is i t. 7)er ta 'WEI. ism et Ron ictz I. Ng, ,-W-1 0 1st rir& - 1 AI, 1 risjTh. Nt, much ill feeling among the alumni, undergraduates and outside objectors. It would be most undiplomatic and in decided bad Published Wieldy by The Jewish Chronicle Publiehleg Cm, Inc. taste to state specifically that these students are to be By LAWRENCE LIPTON denied admission to the university on the ground of JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President ... . race, color or creed. The libertarian traditions of Har- Politics and Anti-Semitism JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor plendid an s ts h e, "these at rh a o enaos aso ones,' The recent political changes in Roo- vard would hardly admit of such a crude piece of tact- u.,iiriitt r , ,l , 'Fifth Aa n n IExhibition The JACOB H. SCHAKNE, General Manager which large 1.1, mania, as well as what is being termed a t Jew, h Showing the less discrimination, while the Unitarian tradition would Detroit. east wall—it "the unceasing pogrom on the Jewish Entered ., Second-dam mstter Ilf•rch E 19U, at the Postoffice e which was on view o , Temple Mich , under the Act of Horeb 3. 1319. listed in the catalogue) bespeaks, tenia make it rather difficult for the authorities to place the se taueclae;intst linia Iteiamaantarny of anr .:, 'f,' 1' a depthrees,p•ar teas: from March 22 to April 5 proved to me, the triumph of nature over ov th. Jewish student in an inferior category because of his be a show of uncommon interest. For 'a ci'h i of General Offices and Publication Building ramshackle devices m uninspired coon red it he tine Jew from that country. Dr. Will- l.P it was a world-wide exhibit and con- religious views. still, ,h the h a i 525 Woodward Avenue m Filderman, , are the subjects ds- c lam rained representative work of nearly ni 'jo Cable Address: Chronicle the However, an expedient seems to have been hit up- in the A ddi sh prkss. Telephone: Cadillac 1040 every school of graphic technic and daring nature that y, with all its bei.i. 1 1.‘.' London Office: r Thus it of- The Day thinks that the fall of the medium. medium. Thus . of me iet and to us it is about as absurd and untenable as any every On, must submit to the intelligent selecti• ' 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England. to fobserve a „ay Bratianu cabinet will, of course, not 7 rra r' e esp,•r of the reasoning of East and Ward anent racial stocks be ity of the artist. Schwartz disc n ..1 . lamented by Jews, who have suffer- experiments and compare opportunity $3.00 Per Year ,i Be c„,,, d with nature. atu r. Subscription, in Advance and Nordic superiority. ed the worst persecutions the most samin painters, etchers, sculptors :0'targonencte„hmilliedy"1 J,,,,ewies,rhaftp beyond savage forms of anti-Semitism under To Insure publication, all correspondence and new. matter must reach this Students are to be admitted not on the basis of —out of whtl i l, li cloth. ' t oat. by Tuesday evening of nob week ow 'n rule of that irresponsible adven- em Nlanievitchand William Schwartz skies are not selective forms wrung scholarship, but upon personality. We are further in- t the u w r aatsi ndaa_ ed ' t erseeansi wuar:ri.a peI,w e' itch, on dominated the show. Maniv with much T toil from the aitnlessness ..1 The Detroit Jew1 , 11 Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of Interest B Roumania if Ro wuh formed that the school now wants the student to con- to :he Jewish people. hitt disclaims respomibillty for an Indorsement of the first view, appears to possess a great- nature. They are half-forms of ie Mews extract. d by the writer. to imi- tr er mas t er . of his palette than doe s ccort g to the new formu- ing everything in its power treating masses of alines, as in hi tribute variety and co 1 or. According . the former - Schwartz but on closer examination it "Emancipator" or threatening disa.- lyar 2, 5686 la, it is not sound educational policy to have too many tale apaitricrazaredss-, ianmitsafhiattsrefielwand,gestem April 16,1926 becomes clear that this is not at all ters of forbiding form in his "Befor m the same community, nor of the same religious true. Schwartz, color for color and fr o the Storm." Even their color is fa, however, that a new rater may not be tone for tone, is as consummate a col- beyond the most inspired moment, o! or racial groupings. any better than the one just fallen. orist as Manievitch, but, whereas the More and More Opinions. Manievitch is a man diviii,J If one should take the trouble and examine the N5 r,hwat are the prospects for the ini- latter is like a fanfare of trumpets nature. against himself—the age old awe of situation in place of residence of the students attending any college n ement of the Jewish and a beating of tom-toms, the form- nature pitted against the age old spir. In a recent issue of the Dearborn Independent, Hen- The Day sees a possibili- er does not lay down his brush till he it of rebellion against nature. t ty of such improvement in a national, ry Ford explained his at itude on Jews and disavowed or university, he will find that a majority live in the im- koumania? has achieved the effect of a symphony. Schwartz is calm—but melancholy. an government. any special animus against them. After the unhappy mediate neighborhood of the school. Most of the stu- a c o titi r aoff fiikamaatl tl em letah aisd iiss tWellimm even fatalistic . In his "Meditation" Roumania is demoralized and din- . the very trees droop with melancholy mess he made, one would have imagined that he would dents at the University of Michigan reside in the State tern of tech 1: ic, an intimately personal organized. No single party can drag the color is subdued with the soni- be very reluctant to break into print again, especially of Michigan and most of the students at Harvard live her out of the marsh wherein the blind matter, it a so implies much about the and her overtones of fatalism. Ilis figure, artist's attitude toward the public. and dishonest political leadership of in controversial matters. The omniscence of great in Massachusetts and more particularly in Boston and in "Aiming Rock" move eternally ir for o ec i hi s public tea adventurers has landed her. Unless :Manievitch g ed be b takes n vicious circle of doubt and question. wealth compels otherwise silent men to become vocal environs. - does not, and such a government of various parties, ing from which high circling walls of Curiously and yet it may be accidental, but many ,z is edidactic. lie national government, is before, eVei t„ and oracular. dull greens, blues and dun brook ii,, , ith him ef w oriel ann rW Ista4,e affable schoolmaster. a escape. That their eyes can see is One of the most discussed questions of the day is of the students attending Harvard are Jewish boys who erything i not it, Jew's as ,,w itfliiaMatnelcesvittca h m"stialkaeatt itue w d l ii toward 3: it isnaoe ta, ats the h attitude only their own black image "through live within 50 miles of Cambridge. They do not live in change. Prohibition. Much heat has been generated by the Only an impartial govern- or a glass, darkly," reflected in a bottom- disputants, some light has been shed upon the perplex- Cambridge and, therefore, cannot lend much color and t nrrnest iswificthhewcilol baet ar, in minwdb tlhe in- himself through the eye of the spec- less pool at their feet. "Chicago tator Ifoe thdeaeconsciouwnss of the pub- offers no flattering homage to the ose who viewed it with some objec- variety and even if they did they could not add much h er" ing problem by t which will not seek rt )o anscraease ameerael age of steam and steel. Here are two tivity and historic perspective, but a solution of the ex- spice and charm inasmuch as they are the product of the welfare of single persons, or the behind a fore not 'wtall r or a technical masters of modern thought and mod- i of f a u ng I a e p ke ao r e teyr t , nonly t t ahne s single virtuosity. He ma s his techn c power ern expression. Both are Jews ins°. fisting problems seems impossible according to those a uniform environment. Undoubtedly, Harvard would serve him well as a vehicle in which far as Judaism means devotion to who know most about it. But to men with the king or be a richly hued and fascinating place if the Funda- give the e Jews hope, that the attitude to convey his creative thought to the of truth and the courage to rebel. Both e more are without race or nation insofar as mentali ts of Tenness e and Mississippi were admitted te m:atird them in that country will spectator. In this s he reveals autocrat attitude there is but one method of of the Jew than does Manievitch. For h ge to the better, will become more these things mean conformity to a re- in larger numbers, or if the sons of Klansmen of In- and one principle of action—force. a has nt o the Jew always s poke nin pr- an stricted dogma and a legalized out- d ana would decide to lend their brilliancy and erud- hula other editorial, The ol)?nayt.R4, i diit.iise. . . Mr. Ford would end the whole business of Prohi- look. Both are international insofar insTer;: e t idt c hgita e o ant i o t ll: ea other it a t i ub a ines:t i d o anisl asNafF a t e d s f as devotion to truth and the courage ition. o s l f atlr present m ftrh ae cusses laition by using the Army and Navy. Every soldier, natlrair- r a t, inat a n de ie oitia g to rebel are international, non racial It is true that universities have been put to uses sailor and marine would become a prohibition enforce- elite ' in their scope and meaning. paper is of the opinion thrit all the never intended by the founders, but yet despite all the alone. Like Samson on he answers all Marek Szwarc was presented hy excesses of the academic hooligans in m c nt agent. h at s e, t d r led Irees . quest io ns misuses the idea has always persisted that the student of, r esu a alttiw five placques of hammered brass. Ilere aVtlicablutZes e does seem a f a r cry from the man who would n wi l ies the It is another interesting phenomenon. A a u sv ep e ture m aachea r o h ws came to learn. If he came with sufficient knowledge anhorli ol fe'n,:sitcssoamiaiusas :ae° m e t r i c a I co h o ,nfi i r i psuottshir itu n sianoigri,anenpi ilt;tubadiareio al n g elements in Rou- niodern Jevv who, after years of paint- have the soldiers out. of the trenches by Christmas and p a r t o f t h e r u hag to qualify for admittance despite the fact that his per- mania. o; ing under the influence of El Greco Invossratrloelt vaeartatfhetieaveLina- elicit:sn he man who would introduce national martial law to YtiTt and Van Gogh, falls back upon a sonality did not meet with the approval of the go-get- stop the traffic in liquor. But upon analysis, there is ter, or the social requirements of the best families, yet Uir aean ammng peiasantry, the i irresponsible- Lis eral Mterpretation of the Bible and a Schwartz? Not at all . The artist stark, r . h saw itself at the head of not much difference between the militant savior and he had the opportunity of acquiring knowledge, social band which tf ,, bresseli,:aatluiVed filr what he does, ia a n anew n o umania 'either the u tVerra:Iti i. or stiziewac rheurg the autocrat. Both are primarily interested in their newly ac- Tou ts a is fl in i in c4 - , rli h i1 t r ma ns i tt ond, iee a m ts, ilitant. c atl„iei i n oeIsnn,: either doubted R own swollen egos. sine may appear to have an aru- e; lt grace and bond selling ability. But Harvard would re- `aieV7asrted i ' ulCub tlleaseceol5mfaasatie vitch is just as m how can find population or for their own to quired htudt en to bring every- peasants, incited the latter to pogroms as Schwartz is but he chooses to Con- verse the process. Now the s is compositions istic connotation, while the autocrats ego is naked and duct a seminar of post-graduates and thing with him. If that is the case, why go to college, er food for his spirit. Even the Ile- and other crimes against the Jews. all is an unbridled egotism demands t an entrance examination. He brew prophets would have found his unmixed, but beneath The inevitable result of such a course d meddlesome spirit i which would make a vvhole there are more agreeable places to our knowledge is didactic only insofar as all art is ft is more im- was that the government and even the aporttamn)t, severe, and ; what an And it must be remembered that personality is to t lrytn;ist tyd of Roumria ari e t7,taallny dis- didactic. Both have availed them- art open to the world fit the pattern of its distorted self adulation. ofcgmmasrtoeg suspicion of tale mrimitiv°Ps 'ihoenz E etermined not by any standard tests, but is to be (-igt d °fife eo ff ctl more than once let it be be o I t i , s r . r e ct v t e a t elt anting him his primitive technic, he Such is Henry Ford who has there m is no p erePsseaunee'at known that he was omnipotent in his own world of left entirely to the discretion of certain designated ever ed to the full by the vast stoer Luse f r still liable to the charge of anover- men opposed to the present regime What chance would a Jew or Negro or East- are elest in the people. "The pres- of fruit garnered by the old m asters ond antiquarianism. Nell, he is i not automobile making. From omnipotence to omniscience persons. the field of design. Both under- h sentimental, and that is more than ern European have if East and Ward should have any- ent crisis n Roumania is s t e result from stand form and its uses. But Manic- a ,o a tte utoftdn,le, and incapable re- could be said for to nine is but a short step. thing to say—not much. Discretionary authority is at of an a ,ry irresponsible in the language o f th e m ne which rse dares ti p m ue rsw l its rT- vises speaks It is very unfortunate that Mr. Ford did not have best a most unsatisfactory and dangerous method, and tan- speaks in s t a rrrte zt d gee], w studio gm, and Compare he traditional themes. perhaps David Spying on Bathsheba" with hangs over the head of the discipline of education or the restraining in fluence of when revolution one knows the bias of certain individuals it is overprove my point. The language of .f iorr at lIn vrw'su . t.rnon ayt io of broad culture. Intellectual humility is something sheer foolhardiness to expect any fair treatment from undemocratic regimes everywhere.” the street is after all (how can I for- .s ant tar Referring to a recent statement by to which he is a total stranger. He knows how to cure them. get it?) the also and jargon of the .a. .1 S ■ A•fir, becomes clear at o fice t hat Bratianu published in the New Yor iri caught the frank spirit of Ob has winding road to Home every social ill, because he knows how to make more We think John Harvard will just have to forget Times, the same paper points out that chromo—the Sweet Home, the photographic pot- narrative while Italian': nt t Testame fa st:ati.k . the very fact that M. Bratinau finds automobiles than anybody else. He would make short this new fangled piece of snobbery and continue to rely trait and the everlasting etching of mous picturess are soft, evasive ant it necessary to attempt to make the old Jew in the skull cap. No, his shrift. of these piddling, hesitant officials who would sentimental. Still, question whether upon mental tests, for despite all their shortcomings world believe that democracy, equality the language is not the language of the it is feasible ' for the twentieth Cell and liberty for all inhabitants of Roil- hesitate to take drastic action. and inaccuracies they are still the least discriminating. street . It is rather the language of mapntd to opuratcto fh fury yr iJn etiow iti oeb attempt mania, irresponsive of nationality or the Imagine the United States of America overrun with If the Jewish student qualifies, Harvard cannot keep race is what the Roumanian govern- cfiidvei nliez e nd oc fo i ncvenrasbantr o ntn, ,thoer, htoonensstectohne- sel f ment wishes most, this very fact soldiers, sailors and marines, searching, smelling, him out and should not try to do so. phonetics of Yiddish speech, of cha- s _ u c e ne l'; ma by their eyes, , in ■ seeeLing ;Bin/he shows what course the Jews ought to snooping. In the most serious industrial crises in which ' %l yri —comrades in spirit. Neither t work with their hands? The a Biblica take. They ought, namely, to draw i men could possibly have these of Jew has spoken for himself in th the normal processes of life were actually in danger of the attention of the world to the sort found the e cramping limitations of the cwarc t r . b Bible. Why should M r k S • of democracy, equality and liberty, Grabski Too. suspension, the President has hesitated to call out even pre-impressionistic painters a sufli- ae to speak . for him with1 which the minorities and particularly a fraction of the Army, and in the matter of the en- t vehicle for their creative made h.' raw c I le . ' 1.1 I think the Biblical Astonishment seems to be the order of the day the Jews, have been enjoying in Rou- ct h ieonnght. Neither is a conformist. be ter job of .it thaan . SZwaracs. ma ' forcement of a sumptuary law of most doubtful value, among the Polish government officials. Not to be out- mania under Ilratinau's government. Neither is a courtier or a sycophant. rout' in wood-carving an. Armin The Morning Journal comments on a man does not hesitate to advise that the whole of the To them painting is simply the mad- Geller in pen and ink stri, done by Prime Minister Skrzynski, we learn that Stan- To fot.ciros letter from Roumania, also pub- ium for the expression of a restless armed forces of the United States be employed to en- islaw Grabski, Minister of Education, was astonished a lished symbolism of line and mass. Ge in the New York Times and of dissent. In The Emancipa- tposons are f rankly Bpi let's sycomiti force it. And what if the people remain obdurate and when informed that the Jewish Deputies had decided which portrays the political situation spirit tor, Schwartz identifies his own hu- sense- lical-7- hat . is, in a literary sense- stiff-necked, then the Army and Navy shall become a to vote with the opposition, for to Grabski the oppo- there as that of an oligarchy, while manitarianism with that of Lincoln. bo with .. tir min passsioorne hil enaA d N v orn the king and a group of leaders are His Lincoln is not only as Schwartz ri. Sa b,' ,rm o r ar ,f,sp part of the every day police force of the country. passion o for sition is made up of disloyal minorities, and how could simultaneously the Rockefelters and hbut Lincoln as R Schwartz rn Bahnc in ng her Under such conditions, we might just as well disband the Jews who had been treated wuth such tender so- the Fords of the country and are pri- sees would h ave him. In this he is within works re ogt . na ernels of her other e rmany the civil departments and resign ourselves to military licitude, especially by Grabski, be guilty of such in- marily interested in the promotion of his rights as an artist. were not their own financial and political inter- , The weeping philosopher of Bar- which I am familiar, reveals an e . rule, drum head court martial and arbitrary authority. ests and where elections are of no nard is, after all, Bernard's Lincoln. quisite sensitiveness to decorato avail, as the outcome of all Rouman- One must carry the proposal to its logical conclusion, gratitude. stump-speaker with the baggy values in form and color. Lou This all came out at a meeting between Grabski, ian elections is what the king wishes The and in this case how can one expect after six years of Kamm was not fairly represents pants and the stagy pose in Lincoln it to be. but his "Vanity," a tempura, was Park, Chicago, is St. Gauden's Lin- failure by the civil authorities that the military authori- Skrzynski and the Jewish Deputies in an effort to as- "There is a conflict between the coln. And the new Lincoln of St. work of considerable skill. The tie certain what is the Polish Jewish Agreement. Cur- ties can do the job in less time if they are to succeed. statement of Dr. Filderman in New Gaudens, with its prophetic head, is York Art Center was represented iously the agreement which the government holds con- York and that of Mr. Lucien Wolf be- And when that job is finished why not use the Army still the Lincoln of St. Gaudens. If 10 artists. Their work all lacked II tains 12 cultural and political points and no economic fore the Anglo-Jewish Association. I mere making a portrait of Lincoln impression of competence that cha and Navy to enforce all the laws. The former thinks that the masses of acterized the Chicago group, but oi I should portray an affable story- provisions. Where else in the world would the officials If Mr. Ford has read something about history, in charge of a government so stultify themselves. Imag- Roumanians are not at all anti-Semi- teller with a shrewd twinkle in his canvas, "N. Y. Roofs," by M. Soy' tic, that the entire situation is caused was quite in the best manner of t eye. All are Lincoln. There is room which he is pleased to call bunk, he would discover the government pursuing the ine our State Department not having the complete text by in such a figure as the Emancipa- day. Lionel Reiss. a familiar nut wrong cause and allowing the anti- that man has fought many a stiff battle to get rid of all exhibits artists, h tor for many Lincolns. Schwartz's at of an important agreement. It is too preposterous to Semitic agitators to carry on their "Emancipator" more than the Lincoln only one etching of at Jewish the Beth El sho military rule in civil affairs and that not one civilized work. All Roumania needs, according even think of. William Auerbach-Levy was rem of the Emancipation Proclamation, is country in the world, not even Russia and Italy includ- to Dr. Filderman, is a better govern- rented by four etchings—all famili Lincoln of the Peace Terms and The Jewish Deputies made known their economic ment, more order and the restraining the ed, goes so far in the attempt to enforce its laws with the Reconstruction. He is the Lin- traditional subjects--handled wi demands and were promised consideration. We shall of the anti-Semitic agitation. Then coln that was killed before he was his customary skill. If he would or the military forces the situation of the Jews will improve. loosen up a little and permit him. , see, and until we learn that Jewish workers and busi- Mr. Wolf, on the other hand, gives a horn. We were threatened some time ago with Mr. Ford ness people are placed upon the same basis as Poles, the relaxation of a good hearty Ian Manievitch makes his own subtle hopelessly gloomy picture of the Rou- in the traditional Jewish mann , comment on the world and Its ways as president. We escaped that, and it is well to know we shall not be persuaded that Grabski and Skrzynski manian situation. Inclined as we are but he does so by holding up to a man what an artist Auerbach-Levy wit to give more weight to the words of what manner of man he is. lie reveals himself as a be! Of the Detroit group the no a mirror of his own works. Not man, are in earnest. native Jews as to the Jewish situa- distinguished work was, in my op t despot and we need no despotism here. but the works of man, are reflected in But astonishment has become the latest pastime. tion in their country than to the ut- the prismatic mirror of Manievitch's ion, the two canvasses by Jasr terances of foreign Shtadlonim, we Those who are charged with the enforcement of This is to alleviate the suffering and mitigate the star- must admit that in this case Mr. art. A sea of drab housetops, ---a jum- Schwartzman. Altogether it was an exhibit of t Prohibition will not pay much attention to what he ad- ble of crazy chimneys against a murky Wolf's assertions seem to be borne out vation of Polish Jewry. A lovely scheme but not ef- highest interest and served to bri sky—this is his comment on the Ghet- vocates, but the army of bigots, fundamentalists, witch by news coming to us daily from Rou- to Detroit something of the great I i fective. to. I remember one of his canvasses, mania, while Dr. Filderman's assur- burners and restrictionists will take much comfort from 77 E DET E.011' EW1SH &MINIM DIGEST The Second Commandment ' . A) this latest brilliant pronouncement. If men would only stick to the business they know something about. WHEN HOLIDAY IS GONE By JACOB V. ARIEL A New Dispensation. Harvard University received a bit of notoriety some few years back which was anything but desirable. At the peak of the period of unrestrained discrimination the university undertook to devise a method by which certain unwanted student groups would be excluded. The pressure exerted upon the authorities compelled them to abandon the scheme, but according to recent advices the Nordic plague has infected the administra- tive and faculty personnel. Two outstanding defenders of the noble Nordics are Edward M. East and Robert D. C. Ward, profes- sors at Harvard University. These gentlemen have written drool comparable with the best of Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant. Sometimes we have the feeling that they are competing for the distinction of making the most absurd and unscientific statements. In order to avoid invidious comparisons we feel they should all be awarded first prize which should be divid- ed equally among the four. This brings us to the most recent proposal of stu- dent selection at Harvard University, for it is certain that Harvard University is determined to exclude Jews and Negroes if this can be done without causing too " ` .:aii.>n