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Shevat 14, 5686
January 29, 1926
Chaim Zhitlovsky.
On Sunday, Jan. 25, Chaim Zhitlovsky addressed a
meeting of 2,500 Yiddish-speaking Jews of the City of
Detroit at Orchestra Hall, The meeting was significant
not only for what was said, but also for the fact that
there are so many who are vitally interested in the So-
cialist Zionist program espoused by him.
In a speech which for clarity, cohesion and sim-
plicity was unsurpassable, he laid down four proposi-
tions as the bases of progressive nationalism. These
were freedom, broad culture, social justice and inter-
national brotherhood. Without any of these the whole
Zionist scheme would fail, and if we are to accept his
findings we must conclude that the experiment in Pal-
estine is being carried out on these lines.
These fundamentals are implicit in every scheme
of modern social reconstruction. None of the old forms
of Europe have embodied all of these, which makes the
experiment interesting and unique. But, lest anyone
should imagine that the path of the chalutzim is
smooth, one needs but turn to the reports of the Pales-
tine Assembly. The age-old conflicts are in the air ;
modern social theory is in conflict with established eco-
nomic and social practice. lncriminationsand recrimin-
ations are flying fast and free.
The questions naturally arise: Will Palestine break
with the old and establish the new? Will the spirit of
progressive nationalism become a reality in Palestine?
Could mere tradition and sentiment evoke such re-
sponse and create such enthusiasm? Is the spirit of the
prophets sufficient to inspire men to build and create?
According to Zhitlovsky, only the modern progres-
sive ideals which of necessity include all the ideals of
the past which have survived will bring a satisfactory
Jewish nation into being.
It may come as a shock to many to realize that the
old forms are not being followed and that these heroic
idealists are trying to build according to original plans
and specifications.
The Kameneff Defeat.
The tenure of office in Soviet Russia Is one of the
acute uncertainties due to the unsettled experimntal
condition which prevails in the country. It was not long
ago that Trotzky was dethroned by the triumverate of
Stalin, Zinovieff and Kameneff. 'Trotzky looked ready
for the discard without hope of return, but in that
kaleidoscopic scene one can hardly make long time
prophecies. To know what the majority will do re-
quires political acumen and sagacity beyond even the
most astute and penetrating Bolsheviks. The long list
of casualties in Soviet politics will attest to this and now
Leo Kameneff, together with Gregory Zinovieff and G.
Y. Sokolnikoff, who formed the opposition at the Four-
teenth Congress, have felt the strong hand of the ma-
jority.
The defeated trio were in favor of a return to the
left, which meant the dilution of the New Economic
Policy; diminution of the power of the Kulaks or
rich land holding peasantry ; non-co-operation with
foreign countries in liquidation of Russian debts and
the refusal to negotiate loans to rebuild Russian in-
dustry.
Both groups based their position upon Marxism and
Leninism. On account of the many changes in the poli-
cies and practices of Lenin, it was a simple matter to
find support for both positions. But aside from all theo-
retic hear-splitting, the decision of the congress com-
mits Russia to a policy of conciliation abroad, with the
definite program of state capitalism and the New Eco-
r. nomic Policy and Kulak recognition at home.
It may not be specially significant that the three
principal envoys of the Soviets, Krassin, Krestinsky and
Rakovsky, were present, but still it is diflicult to disre-
gard the fact in view of the decisions taken. The en-
voys have been living in foreign countries and have had
ample opportunity for learning the attitude of the for-
eign offices, the strength of the revolutionary activity
of the workers in those foreign lands, as well as the im-
pression which Sovietism has made and the number of
adherents won to the cause of Bolshevism.
This information was no doubt communicated to
those in authority and this intelligence must have had
some weight in determining the future policy of the
government.
The present policy must needs have a bearing upon
further attetnpts at a rapprochement with the United
States, for it seems clear that the purpose is to bring
about a definite understanding with all the countries of
the world so that Russia may no longer be set apart
and left to her own resources in the rehabilitation of
the country, as was the plan of G. Y. Sokolnikoff, for-
mer finance minister.
Senator William E. Borah will no doubt utilize the
present situation to further his plan for Russian recog-
nition. The drift is definitely to the right, which means
the abandonment of all those theories which the stub-
born facts of Russia life have proven untenable and
unworkable. For the Jews of Russia a realistic policy
will mean an escape from those intolerable conditions
which economic chaos has produced and which has
affected them to a greater extent than any other sec-
tion of the population.
Hard to Please.
When the Joint Foreign Committee and the Alliance
Israelite Universelle made their representations to the
League of Nations anent the numerus clausus in Hun-
gary no one suspected any complaint from the Jews
of Hungary, but in this nearly everyone was mistaken.
The attitude of the leaders of Hungarian Jews was ex-
pressed in most unambiguous fashion, when they said
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that they would seek their rights guaranteed them un-
der the constitution and that they "have never invoked
and do not wish to invoke the assistance of any foreign
bodies, and we reject such assistance even if it is of-
fered with the best intentions."
We appreciate the attitude of the leaders of Hun-
garian Jewry and applaud them for their pride and
courage, but yet we are not in accord with them as to
the interference of outside agencies. The constitutions
of all the newly-created states in Europe guarantee
equal rights but we know that many of these provisions
are dead letters to which the leaders give lip service.
A most recent case in point was the impaling of the
Jews of Poland upo nthe horns of the constitution and
the Polish-Jewish Agreement. The reactionary Poles
vociferously denounced the Jews for failing to take
advantage of the constitutional provision and demanded
that they be denied the rights of citizens because of the
Agreement. Everyone acquaintd with Polish affairs
knows that this was merely a subterfuge and without
an iota of truth, but yet it suited Polish anti-Semites to
pose as constitutionalists. The same is true of Rou-
mania, yet who is deceived as to the treatment of mi-
norities in that country?
The Hungarians of the Jewish faith do not relish
the idea of telling the teacher. They believe they can
take care of their own affairs without outside interfer-
ence or assistance. This faith does' them credit and
under ordinary circumstances we would justify their
position in its entiretly, but we do not believe that the
question of minorities or any cognate question, for that
matter, is any longer an internal, domestic one. We
do believe that since the war it has become evident that
questions which heretofore were considered purely local
are no longer so. The League of Nations, the treaties
of peace, all have recognized minorities and their prob-
lems. This is one of the problems which was properly
before the league and if any benefit will come to Hun-
garian Jewry from the action of these outsiders, we feel
that it will more than compensate for the feeling of in-
jury experienced by our very proud and capable Hun-
garian co-religionists.
At this time the Hungarian Jews may well feel that
they are in a strategic position to gain a victory. The
discovery of the most gigantic counterfeiting plot in the
history of Europe, in which the arch anti-Semites and
Awakening Magyars are involved, will of necessity
weaken the reactionary elements that have been in the
forefront of the numerus clausus movement.
With Gomboes, Ulian, Teleki, Eckhart and the mal-
odorous Nadossy, supreme chief of the state police, in-
volved in the scandal, the prospects for a change of
policy are excellent. These leaders of the Awakening
Magyars have been losing ground but with this debacle
we may hope for the victory of republican forces of
Hungary which have been fair and reasonable to Jew-
ish claims of academic equality.
We do not think the interference by the Joint For-
eign Committee will do any injury to Hungarian Jewry.
We do not think it was a strictly family affair and are
hopeful that the combination of circumstances will help
solve a vexatious problem.
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By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
Zion Drives and Palestine.
More Restriction.
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The Persecution of Immigrants
HERE AND THERE
Add to the list of Nordic champions and restriction-
ists Congressman James Benjamin Aswell of Louisi-
ana, sponsor of the bill to register aliens.
The bill contains all the provisions which the much
frightened Nordics approve. For the special privilege
of registering the alien is required to pay $10 the first
year and $5 a year thereafter. Not to be outdone by
the astute alien halters of Russia and Germany, the bill
provides that hotel and innkeepers are to become un-
paid spies ill the employ of the Departments of Labor
and Justice, for they are required to report to the au-
thorities any person who looks like an alien. Such au-
thority vested in hotel and innkeepers opens up pros-
pects of snooping and spying which shall make the ad-
ventures of the prohibition searchers a very weak and
anemic affair. The men in the hotel business, who are
really catering to the needs of the traveling public, will
surely resent the idea of becoming snoopers and smell-
ers, but there are men in the busines who will gladly
co-operate in this work because of their own shady
practices and reputations. It will put a premium upon
deals and graft which shall transcend anything here-
tofore known.
Another aspect of the matter which merits con-
sideration and which cannot be glossed over with a
mere gesture is the fact that greater difficulties may be
placed in the way of aliens to become naturalized. Un-
der our present arrangement everything is done to assist
the alien in becoming a citizen, but when a premium is
placed upon citizenship and when new bureaus are
created it may reasonably follow that obstacles will be
placed in the way of the alien ; officers may become
captious and in some cases concerned about the con-
tinuance of their positions. If the Volstead act is any
criterion we may expect much which shall not reflect
credit. America has been treated to too many spec-
tacles born of prohibitory, discriminatory legislation.
The picture may be overdrawn, but yet we are not
proceeding on theories unsubstantiated by facts There
are men who will not hesitate to make a profit out of
any venture, no matter how dangerous or anti-social.
There are bootleggers without number and there are
many who for a price are bringing in aliens who are
not admitted under the quota law. Now it is proposed
to find out who is lawfully within the country, and what
an undertaking that is, especially in a country which
is always on the move. Instead of permitting the coun-
try to return to normal, it makes of every railroad em-
ploye. hotel, inn and boarding house keeper a snooper.
The free and easy travel which has characterized
America will be no more, for if one looks other than a
Nordic he may be required to furnish proof of his citi-
zenship. If this annoyance really becomes serious, as
it may, there will be a decided decrease in travel and
not a few places will feel the effect of such stupid leg-
islation.
We do hope that Congress will not be persuaded to
pass the Aswell bill or any similar piece of legislation.
There is a way to absorb the aliens now in the United
States, but the way is not indicated by the Aswells,
Johnsons, Reeds, et al. It is not by the spurious Ameri-
canization campaigns or the fulminations of the Nor-
dics, but it is through a reasonable and kindly educa-
tion of the aliens, who will respond if treated with any
decency.
We need broadening of our immigration laws, not
restriction.
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The $5,000,000 Zion drive, the
$15,000,000 J. D. C. drive, the $250,-
000 Gewerkschaften drive for Pales-
tine are being discussed in the Yid-
dish newspapers from various angles.
Speaking of the chalutzim delega-
tion just arrived, the Day finds that
it is these chalutzim, with their ideal-
ism, utter self-sacrifice, inexhaust-
ible energy and perseverance, that
are the actual upbuilders of the Jew-
ish National Home. Their pioneer
work is sacred and in this sanctity
their ideal of self-liberation has
found its complete realization.
"The importance of the New York
campaign," says the Day in its Eng-
lish section, "lies not so much in the
fact that the expected million and a
half constitutes almost a third of the
entire sum to be raised as in the
axiom that as New York goes, so
goes the entire country. Whatever
may be said of New York' Jewry, it
sets the pace for all the Jews of
America. If the 1,500,000 Jews of
New York respond generously and
quickly to the United Zion Appeal, the
other 2,000,000 Jews scattered all over
the United States are sure to follow
suit and raise the remainder of the
$5,000,000 so sorely needed for the
restoration of our national home."
The Jewish Daily News shows that
the Palestine mandate turned out to
be a complete success and pays trib-
ute to the great administrative quali-
fications of the retired high commis-
sioner, Sir Herbert Samuel. Says the
News:
"The Palestine mandate is now rec-
ognized by the entire world, and it is
certain that Sir Ilerbert Samuel's ad-
ministration in Palestine will go down
in history as a model of mandate gov-
ernment and will he studied with great
interest not only in Great Britain, but
in other countries as well. This, too,
does our people great honor, an honor
that is connected with the upbuilding
of the Jewish National Home."
The Day sees in the call of the
Gewerkschaften a call both for relief
and for national reconstruction. "To
the Jewish wanderers, the workers of
I'oland, of Roumania, of Russia, Eretz
Israel is the only land where they are
welcome and where hard labor is at
1(41 St rewarded by bread and liberty.
• a The European Jewish masses
cannot but see in that one door that
now stands open before them their
only hope for salvation.
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the first time Jewish labor in Amer-
ica is being called to participate in
an activity which is designed to save
the Jewish mosses from the degrading
support of philanthropy and build up
for them A sound and firm existence
in the land with which the most ten.
der and most endearing reminiscences
of our people are connected."
Quoting an article in a recent issue
of a French magazine by the Jewish
scientist Reinaeh, who makes the as-
sertion that it is the Jewish memory
that will keep the Jewish nation from
disappearing, the Jewish World of
Cleveland remarks that the building
up of Palestine will serve the double
purpose of providing a national home
for Jews, be it even a small part of
the nation, and, what is even of more
consequence to all skeptics, it will
" strengthen that 'Jewish memory'
whereby the Jewish people is alive.
For what, is not Palestine, is insep-
arably hound with all the best tradi-
tions of our people?"
In the Canadian Jewish Daily Eagle
I. It. notes with satisfaction the recent
change in the attitude of Jewish la-
bor leaders toward Palestine. "It is
now recognized by all, excepting the
extreme left, that the workers' com-
munities in Palestine constitute an
idealistic experiment for a new social
order in Jewish life, something of a
synthesis between the ideals of the
ancient prophets and those of scien-
tific socialism."
In another issue the Eagle speaks
of the results of the recent Zionist and
Hadassah convention in Canada as
most satisfactory and demonstrating
a practical spirit that will help greatly
in making the Palestine campaign a
success. In its English department
the paper says: "A noteworthy aspect
of the affair was the extremely large
representation f rem almost every
Jewish community of the dominion.
This is, indeed, a healthy symptom
and reveals the growing strength of
Zionism throughout the country."
The Jewish Daily Forward is now
running a series of articles hy social-
ist and labor journalists of America,
Poland and l'alestine, in a debate over
the recent I'alestine articles by the
Forward editor, Abraham Cahan. Two
articles of this series, by Dr. A. Ginz-
burg, appeared in recent issues of the
paper. The writer thinks it inevi-
table that the largest Yiddish news-
paper should earnestly consider Zion-
ism, which is admittedly one of the
most important, if not the most im-
portant, event in Jewish life. The
trouble with anti-Zionists like Zivion
is that they approach Zionism with a
measure of "pure reason," ignoring
entirely the essential element of emo-
tion and sentiment, which plays a
great part in life.
To disregard it would he most un-
scientific. Love is blind. The love of
two individuals would, of course, be
more intense than the love of the Jew-
ish people for Palestine, but then this
latter love is much more enduring, as
witness 3.090 years of its existence.
Still Zionism is love, and love natu-
rally is blind and partial. It is ab-
surd to regard Zionism as a business
proposition, as Zivion and other anti-
Zionists do. Nowhere but in Pales-
tine do Jewish refugees become those
idealistic Chalutzim whom Abraham
Cahan saw and described with enthu-
siasm. They become peddlers, law-
yers, leurnalists, but not self-sacrific-
ing Chalutzim, except on Palestine
soil.
Discussing Zionist policy. the Jew-
ish Courier of Chicago says: "The
Balfour declaration was a declaration
that man is not all ape and tiger, but
is also actuated by the sense of right-
eousness, by the spirit of justice. It
Wag the moral right of the Jews to
reconstruct their national home in
Palestine that this Zi-nist policy
sought," and this the Balfour declare-
ttion offered, and the mandate con-
firmed.
The love of a noble heart makes
handsome the homeliest face.
He who seeks out his neighbor's
shame will find his own.
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A Plea for Tolerance and Fairness to Immigrants and Their
Families.
Once upon a time someone came to
Disraeli and said (it was before his
Beaconsfieldian days) : "Mr. Disraeli,
is it true that the tariff bill is dead?"
He answered: "No, it is not only
true that it is dead, but it is damned."
Congressman Perlman says that the
alien registration bill is dead. I tell
it is a damnable bill. It is a bill that
strikes at the heart of America. It
is a bill that wills to set up an anti-
American system of espionage.
Against whom? Against aliens.
I want that word "aliens" to be
abolished from the American vocabu-
lary. The very use of the term
"aliens" is a symptom of our post-
war hysteria and our post-war vo-
cabulary. There are foreigners in
America, 099 out of 1,000 of whom
are waiting and eager to be admitted
into the citizenship of America. But
let us get rid of our wretched post-
war manners. Let us abolish the use
of the term "alien."
No man is alien who comes to
America here to live, here to toil,
here, it may be, to serve. If we have
got to speak of aliens, let us reserve
the term for the use of them that
dwell in other lands—though I, for
my part, think of no man as alien.
He may be stranger to me, but he
need not be alien to my soul. •
It is a part of the miserable nar-
rowness of spirit engendered by the
Ku Klux Klan and organizations like
it. And when Klanism is dead—as,
thank God, it is dying--we will have
an end of the term "alien" and "reg-
istration of aliens." When a man
comes to America in the hope of be-
coming an American citizen, he is
not to be regarded as a suspect, but
as a comrade, as a brother.
I tell you, we would have had much
less of the so-called Americanization
problem in America if we had shown
comradeship and fraternalism to the
immigrants, if we had not treated
them as if they were aliens. Now,
registration means that every alien
is to be subject to suspicion. And
after a while, some generous soul in
the immigration department will pro-
pose finger prints and every manner
of identification that is associated
with criminal annals and the manners
of them that deal with criminals.
I.ast year it was Nordics. The
year before it was quotas. This year
it is registration. What will it be
next? The time to fight this rotten
business is now, and to fight it with
courage and with resolution and with
fearlessness.
I go back not only to the fine word
of the President of the United States,
that message of the l'resident which
recommended that if the present im-
migration law deprives inhabitants of
the United States "of the comfort
and society of those bound to them
by close family ties, such modifica-
tion should be adopted as will afford
relief."
That is enough. That ought to be
decisive, seeing that the President is
master of the administration, seeing
that he is the master, if he chose to
be, of the Republican household. But
I appeal to something still more sig-
nificant and pregnant than the Presi-
dent's message to Congress. I appeal
to the President's speech at Omaha—
one of the great utterances of an
American President—in which the
President protested, as an American
President ought to protest, against
every manner of bigotry and intoler-
ance that has been rife in American
life.
And I think you will find that the
decline of the spirit of enmity to the
aliens will date from that Omaha
speech. For, there, the President
found his voice. And when the Presi-
dent spoke in the name of tolerance,
and more than tolerance, then he was
the voice of America; not because of
the office which he holds, but because
of the spirit which inspired his utter-
ante to the American people.
Now, remember, our Presides,
turns to his Congress and, with to..
solicitude for the damage, the mot
hurt done to families by break-up as I
separation, he asks that if it be nests
nary to create special legislatiss,
America ought to have it, Coitus,• -
ought to provide remedial legislati s•.
in order to end the evil of disrupts
and breaking up family life.
Well, now, the only decent ti n .
to do is to pass the Wadsworth-Pt r
man bill. I say to you, we ought t
address a letter or a telegram t
every member of the American (s•
gress in both Houses, demanding,
elating, if you please, that the men
bers of the Congress vote for t h y.
measure. Why? Because it is ti,
cent, because it is humane, becau,
aims to repair some of the damage.
Nothing can ever repair all of tt
damage wrought by the quota law ,
1924. Ladies and gentlemen, t,
fellow Americans, I have seen sss
of that damage for myself, not t,..
in America; I have seen immigr,•
groups in England. I was move.] is
tears when, in July of last year.
went to Easley, near Southampton,
meet with those women and child's s
some of them who have wailed then .
for more than two years for admis•
sion to America, under the operation
of the quota law.
I wasn't very cheerful just at that
time, because things had come out of
America which made me rather an
happy. But I tell you that my faith,
my passion as an American, was for-
tified and sustained when I met thous
men and women, And I tried to dis-
suade them from thinking of Amer
Ica, I told them they would have to
wait another year, perhaps two years.
perhaps three years. And I said: "Go
back to your homes, go back to Po-
land, go back to Roumania, go back
to Russia, go back wherever you can,
because it may be that you can never
gain admittance to America," And
with eyes gleaming with tears, these
men and women said: "We will wait
and wait and wait, but we want to go
to America"—not, as some Congress-
man dared to imply and to insinuate,
because economic furtherance, be-
cause economic well being is to be
found in America, but because those
sons and daughters of the House of
Israel have caught a gleam of the
glory of American freedom and
American justice. They will wait and
wait, but they want to come to Amer-
ica. They want to find their way into
the land of opportunity.
The least that we can do, as a mat.
ter of decency and humaneness—let
us reunite families, whether the fami-
lies of citizens or of declarants who
would be citizens. These men and
women fortified my own faith in
America. They made me come back
to America with a feeling that I could
do nothing less for America than,
whenever opportunity offers, such as
offers tonight, to speak out and speak
up as a man against any legislation
which shuts doors, which keeps doors
tightly shut, which debars would-be
Americans from the opportunity and
the coveted joy of American resi-
dence.
We accept the quota law as a fact,
though not as irrepealable fact, for I
prophesy the day will come when
Americans will repeal the quota laws
when America will come to see that
American distinction and American
glory and American security lie net
in shutting doors, but in opening
them.
Until that better (14 comes, I turn
to you, my fellow Americans, and 1
ask you to make yourselves felt by
petition, by remonstrance, by de-
mand, that the Wadsworth-Perlman
bill be enacted into law with the least
possbile delay. As Americana, we
dare ask no less. As Americans, the
American Congress may grant no
less than this.
The Author of "Akiba"
By RABBI ABRAHAM BURSTEIN
In the historical novel, "Akiba," re-
cently put forth by The Jewish Forum
Publishing Company, there appears
the first example in English transla-
tion of the work of one of the nine-
teenth century's most extraordinary
Jewish leaders. Dr. Marcus Lehmann,
who lived in Germany, 1831-1890, was
not alone an outstanding scholar and
rabbi and editor, but he possessed a
gift for narrative writing that might
in itself have given him permanent
fame. All of his stories, which are
collected in six volumes of short fic-
tion called "Past and Present,"
"Akiba," and a novel on Jewish life
in Germany entitled "Rabbi Jossel-
man von Rosheim," were originally
published in his own weekly, "Der
Israelit."
Dr. Lehmann is perhaps best known
through his founding and 30 years
editing of Der Israelit, which is still
the great organ of orthodox Judaism
in Germany. The author, after study-
ing in the gymnasium of his home
town. Verden, in Hanover, carried on
extensive Hebrew and secular studies
under Israel Hildesheimer in Halber-
stadt, at Berlin, Prague, and Valle,
where he received the degree of doctor
of philos-phy. In 1853, when the con-
gregation at Mayence adopted an or-
gan and other innovations of the time,
the seceding faction engaged the
young rabbi to aid them in maintain-
ing the traditions of their faith. Be-
ginning with a following of haselY a
dozen suppsrters, he was ranidly en-
ahled to reckon them by the many
thousands.
Per israelit was instituted in Thrin,
and soon became the central organ for
orthodox Judaism in Germany and
Austria-Hungary, later absorbing the
Jeschurun. a payer of similar aims.
It is sohheaded. "A Periodical for the
Pernetestion of the Jewish Spirit and
Jewish fife, in the Home, the Corn-
monity. and the Sohosl." Despite the
early struggles of it. founder and his
eo-worker, it steadily grew in int,-
enoc and imoortance. It, effect on
the preservation of orthodox Judaism
;19L 5Y
in Central Europe are well-nigh incal-
culable. Dr. I,ehmann's scholarly
work in many Talmudical, historical
and topical fields is reflected in the
remarkable interweaving of incident
and erudition in the recently published
"Akiha."
Seldom has a Jewish leader had s
tremendous an influence on his place
and time. At the time of his death,
in 1890, he was given a series of eulo-
gies rarely equalled in history. The
leading article in his own paper, de-
scribing the obsequies, declared, "His
funeral was the mirror of his great-
ness, wherein the extent of his follow-
ing in life was made evident. Our
sages tell that the Torah also goes into
mourning when one of the godly
learned departs this life; yea, at this
ceremony the Torah itself stood by, in
the persons of its distinguished up-
holders; the spiritual heroes of Juda-
ism were mustered together, to mourn
the 'Crown of Israel' resting in its
bier—to show the ultimate honor to-
ward their brave. undaunted, victori-
ous defender."—The Forum.
PIETY
Here is something that all religious
denominations, especially Jews and
Christians, should learn and heed.
They should not allow their differ-
ences to degenerate into divisions. A
dignified difference may deteriorate
into a diabolical divider. Hate di-
vides, as Milton said, and so does
money, as Swift pointed out, but re-
ligion properly apprehended can only
unite. Piety is ultimately pacific.—
Dr. Alexander Lyons.
EXCLUSION
Whenever a Jew is refused the
rights and privileges accorded to
those to whom he is equal it ought to
become his ambition and effort to
become their superior. The best way
to react to exclusion is to convict it
of inferiority.—Dr. Alexander Lyon.
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