefore, to no pur- club had been created in the states of went into the pocket of the King
The Jewish people cannot take
Kleagle, or state salesman; the Grand
pose.
Tennessee
and
Alabama
under
the
Within less than a quarter of a century, Temple Beth ity was absent. How can we hope to achieve these hap- all this in a different light. And the
Goblin, or district salesman, had to be
queer name of Ku Klux Klan, (a dis-
El has builded two great houses of worship, the one py conditions when free speech is not recognized.
Jewish people will sooner or later have
content with 50 cents, while the re-
tortion of the Greek word kyklox,
to close its account with Israel 'Lang-
maining $4.50 went to the headquar-
for
the
work
meaning
a
circle,)
in
order
to
protect
equipped
The
secretary
may
make
out
a
good
legal
case
for
being for
it now
ters of the organization in Atlanta,
will.
the South in the aftermath of the
as
fully
c ongregation
Ga.
of nysynagogue
an aggressive building
and asward
in
the looking
country.
During the exclusion. but even upon that question many able law-
One skeptical and degenerated tone,
Civil War. Benjamin's interest in the
would
differ
with
him.
Though
Saklatvala
could
the writer goes on, abounds in all sorts
It will hardly be denied that the
organization was so aroused that he
a rec synagogue
of
"truth
seekers"
and
Zangwill
is
liberal commission of 40 per cent was
borrowed
money
and
gave
it
to
Bishop
high holy
worshipped
within
eta
walls upwards
of days,
4,000 there
people
at one time.
This is
a be excluded as an alien if he would become a resident one of them. No one will doubt his Wilmer that the Klan might buy an effective inducement to many a
yet the rule is not the same for visitors, especially in literary genius, or the fact that in the horses and other necessary equipment. chap of talkative disposition and gift-
of seeking the truth he has
ed with "nerve"—just the qualities re-
lie likewise sent money to Mrs. Jef-
which
any congregation
But of the
greatest
forward step may
that well
has be
yet proud.
been the case of an accredited representative of an organi- process
roc ord
brought out sonic great thoughts, and
ferson Davis to relieve the needy
quired of any good salesman, no mat-
taken by this congregation has to do with s program zation which had been invited to our country. If Saklat- that some of his work is immortal. among his friends in America and to ter what article he is supposed to
h is already vala had made a tour of the country after the adjourn- The trouble with him, as with many give help to the Ku Klux Klan.
push. Within a little over a year, that
"truth seekers" is that seeking
is in the period between June, 1920,
Ben'amin never made a political ad-
of
plan
whic it
educat
ell ion.
under Under
way, the the
religious
education—under
the meet of the Interparliamentary Union and had deliv- other
wreligious
alone will h ad nowhere, that there
when Clarke took over the business
or a public declaration after
begin with a child creel subversive speeches there would have been rea- must he something in which one should dress
management, and October, 1921, when
leaving America. thus displaying his
believe, and which should enable him
the Klan was investigated by Congress
fine tact and skill in diplomacy. In
of kindergarten
of this cage
age grand
and continue with the man and son under our immigration law to deport him. To ex-
auspices
to extricate himself of the tangle of
the organization had grown from a
1872 he received a "patent of prece-
woman of university grades. This program has been elude him because of membership in a recognized legal
innumerable bypaths of thoughts and
dence" giving him rank above all other
few thousand to something like 100,-
madepossible in large part by the engagement as Di- political party of Great Britain, no matter how odious emotiens. The eternal seekers are of- Queen's Counsel. His writings, in- 000 members. The purely commercial
brilliant, but still more often they
element combined with the troubled
cluding "Benjamin on Sales, A Treat-
rector poss
of Religious Education of Rabbi Leon Fram, that party may be to us, or because of some alleged ten
land in a chars from which they are
post-war conditions accounted measur-
ise on the Law of Sale of Personal
igi stallation is scheduled to take place on speeches made there, is not at all consistent with the unable to emerge.
ably for the success with which the
Pronerty," became legal classics on
tradition
and
practice
of
free
speech.
He
is
convicted
n
Klan was capitalized and "sold."
bath sides of the Atlantic. Forced by
whose formal
The author of the "Dreamers of the
sickness
to
retire
from
the
bar,
in
Acomparison between the financing
Ghetto"
has
exhibited
a
strong
lean-
9.
The
acceptance
of
this
posion
by
Rabbi
Fram
without
a
hearing.
We
are
not
at
war.
Such
precau-
ay evenin,Oct.
Friday
1883. he left London for Paris, where
method of the modern Ku Klux Klan
ngregation which with tions are not necessary. No emergency exists in our in- ing toward herces, such as Ariel his
family had resided for many
with that of its predecessor of the late
Acosta
and
Spinoza,
who
ended
by
ex-
much, not merely to the co
years. He died on May 6, 1884, leav-
CO's of the past century is illuminat-
themselves from Jewry. Is the
means
Dr. Franklin he will serve, but as well to the entire corn- dustrial or political life which required such drastic pelling
ing an ample fortune for his wife and
ing. There is a carefully devised sys-
"dreamer of the dreamers" abut to
daughter.
tem of modern salesmanship, on the
munity. Rabbi Fram come to Detroit from Chicago action.
William E. Borah, to follow their example? Zangwill's ar- only
When considering Judah P. Benja-
one hand, as against a method of es-
ticle in the London Daily Express. con-
where, for a number of years, he served as the spiritual One American, Senator Wa address
the cludes the writer, "seems to indicate min as an orator and statesman, one sentially voluntary contributions from
a
head of Temple Judea, a congregation which he built whom freedom
does
matter,
refused
to
cannot
forget
the
other
great
member
sympathizers, on the other. It is not
mber
from
that
such
precisely
is
the
case,
and
the reason that
of Israel who at the same time held
by mere chance that chief among the
this we can but deeply regret."
up from very small beginnings to a great and influential union for a the Parsee me
sway
as
premier,
orator
and
novelist
contributors
was a London Jew, Ju-
community synagogue. But Rabbi Fram's particular Britain was excluded. These Karolyi, freedom
Saglatvala
The Day is of the opinion that,
of speech while
in England. Ben , amin Disraeli. Roth
dah P. Benjamin, to whom no profits
7angsvill's assertions imply as-
has made him an authority on the subject of dents make one curious as to what is
e rather similiation pure and -simple, it is no- of them, so very far from disguising whatsoever could accrue through the
training has
Jewish descent, were rather
operations of the Klan in the United
religious education. His preparation has been received in America. The whole matter has become have a where clearly and decisively indicated their
proud of their race. The following
States. In this respect, Benjamin
by Zangwill in his "new credo." Zang-
at Teachers' College of Columbia University and at the muddled since the war. We think minorities
even a minority o
anecdote
shows
Benjamin's
attitude
showed himself a genuine Jew, worthy
will has said nothing new. lie ac-
University of Chicago. Moreover, he brings to his task right to express their opinions
an
Until the practicef tually followed in the footsteps of so toward his anti-Semitic opponents who of the best Jewish traditions which
Until
that sigh
apparently
prided
themselves
upon
be-
call for devotion to principles of good
literary "batIonim," who within
besides
adequate
preparation
consecration
spirit conforms
one must to
be the utterance we must confess an inability many
ing Nordics as long as 75 years ago.
will and loyalty that survive the strife
and a desire
to serve
the whole a community
that of makes
the last several decades were expres-
When
contemptuously
referred
to
in
and stress of partisan conflicts. It is
sing the opinion that one may remain
a certain the prediction that his influence as a force in to accept all the talk on liberty, tolerance, rights of
the Senate as "that Jew from Louisi-
this quality of the Jews that explains
a
Jew
even
when
he
has
abandoned
minorities upon which many responsible statesmen dis-
ana,"
he
retorted
extempore:
"It
is
why they have played Such a conspicu-
the Jewish faith and embraced Chris-
the spiritual life of Detroit Jewry will be keenly felt..
true that I am a Jew and when my
ous part In world affairs. And it is
so eloquently.
tianity. For incessant and fruitless
ancestors
were
receiving
the
Ten
in fact in things that matter most, in
Dr. Franklin and Congregation Beth El are to be course
If we are to re-establish free speech without reset• disputes this may be • good theme. but Commandments from the immediate the
impersonal spheres of science,
the
problems
of
Judaism
and
of
the
upon the choice that they have made.
hand of Deity, amidst the thunder-
philosophy and art, that, exactly for
Particularly is the great School of Religion over which vations, which make it rather farcical, the best place to
Jewish people cannot be approached
te department—in our treatment of in the same way as a bare, abstract ings and lightnings of Mt. Sinai, the the same reasons. the Jew has won his
ancestors of the distinguished gentle-
he will preside fortunate in having so able an ad Finis- begin is in our stas.
great, imperishable triumphs.
idea can be handled.
differing foreigner
F.
trator at its head.

ril.L.4 Wesley M rs. Jereleh Chronicle
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager

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