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Editor Jewish Chronicle,

(Continued from pave one.)
Detroit, Mich.
genuine. No matter by what various Dear Sir:-1 note that in your is-
crafts we came here, we are all now sue of Sept. 18 there
appears an ar-
.
'The M
tide under the
in the same boat.
By
Chas.
H.
los.11.)
"Among
citizens
honestly
devoted
ing
of
Jewish
Science,"
by Rabbi
ishL
1921.
(Crogy ►
to the maintenance of that standard, Clifton Ilarby Levy. This article was
II we get one. But it is so rare as to invite comment. They
cc 'ona
ite a number of Jews change their names: hide behm a en I e there need be small concern about prefaced by an editor's note, in which
te o, w qu
trent,
•so to speak. But now comes an Irishman, Harry Healey, and changes difference of individual opinion in you refer to Rabbi Levy as the "span-
to Schwartz because he will marry a Jewish girl next March, not, other regards. Granting first the es- sor of the Jewish Science movement,"
hi s name
Day. ton our s of loyalty to c.
it is to he hoped, for the sake of peace and goodwill, 00 St. Patrick's
our country we
and et I was pained to note that, neither
(according to Mr. to our fundamental ihstitutions,
licaley has embraced Judaism and now that he is a Jew
Zangwill's definition), he wants to continue through life without the em- may not only overlook, but we may in the article proper nor in the pre-
Healey is a Jew. But Mr. e n co urage differences of 'opinion as face, was mention made of the foun-
barrassment of explaining why a man named
der and present leader of the Jewish
Healey need not have worried much about that. I know many Jews who to other things.
Science movement. I well believe
Differences Are Strength.
s such names as Kelly, Fitzpatrick, Connelly, O'Conner. At any rate,
la ,
"For differences of this kind will that you yourself could have had no
intention of misinforming your read-
maze to, . , Sc h arts ,
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certainly be elements of strength ers, but that your source of informa-
I recall an article that F. Scott Fitzgerald,,the author, wrote on "How rather than of weakness. They will tion may have been unreliable. I
It seemed a joke, but it's no joke for some give variety to our tastes and inter-
to Live on $36,000 a Year.
would, therefore, ask you, in the in-
folk to try to live on that amount. Now we find that Lord Reading, the eats. They will broaden our vision,
ses, aa strengthen our understanding, en- terest of the truth, of which your pa-
•
year and expen scale
o receivess $20 0,00unea
fort 0
of India, whon
per is an advocate, to publish this
hof
resent Viceroy draw heavily
to maintain the
been
to in that position. Riding on elephants is expensive. When courage the true humanities and en- letter with its corrected data on the
hying obliged
required
rich our whole mode and conception
Jewish Science movement.
he retires, which will be soon, he is going into business in London. By
of life.
Jewish Science as a movement was
reason of his having been Lord Chief Justice of Englnad, he is debarred
"I recognize the full and complete
by custom from resuming the private practice of law. It is said that 15 necessity of _100 per cent American- launched four years ago by Rabbi
ars ago he earned 3350,000 a year as a lawyer. But he will likely have ism, but 100 per cent Americanism Morris Lichtenstein of New York, to
ye
no trouble finding a berth in the business world suitable for his extraordi• may be made up of many various ele- revive the religious consciousness of
the Jew and to offer hint health and
nary business as well as legal and administrative talents.
meats.
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"If we are to have the harmony and happiness through his own faith. In
A reader whom I imagine is well worth knowing sends me a letter from tranquility, that union of spirit which the four years since its founding,
Chicago, signing it "A Plain M. D." enclosing a clipping of one of Dr. W. is the foundation of real national Rabbi Lichtenstein has succeeded in
A. Evans' copyrighted articles, appearing in the Chicago Tribune. He genius and national progress, we must establishing a strong organization,
tkinks it will be glad news for the Imperial Wizard as well as for the Ern- all realize that there are true Ameri- with thousands of followers in New
peror of the Fordage to know according to tests made by Dr. Terman of cells who did not happen to be born York City and other parts of the
in our section of the country, who do country. Ile has brought back to the
-
2,000 selected California school children that:
' not attend our place of religious wor- Jewish fold hundreds of Jewish fami-
*
" sOip who are not of our racial stock, lies who had previously become affiili-
Jewish
children
lead
all
others,
.
,
' In the nationality grou pings the
having an excess of 100 per cent over the average rating of ,other ,./ or who are not proficient in our lati- sited with Christian Science. lie has
issued a monthly periodical, "The
a Indians and• Latins made poor averages.
• • •
.
.
UR e
nations
'"If we are to create on this con- Jewish Science Interpreter, which is
Racial admixturess such as Chinese-American and Japanese-Amen• '
now
in
its
third
year
and
has
thou-
tinent a free republic and an enlight-
can, showed up very well."
coed civilization that will be capable sands of readers; and finally, he has
'
s
Alas! Poor Nordic!
' .
of reflecting the true greatness and, just published the textbook of Jewish
an told me that we would
w
never see'the last glory of mankind. it will be necessary' Science, "Jewish Science and Health,"
A great many years ago a m
world until we had the greatest of all wars—a battle between to regard these differences as acci- which, according to some of the fore-
of wars in this -
the white and cored
races. He never tiredof telling nse of this, to hint dental and unessential. We shall have most Jewish thinkers of today, is •
lo
between the races which flaild (Tease virtually, every to look beyond the outward manifes- work of the utmost importance,
inevitable &Mild
people on the face of the earth. I never took him seriously, But. of late tations of race and creed. Divine iating, as it does, a new phi.
hy and paving a new road to re.
I am ever thinking of it. And when I read thatthe annuhl British Church Providence has not bestowed upon enunciating,
character,
Some
any rice
a monopoly ligion.
of patriotism
losop of the most prominent
Conference, held last week at Eastbourns, the:question of. the peril and and
Jews of America, rabbis as well as
Possibility of a race war between the whites on one side and the black,
on the other was seriously raised, then it is time
"We can make little contribution laymen, have expressed the deepest
brown and yellow TAUS
to
the welfare
of humanity
on
the interest in Rabbi Lichtenstein's work.
theory
that
we
are
a
superior
people
d
consider.
for all of us to pause an

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"most
timely
movement
of it the
I am Barry, but I cannot reconcile myself to the popular belief that white and all others are an inferior people.
Nathan
Straus
writes of
as day"
the
Lich-
nations capture colored nations for the benevolent purpose of uplifting We do not need to be too loud in the and, in a personal letter to Dr. Lich-
Iou
are performing "
t h
t 'p
d
them. Great Britain and France and all other countries, even our own, may assertion of our own righteousness.
.
s people."
great service
have an altruistic motive in controlling countries populated by colored races, It is true that we live under most a tenstein,
says: t o " t h e Jewish
Trusting that you will give this
but it will require more evidence than has thus far been produced. Anyone favorable circumstances. But before
I
will
be
in
communication
your
kind
attention,
we come to the final and irrevocable
with poor eyesight can see that the day is coming when England
for a bad time with the natives of India; and how long will either Japan decision that we are better than remain, very cordially yours,
HARRY IIARTMAN,
or China continue to permit the whites to assume an arrogant position of everybody else we need to consider
superiority without some sort of definite protest? So we can go all over what we might do if we had their Secretary Society of Jewish Science.
the world and find an ever growing resentment that is slowly crystallizing provocations and their difficulties.
"We are not likely to improve our
into something more than speech making, against the domination of the
whites. A day of. reckoning is coming. It is well that such organizations own condition or help humanity very
much
until we come to the sympa- groups engaged in fomenting strife.
the British Church Conference should give public utterance to these
"This plea, the dominant note in
as
thoughts which are In the minds of more than care to admit their presence. thetic understanding that human na•
.
tore is about the same everywhere, his speech before the American Le-
gion
heartened those who, like him-
Since that Coolidge speech in Omaha, the 100 per centers can now be that it is rather evenly distributed self, a:e opposed to stirring up dif-
purchased at what their brand of Americanism is actually worth-30 cents! over the surface of the earth and that ferences which make for dissension
A few more addresses like those of Hughes and the President and the night we are united in a common brother- among the American people. These
hood.
shirts will be used for what they were intended for. '
appeared in the Presidential
"Vie can only make America first in issues
campaign last year and were empha-
While the Women's Christian Temperance Union is invoking the Blue the true sense which that means by sized by John W. Davis, his Demo-
cultivating
a
spirit
of
friendship
and
' Nose Laws of Pennsylvania to punish those terrible criminals who sell a
cratic opponent, but President Cool-
package of cigarets on Sunday, Dr. Straton, the Fundamentalist, who would, good will, by the exercise of the vir- idge ignored them, believing that such
if he could, hang the crepe on God's sunshine, is going to debate with Clar- tues of pail ice and forbearance, by questions ought to have no part in a
ence Darrow eh the subject of evolution.' In the meantime while these silly being_ "plea .eous in mercy," and
Tess at home and help- campaign.
folk are bothering themselves with non-essentials, men and women who un- ths'ouA
' President Always Liberal.
fulness a road standing as an exam-
derstand something of religion are trying to do God's work.
pie of real service to humanity.
"President Coolidge, according to
----.".----
I don't know why, but somehow or other I always associated the town "It is for these reasons that it his friends, has always stood for the
of Punxsutawney, Pa., with groundhogs. At least I hove been under the seems clear that the results of the principles enunciated in his Omaha
impression that's where he sees his shadow or he doesn't. But I received war will be lost and we shall only speech. his public record show's that
a letter this week which gives me a different impression of Punxsutawney. be entering a period of preparation he has displayed broad and liberal
It is in form of an article written by Martin Luther Weaver. The presence for another conflict unless we can views upon religious and race ques-
of "Martin Luther" immediately indicated that this gentleman must be a demobilize the racial antagonisms, tions. During the last Presidential
militant; that he is somewhat of a reformer, a protestant against things as fears, hatreds and suspicions and campaign he demonstrated this when
they are, as was another Martin Luther who in 1517 tacked on to the church create an attitude of toleration in the the Ku Klux Klan movement was at
door of Wittenberg the Ninety-five Theses. . public mind of the peoples of the its height and when it might have af-
fected his party's success by accept-
earth.
"If our country is to have any po. ing an invitation to review the Holy
This is really interesting and I am willing to devote some space to the
sition
of
leadership,
I
trust
it
may
Name Society parade in Washington
idea this Martin Luther suggests. He is a protestant against the narrowness
of men and women of differing religious faiths. He believes they should be in that direction, and I believe and making a speech that breathed
that
the
place
where
it
should
begin
the doctrine of religious and racial
come together. So here's what he is doing. He invites the people of Puna-
sutawney to an open air meeting to be held "at the • ," whenx is at home. Let us cast off our hat- freedom.
"Those in charge of the Republi -
cerpta from articles appearing in the New Year number of the Jewish Cri• reds. Let us candidly accept our
tenon of Pittsburgh will be read, in the hope of promoting good fellowship treaties and our natural obligations can campaign awaited the effects of
h 1 that such of peace."
the President's action with concern
among Jews. Catholics and Protestant. Then
and breathed easier when the demon-
rallies should be frequent. Ile is right. If Jews and Protestants and
stration was over. The Presiden t
Catholics, instead of viewing each other with suspicion, would meet occa- JEWISH LEADERS
made this decision avainst the advice
MAKE
COMMENTS
sionally, a whole lot of prejudice and misunderstanding would be eliminated.
his counsellors and
NEW YORK.--(J. T. A.)—The ard-e of 80111 P of
t
e t m v. tlier e WAS no protes
Coolidge
before
strange
A suggestion that readers of this column write me a letter this year is dress of Pre sident
Klan, althoug h
Klu Kl
bearing fruit Of course, it is impossible to reply personally to all the corn- the American Legion convention in made by the Ku Klux
active in th e
was
munications that are received, but I do want those of you who have beer, Omaha, Neb., in which he attacked the organization
kind enough to send an appreciative word of what I am trying to do in the
"o
way of provoking thought and comment on Jewish subjects to know that religious
racial impression
hatred in campaign.
Those wh
America bigotry
made a and
profound
cnoduct of to the
be last
in- I Ige
your interest is gratefully welcome. Writers cannot obtain a reaction from upon leaders of the American Jewish formed of the presume
Presidential
cam paign say that it was
,
their invisible audience unless the audience in some tangible way voices its community.
House
The speech was commented upon by direct orders of the White
opinion. So I am always happy to receive any message from the vast family
of Random Thoughts readers who are scattered from New York to San not only by the press but by promi- that the Klan issue was ignored at
the Cleveland covention, but the plat-
neat leaders of the community.
Francisco,
f President form contained a pl ank which some
O mah a
"
le"
say thathe Present
i d wrote, that
mirab
,
r
Roger
Roger Straus, son of Oscar Straus, is president of the executive cam-
mittee of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. What of it? This Louis
Coolidge
is in evey president
way admirable,"
Marshall,
of the read:
"
'The
Republican
party reaffirms
much of it. So many of our representative Jews—let us say—prominent
• ! American Jewish Committee, de- its undying devotion to the Constitu-
•
el/ .
.
dared in an interview with the rep-
Jews—are identified solely with the philanthropic activities of
resentative
of
the
Jewish
Telegraphic
lion
and
to
the
guarantees
of tied,
that it is encouraging when we can find younger men of the Roger Straus
type pleading for revival of interest in Judaism. At the meeting of the Agency. "It is in line with what he political and religious liberty therein
executive committee in Pittsburgh the other day there were a number of has said on several occasions as, for contained.' In restating in a specific
other well known young Jews from different cities urging Jewish men to instance, in the speech which he de- way these constitutional guarantees
a time when
take a deeper Interest in Judaism. It is unfortunate that so many prowl- ' livered to the Holy Name Society in the President selected
, sanely consid-
sent men in American Jewry have only the tie of philanthropy to link them Washington about a year ago and the the subject could M
ex pres• address which he delivered at the time ered by the American people without
with .Jewish life. Philanthropy, of course, is a worthy medium of
glen, but it is not necessarily a Jewish medium of expression. For philan- the cornerstone of the Jewish Center being connected with a Presidential
, the Jews and I was laid in Washington. It is a great campaign. He has e iven his views
d m is by the Jews of
th ropy is common to all peo p l e. J uais
contribution to the cause of tolera• now, when there is ns campaign on.
for th e Jews.
"While the Klan ns vement, in the
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lion and will undoubtedly have a
of the Presid , nt, is growing
One surely can't expect anti-Semitism to be based on reason. So this beneficial influence uppn the minds opinion
weaker, yet he felt cored upon to lay i
statement of Baron von Schonbach, former Prussian Minister of War, simply of the American people."
Dr. tSephen S. Wise, president of before the people his ideas with the
-5 confirms the statement:
the American Jewish Congress, made hope that he might bs able to lessen
the following statement to the rep- the religious and Tai al strife. Ile
Our nationalists of the Ilakenkreuz emblem have blindly accepted
, resentative of the Jewish Telegraphic has now defined in a strong way the
the following two theses as dogmatic truth: First, that the Jews are
. administration's attitude toward the
A g ency:
leagued together in a capitalist international circling the entire globe;
"In common with all Americans Klan. Republican leaders say that
and secondly, that Soviet Russia is Jew-ridden. It is plain that they
who cherish the principles of freedom the Klan issue is sure to rise in the
have never tried straight thinking, else they would have found out
and tolerance. I welcome the utter- campaign next year and that Presi-
the obvious contradiction of their two theses. There is no power on
ante of the President on behalf of dent Coolidge, as the leader of the
earth so resolutely hostile to international capital as Soviet Russia.
a new and larger tolerance in Amed- Republican party, ha , formulated a
But if this alleged Judaized power is combating international capital,
can itfe. This utterance will mean policy that cannot be ignored by Re-
which runs counter to
JeWS,
likewise Judaized, then Jews are fighting
little, if anything, unless it be trans- publican candidates for Congress."
the doctrine of the Ilakenkreuzler that the Jews have formed the
Some editorial comments in news-
sated into the mood and attested by
International.
,,,,, , i.p . a .. p:7 in the cities thro l ugh which the
ent traveled declaredd it one of
Ridiculous, isn't it? Yet that is the sort of popycock that is being fed , the 'I acts
of of
the
know
no governnift
mord , ' ,s need in , , „ '
, osageous and statesman-
•
, `"
to presumably intelligent persons in America and in every country e. Eu- . „ -.. , ,,,life a'SOfi* tne cultivation o f the me
as
1 the spirit of understanding which, as I, like utterances 'he President h es.
rope, and unfortunately believed in all to o many.
a result of the war and post-war hysel made upon outstanditg social issu
to find in it a
teria, has all but passed out of Amer-I Others are inclined
Iliti I advsntage in the
o'clock, a group of girls will leave can life. Nordicism is the latest of move for po ca
SOVIETS TO SURIAY
the club house for a hike out in the the phenomenon of intolerance and elections next year. gut broadly
these commentand mss-
JEWISH POPULATION country. They invite any one else ! fanaticism. From any American speaking
sages hail it as a message to all the
•
• spin
who wishes to come along. Bring worthy of the name this
American people to return ,sfirs
tolerance and bigotry must be rooted
MOSCOW. — (J. T. A.)—The sum your lunch.
principles and help conserve the co,.
out. May the President's message
of S7,400 roubles for a statistical our-
—
reach the heart of the American peo- stitutional guarantees.
very of the Jewish population in the
:
It is declared that the speech will
Bridge Cl
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Bridge classes are open to begin--pie and guide the conduct of those be welcomed by nearly one-third the
was alloted by the Soviet government. ners for almost any evening in the 1who share our governmental poli- population, who come under the ban
The program of the survey, as out- week. It will be necessary to sign !des."
of the Klan and the intolerance bred
The Republican party's position on
lined by the leaders of the Comzet, the
since the World War. The Klan has
up for those wishing to learn the
the Ku Klux Klan and race hatreds directed its activities chiefly against
governmental department for settling
Jews on the land, will include the game.
forth e 1926 elections , ignored in the
Presidential
compaign,
wassdefined
by
the Catholics and Jews, wi
summing up of the data concerning
President Coolidge in his Omaha members in the Southern states also
the Jewish population collected during Dance:
speech,
according
to
advisers
accom.
arrayed
against the Negroes. There
The first dance of the season was
the census of 1923, the making of a
demographic census in ten Jewish held at Temple Beth El Saturday, Denying him. A dispatch from the are 18,559,787 Catholics and 3,600,-
President's
train
to
the
New
York
000
Jews
the United States. ac-
towns and villages, a census of the Oct. 10. It was very successful and Times states: cording to recent in estimate!.
Those
typical family budgets and of the oc- a large crowd was present. The
"His
plea
for
tolerance
and
the
of
foreign
birth
or descent In the
cupations among the Jews. The cen- dances will be held every Saturday
elimination of racial and religious United States, against which the Klan
sus will be carried out by the Comzet night.
animosities in American life, judged stands, include those from Central
under the supervision of the Central
Europe. There are about 7,230,000
by the messages of congratulation re- classed as of German origin, 3,129.-
Statistical Department.
assses:•
The classes have started at the "Y" reined by the President while return- '796 of Austrian origin and 1,110,005
but there are still vacancies for those ing to Washington on his special of Hungarian origin.
wishing to join. It will be necessary train, has struck • responsive note population in the United States in
to register for them as soon as pos• among the millions affected by the 1920 was more than 10,0000,000.
Hikes
antagonistic attitude of certain
Sunday morning, Oct. 18, at 10 Bible.

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