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Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing
Inc.
JOSEPH 'J. CUMMINS, President
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, General Marys `r_
.es, on the other hand, that there has been
ssionitry longing and sentimental romancing
tonotl mu
(ft' enough realism ,
N1 e believe that there has been an undue emphasis
upon the splendid heroism and idealism of the Cha
lutzim. but not it sufficient appreciation of the fact that
there were only a negligible number of chalutzim out of
the whole number who came there, while there was an
almost complete ignoring of the factors that made such
heroism and idealism necessary. But men must eventu-
ally come to grips with these underlying facts. They
may be blissfully ignored for a time, but they persist
in obtruding themselves for the cloth of any civilization
is made of the warp and,woof of stern realities.
There are now 100.000 who came to Palestine since
the Balfour Declaration. These 100,000 are a tact.
They have problems of no mean importance. They
'must be absorbed, integrated and made self supporting.
We believe the time has come to consolidate the ground
gained.
European Zionists may storm and thunder even
more than they have hereto fore, but storming and thou -
d ering do not solve immediate pressing probl ems.
I
Yiddish---A ChildlesS Language
HE WAY TO
JUDAISM
By RABBI
JONAH
B. WISE
h
,
By ALTER BRODY
d
great nursery of Yit lish the 111811V
milliuned ChettO Of Eastern Europa
has been smashed by the Russian Rev
The Jew must talk like it man. The
olution and the new nationalism which
humblest member of the fraternity of
oiluffire at Detroit.
it unwittingly engendered in that (wet
Entered as iecond•ela. matter March 3, 11, 113. at thci
Israel is it sharer in a history which
—
Mich.. under the At of March
March S
--as effectively as the Ghetto of ('en
so manly that it should fire hint
tral Europe was smashed by iht
Building
with courage. An enlightened man
General Offices and Pub walien
Enoch Revolution and the Napoleon
is a free man. No shackles of moral
A venue
iv wars.
weakness or of physical cringing can
A Cable Address( Chronic!.
10W°(Kb."r
Cadillac5
40
A hundred years ago the conquer-
hobbit:
or
cripple
the
individual
who
London (Mc.:
ing French army sweeping across Ger.
is freed for his task by a conscious-
London, W. 1, England.
14
4 Str•t
many opened the gates of the ghettrItht
miss of his place in the world tool his
$3.00 Per Year
as liberators. The Jews liana. Of
duty to his group. It is the task of
Subscription. in Advance
their 1,000 year-old seclusion, rubbing
the American Jew to develop himself
publication, all correspondence and new. metier must reach this
their eyes at the new day; but before:
To Ittsor.
intensively
as
a
Jew
in
order
to
bring
ae•k.
each
°Mee by Tuesday evening of
they could: take in the situation, an-
out those qualities Of strength which
other tide—thee national uprising of
The Detroit Jewl-h Chronicle Lovites correspondence on subjects of .lotere.3
history
surely
indicates
as
indisput-
of
the
Indorsement
to :he Jewish people, but disdains responsibility for an
1813 and the awakening of German
ably essential to Jewish life.
view+ expressed by the writers.
national consciousness—swept over
If Judaism had peen lacking in in-
Germany
and caught atom up. That
le n wo n e traugit; :
Tammuz 6, 5686
June 18, 1926
Wits Ow end of the German Ghetto.
Jewish
he
IIT•fore
that
they were Jewish subierts
t N
hry„ t
tion, far there would be no Jews.
4:t irettsit):ninsta"illiniclitttt 47 g• ti ltitit„tt'ii
of German princes. Now they' had to
g which
cause we are convinced that there is
i et, t th tit n't'tcoitdon san' itaire"
Germa
be
o ur vertically minded Congress has
in Intl unique power of resistance to
nar,
the J
Similarly', under the
('jar,
Similarly'
drawn around the Ghetto. On th e
. evil, a mysterious element of stren g t h
MeyerLondon the first Jewish Sticialist to Con -
of Eastern Eurtpe were segregated,
which makes for righteousness, we
East Sid e and its numerous suburbs
oppressed, massacred, but I hey were
Kress front an Eastern state, was struck by an automo-
in Nianhattan, Brooklyn, and the
harp on the enterprise of Israel. All
not expected to be Russian Jr feel
Bronx the strange, angular charac-
organized effort in o our cause should
bile and killed.
Russian. The revolution came, and
stort; wintloWit
. are i grow-
based on the actual and p tdential
s ear, i
t
u
er
i
g
years
old.
During
his
life
The
Prohibition
Amendment
has
been
a
live
issue
be
the
conglomerate rates of Eastern Eu-
Mr. London was only 55
scarcer an( stai ri, tri , and soon
Power which we know to be in us.
rope split up into a dozen little. states,
-
htr
motto
s
in American politics of late, due to the Senate investi
time, he gave the best of himself to the trade union and
from strength and
Ko i
even t e. i 11,09"n:obit•
We sh ould s
ouch jealous of its new-found nation-
f Jewish
gation which proved that the country is better and
go o nward to greater .strength, for _the
Socialist m oveent.
. t ;;,
alism and suspicious of all forms of
m It was, therefore, fitting that hun-
h i
„f
( 'iTi ;1,V,!
he n eat
---
,, , st,
lie are assured by our past and by
dissent. Suddenly the Jews that had
dreds of thousands should mourn his loss and pay trib- worse, moral and immoral, more criminal and less crim-
spelled
au
heathen
English.
Column
our conception of our program that
lived for centuries in that territory,
fla sec-
by column the growing English
late to him, as was done in ,New York durin g most im - inal , regenerate and dege nerate , improving and deca y -
are obligated to do so.
regarding it as a part of a Vague, un-
should
Jews
Lions
of
the
Yiddish
doilies
will
march
The fellowship of
ing,
depending
entirely
on
which
side
the
witnesses
we
iversal, goqtraphic area tolled the Ex-
pressive funeral services.
arise from a sense of loyalty to seam -
nos their pages in Occidental or-
acro
'
ile in which they were merely stop-
Of late service has had a rather malodorous conno - testified.
antiui
-
der
from
left
to
right,
forcing
the
t hiniti; ebnnobbtinit it.. littshintiuld
ping pending the Messianic era sud-
men siti
square right to left Oriental lettering
One of the mass contradictory statements, the sober
tation for it w
as too intimately connected not with sere -
denly these Jews found the:nisch., x-
tt
t
i
i
e;
t
t
r
itti
T
h
l
a
,litt:
l
tr:
length
ia
and : powerful
cause
tle irat
lwlt.lxiiraittl i; rifunnt ti ll at
righteous
-
itit
r
petted to turn into fervent Poles, Es.
objective testimony of Emory Buckner, Federal Dis
ice which made for the good life, but was only that
h
a r ' e gathered togpother to find
titter arc
thonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and
it
hy . of the old. occupying the supplementary pos-
trice Attorney of New York and General Lincoln C.
service which added profits and increased dividends.
themselves and become, y wish
what-not, depending upon which side
i
ro be
Rion at miesent held by an English
a
to w h ich they
Andrews in charge of enforcement of the Volstead
In the case of Meyer London, it could be truthfully said
of the border they happened to be. )i
page for the piling.
oh Wit have not banded
committed.
Nlany of them obiected and became
ls forth in violent contrast to the intemperate,
that he dedicated his life to the service of those who
, ektt;
Act, stands
Lhuetmr, l r y ei sd e nUtizt.iiittiron.forT E. :
is
ttl inili flhgt: tiIiittfilisITI hstitratigta rte. rtna:itt irtne _ lif t :
Zionists, thudding that they had wait-
o
a
statements of the it
were oppressed and inarticulate.
. 11
exa ggerated and often romntic
1
ed long enough for the Messiah, tad
•
,
advantage socially, or economic
dsh
theaters than ever, but nothing
theta
i
going to take matters into the
Those who knew him intimately learned that
tosses of both sides.
h other
' he
being identified h wit eacer.
has
kern
written
for
them
in
fl
new
But in large nuniliens
they hands.
Both these men who have a first hand knowledge of That is an accident whit+ the tra tra
ge dy
ept musical conieditis differ-
was not a fighter, and had his sense of indignation and
years, except
ey responded, like their French and
y-
of the ghetto would turn into a
ing very little from those on Broad.
injustice been less pronounced he would have passed the subject are persuaded that prohibition is anything
G etautri brethren in the past arid like
esty. The id entification is with a
way. The final stand of serious Yid-
their American brethren at present—
a quite unobtrusive life, characteristic of many of the but an .unmixed blessing. Mr. Buckner believes that
cause. When the slew fails to realize
ills}, 11 1111011, the Yiddish Art Theater,
on the biological principle of protee-
s
sages and scholars in Israel. But his outraged feelings proper onforcement in the state of New York would
planning in the future to alternato
that, he loses his dignity, then hi
becoming trees Po-
tiist e colorat ion -..
1 `` Yiddish program with English;
its
ace
tty, and if h e is not to be a men-
loyalt
es, more Latvian that
i
were aroused over the unhappy condition of the sweat cost upward of $75,000,000 per year. Even should we
lh than the rutty
e'us, slinks off incognito. Those
and an organization called the Anglo-
So on.
the
Letts,
and
shop worker, compelling him to throw himself with all accept his statement as to cost, we do not believe that
we cannot slough off are the ones We
Theater at the to Fifth Ave-
Thus, between the Zionists who
•I ewish
really must carry as extra weight in
nue PlayhollSe is producing Yiddish
have no use (or anything but Hebrew, il
his strength and determination into the fight for better it would be enforced with even this vast and uiiheard
the combat for our great object.
c classics in English.
Stitorliillg Yiddish ilo the latIgUllizio of
wages, hours and conditions for these submerged ones. of expenditure. General Andrews really believes that
A fellowship for Jews is ready and
As fur contemporary literature,' it
the exile, and the assimilationists who
The conditions under which workers in the needle modification of the Volstead Act, permitting the use of
Siaiting. They need only the start-
ehampitin the partieular language of
is smething
of academic or--tu use
o
ing point which liberal J udaism in-
trades worked were so appalling that only a singular- light wines and beer, is needed before there will be any
the nation among which they find
an East Sale paraphrast—of cafe in-
dicates as essential fur realizing the
blest only. Literary schools rise and
themselves, Yiddish is left with it du-
the
poignant
misery
general
moderation.
ly sensitized artist could portray
Jewish program, and they will find
t owasattire
i
future OVI - 11 ill its furtive hioile.
a fellowship in thought, ideal and t full In'the cafe, but the street knows
Besides the Senate investigation, there has been
of their existence. Due to the efforts of Meyer London
them not. The classics—Perez, Sim-
True, in Soviet Russia itself Yiddish
project, such as Israel has never ex-
tlicially
recognized by the got ore-
much
activity
anti
excitement
in
minty
quarters.
Wil-
lea
Aleichem,
Sholein
Ascii,
Pinsky,
and' others with like socially conscious viewpoints
is I I
!writ:need in all its thousands of
and tht• rest—have already been
DO it, whereas Hebrew is under it Imo
Vare in Pennsylvania was nominated on a deti-
much of this has been remedied. The Amalgamated liam
years of faithfulness. There are Is-
,,,
trmslated•
and
perh.aps
in
the
future
•
(
id:
reason
for this: partiality is that
(s
reel-minded men am w omen • h
t
Clothing Workers, The International ,Garment Work. rusty wet platform in a three cornered fight against
throughout
...ast•i
ii Jewry N oldish is
a final translated anthology—an "and
: the
NN'olioloring wh y
millions
who
are
-
of
their
rig:LT . 11,d as the speech of the mole-
others" — will be compiled and the
ors and similar organizations are the P
Senator I 1)('1' present incumbent. anti Governor Gif
of Jeshurun prefer the
wanderers
lariat,
\c
hennas
Hebrew
has a po-
matter
considered
elvsed.
,
ry. In Illinois. 1Vil-
tireless efforts. Only those who measure all values by
, to the rigors of the land
ford Pinchot, W ho ran as a bone d th
1
nounced natianalistic, religious, and
I" the Yiddish theatrical w"T"I
e Democratic pit
w
iteirl.t ',..srntell' e Jordan. They know that
the yardstick of possible profits can call these organi-
there is very little sleep lost over the
LamBrennan seas nominated in
therefrom liollOgeoita, actient. In spite
we have wall:It:red and have suffered
of this official patronage it is fool-
approaching. demise. Actors are at:-
on an out and out wet platform. In New York
zations anything but beneficial, not only for the work-
and they advise us that tlwre k in
their art die the
eustomed to having th
hardy to think that tht• new eonimun-
Senator
NViolsworth
conies
out
in
favor
of
repeal
of
the
le r . e a d dy' • to recent": them them; a nd as for the prod arty se - istically educated generati t d i of Rus-
community.
i .s 1 • '
Whole
ers but for the
Land.
Promised
r
‘‘
battle
fo
in
Al
this
indicates
a
definite
to Yid-
taking
s
as
business
en-
l
.
Meyer London lived as it man with due regard for
sian-Jewish youth w ill cing
l
Eighteenth Amendment
atrica
,,,,,,,, .
It is the business of R eform J
terprises are comparatively l ingual
dish when Russia iind
of
his death this deeply rooted spirit mani - change of attitude toward prohibition. The drys may
tIowshi
ttt is a ii. f:I
Some
a
t titalrtiii;:i
- o i' r t, I, ,, i 4 ( i„ I„„, '•
otherS, and in his
1
!Nix-
,,.i
',-
(:(ii
i
.
1
,
;'
l;:ti
1111:of-
eir
tag
the
out
t
par tiality. Their stn
say' P that
S
felted itself. lie asked that the man who had struck
English with-
urge all suit', of fantastic arguments and offer all the
toes can be adapted to there
Y o uth throughou; the world.
tZ 'forr iner is more difficult than the
The problem is really for an M AU .
out any test.
lame excuses they choose, yet the fact replants that
hint should be released and that he should not be prose -
We deny,
however, that Jews
o
an d i t is as follows: If
heft er
is
world
lliterary
,
to
lobes
,
In
the
or the 1't I
prohibition as a means of stopping the use of alcoholic
tI hate each other
•
. f i d I •
cutc•tl,
sl ittalililing sellooIS for-
(O‘th'ete'stL;(r. i ' ji•cts. Some lead- • concern. The
Even the bitterest theoretical enemies of Meyer )Jm - intoxicants is a failure. T he extent and ramifications
et th eir diffet i icet i; si:untundri ines. Tw iti d
dish IlliWapapers is 400,000, HMI 61'
tint way preach that sort of thing,
isitoixttt:
traders
l
t
i
ii
n
ta
ill-1r-
gloomy
t
irafIr
thtnsuerer
d iscu s s the
of the by products in terms of crime, delinquency,
d on paid him a deserved tribute. The fur workers, who
tituelt,ntritt:iyro,arefr:;initfe
r the y
t' in th'‘::
an
eo - d . deiheavt1S111 tit nil Ie for their immortality
our code'
colic using, are debatable, but it must be agreed that
are mainly communists, execrated hint for his anti-Bol-
Ices from
hands of the nuts generation
•an expect ytlISMOINOW
ce n,,w,hin, arising froni a strong de- is the hope, however, of being
em-
n.
Theta:
the
necessarily
heavy
mortality
among
prohibition has contributed in a large measure to our
shevik attitude, yet they realized that it was an honest
at to be identified with a great
balmed in an English translation a nd
such readers la Mot r isled by the tw o
and genuine disbelief in their theories that moved him,
present unsatisfactory social conditions. .
cause, is a real project for the lead.
h
thus preserved for the ages.
igr atio n law, and if the
per cent
, ,
in Israel. That type of associa -
At a time like this when the seaters are troubled,
and not a time saving, compromising antagonism.
But in the Yiddish newspaper worm
g u—
p linw long
sour, it se If is drying
tion which is sought In•cause of the
i
ti
t
:
nntaiitr
this
circulation
to
be
,
wkt•
for
t
•
t
it
t
A
hu
Wi,11
The American Jewish community has suffered a
some find the fishing most excellent. Nlen who usually
v
l
t
e .ai
nw,.ihdicahru if hello
lute s to zero.
nutter
serious loss. for there are not too many Who have the are most scrupulous in adhering to the common deceit -
fiat than their immortality ti lose.
lint that .irst'rn"ii t the way the Yiddish
uhy.
Liberal Judaism is a way
'
ren
;
ort
•
le
overmuch
the
fine vision anti sympathetic understanding of NIeyer
cies, forget themselves and mb rese
j: arnalists look at it. Their mutt ion
'I'hr„trirxl rntrrprsirs are launched
of
human
out d in ft.::
s t ,y ,t ,t a p :
e 1 ,n
de magogue. 11:e have in mind Senator William E. 11or-
not
in away
t e llig e nt
London.
niteiwa
nwtropolitan newspapers are not built
o n g the i r
t hei.nttiii
: amon
anoh
imortality
lout of Judaism,
alt who always seemed to us one of the few men in .
for a season. True, their editorial
taring the. new generation. That is
but a way into it. Its teacht•rs espe-
slogans and
e
opinions are adjustable, but there is
a problematital answ r to a problem
American politics Who (lid not frighten at
dally Its young teachers, must real-
ono issue on which they cannot corn.
In English the Yiddish new spaper
i ze its need not only HS a sally port
Who examined word taboos with great care.
promiseand
that
is
circulation.
would have tit compete with the gen
—
The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Zionist
to further war os the Philistines,
u
nl
i
i
t
turb
etnp
eu
ithlti
ios
tina
l
a
hilii
Peri-110s the lure of the presidency is responsible for
itt
oral
newspapers which have shown Too
n lixnety Yltiolrdkishw
gh which the
but as a gate through
Organization of America opens in Buffalo, New York,
i.;1(, ,,, ini t s •th ittn re iin der ts he ittas,tyiltto ateitautti triiing . to
his most recent utterances on the Eighteenth Amen d -
enu t 1 e irir 'Lion
rigThthenouf tsiiienautt.iiini
lation
of
over
100000,
representing
on June 27. Over 800 delegates from all over the
Jews which you
ment, or perhaps he is such a constitutionalist that he
investments aggregatims millions of
itself under a disadvantael: M Y st:1 1 ,1
country are expected.
dollars. Each of them is it great and
trembles at the very thought of nullification by pope- as teachers of i era .1 , .
ei mpetition, for the children ..1 chi'
I". the
complicated
organization,
whose
ma-
i
vat
e
eu.it
immigrant are not a Whit behind in
-
At this convention the former disaffected elements
hit- action; or, set again. perhaps there is a subcon
chinery has been evolv."1 through
t h e American disinclination to Iii•ing
lt
represented by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Judge Jul-
;
e
Pe
'((rtih
:'
,',
ltI(1..
',.itsTenne';‘reitTtriu
scious fear of alcohol due either to a personal or fam-
years
of
experimentation
with
its
par-
different,
to having special int, IN sts
sner::rin4
u
.
i; not the f. ellowship . which
ian NV. Mack. will participate and help to determine the
ticular offline. They have branches
--to being a crank, in tither nods
ily experience with the demon rum, the vistas of spec- ' rononenoctor, for years have dubbed
throughout
the
country,
and
the
larg-
policies of the organization. The revisionist group.
Certainly
it
will take readers with it
i t i u ninit.
t a isi rl
ad .:!rinitil , l an t litinn,etn•xn itleit, ! ,1,1g. us tov
ulation opened up by his action are illimitable but we
...I of their, the Forward (circulation
belligerently nationalist urge to lily
however, will present a more formidable front. will
cannot indulge in them and must get as nearly to the afraid of words. We have expert-
2n0.0000 publishes special editions in
such a newspaper, and the eirciihni ,, i ,
have more cohesion and definiteness with a more artic-
wish we: I:-
various large cities, maintaining, an
of the various English-Jewish
bottom as possible.
ol z . I a r 0 unii ut ntiber t:.:f i them in our
tr eed
ini„mni ne t y n i ni • e d i t. n o t a n rii,.,iiir
independent plant and editorial de-
ulate representation than in the past. The majority,
Y ou must
Mr. Borah thunders the dreaded word nullification
',Hutment in t'hicago for the mane-
, if it is an example .:f what
'antle'tt.c.ns(corulitteiell'e's"(:ruals
however, will come with a definite practical program in
or Limn tot
facture of its Western editi "is. All . agement
an English-Jewish daily may expect_
just as others who have either personal motives,
taught . theirs: according to the light
mind. even though it may permit an enthusiasm born
of them. however, have sophistitotted
.There is 'the eco n omic alignment to
them
to
be
exaggerated,
hurl
disloyalist
at
every
Teach.
re o In gnu.
whose fears are
t•,,,,,,id,,,.. Three of t he het, Yiddish
and the
advertising departments,
of the wish VI color its view point.
men and to talk mall think like men,
one who does not see things exactly as do the upholders
prosneet of having their circulation
dailies are practically trade papers
then they will remain with Israel and,
We do not believe that revisionism is at present a
supply
cut
off,
however
gradually,
can
The hulk of their readers art drain
for those who
of the administration.
.
significant
what i is more significa
from the needle trades. These are tl•:
very serious opposition movement, nor do we think it
'hi:UO.1 ant by then( in terms Of dal-
seeking,
w
leh
:
-
In a country where millions of men have been tits
thn,;:uw w ;"l i hartt ntwaien hart' walk
tars
and
cents,
the
dollars
running
in-
Socialist Forward, the Communist
win many new adherents to its program from those
will
.
franchised because of color despite the fourteenth anti
Erciheit, and the capitalist Morning
to
seven
figures.
talk with men. Like Joseph eat old,
,1
attend
the
convention.
So
there
is
a
flutter
on
the
'Yiddish
t"urned—read mainly by workers for
who Will
fifteenth amendments, it is really quixotic and not a
we seek our brethren within and
its help wanted
columns and be auses
newspaper
row
oil
East
Broadway,
a
'
The danger to the Zionist cause is not at present
little silly to raise the hue and cry of nullification be - without the narrow confines of mere scanning ..f specially prepared circa- it is the only morning newspaper
opinion, doctrine and accidental asso-
from the revisionist or left groups. but comes from
lat it n graphs showing resent and past
While Jews are still the large st na-
cause the states are discussing referenda.
elation.
those enthusiasts whose enthusiasm is not tempered by
fluctuations, nervous consultations be-
tionality among the needle trades, the
le
We think the action of the South in denying the
power is rapidly shifting.
noble tween the editorial and business de. balance of
a realization of the actualities of Palestinian life,
hei
an dieb
17nttn t(it::•tgPeenthlift
11
of the
N.
Negro equal rights in political, economic and social
pa rtnients. The upshot of which is
o o af t. al l'I•Atly 10 per cent
it
al
tt,:
a inns i ( w
unified
purpose
of
our
'
project for the
It seems almost axiomatic that political autonomy
that
the
editor
of
the
supernumerary
member
ship. ) Poles, Lithuan-
a
tthe
matters wholly indefensible. Does not Senator Borah
tit: lit:ri pe:117 , t Isaac M. Vt'ise :Mill: "StU-
English section for the young is drag-
ians. and even Americans, are miner--
and control can only be achieved in Palestine as else-
amu d u -
itii e
s i t t:
e n mindful
ni
a'
ti ,in
o that this has been a fact for over ;10 Years and
knw
to
ged
out
of
his
obscurity
and
asked
ing,
while
the
Jews
are diminishing
cause in
where through a majority of population and economic
i.h ,: . tr'
Of the bet- ;1 1:: , • n : s,..u
Most of the Anwriean-lewish prole.
SRI, the paper. Desperately they are
that this condition is improving only because
remern.
which we are engaged; let
dominance. To date neither of these desiderata has
seeking
succor
from
the
very
source
lariat
belonged
to
the
petty tradesman
o lu: , 'et ant, ii I
tiring of the economic status of the Negro? If he has
ti; itz,,,,..erthof i Nt:::::
class in Europe. They became workers
where danger threatens.
been attained, and the mere pouring in of large num-
a crusader in shining armor in the fight for the
is
Fear
though
the
Jewish
birth-raft
by
necessit
y
rather
t
han choice. be
rael be like: sheen:p t.wItiit'e tli l'hlitivt:: nuO
bers is not calculated to accomplish anything but eco-
Yiddish is a childless language
CRUse they had no capital on arriving
restoration of the fourteenth antl.fifteenth amendments'
,henherit' You have volunteered to high.
its
offspring
by
the
merci-
and
were
without
the
neressary
Know-
—bereft of
nomic indigestion.
tltrr ilatht t iif te;:iaardiala ntp;n4
i t•rar
heei
iritlftilier a,heupaittii
Sie have not heard his truculent voice raised against this
ledge of the new language . They nev-
lb
•ss Moloch 1.f the public schools.
•i
Recent reports emanating from Palestine from most
nullification. This word nullification is a sonorous, cap. - the hanner.bearers of His law, the :
Every year, as soon as they are of
er fancied their descent in the social
i, t up .1,
i t.
authentic Zionist sources, indicate that economic con-
th e i r stns and
age—and before--in tens of thou-
oroug,,,
s slithe
c al e an.,
sort of a word and when uttered with deep
ta l ic le the t a nid
H p is rinuiion,
beating
ti
e tt p atun ivir
daughters to regard the shop as a dis-
sands the i hildren are brought by
ditions are unsatisfactory due primarily to the inability
light and
h,
if
pions
rgt
all
the
impious
emotion and conviction, it must m
their own parents anti offered up on
apostle, of humanity. Whether you
of Palestine to absorb ,10,000 immigrants in one year.
se attn.itah::: \iritet .1 -itt i
the altar of an alien tongue. Twenty'- uger inttr ieont" I tgyrhakdhuattni(1.)n. tfhr:i.m
hosts of alcohol tremble.
will occupy the pulpit or rostrum. the
Chaim Weizman!) at Tel Aviv minced no words point-
eti grammar school) needed to submit.
i , 0 Y•U'S ago it was prOphttSitil1 that
We are sorry to see :11r. Bo rah resort to such mere - teacher's chair or any other respon- Ii Yiddish
would (lie of this national
The result is that there are few Amer-
sible position in life, you are pledge I
•
ing this out.
s
tricious device and cheap clap - trap as word taboos.
lean-horn Jews in the needle trades.
hemorrhage, but instead the Yiddish
to he 'Select sons of l'fIrael,' dedicated
Some of the Zionists may attempt to excuse the
Obviously, therefore, an Englishslew-
press has grown to a state undreamed
In the final analysis the question of method of re - to the service of God anti His people.
ish daily cannot expect to thrive on a
tit'
then.
Where
there
were
a
few
conditions wifich obtain because of the Russian' land
. . Re of 'Wile Sc hein,: the 'Sons
peal of N'olsteadism is a legal question to be decided by
labor polity. The irony of the future
mush - tom sheets that sprang up and
of the Prophets, for via are ca t•
settlement scheme. and no amount of proof 1611 dis-
adway
eel.
o
Many
an
able
lawyer
has
learned.
East,
Br
will be that when Yiddish has dU•l
Court.
ill
died
overnight
the Supreme
upon today as they were in the days
nut in America the Jews will have 1:::.
suade these bitter enders. but it must be remembered
Ines, there are now organizations that
wrong
on
ap
-
his
great
disco
mfiture,
that
he
was
all
of
Samut•I
to
assist
Israel
in
a
crisis,
to
claw what their grandfathers were in
guardian
of
can
measure
themselves
impressively
sole
that the Zionist movement is poi the
.
to guide it."
in-
parently simple legal questions. The court may decide and
Russia—largely a middle-class grout:.
against
our
English
dailies.
Ste
Faith is dependent upon the undi.
the Jewish masses and that Ott1 destitute wards in Rus-
p
an
,
Of the other dailies, the orthodis
.
may
and
it
to the 10-story Forward building
that state referenda are the correct methods
sided personality of man. Religion
(Republican) Tageblatt, the oldest 01
sia, Poland and Bessarabia of today do not all see eye
you
will
find
very
little
tit
remind
you
i notr t
decide otherwise. No matter how it decides, it is cer - it (horlinowtrita a ritri o n iideu cit.
Pick
tu
ii
ai
.
nt
ti
the
Yiddish papers, is .practically 0111
llt
the
t itaty nt i t tittit tann l:afrk
tu.pa ysinu n ir
that
't"n: .
,dune, elier the
to eye with them.
fain that there is no special sanctity in the Enghteenth
of the Tanning: and although it ma'
nisi conscience. Any ' one of these
Be that as it may. Ascribe the present predicament
P
in-
in
t-
.
the
first to initiate the English see
per, and its multitudinous folds,
Amendment. The people passed it and these same peo - may.be but nuas a scalpel to vivisect
lion, there is no future far the Env
to atty cause which may come to hand. Erect all the
et•Iturti lt t i tligtkraot•titt ravure,. magazine, fob-
trtni:
aarrat•nptrhortitanasiubs
ntOarrt
pie can repeal it. The people whet urged its enactment
lish. 'Noe younger generation is any
tut, for it h
whipping boys on whom you may heap all your male-
thing but conservative in religion ant
can change their minds and seem now determined to
etIoln's' , ea" rme lti.n y' ho em(bi tar:f a l t -1
juvenile sern
create from laboratory fragments tb'
polities. The Tageblatt and its cotes
dictions, yet the fact remains (hat the problems Of Pal-
Inn of Su nday -newspa perdom.
-
repeal
it.
The
creature
is
not
great
t hau amtiNaltt;sotrawtot ti rnmi .irtiii•rieVa rnht ty antifiyrnretnti:t,uutlurti: 'dit \
either abrogate or
failure i of previ vs
tremist, the Communist Freiheit, art
estine are numerous and difficult, and cannot be solved
er than its creator, and all the word taboos cannot
lowest in circulation, proving that un
into the unkn.own is the hitch
by pouring in more and more people who cannot be
c: mpromising orthodoxy and uncom
change the fact that the present opposition to prohi -
'CI
promising heterodoxy are equally un
of immigration that P entnVi en nu .d n until
free
man,
liberate
him
as
a
coura-
absorbed.
will continue despite Mr.pe+rah and all those
hition
t
more
tha
w ri a
th„the solid liberal major
restrictinn.
pipt
t . ifInthhe
present
American Zionists have been accused of being too
co n. gents explorer. It knows the danger
d Yiddish 'for the bi.annual
,
pensat
e-
iy
fanatics Whit are concerned for' our morals and
to his spirit which comes with the r
The other, the nationalist, liliera
realistic by European theorists. They ascribe all the
exactions of the public school. But
t ninval of hitfrontier. Human needs
(Net.
Tag, would seem—on the face of it
things are. qutee different now, and
of
ills to lack of political activity, and insist that
. wlifit )nottiet tarie „ truly
ofm
r anu
he immigration bars
editorial policy—about the most plato
We hope that Mr. Borah will soon return to the bet - ti riatnwrictetattert hedr
weold he even
try Icha.
the economic problems would exist if Zionist leader.
g.
For the reprItien niishnhe
were Mtn'.
ter practice of facing the facts rather than creating bar - hod," "the giory is denarted," but
(Continued on next ;age.)
flood is drying up at the .-mice.
ship had only talked more politics and devoted less time
"Emanuel." "God is with us."
Meyer London Dies.
A I:Ingo:fgt. is dying—intestate and
without issue. At the height of its
power and affluence in the fullest pi's-
session of its faculties, with it litera-
ture, a theater, and a press of its own
that would do honor to tunny a am tt
tongue, Yiddish in America is facing
a slow but inevitable dissolution, dY-
ing—with no one to will all these ac-
cumulated riches to. In 20 years there
will be no readers left for its great
nuitropolitan dailies, no audiences for
its numerous and now crowded thea-
tors; and its contemporary literature
ty readerless, and printed by
—already
the authors for mutual presentation—
will he it closed set, it completed dos-
sic, like the four-and-twenty books of
the Old Testament.
nat it will he a painless end, a death
t■
i
Curious Reasonng.
A.
■
American Zionist Convention.
■1
t • -
mole
to realities.
riers made by taboos.
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