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When a catastrophe visits a land in the form of an
earthquake, a flood, a famine, do the socially conscious
ask : What is their religion? They have never done
so in the past, so why should they do so in this instance?
Although it is true that the Jews of America have
sent $60,000,000 to their unfortunate brothers in Eu-
rope and are now collecting $15,000,000 for the same
purposes, is no valid reason why others should not aid
in the work of mercy. and rehabilitation.
It has ever been the proud boast of Jewry that it
took care of its own_ It is true that the United Jewish
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, in Advance
Campaign undertook to carry the burden and did not
call upon the outside world to help, but in the present
To Insure publication. all corrierpondence and news matter must reach this
office by Tuevday evening of each week.
instance the needs arc so numerous and urgent that
—
The Detroit Jewl h Chronicle Invitee correspondence on enhhecte of Interest
even should David A. Brown and his co-workers raise
to ;be Jewinh people. hot disclaim. reepon•fhlins for an Indorsement of the
views expressed by the writers.
$25,000,000 or even more they will not be able to re-
lieve and assist but a .fraction of those in the direst
Sivan 29, 5686
Junell, 1926
distress.
Friim the very inception of the J. D. C. movement,
we have insisted that the acute problems of Russian
and Polish Jewry were not specifically Jewish prob-
Professor Moscicki, a noted chemical engineer of
lems. The propaganda of anti-Semites placed all the
Upper Silesia, was elected president of the Polish Re-
responsibility for Bolshevism upon the Jews, yet curi-
public after Joseph Pilsudski had refused to accept the
ously it happened that the greatest sufferers in Russia
position. •
were the Jewish tradesmen,, speculators and burgoise
Pilsulski, in a brutally frank manner, stated that he
generally. At this date no person with any acquaint-
could not function effectively under the limitations of
ance with the facts of Russia believes the infantile
the present constitution. He was a man of action and
charge that Bolshevism is a Jewish invention. With
became restive when he discovered the corruption, in-
that canard out of the way, the only matter 'which
trigue and crookedness and was powerless to cut the
should be considered by reasonable men and women is:
knot at one blow. He makes specific and categorical
What can be done to mend the broken lives and for-
charges
ofpalfeasance,
bribery
and
corruption
against
ry
tun's of those people who find it is diftic:ilt to adjust
many of tile old regime. Therefore, he advocated that
and accommodate themselves to the new order?
election of Professor Moscicki, who had no political
As to Polish, Roumanian and Bessarabian Jewry, it
motives. It is true that the new president will be but
is simply a question of relief. No one holds the Jews
a figurehead who will do as directed by Pilsudski. If
of these countries responsible for the plight in which
the administration is honest, non-discriminatory and de-
they find themselves.
voted to the interests of all the Polish people, it does
Enlightened Gentile America has never failed to
not make such a great difference if certain administra-
respond in any emergency. We feel certain that in this
tive officials do not exercise unusual authority.
instance it will come to the aid of its brothers and
It may be charged that dictatorship is contrary to
prove that the Brotherhood of Man is more than a high
democratic principles. In the cases of Russia and It-
sounding phrase.
aly this was, no doubt, true, but from present evidences
4
Poland Changes Her Method.
in Poland there has been no deprivation of civil liber-
ties after the'accomplishment of the revolutiA. One
can hardly call the present regime a dictatorship until
it actually practices dictatorial methods.
The action of the Club of Jewish Deputies in vot-
ing for Pilsudski is indicative of confidence on the part
of the Jewish masses. From all reports to date, this
confidence is justified, and we certainly hope that noth-
ing will happen that will cause them to regret_their
actions.
Prior to the coup d'etat it was freely predicted that
should any change occur in Poland the Jews would be
the chief sufferers. This prediction was based upon
f tihteosoe fptahset
er ise n c a tnhde N , t
flo7a l s y tsj u a s t itrioe':h1Cy
In
p ex a p ster eix e p n e c
Jew in the event of upheaval, one ingredient of great
impottance has been usually overlooked.
One must examine the revolutions in Russia and
Hungary to discover the determining factors provoca-
tive of pogroms. In the revolutionary laboratory of
Russia, there was an original revolution which over-
threw czardom. This was followed by strictly speak-
ing counter revolutions of Kerensky and the Bolsheviki.
After the Soviets were established, counter revolution-
ary movements, under Kolchak, Denikin, Petlura, and
Yudenich with varying success and for limited periods
and over limited areas were organized.
Every chauvinist, reactionary movement was anti-
Semitic and pogromist. The atrocities committed by
the bandits and assassins under Kolchak, Denikin, Pet-
tu•a and Yudenieh transcend anything in the whole his-
tory of the Jewish people. The revolutions under Mi-
lukov and l,yvov, Kerensky and Lenin and Trotsky
were marked by an almost total absence of anti-Semi-
tic excesses. These revolutions were essentially demo-
cratic and progressive without any special animus
against any groups for religious or nationalist reasons.
The lesser laboratory of Hungary reveals similar
conditions. It is not accidental that Bela-Kan and
Karolyi were not guilty of pogroms, while the Ilorthy
regime bathed in blood of Jewish victims.
Revolutionists take revenge upon those who have
done them the greatest injury and if the offender is not
real, an imaginary one will just as well serve the pur-
pose. In Russia Czarism as a system was respon-
sible for all the ills of the people. according to the
groups from Milukov and Lenin. Those individuals
who upheld czarism or capitalism were discriminated
against, but had these individuals been able by some
magic to have been metamorphosed into proletarians.
there would have been no discriminations against any-
body. All execrations would have been heaped upon a
system—this intangible something.
However, from Kolchak to Yudenich there were no
real offenders. Therefore the eternal scape goat, the
Jew, served as an excellent target into whose collective
body all the poisons could be shot.
We believe that Pilsudski is moved by democratic
and progressive ideals which exclude no group in Po-
land. The Jews were not responsible for the unhappy
state of affairs. There were chauvinistic, reactionary
and corrupt elements responsible. These were ousted
with as little violence as possible, and had civilians
minded their o'Wn business the casualties would have
been negligible.
More freedom, greater prosperity should come from
the latest change in Polanti:s internal policy.
Another $15,000,000 Drive/
We are pleased to note that the Amos'Society has
undertaken to raise $15,000,000 to match the amount
which the United Jewish Campaign is raising for Rus-
sian settlement and European relief.
The signatories are men whose sociaroutlook has
enabled them to see the oneness of humanity.
Dr. A. W. Anthony, Dr. Samuel Harden Church.
Rev. George Elliott. Rev. Dr. Charles Fagnani, Rev. Dr.
John Haynes Holmes, Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Lynch, Dr.
David Starr Jordan, Edwin Markham. Dr. Nathaniel
Schmidt, Vida D.-Scudder, William H. Short and Dr.
George F. Moore call upon the Gentile world to prove
that the Brotherhood of Man is not an idle phrase.
And why should not the Gentile world assist the
Jews of Russia to settle upon the land? Why should
not the Gentile world help to feed the starving Jews
of Poland and Bessarabia? The sufferers are human
New York and Free Speech.
The Board of Education of the city of New York
has forbidden James Weldon Johnson of the Society
for the Advancement of Colored People, Arthur Gar-
field Hays and John Haynes Holmes of the Civil Lib-
erties Union, to speak in the Stuyvesant IlighSchool.
Norman Thomas has been denied the right lo
broadcast after all arrangements had been made.
No, these episodes did not happen in Tennesee
or Mississippi or even in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but
in New York City.
All metropolitan journals were gleeful over the
farce tragedy at Dayton last summer. From,the tone
of superiority and contempt manifested, it was easy
to conclude that the sovereign community of New
York was entirely above such silliness. We do not
want the impression to go abroad that we are holier
than the others and that s' .ffla• denials are not pos-
sible here.
In matters of this kind, it seems rather difficult
to learn the real reasons for the prohibition, although
it is not difficult to guess. There is always so much
straddling, so many polite apologies and downright
passing of the buck.
In the case of closing the schools, the only reason
assigned is membership in the Civil Liberties Union.
This is a most amazing.taboo. It does seem prepo-
terous upon the face of it that those who espouse the
cause of Civil Liberties should be excluded. But yet
upon examination it is really not so remarkable. for
after all it. isa fact that civil liberties guaranteed by
the constitution ha ve not been in such good repute
since the war. Any one who urges civil liberties of
free speech, press and assemblage is stigmatized as
a Bolshevik. Our country is closed to Countess Ear-
olyi, but is open to Grand Duchesses and other impe-
cunious emigres. Despite lip service to democracy,
there is a worshipful attitude toward aristocracy and
even monarchy. An appeal to elementary constitution-
al rights is rather vulgar anti vulgarity is an unpardon-
able sin in good society.
Those people who represent the Civil Liberties
Union are too insistent upon the rights of Negroes and
• strikers. They object too vociferously to bad hous-
big. low wages and all those causes which contribute
to delinquency, crime, high infant mortality. Why
should the over sensitive, perfumed and frequently
washed be disturbed by such maudlin and vulgar
matters.
In the case of Norman Thomas, he was not per-
mitted to broadcast because he wanted to discuss ed-
ucation and disapprove of compulsory military train-
ing. The reason given was that it was a controversial
subject. What subject touching human relations is
not controversial? The reasons are piffle and the
owners of the broadcasting station know they are.
It May seem that the essential difference between
Dayton, Tennesi4e and New York City is not marked.
The same spirit of intolerance and insistence upon
uniformity underlies the attitude of those responsible
for the prohibition in both instances, but the differ-
ence does lie in the reaction of the majority of the
community.
In Tenneve, the overwhelming majority is in fav-
or of anti-evolution teaching. while in New York, the
articulate majority favors constitutional civil liber-
ties.
It must be realized by those who are in favor of
freedom, that even though there may be no objection
to the free discussion of theology and religion, that
unless the same liberty is allowed in political, eco-
nomic, industrial and moral relations, then there is
much left to be achieved.
If the schools of New York City are to be used by
the public, they must be open to all. no matter what
their views may he. The criminal laws of the state
of New • York are broad enough to punish any
breaches of good form or disturbance of the peace.
We have the comforting feeling that the impleas-
antness caused by the super patriots and the board of
education who are fearful for the manners, morals
and susceptibilities of the New York masses, will soon
be over.
LONDON NEWS
LEVI ER
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How the Hakoah Was Founded
By DR. IGNAZ II. KOERNER,
D. MAGARSHAK
Sir Stuart Samuel, Bart.
Sir Stuart Montague Samuel died
suddenly i n May 13 of heart failure,
in his seventieth year. His death
rives the Jewish community in Eng-
land of one of its most prominent
m•ndhers. The Samuel family, close-
ly associated by marriage with the
Yates family, was prominent in the
leadership of the Jewish congregation
of Liverpool in the early part of the
nineteenth century. It troves its de-
scent trout Ralph Samuel horn in
Sterlitz on Nov. 22, 1738, and to Sam-
uel Yates of Sterliz who married Mar-
tha Abrahams, daughter of a Dorset-
shire farmer, who eloped and became
a Jewess.
The first activity of'Sir Stuart Sam-
uel as a public worker was that of
honorary secretary to a ommittee
which organized a ball for the benefit
of the Jews Deaf and Dumb Home.
Later he become associated with the
Jewish la and of guardians, became
a president of the home for Jewish
incurables, a position which he re-
tained until his death, president of
the association of Friendly Societies,
and in 1917 he became president of
the Deputies of British Jews.
Sir Stuart Samuel represented as
it Liberal the White chapel Division
of the Tower Hamlets in Parliament
from 1900 to 1916. His parliamentary •
career was enlivened by a costly court
trial owing to an incident connected
with his firm. Sir Stuart Samuel
who voted on a bill about Indian sil-
ver, in which he was interested per-
sonally, was prosecuted by 'a common
informer, and condemned to pay in
tines about £25,000. He was raised
to the Baronetcy in 1912. His death
leaves no heir to the haronetage as he
had no sons, his wife and two daugh-
ters surviving him.
Up to the last day before his death
Sir Stuart Samuel preserved his jo-
viality of disposition and keen relish
for a jest. After his death a whole
collection of jokes connected with the
general strike was found among his
papers. During his presidency of the
Deputies of British Jews his imper-
turbable geniality and ready wit
alienated from hint many of the depu-
ties who considered his humor as It
becoming his official position and some
quite unreasonably, regarded it as an
indication that he thought little of,
and had no consideration for, his of-
fice.
Sir Stuart Samuel for many years
wrote for the Jewish Chronicle both
as an art critic contributing articles
on the yearly academy exhibitions and
in a lighter vein, under the pseudonym
of Rory O'Moses, whimsical items -on
toplOt1 matters. In his latter role he
used to figure before his readers as
"Ballymeshugah."
At the funeral of Sir Stuart Sam-
uel a multitude of people representing
all the Jewish communal and national
institutions were present. The chief
mourner was Sir Herbert Samuel who
said Kaddish at the graveside of his
elder brother.
Founder and President of the Hakoah Sport Club.
jag either fallen in the war or !Ramon. '
Sixteen years ago the anti-Semitic
crippled. It was only due to the
movement in Austria was a significant
strength of purpose and the faith of
factsr. In found expression in the at-
its adherents that a small group of
titude if the general public and par-
the weakest continued the Ilakolth Sc.
ticularly in the sport associations.
tivities during the war and kept it
Jews were considered ineligible fur
alive.
admit siun to tmembership in the sport
After the Armistice it was tog sport
lISSOrillti011s which, according to the
which led to the revival of the Ila-
German and Austrian conception rests
/with, but the desire to defend the
on "honor," this honor being based 011
Jews from anti-Semitic attacks.
the racial stuck of the individual. A
Throughout Vienna it laseatne known
situation arose in which even those
that wherever antiiiismitie attacks
sport associations which wens founded
were to he expected JAIL Hakoah would
by Jews and supported mainly from
the spot to combat it.
Jewish funds declared themselves Ar-
The achievements of the flakoah in
yan associations, their Aryanism find-
sports during-this period %cure exem-
ing expression in the fact that Jews
plary. In all Yields success was at-
wire barred front membership.
Another circumstance requires men-' Mined, such as we ourselves did int
dream
possible.
tion. The physical training of Jew-
At this time we began to develop
ish men and women-in Central and
cultural
activities. Our orchestra and
Eastern Europe was being neglected.
our chess suctitms were founded and
Physical degeneration, which makes
developed.
Championships in all
the Jews an easy prey for attacks,
fields of sport were won.
threatened.
The expansion of this Ilakoah or-
Out of the understanding of these
ganization to other European coun-
facts and their implications, the Ha-
tries was then begun. Since IUt 1 we
kcal] was born. 1Ve felt that steps
have founded 4,000 Jewish spdrt asso-
ought to be taken for the purpose of
ciations in various East European
giving the growing Jewish youth
countries. Strengthened within, the
physical training that would free it
success of the Ilakoah rapidly made
from possible degeneration and which
itself evident in the field of interna-
would place it on a par with this non-
tional sport. This was also accompan-
Jewish youth,
ied by the founding of new branches.
"Aus jaden Jurgen junge Judea zu
Our victory in England in 1923 ono.
machen." This slogan, coined by
the Unity Club made us the champion
Theodor Ilerzl, the founder and first
Slleller team of Europe.
leader id this Zionist Organization,
What we achieved in Egypt and in
and Max Nordau's words "%Vitt
Palestine is unique in the history of
brauchen sin Muskel Judentum" (We
sport. .lewish sport clubs were found-
need a muscle Judaism,) were adopt-
ed in Egypt, NIorrocco Anil Tunis.
ed by us as our aim when we took the
After our visit to Palestine there was
first steps toward the establishment
not a single Jewish club there which
of the Hakoah.
had not fouiffleil a sport club. In
When, in 19119, I and a few friends,
South America, as well as North Am-
laid the foundation of the Hakoah in
erica, Jewish sport clubs were found-
Vienna, the difficulties we encountered
ed by Ilakoah members who had •mi-
grated from Austria. In New York
were just as great from the Jews as
front the non-Jews. However, the
t ere are known as the Nlaccalaseans,
ideas which lIerzl had implanted in
In Buenos Aires one of our members,
the Jewish youth were so fruitful that
Sel er, is a wrestling champion, as is
the Hakoah succeeded more quickly
Ochsenhorn of Chicago. Jewish sport
than it could have grown prior to
clubs were founded by m•mbers of the
Ilerzl's appearance in the Jewish
Ilaktath in NIontevidio and in Los An-
world.
geles.
At first only students were inter-
Unfortunately our success' in sport
ested in joining the Ilakisah, but grad-
has nut been accompanied by astinan.
ually we succeeded in interesting
cial success. The Hakoah idea has
()thee circles. In a year we had a
spread to the very poor Jewish mass-
membership of SOO. -
es. Mernlwrship dues cannot be ob-
In this second year we reached a
tained from them. The Hrikoith has
stag• where I t hought it possible to
frequently to render assistance to
int n duce the Hakoah in (other cities
them, supplying the children with
in Austria, By 1914 we had branched
clothes, loiiking after their health, giv-
out to include among the activities of
ing them medical treatment, hiring
the organization swimming, light ath-
instructors and finding employment
letics, football, soccer, wrestling and
for them. :Medical attention is at the
fencing. Girls as well as boys par-
disposal of our members free of
ticipated in the Ilakisah activities.
charge.
In these activities, emphasis was
As far as the economic depression in
Ian! on the training of the youth. to
Vienna permitted, we have obtained
be prepared, should danger arise, to
a certain measure of support from this
defend the Jews from anti-Semitic at-
well-to-do Jewish circles in Vienna,
tacks.
but unfortunately conditions in the
Then came the destructive war.
last few years have been such that
Hardly a man in Austria who could
we could nut expect any aid from
carry arms was spared. There is not
them.
We have gained the interest of
Polish Relief and Its Chances in
mother organization in Austria
the public not only in Austria but in
England. •
which suffered as great a loss as did
n11 the other parts of Europe, but 110
The plight of Polish Jewry, the un-
,the Ilakoah, our many members hav-
financial assistance.
wholesome morass of spiritual and
physical demoralization into which it
is sinking, under the inexorable com-
bination of ellel101uie circumstances,
has rain the Jews from all over the
rld to .is rescue. Angle-lewry has
By S. SCHWARTZ
received a Can for help of the afflicted
•
3,509,000 .lens from their own mouths.
(Copyright, 19213, by Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
At the relief conference held in Lon-
don under the auspices of the Feder-
ation of Ukrainian Jews. the Federa-
The trade balance for Palestine is
towns. And yet such a small export'
tion of Polish Jews and the Lodzisr
again a very bad one. One is forced
The tiifference.between the flans for
Benevolent Soenty, Dr. "Leon Reich,
to this conclusion by reading the an-
1923 and 1921 is May EE.57,000, and
ex-president of this Polish Club of
nual report for 1925 which has just
between 1921 and 1925 only 5;I:
Deputies brought the message himself
been Published by the trade depart-
IMO,
It is true, that during the,
Ile spoke also at several other nwet-
ment Of the fittest illy. government.
years the demand for gomls
heel]
ings ih London, representative and
According to this report our imports
steadily increasing in the country it-
non-representative, and yin the whole
in 1925 amounted to ST. 7,503,928,
self, but the goods were brought in
Angle-Jewry cannot pretend not to
and Our exports to IT. 1.588,157. A
from abroad and were not pflohiced
have been acquainted in detail about
difference of CE .11.0O11,1:110. In gener-
in Palestine. Palestine's new kelt,—
the realities of Jewish life in Poland
al there is a tendency in Palestine for
try does not show in Palestine nor in
and the urgency of coming to their
imports to rise. In the first years of
foreign markets. It is not yet
Hill as soon Os possible. It is, how-
the civil administration it was evident
supporting. It must be assists sl
ever, vet y doubtful whether anything
that we wet importing less from
hits not yet made any advanse t•
tangible, anything at all capable of
altread biscau7s we began to produce
wards the stage when it will be ad-'
coping with the situntion in Poland.
many articles in Pabsstine. But dur-
to satisfy this demand , of Pa 1,1:/.. •
will emerge fry the numerous con-
ing the last few years this tendency
growing population. If Palestine d. r -
ferences and public meetings which
has suffered a setback, and Palestine
not advance to this stage soon, ftc
hove taken place recently.
keeps on increasing its orders froni
industry of the country will be en-
So far the war victims fund has
abrund. It is a most disturbing fact,
dangered, and the whole development
been prevailed upon to part with it
for the country is being impoverished
of the country will be in the balance.
reserve funds which amounted alto-
vinyl indebted un that account. Pale,
Which are the countries with which
gether to 3:5,000. The newly amalga-
tine's imports for tier-laststhreis years
Palestine trades? England imports
mated Relief Organization of Great
amount to 1923, tE.5.12-1,815; 1924,
more golds from Palest'ne than any
liritain has pledged itself to raise £3,-
£E.5,589,079; 1925, 1:E.7,iani,923.
other country. Syria, Germany, Am-
Ogrevery quarter. Rut to pledge one-
In the course of one year this im-
erica and France follow pretty els
self is one thing and to raise money
ps rt of foreign goods has increased by
The biggest export countries are Eng•
another. The fact remains that no
£E.2,000,000, from E.5,589,679 in
load, Egypt and Syria. In 1925 Ens
prominent personality from among
1921 to fE.7,603,923 in 1925. Last
land imported from Palestine good_
those who matter in Anglo-Jewry has
year was a year of mass-immigration,
to the value .1.1! £x.1,083,150, and ex-
responded heartily to the call. Ex-
with about 40,000 emigrants entering
ported goods to the value of £E.411,-
pressions of sympathy with the fate
the country. It appears that these
774. Egypt bought from Palestine
of "our co-religionists of Eastern Eu-
huge quantities of foreign goods were
goods for CF..577,277. Egypt occupies
rope" were not lacking, but not a sin-
brought in for these newly-arrived
first place in Palestine's export list
gle man with a name has taken up the
Jewish immigrants. flow much mon-
and Syria third place, buying from
invitation of Dr. Jochelman, who is
ey these new arrivals have brought
Palestine goods to the value of ff.:.
the chairman of the relief organiza-
with them is not known, but it is
158,1112 during the last year, This
tion, to put himself at the head of the
pretty certain that they have brought
year both imports and sxports from
a lot of it in imports, and the figure
relief work.
Palestine ih Syria will amount to very
The whole hope seems to rest en-
is a staggering one for a small coun-
little because of the difficulties cre-
tirely with the East End. But the
try like ours. Of the £E.2,0011,000 by
ated by the turbulent political isondi-
Jews of Whiteehapel and of the East
which the 1925 imports exceed those
lions in the country. German goods
of 1924, £E.500,000 were spent on
of London generally are poor them-
imported during this last year amount-
food, drink and tohacco, more than
selves and would not mind being re-
ed in value to E.930,139. Imports
fE.1,000,000 on various manufactured
lieved themselves. The Jewish board
from the U. S. A. amounted to only
goods and £E.800,000 on raw mater-
of guardians has registered a collos-
£E.000,999, and from France to £E.-
ials.
sal deficit for the last year and stands
553,589, from Italy to fE.356.201.
Thequestion is whether Palestine
badly in need of funds. How then
from Roumania to £E.319,541, and
will the money for Poland he collect-
exports too have increased. If they
from the British colonien to £E.583.-
have it would not be so bad. But they
ed? Unless the impossible happens
550. Great Britain and Palestine's
haven't. At least nil that you could
and the .Yews of the West of London
neighboring countries Ape the biggest
tell. The export of Palestine goods
respond in deeds as well as in words
exporter., buying 91 per cent of all
for 1924 ran to £E.1,200,812, and in
the Jews in Poland would do better
Palestine's goods, and the imports
1925 to £E.1,297,.559; exports there-
not to cherish any false hopes as to
from those countries into Palestine ac-
fore, have increased by no more than
the money to be receiveds.from their
count for 38.5 per cent of the total
tE.97,000. The discrepancy between
en-religionists in England, and look
imports. As economic relations are
the rise in imports and the rise in ex-
elsewhere for their salvation.
closely connected with political, it can
ports is the cause of the rise in the
easily be gauge to what an extent
price of food-stuffs and other articles
Jewish Theatricals in London.
Palestine is interested in the political
during the year (from four per cent
situation in Great Britain and her
This Jewish Drama League, the
to about seven per cent.)
neighboring countries.
honorary president of which is Israel
It is worth while emphasizing the
Zangwill, is preSenting at irregular
fact that the government made half
intervals single performances of plays
its revenue from import duties during
of Jewish interest. The performances
the budget year of 1925; more than
usually take place at a London then-
Speaking of house-maids and the
SE.1,000,000. It is the Jews, the in-
ter on Sundays and well known actors
notorious incongruity of their char-
creasing Jewish emigration, who have
and actresses appear in them. During
acter with what ought to be the in-
created this big demand for goods
the past winter three plays were giv-
fluence of the church they attend I
which has given the government its
en. "Nathan der Weise," by Lensing,
am reminded' that these maids would
enormous
revenue.
Again
we
repeat
"The King of Schnorrers," a dramat-
be at least a little better, less Pre -
the old question: the Jews give so
ised version of Mr. Zangwill's famous
sumptuous, impudent and bold, if
much to the government; what does
novel, and "Israel" a play by Henri
their mistresses were less competitive
the government give the Jews!
Bernstein. None of them were suc-
and more co - operative. Women are
Let us consider again the imparts
cessful. "Nathan der Weise" is more
organizing to save the world from as
and exports. The figures for exports
of the nature of a treatise on tolera-
kinds of evil. I seriously recommend
during
the
last
three
yearn
were:
for
tion than a play. "The King of
that they come together and handle
1923. CE.1,11323-1; for 1921, CEA.-
Schnorrers." being a dramatized ver-
the problem of domestic employees
200.812;
for
1925,
fE•1,297,5511.
These
sion rf a satiric rather than a dramat-
in a way that will make for honor
three years were years of growing in-
ic character failed, hopelessly. "Is-
and efficiency in both mistress and
dustrialisation. New factories were
maid.—Rabbi Alexander Lyons.
founded in Tel-Aviv, Haifa and other
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