ifiCveraorr,Thosnelatraoss • Ng ice ,. far • 1111, riA ■ t 114.• re dW`l. At t. rer ROITJEWISH (fiRONICLII ONLY /11.IMi 0.1.1•Art. PNIN1117 111sucsaa. Publielsed Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Ins. JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor • JACOB H. SCHAKNE, General Manager trAl;t3,41:11.64hat8.1171;ostofnee at Detroit, Interest as tewand•cil43 General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephone: Cadillac 1040 14 Stratford Cable Address: Chronicle London Office. Place, London, W. 1, England. roer& 1 14,4' mr s=1=IIMI . I, r - \ INsgief have every reason to believe are authentic, this discrim- inatory measure was a failure. Another theory smashed by a stubborn fact. Now comes word from Hungary that the govern- ment has decided to discontinue the numerus clausus in By Chaim Nachman Bialik. the schools. The decision is believed to have been prompted by the demands of the Hungarian Universi- (Editor's Note:—The accom- ties for more students inasmuch as there were not suffi- panying article, translated from cient Christian students. Then, too, the unfriendly atti- the Ilebrew, won written for the first annual report of the United tude of the League of Nations toward Hungarian minor- I'alestine Appeal, just published ities in other lands because of Ilungary's indefensible in an 81-page booklet by the headquarters of the Appeal.) attitude toward her own minorities is believed to have had something to do with it. In the five months that I have so- In Russia the number of educated workers was in- journed in America I have been able suflicient to fi th u 'ersities and in Hungary the to observe the life of our people so to speak, on the wing; nor number of cis is s is not sufficient. The Russian only, could I observe all phases of their reasons •are obvious. Under_ zardom the workers and life but rather small segments of it, peasants were happy if they were able to read and a few limited compartments. For must. part I came in touch with write. The university was only for the middle and up- the the Zionists of the large cities, and per classes. In Hungary the Magyars have been a de- even they were not revealed to me their usual aspect but somewhat cidedly slothful, arrogant lot. Commerce, professions in adorned, in festive garments, assem , and learning were beneath the dignity of a land own- bled in celebrations or seated around ing aristocrat. Consequently, the Jew has played a banquet tables. Occasionally there also revealed to me elements of very conspicuous and determining role in commerce, were their cultural life such as schools and trade, learning and the professions thereViten —tfie other educational institutions, syna- universities were closed to the Jews, tlfe7acancies must gogues, libraries, etc. I shall there- fore not presume to pass general have been numerous. judgment, certainly not final judg- Because of the unique and important part which ment, upon a life of which I obtained only superficial and accidental im- the Jews played in Hungary, they took a rather super- pressions. cilious and independent attitude toward those non- Nevertheless, if I must express an Hungarian Jews who had brought the matter of exclu- . opinion on the little that I have seen, I feel impelled to say wholeheartedly sion to the attention of the League of Nations. We re- that American Jewry, although it call that the answer of Hungarian Jewry was not re- does not yet at this moment offer full compensation for the destruction of ceived with acclaim by the rest of world Jewry. Jewish life in the other lands of the If the numerus clausus is discontinued, it will be Diaspora, offers, at least, partial com- It is apparent that Ameri- but another trick played by fact upon those who would pensation. can Jewry has, as it were, suddenly live in a make-believe and wish motivated world. roused itself out of its deep slumber its consciousness has begun to The Awakening Magyars must be having some and stir with a new spirit, with a sense rather rude awakenings. The war may soon be over of responsibility. The Jewish pulse in Hungary and with its end the Jews will again func- which had become weakened has taken on new strength and in a little tion. while it will be completely restored. Facing a New Era itmlavis . xpzez 4047ZiatMeZVEMI ■ INZ4,53S) ■ . The Situation In Palestine Today An Interview With Dr. Chaim Weiarn•nn. (Copyright, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1926.) (The representative of the Ila'Olam, the official organ of the World Zionist Organization, published in Ilebrew in London, inter- viewed Dr. IVeizmann following his return from Palestine recently. The utterances of the president of the World Zionist Organization, as printed by the Hebrew organ, are no striking and clearly stated that they are of supreme interest.) with regard to the new immigrants, What is the general situation of the another factor of the economic situa- Jewish settlement in Palestine today? lion in the country was operative. "In general one can say that the This was that the majority of the new- features of the structure of the Na- colliers remained without means the d The Detroit Jewl+h Chronicle invites corresponence on subjects of interest Bona! Home are becoming more and moment the situation in Poland chang- to :he Jewish people, hot dkcialms r.ponsibili ty for an indorsement of the more clear and more evident to the d by the writers. .lees .1 and they could not receive the eye 14 the observer who is not a pris- funds which they expected and on oner of bias," Dr. Weizmann began. Ab 12, 5686 July 23, 1926 which they had counted when they The non-Jew who visits Palestine to- originally net out. This is not an ac- day can often see more clearly than a cidental phenomenon. It can be taken Jew. It is for this reason that we as a general rule in regard to the im- often see non-Jews who were pre- migration to Palestine. The immigra- viously indifferent, doubting, skepti- No one can question Congressman Emanuel Celler's tion possibilities of the middle class cal or even outspoken opponents of is dependent, first on the absorption, the Zionist ideal, when they happen earnest wish to have the National Origins law amended capability and the economic prepara- to visit Palestine and see our work at tion of Palestine and, secondly— or even abrogated, but his argument against it, predi- close range, they become complete a thing which cannot tie overlooked— Zionists. It is not because they do not cated upon the fact, that it favors the descendants of on the general economic situation in see, as we, all the weak spots of our the diaspora countries. work and our headaches, internal and Tories is inept, specious, irrelevant and confusing. "As I said, there is a certain part external, but because they are more Every student with but a fragmentary knowledge of of the fourth Alijah, fortunately that calm than we and they know that port is not too large, which cannot Rome was not built in a day, and that United States history knows that there was a consid- settle permanently in the country. To the birth of a nation does not come our shame, however, there are among about through loud proclamations, nut erable fraction of the colonists opposed to separation the thousands of unemployed (in the even through continuous, troublesome from England in 1776. These Tories remained for the work. towns and particularly in Tel Aviv) through but complaints, Through work and determined will to productive elements or such elements most part in the colonies, although a few may have gone which could became productive, if we work and to work. to the mother country displeased and disgruntled, be- "Our Eretz Israel is a working Pal- could provide them with temporary work. here it must be noted that in estine. It progresses and secs the cause the majority was not happy under the beneficent this respect the progress of our work fruit of its work, particularly in the is evident. In order to relieve the sit- field of agflculture. The colonies, the rule of George III. nation it is not necessary to resort to ed(' as well as the new, are no doubt All this, however, took place just 160 years ago and becoming stronger and are on the road charity alone. What is needed now is to set in motion plans of work which to prosperity. Even those in which we are celebrating our sesqui-centennial in Phila- are necessary and which have a place the situation is not completely firm, in the economic fabric of the country, can say that they at least see the end delphia. but due to the lack of funds, they and that that end is not far off. I find But let us look at the question without seeing spooks could not be started, although they among our agriculturists that which A thirst after "the word of the Lord" was not frequently found among them have been expected for a long time. of Tories painted in lurid colors of war propaganda. is evidently stirring deep within before: the joy of confidence. The If we had the means, these plans could American Jewry, and undefined long- Even if the Tories of America had all gone to Eng- men are now confident that they have have been carried out immediately and ing for erectness and self-recogni- already found the solution to the ques- this would also have solved the ques- "Anti Israel went after God." land after the revolution and all their children had tion of unemployment. It is possible Roumania has usurped the place formerly held by tion. tion which has always occupied our There is a firm will to self-upliftment, that if this would have been done, a minds: what is the way to bring continued to maintain the Tory creed, what number Russia as the Jew baiting center of Europe. The Cuz- to emerge out of spiritual penury demand for new work would have about the revival of a people in the the broad road, the "royal high- grown and the gate for a new immi- of them would have descendants who would likely be ist students and parliamentary leaders do more bizarre onto land of its forefathers? What is the way" of Jewish history, to become gration would have been opened. I form of the agricultural structure in responsible carrier of this his- immigrants desirious,,of entering the United States. am talking about investment funds in tricks in a single•week than do all the anti-Semites of the Palestine that will afford a livelihood tory. At the same time American sound and income bearing business en- for the toilers who depend upon their Some statistical fiend has an alluring job before him if the rest of the world combined in a whole year. Jewry bends its shoulders ready to terprises end not about charitable un- work alone and which would make assume all the burdens and oblige- he will only undertake it. Most of the immigrants com- and pensions for the un- Since the "fall" of Bratianu, there has been an tions that go with that conscious- them completely independent? They dertakings employed. We are thankful for what believe that they have already found ing today from Britain are workers and it is not unrea- "election" in Roumania. An election in Roumania must ness. we have attained so far. It is the this way, they are Glad of it and are It is fairly clear to me that Amer. first time and immediate care of the sonable to believe that they are Labor or Liberal in poli- be a jolly sort of an affair if the reports actually de- ican Jewry is concluding one period endeavoring to go along these lines. Zionist executive to find a means of "It is true that not all of the human tics and should they be Tory, it would be most surpris- scribe the conditions under which they are held. of its life, the period of self-adapts• reldking the difficult situation as soon material which has attempted to find tion to the conditions of the land of as flissible. in agriculture in Palestine was ing to find any of those attitudes and views which char- Among the many expedients employed to insure a their adoption, and that it stands on refuge fit for it. We take note of this, cer- "Speaking of the solution of the un- acterized their Tory ancestors were found among them. majority for the government, the following is illumi- the threshold of a second period, tainly with regret and deep sorrow. employment question, we come to the greater than the first. Whom may we have no right to close our eyes very essence of the great problem be- The British Tory or Conservative is really more radical nating. M. Goldenthal, who writes objectively upon American Jewry be compared to? To But to the fact that a certain part of the fore us: to find huge sums for setting who, building his house, has corn- new settlers, particularly those of the into motion our national settlement in in his economic and poltical views than the American the recent election says that the following is an ap- one pleted the lower story and is about middle class category and even some the village and in the town, in argi- to begin another. The preparations of the Chassidic settlers, will be com- culture and in Industry, in so far as progressive. proved tactic. to continue the task, having their Pelled to leave their places. This hap- the industry corresponds to the eco- After the British general strike, Lord Birkenhead, a "There is a second method which is frequently re- prigin in a deep awakening and a pens, not because those elements don't nomic requirements of the country. zeal, are clearly apparent. want to work; the contrary is true, Tory leader, spoke in faVor of trade unionism, accepting sorted to and that is to proclaim those villages which strong In order to find these sums it is neces- One after another, and with tremen• they have shown and they still show sary for those of our financial institu- eagerness, as though impelled it as a beneficent institution, but asked that there be a sacred devotion to the ideal of work tions, the purposes of which were are suspected of being opposed to the government party dous by a spirit of competition, the Jewish devised a plan whereby workers and employers should as epidemic centers and they are isolated for the period communities of America are building and the national resettlement, but originally to serve as investment in- there are physical and psychological struments, to become stronger. The all sorts of communal both accept the responsibility for the conduct of the of the elections. That is to say, no one is allowed to themselves obstacles over which no effort can sums which we obtain will be invested buildings, "centers," as they are Much is clue to century-old in settlement work, the plans of which avail. meeting halls, schools, sync- industry. enter these places and no one is allowed to leave them. called; training which cannot be overcome in have been outlined and the investment libraries, philanthropic insti- one generation. However, after a sort of which is without a doubt secure. From the pronouncements of the Colonial Dames, So that neither the candidate can approach the elec- gogues, tutions, nothing, in brief, but build- of natural selection will take place, In spite of this, we will not get these ings. . . . All are impelled by a Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution, it even those colonies will go on an up- funds unless we have contracting tors, nor can the electors vote for the candidates." passion for building. A great wave would appear that the descendants of the revolutionary wan roast. •uarantors recognized in the financial of spiritual energy has risen out of - In this delightfully arranged election, five Jews "Those left behind in the agrit•ultur market. Our banks must become sires are out-Torying the Tories. Royalty and nobility the depths of American Jewry and is therefore return , to t he However, the al prewess will, guarantors. these are kotowed to, while a first-class emigre, no matter Were elected to the Parliament and three to the Senate. seeking its fulfillment. For the pros- town and is.ill. which to the class of ,t contractor and guarantor l all our people are doing is to pre. ' tr° 4',es is a rea y th• t re. luftmenschen u a.1 • already All but Elijah Mendelsohn were on the government ant how impecunious, is received with loud huzzahs. pare the vessels, but in the end will We consider it our duty to tell the must depend on the and borrower, whose business is sound whose income is G We do not object to British immigrants. They are as lists of hand picked candidates. Mr. Mendelsohn was also come the content. Then will the t r uth of from aletine, that a which certain thin human material has permanent, so that his payments can become full. Nature abhors be regular. The floating resources of good, as republican, as desirable as those from any elected through the efforts of the Roumanian Chamber vessels P a vacuum, say the learned. gathered in the country, together with the borrower—the Jewish peop le— other country. Our objection goes to the national origins What will be the character of this the fourth Alijah, is not fit for Pales- of Commerce but was denied a seat by a vote of 130 are, again, our funds: the Jewish ha- hat, of course is Minos- E T r content? co bill, because it is discriminatory. The present regula- tine and the country is not fit for Bona! Fund and the Keren Ilayesod. to 25. He did not spend large sums of money as did predict. Everything will de- i sib le to pre( them. Sonic of theni will, perhaps, be again we come back to the point H tion should have been the basis of admission, if we are leaders pend on the character of the absorbed by the industries and corn- from which we started. No economic nnsylvania. The reason giv- e Pinchot in P - to have restriction. If that were the basis then Britain Pepper - Vare nate in the anel guides who will dominate merce which are now undeveloped and rehabilitation is possible in Palestine f in would not be entitled to 83 per cent and Eastern and en was tha t his name Was Idelson and not 'Mendelsohn near future the public opinion of which cannot become too large at without the growth and flourish American Jewry. For the present No „matter how ;:iiich we re- of funds. the Jewish National Fun Fund g o Southeastern Europe to a negligible number on the lists. The fact that he is a Jew and was not on the pendulum is oscillating and it in prenent ' ' gret t i and how much it t arts us, we and the Palestine Foundation Fund. to decide. But even now the say that some of these people At this late date the talk of Tories is unconvincing. Here, and not anywhere else, will the government list is sufficient in a country where the difficult ho neo eg trfat v,ina;..; an is ifttit;ed gwa ittbherpn will find it necessary to leave the coon- you find the Gordian knot of our move- Such great changes have taken place in a century and government admits it is powerless to stop student hooli - mom on w see ment. For years and years I have try. In the near future the war a half that the acrimonious spirit which once prevailed "We now cony to the question of im. been studying the question of how this gall outbreaks, because it is really too busy making for- will embrace the entire front: all migration into Palestine. Only those Gordian knot can be cut. I have, he- has been wiped out. those who accept the Galuth, in all demagogues who have neither con- tunes out of the natural resources of the country. cause of thin, been involved in the their various shades, on one side, and If anything, the transfer of power and the phenom- science nor honor nor responsibility, vicious circle of party strife which, to But Roumanian bureaucrats play no favorites. Clar- those who fundamentally negate the can Galay urge an unlimited inimigra- my regret, in not always on the high enal success of America has given us a larger number on the other. But with re- tion. We live in a time when man- level befitting a movement fighting ence Streit, the European staff correspondent of the Galuth of die-hard Tories than there are in Britain. gard to the outcome I have no doubt. kind is subject to certain ironcast eco- for the redemption of a people. I have I believe that the positiYe and con- mimic laws and the beautiful, poetic proposed a certain plan which I con- Our democracy is not endangered by the influx New York Times, may now take comfort from the fact p of Britishers. There is really no need for nervousness that the Roumanian newspapers, other than three gov- structive forces of American Jewry and ma iestie expression that 'Ileaven sith•red and still consider—the only will overcome the destructive forces will help' does not suffice to bring to- one which is in accordance with our G because of these Tory descendants. ernment organs, have refused to report any of the pro- and will come out of the struggle gether a mass of people into a coon- needs at this moment. From my tip- strengthened and equip. try which is just beginning to emerge pimento I still hear only words, proc- When Congress convenes for its next session, let us ceedings until the ban is lifted against Jewish report- sufficiently pet with all the vessels and all the from age-long neglect. Even Herz!, lamations, impressions, expressions, continue to tight against the discrimination and not content necessary for a normal life while still carried on the wings of Uto- and beautiful and perhaps majestic ers from entering the government buildings. as for as such a life is possible in the pia, of the future structure, had this slogans, but I still fail to hear a single raise pale ghosts of a forgotten day. This last act of Parliament was the happy thought (lutist h. Furthermore, American care in mind and thought of various constructive and sober plan. "Th e only way to realize our ideal Jewry will find within itself addi- ways of providing employment and a of Professor Cuza, the worst anti-Semite in Europe tional strength and surplus energy livelihood for the large mass which in Palestine is to increase and make since Pobjednietzev. And so the comedy in Roumania for freeing itself from the immediate would congregate, respohding to the sound our settlement work. Certainly problems, from "tem- sound of the Shofar of Redemption. there are disadvantages, faults and goes on. All the left and labor groups are without rep- day-by-day poral life," ' for the problems of the Ile would have in no way permitted insults on the part of the During the heighth of discrimination against the resentation. The official anti-Semitic party has 10 rep- morrow, for "eternal life" for itself us to tiring in tens of thousands of sometimes authorities. With regard to some of people without taking the necessary • them it is necessary to complain and bourgoise in Russia a decree was issued which permit- resentatives which include the famous Cuza, Codri- and for Israel. steps for providing employment for to endeavor that they be removed. I believe in the fulfillment of the ted only the children of the proletariat to attend the eanu and his son who murdered the Prefect of Jassy, historic task of .A merican Jewry them there. Some of them will disappear by them- universities. This was entirely consistent with Soviet "We were all glad to observe the M. Manciu. which, as a single Jewish group, is selves. One thing we ought to remem- the largest in the world. American large immigration of last year and jar: the greater our numbers in Pal- theory that only those who were productive workers The official anti-Semitic party is of little conse- we were inclined to see in it the be- will build and restore our estine and the stronger our position should be in privileged categories. Despite its theo- quence, but it can be used to raise a smoke screen to Jewry ginning of the redemption and a sym- land. We need but pray that the there, the greater and stronger will retical validity, it was discovered that there were not hide the graft and corruption which have been ram- lays of its tranquillity may be pro- bol and prod of the realization of the our political power he to influence and Zionist ideal. At the same time, w e and that the natural course to decide, and not the opposite. Only enough sons and daughters of the recently emancipated pant in Roumania since the end of the war. It is not longed t, ri ntg to l en t consideration of events may not be disturbed by g es did oatniri from our colonization and cultural proletariat who were prepared for higher learning. an easy mutter to keep up a constant and undiminished untoward happenings. Indeed, there ‘vho the possihilitly that such an over- work and not from any other source vimmigration ,analso will we be able to derive this power. The decree was abrogated when this condition was re- anti-Semitic propaganda as has been done in Roumania. is much work remaining to be dune disaster, if we do not simultaneously in American Jewry and the workers Those who have other prophesies arc, vealed and the rule was so modified that the children based upon mere race hatred. The Fascists in Bavaria, are few, very few indeed. But, with in the same measure our own false prophets and are not the mes- efforts, in order to increase the cape- the growth of the national conscious- the Hakenkreuzler in Austria, the Awakening Mag- sengent of the God of our national of the bourgoise were admitted. We believe that the whole scheme was unsound be- yars in Hungary have all had periods of violent - anti- ness, the workers also will increase bility of the country to absorb the in- renaissance. In order that our num- in numbers, and success will crown coming masses. This we did not do bers grow and that our position be- cause it placed a blame upon children who were not Semitism and then there was a subsidence. Even our the labor. despite the warnings of prudent men. come sounder in the country, huge An immigratiop-of 10,000 annually is May God lengthen the days of responsible for their parents occupations and for the own Henry Ford has had choleric periods when he rose sums are necessary, sums which will, tranquillity fur American Jewry, and still only a part of our desire and a further reason that the children of botirgoise could be- to great heights of fear and bitterness, but he, too, has inevitably its heart will grow and be rairtion of our national need. How- I am sure he available for us if we increase without interruption the come just as good communists under the training they had lucid intervals. but Roumania seems to carry on a uplifted. ever, it was discovered that such an stream of income of our funds. In or- immigration is greater than the obit- der that we should be in a position Gs received as would the sons of the proletariat. The virulent, consistent anti-Semitic crusade in and out of ity of the country's economic forces continue our increasing activity in all Freakish. effect upon the ideology of Russian children was most season. Noce itiysi .tro, aabrseo b thin regions of our work in Palestine as strikingly shown in a survey conducted iii ascertain the o e tc h ei ' s si a m r : same p The Church at Watch Hill reminds there well as outside of Palestine, first and We feel certain that all is inspired by those who tion who remain a hanging he- foremost, sacrificial devotion is re- occupation which the children had in mind as a proper profit from the confusion, bitterness anti recriminations me of that freakish one at Ileidel- migr n whaesasd-ri,nroavenrdede_aratht.bingAnv. Another o.bthbb burg. Germany, where the same t bwieneg quired of the pioneers of the Zionist vocation. Among thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish which flow from these studied insults to all who are building is used by Catholics and movement, the Zionists. This is the children questioned, not a single one wanted to become not with the government parties. For the present, all Protestants but with a dividing wall has been clear to us for a long time— Alpha and the Omega of Zionist duty that the economic preparation which the center to keep the two denomi- at this moment. a non-producer. It is safe to assume that were the opposition seems silenced but even this method cannot in made aint.Meountrty,e ye,d. . is h tarter nations strictly apart. Thus Religion, ingerma "This was the idea of the Zionist same questionnaire submitted to the university students really cure economic illness, industrial waste and gov- which should unite, separates. Those the r in l* Keren Organization Month. The strength- en i ng of the Zionist 0 rganizati • on "h h as which enables large masses to immi- who maintain this arrangement may that much the same condition would be revealed, not- ernmental mismanagement. respectively be good Catholics and grate and be absorbed in the country. a large place in our plan. It is a com- withstanding the economic class origin of the children. When scape goats are used, somebody is trying to good Protestants but are, to my mind, In 1921, even a small immigration Was plete mistake on the part of those who In America with an ideology differing fundamental- not possible. If we had received larg- Christians, just as men and worn- think that the extension of the Jewish conceal something which cannot stand exposure. The poor er sums for the herrn Ilayesod in the en of my denomination are puny Agency and the strengthening of the ly from the Russian, it would be safe to assume that denouement will come and we shall learn much in last five years. an immigration of d4- Jews who part and separate over Zionist Organization are contradic- children from all classes would choose those callings OM annually ...wild not have surpas- man-made incidentals instead of keep- tory. To me these two are merely way of intrigue and corruption which may even the the absorption limit of the coun. links of one chain. All this is a part which are honorific and carry' social prestige and large surprise us who have become hardened and accustomed ing together upon a common basis set try. of Divine essentials—The Supple- pecuniary rewards. (Continued on next par.) 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