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or phone Empire 4878 any day I pie I meet who say that they would
chology of the spoken word, pante- ter
Saturday rather be anything than a rabbi I
mime in the classic form, diction, bet ween 9 and 5, excepting
: wonder why they don't show them-
voice culture, psycho - gymnastics. 111111 Sunday.
al
selves considerate as well as critical
This class will be held at the center
and do it little something to make
under the direction of bliss Cyreld
CONDEMNATION
, somewhat pleasanter the position
Epstein. There are a few more reg-
1which they regard /1.1 so undesirable.
istrations open.
i —The Supplement.
many
peo-
When I contemplate the
Mothers Clubs:
The Mothers Clubs of Detroit are
planning an extensive educational
program for the year. There will be
discussions on such subjects as home
management, time for entertaining--
how to get it, holiday entertaining,
the successful hostess, modern house-
cleaning, the well equipped kitchen
and modern laundry methods.

selves from the other minorities, they
will have against them both minori-
ties and majority peoples. Better
fellow-suffers as friends than no
friends at all. Moreover, from the
general point of view of Jewish poli-
(Continued from last page.)
tics it would seem more than unwise
hardly concerns the Jews, although it of them to withdraw from the one po-
is very important for ninny minorities litical association in Europe where
who have reason to complain that such they are looked upon and treated as
"How are the Jews of Roumania treated?" asked a representative of agarian reform is carried out for the absolute equals in the national sense.
The future of the Minorities Con-
the Jewish press.
benefit of the majority nationality at
gress is uncertain. It would seen)
"Everybody is treated alike in my country," the queen assured him.
the expense of the minorities.)
that they must cease writing their
Are the Jews permitted to attend universities?"
VI. Conflicts between majorities
The Jews are and
The answer was 0 bit unclear, but Marie explained:
minorities became the subject of'. book and aPPIY themselves to the truck
of making the book come true. With-
most friendly with ow and the king loves the Jews."
the last of the major resolutions. It
All I have to say, Your Majesty, is that there is somebody in Roumania was prepared by a special committee out practical activity, the congress
and
will, I fear, dwindle in its
who doesn't love the Jews.
with a discourse by Dr. Wilhelm Med 1 . 1111SNUera 1 V in importance—for its
under (German of Czech° Slovakia.) only importance in its present state One-man Exhibit:
Full recognition is given the League
Who is this Queen Marie? Most of my readers seem a trifle mixed on of Nations as guardian of minority lies in the interest it can arouse in the
The first one-man art show for the
the subject. Suppose I help them out. Charles Merz of the editorial staff rights and as the court of the last ap- probleanis of minorities. I can see for season will be held at the center fur
it a number of possible (ectivities; it
of the New York World writes thusly in the New Republic:
peal. but endless difficulties are seen might create an extensive agency- o two weeks beginning with Monday,
Nov. ti At this exhibit the works of
to rise because, in the first place, this
seeking by hook,, pan ph- Isadore Ressler, a local artist, will
She is a queen, the mother of a queen, the author of a five-foot
court is international or supernational, • PraPagandaa
let, journal, lecturers, publicity liu- he featured.
shelf of letters. When she was born a Tsar of Russia traveled 1,500
and
secondly
because
its tinal to
decision
is vernally
the
only decision
which ream, etc., to win the sentiment of the
--
miles to see the christening. When she was married her bridegromo
majority p eoples in lands where oil- Operetta:
built a glass-and-iron amphitheater to held the crowd. When she
Call appeal. As a result
the
minorities
was crowned two and one-quarter miles of dinner guests sat Mown to
The following is the cast of char-
of the international aspect of the "rales exist and otherwise in Europe
at large, to a wiser and jester attitude acters for the operetta "Hansel and
queen, Roumanian only
banquet with her. She is called an English
league , whenever a minority carries toward minority Fadden's. It might
by adoption. That is because she was born in England of England's
or purposes to carry its case before it, curate in Geneve or Paris at bureau Gretel," which will be presentee' at
royal family and lived in nightie.' as a child. She is no mere Eng•
the national antagonism of the major- Whkh should serve as center of infor- the center on Saturday and Sunday
Nish than she is Roumanian. She is a mixture of two strong races,
evening, Nov. 6 and 7, at 0:15 sharp
ity group at home is
nation and advice to the minority peo- Hansel, Doris Sperling; Crete', Rhoda
Russian and German. Her mother was the only daughter of Alex-
Because to
it is
a
po int of intransigeance. whipped
es "eiv l fiber- Goldberg; sandman, Gertrude Lapi-
es-0 srt of mino
under II, Tsar of Russia. Ile)' father, the Duke of Edinburgh, was
t
cour
of
appeal,
i
the only
"bureau . It might eve ntually go alis; !either, Yenta Hoffman; mother,
the second son of Queen Victoria and therefore German on both
„ CaSe
not be carried to it until s it ' t pilaa
ca e
a
so far as to act as the Forney of the
sides. She married a young man from the other end of Europe, a
has already reached at critical point. In minorities vis a vie the League of Na- Alive Frank; gingerbread boys, Katie
adopted
Segal, ''earl Sachs, Mary Rubineifre,
melancholy, high-flown young man with a lost heart and an
its embryo stage, a dispute would
M ore specifi c activity th an this Rosetta Meant, Ida Fehnberg, Flor-
o n
father. This happened when Marie was 17 years old. The young
hardly be listened to by the league; w o uld, I think beais.
To re m
dangero
man was Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Roumania, but noo mere Rou-
indeed carrying it to the league raises der even this measure of activity free ence Ruth Solomon, Sarah Abromo-
manias than Marie herself. Ferdinand was a Hohenzollern.
the dispute at once into a state of inn- from suspicion and danger, it would be vitz, Sylvia Landisarten, Diana Sing-
er, Yetta Alzafon, Betty Halperin,
well, I think, for the congress to create Blanche Feldman, Jeanette Shapiro,
There you have an authentic thumbnail sketch of the queen, genealogi- port:thee and acuteness,
the in ma-
arch()); its and
back
in-
or
count conversation on jurity group
,,s.en thi s an !organization open to any group mi-
rally speaking. This should help establish drawing count
Pauline Kurland; angels, Ruth I.af-
transigeance. (We have
individual friendly to the idea of
• I nosily rights, whether such group or powit•h, Sylvia Lambergten, Rosa-
a reasonably responsible level.
whole procedure in the ease of Huni
---e-esees.
lind Fahberg, Betty Halperin, Minnie
gory Had the Jews.)
individual belongs to a minority or
•
To avoid, if possible, this situation not—just as there exists organizations Rosenberg, Florence Soloman, Sarah
Mitler, Beatrice Grey, Gloria Grey,
a clipping of 0. 0. McIntyre's which I have mislaid.
A
reader
sends
me
But I recall it had something to do with David Belasco's being in a monas- the present re-solution proposes t j I for the suppression of opium traffic Rebecca Singer, Audrey Louis Jacobs
tery in his early days, which accounts for his wearing the ever-present that conflicts arising between the ma- (open to other than opium victims) end Elinor 3tillstein.
for . are hoarding religious rights, for
clerical collar. I don't know where David came from or where his inspire- jority and minority peoples within
• me from. But David Belem,' is a Jew and my cur- state be brought in the first instance emancipating slaves, etc.
.
before a mixed commission within the i At present, however, there is no ev- Chess and Checkers for Boys:
eon for the • 11
respondent is correct in his suspicion. A reader contradwts my statement state itself, constituted or a n equal dence—either
Boys who are interested in joining,
front its budgets or
that Susanne Lenglen is a Jewess. If she isn't, then I am a member of the number of representatives of both . tans for the coming year—that the a chess and checker club with a
ti
Ancient Order of Ilibernians.
arias; (b) that a minority, if the I • congress i s thinking in terms of prac- chiller of ultimately entering the
'appeal is carried to the league, he g iv- itical activities. But another year may checker tournament should register
lehnue this. Someone w itt fly celled at the Jewish Center any day after
ulna
to
enter
some
other
profession
en
the right of a direct hearing-before
Well, when a rabbi does leave the ' ,
school excepting Saturday and Sun-
I am glad to hear that he is making a creditable record. 5 y eye happened that body; (c) that the renunciation , the congress a meeting not of national
on an indorsement of Alexander Geismar fur the new City Court of Kings of minority rights on the part of any minderhoten but political kleinigko- day. This dub will meet on Satur-
m.
county by the Citizens Union. It speaks highly of his ability and valuable minority possessing them shall not be ten. This will have to change for, I days from 6 to 7 p.
feel, the congress will end as a edge-
service as city magistrate and in the district attorney's office. I remember recognized legal.
Boys
and
Men
Notice:
Before closing its sessions the con- meinen garnichtkeiten.
him as Rabbi Alexander Geismar.
All men under 145 pounds and 20
But there is and there should be a
gress likewise passed a series of ad-
seente-e--
Our assortments of Living Room, Uiu-
years or under wishing to try out for
minstrative resolutions creating a new greet deal of hope—which tweets to be the junior basketball team represent-
iriy Room and Bedroom Furniture ale
encouraged.
usiness-looking
executive
committee,
upon
which
Mr.
now larger than ever. See the eery
I think it must be about three years ago when three b.
ing
the
Jewish
Centers
Association
in
which 110W
me.
They
said
they
were
identified
with
the
Interne-
M
tskin
again
serves
and
latest Suites f root America's hest mak-
the Inter-Settlement League, report
in t
Lion
Bible Students Association. Their mission was an unusual one. include, Dr. Angles-ell, Catalan; pro- •
ers. The moderate priers will surely
to Meyer Blatt on Tuesday, Nov. 2,
tiding for the creation of a bulletin in
please von.
p ublicity to a lecture to be (tethered under their
)
at 7 p.m., at the Sherrard Intermedi-
Th ey
auspices which had for its purpose the encouraging of Jews te) return to French and German; and empowering
ate
School,
Palestine. Funds had been raised for these lectures and they were to be a survey , to be made of the numbers!
We Make Living Room Suites to
delivered throughout the country. I couldn't refrain from audibly smiling. and situatien or ceielition of each mi- I Oekm•n Mothers Club(
movement to empty the United State s norit • group rep resented in the con-
The first meeting of the season of Midgets:
Your Order.
All boys 125 pounds and under 16
. Kell [ h • th • men if this was a
then
ad-
was
the Oakman Boulevard Mothers Club
of Jews. Some good Christian folk, I suggested, were not averse to se tt ling gress. The congress
years of age wishing to come wit for
will be held at the Longfellow School, the midget basketball team in the In-
Jews to Paltstine or any other place even further away. They took my journed until the coming year.
SPECIAL
SHOWING
This second meeting of the congress Tyler and Twelfth, on Saturday aft- ter-Settlement League, please report
remarks in the spirit in which they were intended and earnestly endeavored
Of ALMCO AND
one, I believe, to begin to judge ernoon, Oct. 30, at 2:30. A talk on to Meyer Blatt on Monday, Nov. 1,
KAPLAN
LAMPS
to a ssure me that the motive of the International Bible Students Associa- enables
tion was a high-minded one. That its members were console). o t le value its character and possibilities. Last "The Successful Hostess" will be at 5 p. ni., at the Sheeran! Inter-
of the Genesis
fulfillment of the xiii:14-15.
prophecies in the Old Testament,
particularly
that convation em as a w sig- given by Miss Maryo Dahnke, home mediate School.
in
year its
mere
OPEN
A
CHARGE
ACCOUNT
nificant event; and most of its sess- economics specialist in household
ions were devoted to mutual adjust-
. methods. Iler talk will include the Beginners Violin Class:
fears. This duties of a hostess, how to set table,
A beginners' violin class has been
In other words they had joined hands with the Zionist Organization to metes
and
alleviation
o
food combinations, how and what to
opened and meets every Sunday
as year its activities were what one may
"sell" Palestine to the Jews and to enlighten their Christian brethren
takes the suppose to be normal. Lacking novel- serve at 3 p. m how and what to morning at 11 o'clock at the center.
well on the need for the return of the Jews. The organization
drama the congress therefore, serve at 10 p. ne, and the duties of Boys and girls who would like to join
Jews settle ill ty id and
not naturally receive a great , a guest at all functions. A tine mu- this class should be present on time.
position that it isn't expected or is it required that all the
end
that
suffi-
d
amount
of attention from the general I sleet program will follow.
Palestine, but it hopes, and is exerting its best efforts to the e
Violins will not be necessary for s•v-
bent Jews will return to Zion to make it the religious "headquarters," s I nes,• 81111 one con assume from the I
eral weeks and if the pupil has not
speak of the Jews and prophecy found in Isaiah:
point of viesee of general propaganda Chess and Checkers for Adults:
Adults who desire to play chess or already secured one, one can be pur-
for minority rights, the mere holding
chased at special rates through the
And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of
of a congress will not suffice in the fu- checkers may do so by joining the teacher.
the Lord's house shall he established in the top of the mountains, and
ture. Hereafter something will have Chess and Checker Club, which will
meet
every
Thursday
evening
at
the
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
to "happen." It is true, much was
8926 TWELFTH STREET
Mothers Dramatic Club:
And ninny people shall go and say: Come on, and let us go up
aceomplished at this session, though Jewish Center from 7 tit 9, in the li-
A mothers dramatic class has been
Open Evenings.
to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and
unobtrusive ,toward eta rifying the brary.
formed
and
is
twin);
conducted
at
the
---
He will teach us our ways, and we will walk in llis paths; for out
general claims of minority groups, to-
center under the direction of Madam
of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jeru-
ward establishing a justificatory phil- Dramatic Class:
Bragrinskia-Fizon.
Mothers
interest-
The course of instruction for the
isophy and a norm. The several reso-
ed in joining should call at the cen-
salem.
lutions and their referaten may be lik- dramatic chess will include the psy-
And to carry out this mission these Christian men are genuinely in- ened to the chapters of a book in whnh
terested in the project of the rebuilding of Palestine. So all over the land the congress as joint author, is setting
is going on this campaign fur Zionism by Christians. A most remarkable forth the why and the what of minor-
its essence, its demane s, s -
ity
reetion, its relation to the general Eu-
movement.
ropean polity. It may seem an elab-
order to write a
It seems almost uncanny that the moment I finished writing the fore- orate machinery 111
going paragraphs that my hand should conic in contact with a bundle of book, but it is far from useless.
Indeed
the
objections
to the congress
letters lying in an open drawer in my desk and the very first one that I
Bad almost
looked at should be a communication of long standing inviting me to attend may be quickly reviewed
as quickly dismissed. In some quar-
the Church and Synagogue Conference on International' Relations held at ters the congress is still looked upon
Olivet, Mich. I quote this paragraph:
as a German manouvre—to what end,
besides trouble making, not precisely
This is the first time that church and synagogue have oflieially
stated. The truth behind this accusa-
wil th e cause of
conic togethe
r for such a conference. Not only l good
tion is that the German and Hungar-
fellowship
international understanding be served, but much
ian minorities are, due to the Treaty
repres entat ives
size
er d . It is imp ortan t to empnhale vel tof
of Versailles, the most numerous in
w ill e g enate
.
respect
ual
hat
mut
commo
o f va brio us r eligi ons meet o n the
Europe. It would seem, therefore,
Ample opportunity will be given for the free exchange of thought
most natural that in any movement
and experience, the sole objective being the quest for truth.
looking toward bettering the condi-
tions of minority groups the Germans
Such incidents hearten us a bit. We see hate of the Jew everywhere. and their old allies would tie promi-
Cruelty, refined end unrefined. Sometimes we confess complete discour- nently in evidence. In other quarters,
agement over the outlook. Then suddenly the sun, emerging from behind the congress is something which, in the
h es We thank God that over and
a cloud, brings a nionit
it as we
• t edifice' organization divides
aainst
the klan clergymen there are set such fine Christian spirs
g
ts group. Europe into sovereign states, has no
fi nd in an Olivet conference en- in the International Bible Studen
right to be—something moreover,
in the end will give the majority
Out of t he welter of confusion, tlubdub, prejudice, piffle and what no jZovernments an excuse to destroy
concerning the Soviet government this statement of Sherwood Eddy. the whatever minority rights that now ex-
Y. M. C. A. leader, who worked in Russia and who recently heeded the gram!, ist. The congress is sometimes de-
e ,.bred to Ix', from the point of view of
of unofficial investigators consisting of social workers, educators, etc., w h
the JewishPr o l'ii, at leas t) n""' . lAirope unified by the league of Na-
visited
Russia,
will
go
far
to
reassuring
vitally interested in the Ukrainian and Crinn•an farm settlements, of I hs Cams, as it were, "unomstitutional."
The answer to these objections seems
•-• t government. Sherwood Eddy boldly states:
I ' t of t he
to lie in two facts; in the first place
the congress may have no right to be,
The present Soviet government has come to stay. With all its
in the sense that there is no sandion
faults it seems on the whole much better than the former hideous
behind it save the wall of the minori-
czarist regime. Although its downfall has been eagerly predicted
I _es themselves, but at the same time
for the last nine years, it was never so strong es it is today. What-
there exists no right whereby its exis-
ever its faults, there is no other party or government in sight that
tencecan tie destroyed. Like all new
could govern Russia and maintain law and order. Few of the people
and unforseen things it van eventually
go hack to the slavery of the czars or the nerveless rule of
want
to
create its rights and sanctions. In the
Kerenski. We found no government in Europe more slithle or
second place these fears are too likely
strongly entrenched. No other has made so many changes and adap-
based on the feeling that it is the mi-
tations in the last nine years, none has been more willing to confess
nority treaty rights which somehow
its many mistakes and learn from them. Its army has been reduced
have created and which now maintain
from 5,300,000 in 1920 to
to one-tenth the sire of six years ago,
the minorities; whereas it is obvious
550,000 today. Judged both by expenditure and the size of the
that it is the existence of the mniori-
army in proportion to population, which is lower than the surround-
ties which have created the necessity
ing nations, the actual policy of the government at home seems to
of the treaty rights, and without these
make for peace.
rights the minorities will continue to
exist, and that through these rights.
That should be a tonic to our nervous friends both in and out of the as a matter of fart, the presence of
the minorities is rendered in the long
Jewish group.
run less troublesome to the majorities.
Some time ago I mentioned the will of Professor Barony of Budapest, I It was minorities without rights which
which stated that his daughter, Eve, would be disinherited if she married created most trouble for the old Aus-
a Jew, or a Christian whose forebears back to the fourth gene-ration hall fro-Hungarian empire. In this con-
es drop of Jewish blood in their veins. The case has just come up in the 1 nection there is a tendency, on the part
Hungarian courts when the widow of the late professor contested the will. of Jewish critics, to contuse minorities
It was brought out in the arguments that it is scientifically impossible to in general with the Jewish minority.
ascertain whether any given Hungarian is free from a strain of Jewish The Jewish minority is politically
blood, it being known that even Hungarian royalty is not free from eve- poor, physically . weak, and, without •
dences of Jewish blood. It is interesting to note that es soon as the con- .righte. for the most part, a nonentity
tents of the will became known that all the suitors for the young heiress This is far from true of the other.
hand withdrew. it is unfortunate that the hand of a crazy man can control With or without rights, one-third the
population of Roumania and two-tifths
the destinies of his survivors.
of Poland are minority peoples. A
.---esesse-s--
great part of the Baltic States and
In justice to the New York Insurance, I publish the following letter, in Cacho Slovakia are minority peoples.
In some of these states the majority,
answer to a criticism which appeared in this column:
government may be reluctant to rend-
er effective the rights of minorities;
The statement that the New York Life arranges its club meetings
it is hardly credible that for their own ,
deliberately to interfere with the Jewish holidays is absolutely false.
tranquility they would, however, at-1
This statement first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle of Chicago,
tempt to withdraw these rights. Fi- a
Recently a vice-president of this company wrote the Chronicle a let-
natty there is the objection on the part 1
ter flatly denying the truth of the statement. The Chronicle pub-
of some Jewish observers that because
fished the letter.
the Jews, as a minority, can he differ- I
These occasions are not "outings" at all; they are serious bust-
Election November 2, 1926
entiated from the others—lacking •
nes. meetings. They conic in September because the company's
to have these meet-
minority territory and lacking some-'
make
it
imperative
organization and plan work
where
•
state
of
their
own—they
do
{nos in September. As • rule they are large business meetings and
unwisely to associate themselves with '
accommodation in the hotels cannot be found until about that time.
the other minorities who from time to
Moreover. the year which represents the contest which leads up
I time might he malciously (or other-
to the meetings closes with July 1 and satisfactory arrangements
wise) accused of varying shades of
cannot be made earlier than some time in September.
disloyalty. Here too the answer seems
1 repeat, the allegation is utterly untrue.
simple. If the Jew dissociate them-
DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, President.
Very truly yours,

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