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a right to enter if she meets with the rules and regula-
tions prescribed.
She is refused admission and at first no reason is
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
RABBI LEON FRAM
given, later vague ones are issued and now we learn
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
that the reasons cannot be given because, as has been
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
stated, "Nor is it in the public interest to disclose the
Steiger.
which once existed between religion
In order to carry out an education-
gostodIce at Detroit,
Almost the entire American Yiddish
facts upon which each decision is based, since the in-
and other arts and sciences may ham,
Entered as fiecond11,1 3 ..m.a4:: ,111, :rAhd 3.,:t 1,4.ler:,hal . tli
al experiment, I once asked several
been accidental. In the case of meth
press
commented
in
editorials
and
friends
what
they
thought
was
themost
formation is often of a most confidential kind and other articles on the acquittal of Stan-
striking
evidence
of
human
progress.
cine,
the relation seems to have bell
General Offices and Publication Building
would not be obtained at all if it were not treated as islaw Steiger, who was tried in Lem- One answered: the radio. • Another; organic.
The separation of the tr.
525 Woodward Avenue
confidential." This has much of the flavor of star berg, Poland, on the charge of having the aeroplane. A third: the telegraph. was unnatural. It is generally admit
Cable Address: Chronicle
bomb at President Wojcie-
thrown
a
ted,
by
the
medical fraternity, that
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
A fourth: the automobile. A fifth:
chamber proceedings and is violative of the Anglo- chowski.
London Office:
mental attitudes exercise a tremendou
preventive medicine.
14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England.
Saxon theory that a person should be informed of the
influence
upon
bodily health; that it •
The Forward takes the acquittal as
I wonder how ninny people would
charges made against him even if the actual person who a sign that there is yet light in the think of naming a preventive medi- confidence and good cheer, and pow, •
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, in Advance
of resistance implied in religious faith
world. The praiseworthy action of the
cine as the most conspicuous manifest-
makes the charges is not disclosed.
are invaluable allies in the battle with
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this
Ukrainian revolutionary organization
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
We still have the feeling that the State Department in Poland in proving that its member, ation of human progress. It impresses disease.
Had the scientific physicians real-
Olshansky,
was
the
one
who
threw
the
me
as
the
most
intelligent
reply.
I
The Detroit Jewlrh Chronicle in•ites correspondence on subjects of interest
is persisting in a position taken thoughtlessly and now
believe we may legitimately question
ized earlier the inadequacy of a purely
to the Jewish people, but disclaims rmponelbility for an Indorsement of the
this action of that revolutionary
the ultimate value of all the devices of
refuses to change that position and hopes to excuse bomb,
d by the writers.
views ex
mechanistic
view of healing, and had
body was the ray of light through the
seed
p which have been invented in our
the ministers of religion held on to the
itself by specious and irrelevent arguments.
darkness of the Steiger trial. While
age. It is doubtful whether we are traditions of faith-healing, had some
Tebet
15,
5686
January 1, 1926
We trust that the present Congress will clear the this trial demonstrated the unparal- really happier than our fathers who
form of co-operation been established
meanness of the Polish anti-Se•
knew nothing of them. As the means
statute books of all vestiges of the war spirit as evi- leled
between religion and medicine—civili-
mites, the verdict was a heavy blow
increase in velocity,
l
zation might have been spared these
denced by such laws as enable the department to offer for anti-Semitism in Poland. of communication
The Steiger Acquittal.
the tempo of our lives is accelerated
mushroom healing cults. As it is, ig-
GG
some sort of alibi, no matter how weak.
"We do not believe," says the For-
and we develop nervous afflictions, of
nored alike by the clergy and by med-
Stanislaw Steiger, the Jewish student, was acquitted
ward, "that the acquittal was due to which our fathers knew nothing. You
ical science, the secret of healing by
a more liberal course of the Polish gov- would have a difficult time of it try-
of the charge of throwing a bomb at the President of
faith passed into the hands of adven-
ernment, although we do believe that Mg to prove that a generation which
Poland.
The
acquittal
was
expected
for
the
only
wit-
turers and free lances—uneducated
Yiddish
Theaters.
ry
the Polish people can show as much is always in a hurry is better off than
either in religion or in medicine—who
ness against the defendant was a vaudeville dancer
a generation which does things in its
beauty, kindnes s and justice lei s every
capitalized their craft and set it up in
In
no
sphere
of
Jewish
life
in
America
is
there
own sweet ti n,
other people. This ver ct, owever,
whose reputation was not the best for veracity. The
competition—highly successful com-
due solely to the fact that the en-
But everyone will agree that to elim-
petition—against both medicine and
confession of Olshansky, the Ukrainian revolutionist, stronger evidence of the will to survive than in the was
accusation was too absurdly built
theater. At the beginning of the century there were tire
the church.
should have been sufficient reason for dismissing the theater.
uo ki;oy isPoolnislt naontis-oSneomitoicrygoverindment Thescience of medicine, I believe, is
Is it true, you will ask, that these
the only field of human activity to healing cults can cure diseases with-
case, but certain sinister dark forces connected with two Yiddish theaters, at the close of the first quarter
otherwise in such a
"gainft out the aid of specific medicines, sur-
there
are
30
theaters
distributed
from
New
York
to
lyreasps,plim
thoey
hteergmonopioroog
the Lemberg police opposed such action.
"Although not no dangerous for the
ahead"m
gery, antiseptics or antitoxins? Of
Los Angeles. The number is not the only significant
disease
hot t
all nt htoe tinfamous
g
There has been a persistent effort to make a Drey-
,sicznutisuxteod
sweep e ou or .s.
course, it is not true. Every physi-
feature, but there is a difference in purpose, outlook ' l I lee7Ii i a s htri7 l i e t Wa tis w
trial hwal.
i the
fathers
of r dsi
cian, funeral director, and clergyman
fus or Beiles case out of the Steiger trial. We could
ma-
t -
ealy
ndpeofixoitm
of hhe oeidarhtah v. e S btmeafi
and compass which is even more important than mere in the purpose of those responsible for tah reiof,acoe ndtytp
knows that in dealing with the major
never view the case in that light but this sedulous repe-
t, follow-
up i:1 both
or cases,
)
organic diseases these cults kill often.
numerical increase. The Yiddish theater of a quarter the ws frame-up
ni
th r- er than they heal. How then have
of t
tition of "frame up" aroused the whole world and par-
vl oasntqluoigsshed.soo;l'iuo b t efroctuolrosoi n s d is i p ohe
Je
,_
thing to meet the en the trial wil thirIC een inte re' st, heaved
e
century
ago
was
conceived
as
som
they been able to maintain their pres-
ticularly the Jewish world to the importance of the
amusement needs of those who were unable to speak a sigh of relief at the news that Steig- Ia are under control. Diabetes, the tige? Here enters the second expla-
venereal diseases, and cancer, will
case.
w
n
i
tm
ass
f
r
e
e
.
"
,
e
p
r
o
iS
nation of the paradox of medicines be-
the English language and was on a vulgar and cheap
soon be in hand. The discovery of the
e Jewish Daily News
ing given a coal reception in the hour
,
The Dreyfus case was a fabrication out of whole plane without any pretense at artistic or literary corn-
bacterial
origin
of
disease,
the
develop-
differences
between
of its greatest triumph.
il o aurtly thatt hthe
cloth, backed and furthered by the military clique of petence, or as a competitor with the English-spoken the Steiger
ment of antitoxin and asepsis to-fight
trial and the Beilis trial,
While it is true that thanks to the
d the
inyentaiol
i o n ei
e po
ic te tr o ia,to7 e
France; the Belles case was the hoary "blood libel" drama. The Yiddish stage has left much of this defi- on the one hand, and the Dreyfus trial, the f hoosottile t hobtaco
ministrations of preventive medicine,
e
o
s
f
th
h
nature
w
a
the
number of people who are sick is
i
I
t
ee
itg
ter
Vhs
h
,,e
o
to
io
t
hnero.
r
e,
o
t
monstrosity manufactured by the government to arouse
o the
the aa peril out of major ope rati ns— growing constantly less, the number
niter y behind. The casts today are made up of men
anti-Semitic feeling. The Steiger case was based upon
so
dangerous
as
were
the
accusations
these
have
actually
increased
the
span
of
people
who think they are sick is
s
and women of arti tic integrity and ability.
nliafie.
of in
hunzdic
growing greater every day. This is
or dliecitliscoannU the g Dreyfus r
inl nth o thvel
a fact. A bomb was thrown at the President of then
The
plays
are
for
the
most
part
excellent
realistic
science
evidently
we
be-
not
the
fault
of the physicians. It is
cases,
Polish Republic; a perjured witness came forth who
would be a new weapon in the hands of hold, certainly the best and perhaps due to the speed of the twentieth cen-
identified Steiger, but it cannot be seriously maintained vehicles, although frequently the melodramatic, vul- the anti-Semitic agitators in Poland.
the only real, exemplifications of the
tury life, of which I spoke in the be-
term human progress. How does it
that the Polish government, either civil or military, at- gar and inartistic bulk large in the repertory. This
ginning. Men exhaust their nervous
"Our joy at Steiger's acquittal is,
pandering is understandable when we realize that the therefore,
happen, then, that the age which is so energies in the unremitting hunt for
threefold: first, because an
tempted to use the case as a basis for anti-Semitic dis-
conspicuous
for
these
palpable
tri-
profits, and leave their minds as wil-
audiences are still uneducated in the finer appreciation innocent man was freed; secondly, that
crimination.
in Poland a new framed up ac- umphs of medicine is conspicuous al- dernesses haunted by fears. Women
of dramatic values. We know that many of the ar- even
cusation
against
Jewry
has
been
mis-
no
for
the
ever
enlarging
circles
of
men
have
little to do and either waste them-
We are not offering apologies for the Grabski gov- tists connected with the better casts make the conces-
selves in meaningless pastimes, or con-
and thirdly, that all foes of among whom the medical practitioner
ernment. Its record for stupid discrimination, economic sions to the demand for inferior plays with ill-concealed carried;
is
held
in
utter
distrust?
Never
in
all
centrate
their attention upon them-
Israel in Poland have thus suffered a
its history has the practice of medi-
selves. That's a sure way of getting
blundering and political log rolling is such that any
great disappointment."
displeasure.
cine encountered such open hostility as ' an imaginary illneta—to thing about
excuses one may offer would sound hollow and uncon-
"A different verdict in the Steiger
The Yiddish stage has become dignified and fully trial could not even be imagined," says it encounters in this day. Open any yourself.
vincing. But despite all its blundering we do not be-
Saturday newspaper and you will find
It is upon these victims of worry,
the
Jewish
World
of
Philadelphia.
lieve that the Grabski government hoped to make cap- conscious of its own excellence and does not have to "What is to be wondered at is the per- notices of dozens of churches and other these intellectual starvelings and nor-
hide
in
obscure
corners
lest
some
critic
laugh
it
out
of
more or less religious societies whose
vous
wrecks, that the healing cults
sistence of the prosecution and of the
ital out of the Steiger trial. The whole affair was too
only reason for existence is to oppose
thrive. Their success in the treatment
department of justice in Poland
transparent and, what is more, the Grabski regime did existence. The Yiddish Art Theater Company toured entire
the ministrations of medical science.
of
the
imaginary ailments of the twen-
Europe with exceptional artistic success. Some of the in continuing the trial and torturing These churches regard the doctor as tieth century is so complete, that their
not need it to carry out its economic program.
innocent victim, even after the 01-
the very incarnation of mortal error,
failure
with real diseases becomes by
critics of England paid it high praise. The Vilna Troupe its
confession and the official an-
During the entire period of the trial and long be- was on more than one occasion compared with the Mos- shansky
nouncement of it by the German Min- as the embodiment of the devil himself. comparison insignificant.
Their
following
must
now
be
counted
The
physician
has not been able to
fore a serious effort at rapprochement by means of the cow Art Theater. It is unfortunate that as yet Amer- inter of the Interior in the German
in the millions.
help these victims of modern life be-
Reichstag. That the entire affair was
Polish-Jewish agreement was attempted. The childish
permanent
home
for
this
How
shall
we
account
for
this
cause
he
has
not
learned
either to deal
ica is not able to provide a
nothing but an anti-Semitic cobweb
expedient of a frame up of a single individual could not
with the human soul or to co-operate
strange paradox of medicine being the
could be seen even immediately after
enterprise.
with
the
minister
of
religion.
The min-
most distrusted at a time when it is
help the Polish government out of its economic and po-
Steiger's liberation, when the hooli-
In our own city the Yiddish players are capable, ar- gan
organizations of Lemberg were in- doing the most good? Two explana- ister of religion has not been able to
litical bogs. The statesmen of Poland are sufficiently
help them because these busy worldly
tions offer themselves. The first has
citing to anti-Jewish excesses in that
realistic to know that the profound maladjustments of tistic and genuinely serious about their work.
men and women had never found time
to do with the history of medicine it-
It is enough that the Jews have
to go to the house of worship. And
But what is important is the fact that the Yiddish city.
self. The second is founded upon some
Polish life cannot be corrected by such infantile meth-
to live in such an atmosphere."
what does the faith-healing cult do for
of
the
peculiar
conditions
of
life
in
the
theater is animated by the spirit and belief that it has
"Justice has triumphed," says the
ods.
them? It is a very simple process. It
twentieth
century.
Jewish Daily' Eagle. "The voice of
a
definite
place
in
the
cultural
life
of
America.
It
of-
takes their little self-centered minds
First, medicine, like all the other
We are pleased to learn of the acquittal and hope
justice has spoken, and Poland has
just as they are and merely changes
arts
and
sciences,
was
from
the
neo-
fers
its
contribution
as
a
competitor
for
the
interest
of
been spared an infamous blood-stain.
that it will prove a salutary lesson to over-zealous police
the images within them, as one
lithic age until the sixteenth century
all, Poland is a European coun-
officials who would prove their patriotism by suppres- the theater goers. It holds that the Yiddish drama by After
changes slides in a stereopticon ma-
closely
associated
with
religion.
The
try. How was such an intrigue pos-
reason
of
its
realism
and
artistic
quality
has
a
right
to
chine. Instead of the slide: "The world
medicine man of the primitive neolith-
sible? It was possible because in Po-
sion and frame up.
is all evil and, I am ill," it introduces
ic
tribe,
as
among
the
American
In-
survive.
land they came to regard Jew-baiting
the slide: "The world is all love, there
dians,
is
a
combination
of
priest
and
as
a
sort
of
patriotic
duty.
But
the
How far can this integration go? No doubt the con-
is no evil, and I am well." This works
healer.
Just
as
painting
and
sculpture
has emerged to the surface and
sciousness of absence of Immigration has given a decid- truth
given of course, sufficient concentra-
began
with
making
images
of
the
gods,
Secretary Kellogg's Answer.
h
il
l
triumphed
v.
f
.
i
tt
h
hoth;olas
s o
j oufsttico has
tion and sufficient naivete. It gives
architecture with building temples for
ed impetus to those who value Yiddish and believe in its
h be
singing
hymns
peace to the jagged nerves and poise
them,
and
music
with
At a recent dinner of the Council of Foreign Rela- perpetuation. With the best intentions, however„ it will people."
to them, so medicine began as a cast-
to the jaded body.
"The panic which the Steiger ac-
tions held in the Ritz Carlton Hotel, New York, Secre- not be possible to preserve it unle s a response is evoked quittal
s
If the healers would only limit their
ing
out
of
evil
spirits
from
the
body
of
has caused in anti-Semitic cir-
tary of State Frank B. Kellogg gave his answer to the among the masses. Will the Yiddish stage attract those des of Poland shows the extent of man and a breathing in of the spirit practice to such cases of imaginary ill-
ness
or even to purely nervous disor-
of
the
god.
In
the
entire
Bible
there
paper says in an-
1 many criticisms against his department due to the ex-
whose mother speech is not Yiddish but who have their despair," l. the
is to be found not a single word which
ders, we might say More power to
other editoria "ut the Polish anti-
clusion of Countess Karolyi and Shapurji Saklatvala. learned it as they learn any other foreign language?
them"
and let them go on in the name
can be translated as "doctor." All
Sem ites do not understand that after
God. But they cannot afford to
Though these individuals were not specifically named
Certain it is that a determined, brave effort is being all Poland has gained from the acquit- healing is done either by priest or by of
discriminate. They have no know-
The sole method was prayer
yet they were the persons he had in mind from the tenor made to win large numbers as spectators. The actors tal much more than the Jewish peo- prophet.
ledge or skill or technique. All their
or laying on of the hands. Moses was
go too far with lies.
ca
o You nnot
of his remarks. He said:
are competent. The plays have merit and strength. pie. truth is bound to come eventually. this type of a healer, so was Aaron, power over their patients lies in the
vast impressive claims which they
the
High
Priest,
and
so
were
the
The Yiddish Theater in America should have the sup- The Polish anti-Semites have suffered prophets, Elijah and Elisha•
The policy of this country as plainly indicated by the
make, in their total denial in every
berg. The Steig-
a great defea
port
not
only
of
those
whose
daily
speech
is
Yiddish
ease. For this reason, because I know
of
Congress
is
to
keep
certain
specified
classes
of
At
this
season
of
the
year
our
Chris-
ho pe. They
gre
ads
er affair was th in
ei r Lematest
aliens out of the country. The State Department received
tian neighbors are celebrating the
that faith-healing is dependent upon
hoped to have in the conviction of
but who appreciate worth while work.

Ir. ONLY N.A. 14WMAIMS

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from the various diplomatic and consular agents of the
United States all the information possible in relation to
these undesirable aliens.

He reviewed the legislation relating to exclusion of
aliens which must be excluded, with particular refer-
ence to those who advocate the overthrow of the goy-
-) ernment of the United States by force and violence.
Are we to believe that the Countess Karolyi and
Saklatvala and others intended to advocate the over-
throw of the government by force and violence? Even
the most nervous would not believe that the countess
had any such intentions and we doubt whether the con-
fidential agents whose reports are kept secret were able
to connect her with any such ideas. Unfortunately for
the State Department the general law does not cover
the particular case, consequently we are compelled to
seek the reason for her exclusion in the undisclosed re-
ports of the confidential agents.
The answer is unsatisfactory for it fails to meet the
test laid down by the department inasmuch as there is
no evidence that the countess in particular comes with-
in the class of undesirable aliens.
There is a note in the defense which has the ap-
pearance of a red herring. In his defense of exclusion
the secretary said : "One would think from some of the
comments in the press that a foreigner has some inher-
ent right to come to the United States which is being
denied by the State Department. No foreigner has
such right whatever. Congress may admit or exclude
any one it sees fit. The law has specified what classes
shall be excluded and until the law is changed it will
be enforced; and it will be enforced without regard to
their station in life, for the law applies to prince and
peasant alike."
None of the critics of the State Department have
assumed that an alien has rights which rise higher than
the law passed by Congress. Nobody questions the
sovereignity of the government nor its right to prescribe
rules for entry into the country. But yet an alien does
have a right to enter the United States if he comes with-
in the provisions of the laws passed by Congress.
Countess Karolyi had a right to apply for admission
to the United States just as has any other European.
If she wanted to come here as a quota immigrant she
should be admitted if she satisfied .the requirements of
the quota law. If she intended to visit us for pleasure,
business, education or in the service of science she has

..szewnizga<*eszts.sgeizfcattzf

THEY THAT KNOW MY SORROW

They that know my sorrow add a spark to the fire
of my heart
When they ask me: How is thy beloved more
precious than another love?

Praises and dark sayings fail to tell of Him;
He is all desirable; His majesty cannot be sought
out ;
Therefore do I clothe myself with terrors at His
flight.

Ah, pity me, and speak unto the heart so moved,
Or comfort me; for how endure love and separa-
tion?

And His name is within me—live fire in my veins,
Bound within my heart, shut up in my bones:
And they rebuke me—they that despise my
statutes—

And they reproach me when I seek to serve Him,
And they revile me when I give glory to His Name.

They think to set me far, 0 God, from Thy service:
But my suffering and oppression are better than
Thine estrangement ;
My portion and my pleasure, the sweet fruit of
Thy law.

Let my right hand forget—if I stand not before
Thee;
Let my tongue cleave—if I desire aught but
Thy law.

Lo, in mine ears the sound of Thy praise—
The Red Sea and Sinai are witnesses to Thy great-
ness:
How shall my thoughts dwell on any but Thee?

My heart and mine eyes will not suffer my feet
to slip,
For this, the Lord, is One, there is none beside Him.

JEHUDAH HALEVI

Jewlsa PuldIntioa Society .

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"Jewish Science and Health"

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the making of vast and unconditioned
birth of Jesus. If you read the life of
Steiger a new justification for their
claims, I can foresee no success for the
Jesus in the gospels you will find that,
agitation and persecution of the Jews.
like the career of the prophet Elijah, movement known as Jewish Science.
Hence their despair. Some consola-
I am not uttering a wish, I am mere-
it
was
largely
occupied
with
healing.
tion, however, they may find in the
ly expressing a humble judgment.
It was through his healing—miracles-
fact that their victim is a physical
that
he
first
gained
recognition
as
a
Jewish
Science is, as the name betrays.
wreck and suffering with tuberculo-
man of God. So prominent in the gos-
an imitation of Christian Science. Ob-
sis, as a result of the inhuman suffer-
serving
that a large number of Jews
pels
are
the
medical
labors
of
Jesus,
ing and tortures he endured for the
in New York City have turned to
that they overshadow every other as-
past 16 months.
pect of his career; and Mary Baker
Christian Science, Rabbis Morris Lich-
"When a situation such as this
tenstein and Clifton Ilarby Levy, both
Eddy was able to find abundant Bibli-
arises out of a trial," says the paper
graduates of the Hebrew Union Col-
cal support for her contention that Je-
in its English section, "the original
lege, decided to try to keep such Jews
sus
was
a
healer
of
the
sick,
and
noth-
significance of the proceedings be-
ing more.
within the fold of Judaism by offering
comes obscured. The innocence or
In
those
sections
of
Russia
which
them
the same goods they get in Chris-
guilt of a single accused becomes a
have not yet escaped the darkness of
tian Science but with a Jewish trade
minor issue; the future of a whole
the
Middle
Ages,
there
is
a
Jewish
mark.
This is a very worthy motive
community is in peril." ,
group called the Chasidim, whose rab-
indeed. The Jewish community can
The writer thinks that "as long as
bis are primarily faith healers. The
afford to lose not the least of its mem-
racial prejudice will continue to sway
bers. Half the Jews of the world are
healing shrines of the Catholic Church
the conduct of nations, the Jewish
are to be found in all parts of the
still suffering hunger, still menaced by
people will i.e forced to make sacrifices
world. Some are centuries old. A new
oppression. There is no one to help
for the crimes and offenses, real or
them but their fellow-Jews, especially
one is about to be established in De-
imaginary, of its members." Neither
of America. With every Jew that
troit.
will "the doctrine involved in being
Now it happened that in the course
leaves the fold the hope of securing
better than our neighbors" do. lie
of
those
intellectual
upheavals
of
the
safety and freedom for the Jewish
sees the only logical solution of the
sixteenth century and thereabouts,
people dwindles.
problem, on the one hand, in "build-
Many of these Christian Science
which we know as the Renaissance and
up our distinct political unity in Pal-
the Reformation, that all the daugh-
Jews are exceedingly wealthy. They
estine" and on the other in powerful
ters of religion—painting, sculpture,
give freely of their money to build
Jewish communities in countries like
music, drama, philosophy—left the
churches. That money might have
the United States and England being
material home and set up housekeep-
gone to solve the problem of Jewish
democratically and permanently or-
ing
for
themselves.
education and to settle Jewish farm-
ganized to demand justice to Jews in
Art began to deal with other than
ers in Russia and in Palestine. If
every civilized country.
religious
sahiects,
and
music
began
Rabbi Lichtenstein's book "Jewish
"The existence of the American and
to sing wonderfully of other than re-
Science and Health" could hold these
Canadian Jewish Congress made pos-
ligious themes. And while some of
straying sheep within Jewry. it would
sible the perpetuation of Jewish mi-
the finest creations of art, literature,
perform a signal service. Many . eas
nority rights at Versailles. The in-
and music are still religious—these
are using the cloak of Christian
tercession of Anglo and Franco-Jew-
have
nevertheless
established
them-
Science as a means of escaping Judo-
ish public bodies only recently brought
selves as separate and distinct
ism, its burdens and its demands, and
Hungary before the league to account
branches
of
human
activity.
as an easy gateway into Gentile so-
for the constitutionality of her "num-
At about the same time medicine,
ciety. It is true they are not succeed -
erus clausus" legislation and evoked
i
too,
too,
declared
itself
independent
of
re-
ing. The church manages to keep its
her promise that steps will soon be
!igloos faith. Physicians began to
Jews together. Some Christian Science
taken to amend it. An efficiency or-
treat the human body purely as a ma- Churches in New York show such con-
ganized Jewry, prepared to force the
chine and began to regard themselves centration of Jews, that they have
league to act when necessary, should
virtually as engineers. They identi- been nicknamed "Christian Science
make the possibility of a Steiger or
fled themselves as a group with the
Shuls." If Rabbi Levy's spiritual les-
Dreyfus trial an absolute anomaly."
materialistic philosophy. They be-
sons could give these cowards a little
The Jewish World of Cleveland re-
came,
if
not
anti-religious,
largely
ir-
backbone, they would be performing
counts all the famous anti-Jewish
religious. They scorned the notion
a signal service. Moreover, much of
trials and blood accusations from 1900
patient's
soul
or
his
religious
that
a
the literary material used by the faith-
to 1925 and arrives at the conclusion
faith had anything to do with his pros-
healers is actually Jewish, taken from
that nowhere has a false accusation
poets for getting well. The presence
the Jewish Bible, and it seemes a pity
been fraught with danger for the en-
of the minister in the sick-room was
that Jews must adopt Christianity in
tire Jewish community as in the last
tolerated rather than welcomed. The order to learn the value of Jewish lit-
Steiger trial in Poland. and nowhere
body is a machine, they said. Give it
has the accusation and the trial no alw
erature.
the proper fuel, grease it with oil, and
A Jewish young woman of Chicago
surd and so malicious as it was in this
adjust
its
parts
with
steel
tools,
and
came to me once and said, "I used to
ease.
it will go.
be so miserably nervous, but I have
This purely mechanistic interprets-
Who steals another's good name
joined Christian Science and now I am
tom of medicine has now been proven
makes himself poor indeed and not
(Turn to next page.)
to
be
an
error.
The
close
attachment
enriches himself.

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