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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1927
UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL CAMPAIGN
OPENS WITH CONTRIBUTIONS OF $35,000
AT INSPIRING BANQUET HELD MONDAY
Leading Detroit Rabbis Endorse Drive
Advises Against
Mexico Migration
and
l
M"i C •o ti r tlinOr eZpp S 0a ry 1 s LC ao r g ti eitU
Influx of Jews.
Rabbi Hillel Silver Sounds Keynote With Thrilling Address
Which Stirs Enthusiastic Throng. Terms Palestine Work-
shop Where East and West Experiment.
Conservative
Reform Jewish leaders have expressed their approval
of the United Palestine Appeal which opened in Detroit Monday with an
acidness by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, at a banquet in the
Stotler Hotel.
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth El, who has for several years
been opposed to the program of colonizing, Palestine, urges support of the
ALIEN REGISTRATION MENORAH MOVEMENT
BILL INTRODUCED UNDERGOES A SEVERE
ANALYTICAL PROBE
Voluntary Measure Intended to
Legalize Status of Irregu-
Kaplan, Mumford, Van Doren,
larly Entered.
Guedalla, Erdman, Baruch,
Wise Address Meet.
T. A.)
WASHINGTON, D.
"Mexico cannot absorb any great
influx of people and I would not ad-
—The Holaday bill, providing for the
vise any Jewish mass migration
voluntary registration of aliens, was
there," said Milford Stern in a lec-
500 WORKERS MAKE DETERMINED EFFORT TO
considered by the House immigration
RAISE $150,000 QUOTA BEFORE FINAL DAY OF DRIVE lure on "News of the Jews in Mexi-
committee and discussed at length.
co" given last Sunday for the Detroit
No decision was reached by the com-
Open Forum. "Since the ens
Detroit Jewry Response to Appeal Encouraging. Workers Jewish
mittee.
forcemeat of the United States immi.
Themselves Give $15,000. Detroitera In Los Angeles
Congressman Holaday pointed out
gration laws there has been a gradual
that his hill aims solely to legalize the
flow of immigrants to Mexico until
Subscribe $4,000.
permanent status of aliens who en-
now there are 16,000 Jews in the
tered America irregularly up to a cer-
With a large part of the entire Detroit quota already subscribed, the country, 6,000 of which are European
tain date. The aliens would accom-
several hundred workers in the United Palestine Appeal Campaign are mak- Jews. The majority have come to
plish this, he said, by registering,
ing a determined effort to raise the necessary $150,000 before the final day the country within the past five years
whereby they could also become
of the drive. The workers themselves have contributed a total of more and have settled, almost entirely, in
American citizens. He declared that
than $15,000, 10 per cent of the entire quota. or near the few large cities, Mexico
none of these aliens in the United
Thus far the efforts of the workers have met with a considerable degree City, Vera Cruz and others.
States can become American citizens
"I have been asked by American
of success, but many of the potential big givers have not yet been heard
and those against whom the statute
from and it is feared that unless they conic forward soon Detroit may not Jews desirous of helping their rela-
of limitations has not run out also
make a showing commensurate with its reputation for prosperity and tines to leave the anti-Semitic coun-
can be deported.
tries of Europe whether or not it
benevolence.
Congressman Sabath opposed the
At the noon meeting of workers held Wednesday it was announced that would be possible to send them to
bill, declaring that it is in reality in-
a total of $4,000 had been collected from wealthy Detroit Jews who are Mexico, there to live until they can
tended and will prepare the way for
spending the winter in Los Angeles, and more is to follow. enter the United States. I advise
a compulsory registration bill for all
Meetings of workers and of all who are interested in the progress of strongly against any Jewish individ-
immigrants, even though it is true
the drive will be held every noon on the parlor floor of the Hotel Stotler. ual or family entering Mexico to live
that the provisions of the Holaday
unless
they
intend
remaining
perma-
Luncheon will be :served, gifts will bel
bill in its present form are harmless
up his business or to settle in any one
announced and plans will be dis-
and have a good purpose in view,
neatly.
A
man
is
not
willing
to
build
cussed for the conduct of the cam-
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
RABBI A. M. HERSHMAN
whis'n must certainly be provided for.
place
if
he
feels
that
he
is
merely
paign.
waiting for an opportunity to enter Jew to do what lies in his power to make Palestine habitable for those who Congressman Sabath stated there is
At the banquet Tuesday evening
another country, and in Mexico such campaign, declaring: "There can be no question as to the duty of every urgent need of a bill to enable the
more than 535,000 was subscribed in-
an individual would probably be un- believe that in this land they can live a fuller, freer and happier life than naturalization and legalization of
eluding the $15,000 donated by the Former Scout Commissioner Is On
Shaarey Zedek Program.
able to support himself and family. elsewhere. The practicability or desirability of a nationalistic program those who entered the country irregu-
workers. Morris Friedberg, chairman
The Jews there now are, for the does not enter into the question. One may be anti-Zionistic and pro-Pales- larly and who are desirable residents
of the campaign committee lead the
Repeating a visit made a few years most part, planning to become Mexi- tine. Whatever the future may bring forth, it is presently true that Pales- of the country. However, all idea of
list with a gift of $5,000.
ago to the fathers and sons of can citizens."
tine offers a haven of refuge to a considerable number of our co-religionists registration should be eliminated
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, gifted and Shaarey Zedek at a celebration as- Mr. Stern, who visited Mexico the who today are in the lands of oppression and to whom every opportunity from the bill.
From present indications it ap-
inspired orator and minister of one sembled, A. Douglas Jamieson, who first of January as a member of a for rehabilitation ought to be given. The duty of every Jew to help in
pears that the Holaday bill may be
of Cleveland's largest congregations, knows boys as keenly and understand- commission of American students, this cause is plain."
gave the key-note speech that opened ingly as he does men, has accepted was asked by the Open Forum to in-
Rabbi A. M. Hershman of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, an ardent accepted after certain changes have
the campaign. Nearly 500 men and an invitation to speak at the father vestigate the status of the Jewish Zionist, declared: "The Jewish homeland in l'alestine has much to offer been made. The committee will meet
women attended the banquet. Rabbi and son banquet which will be held population. Ile reported that imme- to the Jewish people. It has much to offer the world at large. Hence the to take up the bill again next week.
Silver told of the wanderings of the at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue Sun- diately after his arrival he met over world-wide interest which the work achieved in Palestine has aroused. But
Jewish people and of the problems and (lay evening, Feb. 20. Mr. Jamie- 100 members of Mexico City's Jew- if Palestine is to realize all its possibilities, we Jews must prove equal
difficulties the race has been forced to son's address to the Shaarey Zedek ish community when he and the other to the great task before us. It is the bounden duty of every Jew and every
endure in its 1,900 years of exile. Ile boys and their elders is still remem- Jewish members of the commission Jewess to contribute his or her full share to the United Palestine Appeal,
told of the great haven that the Jews tiered for its pointed good humor and were invited to a New Year's eve
and thus help to convert the Land of Promise into the Land of Fulfillment."
of the world had found in the United practical wisdom by those who were party. There he conversed with the
Will Address Joint Meeting on Feb.
States.
present at the 1924 gathering. Mr. leading men and women of the com-
"But now this country too has fallen Jamieson is former commissioner of munity.
14 as Subject "Modern Woman."
victim to narrow racial prejudices," the Boy Scouts of Detroit and occu-
"The Jews in Mexico are prosper-
he said, and the land that once held pies the position of director of per- ing," Mr. Stern continued. "Most of
The annual joint meeting of the
aloft a welcoming torch to the heavily sonnel of the Union Trust Company. them begin their business enterprises
Council of Jewish Women, the Sister-
laden of the world now shuts its doors Although much in demand through- by peddling, then enter the manufac-
hood of Shaarey Zedek and the Sis
to the people of our race.
out the state as a speaker during the turing field, making those necessities
terhood of Temple Beth El will take
We have set up false standards of current father and son fortnight, the which had formerly been imported,
Father-Son Event Big Success. place on Monday, Feb. 14, at 2:30 p.
fitness in this country and we are guid- one-time Boy Scout chieftain has re- and so their position is secure. Pres-
m., at Beth El Chapel, Woodward and
ed by pseudo scientific doctrines that served the evening of Feb. 20 for the eat business conditions, brought
Americanization Classes
Gladstone avenues. Mrs. Henry Mos-
are grossly out of keeping with real fathers and sons of Shaarey Zedek. about by the removal of foreign capi•
kowitz of New York City will ad-
Meet Regularly.
standards of worth. The qualifica-
Mr. Jamieson's talk will be one of tal and the boycott put upon pur-
dress the meeting on "Modern Worn-
tions are not based on any physical two short addresses to the banquet- chasing, by the Catholics, has not at- Twenty Seventh Annual Report
en—Their l'ossibilities and Reaponsi-
or mental standards but on the color ers, the other to be delivered by fected their trades. The Jews in Men-
of Agricultural Society
The next meeting of Pisgah Lodge, bilitien."
of a man'e eyes and the shape of his Rabbi A. M. Hershnuin. The assem- ico must settle in the cities, for they
Very Encouraging.
No. 34, Independent Order B'nai
Mrs. Moskowitz has occupied a
head.
bly will witness what the committee cannot compete with the peons in the
B'rith, will take place Monday eve- prominent position in the politics of
Racial Bigotry in U. S.
of arrangements terms a fun-feast. small towns and on the farms. The
ning, Feb. 14, in the tommunity the state of New York for many
"Racial bigotry has swept over this There will be sprightly music, mirth- latter earn so little that their buying FARM POPULATION IS
house, 275 East Ferry avenue, and years. Her settlement life, her re-
land ever since the war that was provoking movies, out fashioned and power is almost negligible and farm-
NOW MORE THAN 75,000 will be featured by a lecture deliv- lations with no many social welfare
fought to bring about the freedom of familiar songs, games and other era, for the most part, have a much
ered by Harold H. Emmons on "My organizations, her understanding of
the world. And Israel is faced by the forms of entertainment. lower standard of living than the Jew
Real Estate and Personal Prop- Experiences in Darkest Africa." Mr. the industrial problems and the legis-
situation of having to go someplace
The largest father and son gather- can bear "
Emmona, who is a past-president of lative effects upon industrial and wel-
erty Holdings Over
and having no place to go. The fine ing in the history of the congregation
Speaking of the religious contra.
the Detroit Board of Commerce and fare work, peculiarly fit her for the
Jewish life that was existent in Rus- is looked for by the committee, which versy going on between the Catho-
$100,000,000.
a prominent attorney, is a sportsman position of confidence which she now
sia has been destroyed. It is no long- is calling upon those members who lics and the government, Mr. Stern
of note and his interesting anecdotes holds with the governor of the state
er possible for the Jews to come to this have no sons of their own to "adopt" said: "Unlike Russia, the govern-
NEW YORK.— (J. T. A.) — The have been popularly received by a of New York.
country, they have no place to go but one or more for the evening. Ac- ment of Memo is waging war against
great many organizations. Mr. Em-
She has been secretary of the
progress
of
the
Jewish
farm
move-
tively engaged in arranging the cele- the hierarchy of the church, not
Palestine.
mons will illustrate his talk with pic- mayor's committee of women under
"It is a tremendous task, this busi- bration are Seymour J. Frank, Simon against religion. Therefore the Jews ment in the United States was de- tures taken during his resent trip into
Mitchel;
member of the Citizens'
ness of adjusting ourselves to the Shetzer, Herman August, Oscar are not bothered, the number in the scribed in the twenty-seventh annual
the heart of the African jungles in Committee which was founded at the
lands in which we live. We must be Kaufman, Samuel Willis and William entire country being so small that report of the Jewish Agricultural So- tracking the wild beast to his lair.
time
ei
the
Becker murder with the
perpetually alert, we must constantly Goldstein. they do not form any problem. How- ciety by Gabriel Davidson, general
The meeting is open to members object of investigating the police; she
ever, the one synagogue in Mexico manager.
fit ourselves to two or three cultures
only.
is
member
and
director of the Com-
The society, through its farm loan
and we are compelled to trim our sails
City is called a 'benevolent society'
An interesting father and son mittee of Fourteen; director of Wom-
department, has granted 8,360 loans,
continually to keep from treading on
has e
event
was
staged
in
the
lodge
rooms
en's
City
Club;
vice-president
of the
established customs.
its auditorium. In this way it Mr- aggregating $5,310,215, since 1900. Monday evening, Feb. 7. A musical
Society to l'romote Proper Housing
year loans were made to 454
"Always we must consume two-
rrumvents the law and, although the Last
•
program
was
furnished
by
Ilerbert
for girls; chairman of the committee
is in individual farmers located in 18
thirds of our energy and strength in
Queens Court Rules They May Be government knows the 'society'
Burdick and Irwin Burdick, who ren- of commercial recreation of the City
the futile and negative battle against
reality a synagogue, nothing is said." states. The financial service extend- dered trumpet and clarinet solos, re-
Kent Out of Apartment House.
Recreation Committee; vice-chairman
the forces of anti-Semitism.
Aaron Sapiro, who was announced ed by the society is based on business spectively, and by Zelda Rosenberg,
of the Josephine (tome, Inc., at Mo-
principles, though loans are made on
"The Jew is an Oriental who has
NEW YORK.— (J. T. A.) — The as the next speaker for the Open Fo-
artist pupil of Dr. Mark Gunzburg. began Lake (her favorite organiza-
all the experience and information of Supreme Court of Long Island City rum on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 20, is marginal securities, and their repay-
ment is spread over a long period of Motion pictures and vaudeville acts tion at the present time). This is a
the Occidental. He combines the
ruled that the Queensboro Corpora- unable to deliver his lecture, so Judge years.
rounded out the program of enter- home for anaemic and under-nour-
learning and the culture of the East
tion, which manages the apartment Robert Marx, Mr. Sapiro's associate,
The society's farm labor depart- tainment. Talke were delivered by ished eh:liken—her favorite charity
with the knowledge and experience of
talk.
He
is
a
noted
speaker
and
houses in Jackson Heights, Borough has
ment placed 588 men as farni work- Jacob Mazer and Jacob Margolis for —and she is vice?chairman of the
the West. The Holy Lan is a work-
of Queens, has the right, as renting ms °refl widely acclaimed by his ers. Farm employment was obtained the fathers and by Meryl' Fenton for Women's Democratic Union. Her in-
shop where the east and the west can
agent for the owner of the apart- critics. His subject will be announced by the society for 15,510 Jewish the sons. Julius Deutelbaum, presi- terests are wide and varied.
experiment in the great science of hu-
ment houses, to refuse to accept Jews next week.
Mrs. Moskowitz has a brilliant
young men since 1908. Last year ;t dent of the B'nai B'rith, presided.
man relationship.
Regular classes in Americanization manner of presenting her subject,
placed 588 men.
"Palestine is a link between three as tenants, no matter how excellent
was
the
character
of
those
who
apply,
STERN
WILL
ADDRESS
and
naturalization
are
being
conduct-
whatever
it may be, and the topic of
During the past nine years 9,213
continents, a connecting point between
MEN'S CLUB ON FEB. 15 Jewish men and women desiring to ed by the lodge's Americanization modern women is alluring.
three religions and a bridge between or their ability to pay the required
committee,
headed
by
Samuel
Gold-
rent.
buy farms applied to the society's
the forces of the east and west. We
Supreme Court Justice Burt J.
are not merely a people of the past
On Tuesday evening, Feb. 15, Mil- farm settlement department for ad- fine, chairman. The classes, which
and present, we are a people of the Humphrey ruled that under the terms ford Stern will address members of vice and guidance. Farms were found are open to the public, meet every RUSSIAN ANTI - SEMITE
THREATENS VIOLENCE
future and we may yet give the world of the contract with the renting the Men's Temple Club on the sub. for 8,960 families, of whom 398 re- Monday and Thursday evening in the
Instruction is
agency the latter had the right to ject "My Impressions of Mexico." ceived loans to help finance their pur- community house.
new revelations.
given in American history, citizen-
choose the tenants.
chase.
It
established
the
farm
set-
The
meeting
will
be
held
in
the
men's
Possibilities of Palestine.
KOVN0.—(J. 1'. A.)—"The Rus.
The Metropolitan I.ife Insurance clubroom of the temple at 8 o'clock tlement at Toms River, N. J. Re- ship, geography, English and kindred
.
Ian emigres cannot forgive the Jews
"The greatest dramas of civilization Company loaned money for the con-
and will be followed by an open fo- cently a new Jewish farming center subjects. No fee is charged to stu- ' for taking part in the Soviet govern-
have been enacted in the smallest coun- struction of these buildings and still
dents.
rum discussion.
was established in Farmingdale, N. J.
ment
and
for having ruined Russia,"
tries of the world. No one knows holds the first mortgages. The Jack-
Agricultural experts from the so-
Mr. Stern, who recently returned
eclared M. Boris Suvorin, notorious
what may yet come from Palestine.
son Heights Investing Company sued from Mexico, toured that countery as ciety's extension department visited
Russian anti-Semite, son of the pub.
"The return of the Jews to Pales- to foreclose second mortgages in the a member of a Semiiiar conducted by
GRUENBAUM ATTACKS
1,718 Jewish farmers during 1926.
tine is like the sap climbing into the
AGENCY AGREEMENT fisher of the Petrograd anti-Semitic
amount of $375,000 on the group of Hubert Ilerring• Ile spent two weeks During the period of 1920-1926 these
daily, Nevoye Vremys. Suvorin, who
dead trunk of a tree. Palestine is apartment houses known as the Span- in Mexico and while in Mexico City
experts visited 10,801 farmers in 44
has just arrived here, stated in an
sounding a new note, a new call to its ish Gardens and the defense present- interviewed President Calks, Minis-
W A RS A W.— (J. T. A.)--The
• .
interview with
aria.
people and from Galicia, Poland, Ye- ed by the owner, whose treasurer is ters Morones, Leon and Casaurance counties and 12 states. They held
962 meetings, demonstrations, field Vieizmann-Marshall agreement onthat as soon as Russia is free again,
men, Persia, Russia, Germany, Arabia,
a Jew, was that the Queensboro Cur- and others of the administration. Ile days and extension schools. In ad- the Jewish Agency was attacked by a violent anti-Semitic
if tide will break
and even from America the Jews are
Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum, former
011t, an the hearts
going hack again to the land of their poration, which had been selected by , also conversed with Catholic digni- dition, advice and aid were given to
the exiled Rus-
the holder of the mortgage ns the tunes, bishops and business men of 10,326 farmers who sought individual president of the Club of Jewish Depu- sian emigres are boiling over with
beginning.
renting agent, had issued instructions; the Opposition party in the Mexican consultation at the society's central ties and leader of the Zionist move- hatred of the Jews.
"And yet there are those who say
not to accept any Jews as tenants,, strife between the Cellos government office. This department has also given fluent in Poland. in an article which
"It is no use saying that the Jews
this is an artifically 'stimulated devel- and that this was the cause of the and the Catholic symathizers.
scholarships to the sons and daugh- he published in the Yiddish daily ; were not responsible for the actions
opment. They will tell you it is not a premises remaining largely unrented,
All members are requested to et- ters of Jewish farmers; 295 such Hajnt.
I of the Communists in Russia," Su-
natural colonization at all but a formal
a result of which the owner was I tend this meeting, which promises to scholarships were,granted for courses
Gruenbaum expressed diasatisfac- vorin continued, "just as it cannot
one. When the Englishman goes to as
unable to make payments as required be v er y interesting.
held at the State Agricultural Col- thin with the agency agreement,' be claimed that Russia was not re-
India he leaves his home, when the by the mortgage.
writing
ironically that "after 44 years vonsible for Count Pleve's action be-
leges
in
12
states
The
department
Frenchman goes to Africa he leaves
The owners of the propertyw ill
behind him the things that are most appeal from this decision.
JEWISH LAND WORKERS... — . also maintains a service bureau for of Zionist work in Palestine, an ex- cause he was not of Russian origin.
t
t
c
h
r
e
ia
purchase
of
supplies
and
ma-
pert
commission
is to be sent to in• It is true that the Czarist govern-
dear. But when the Jew goes to Pal-
DOUBLED IN RUSSIA
Is. The department conducted vestigate the situation. The Present . ment had committed many flagrant
estine he gots back home.
SCHWARTZBARD EXAMINED
development is an unpermissible mistakes in lt d
an
agricultural
night
school,
gave
a
"One of the most remarkable things
m
of the
w
MINSK. — (J. T. A. — How the correspondence course and published transfer of Zionist
ork to persons Jews," Suvorin declared . During the
about the entire movement is the He-
PARIS.---(J. T. A. —Another ex- back-to-the-land movement in Soviet the Jewish Farmer, the only Yiddish
who emphasize the non-priority ".: ; war he had himself witnessed the
brew University. One of the first
amination of Shalom Schwartzbard, Russia is rapidly making progress agricultural magazine in the world. Palestine."
•"
things we did when we had a chance
heroism and patriotism of the Russ
slayer of Semion Petlura, was held and changing the structure of Jewish It also published agricultural text
Gruenbaum warns the Zionists that sian Jews
was to organize a purely Jewish cen-
and one of his best friends
by Magistrate Peyre. The examine- life is demonstrated by the figures books, the report states.
"a great disappointment is in store was a Jewish sub-lieutenant.
ter of education and just seven years
ties centered around Schwartzbard's pertaining to this development in
In 1920 the society's sanitation de- for them."
after the Balfour Declaration the dedi-
"The murder of Petlura," Suvorin
visit to Russia in 1917. The investi- White Russia.
partment inspected 789 farms in Jew-
ration ceremony was held for that un-
concluded. "has made a deep impres-
gating authorities were desirous of
While in pre-war times only 3 per ish farming districts in New York,
POPULATION DECREAStNG
iversity."
sion on all the Russian emigres, who
obtaining his reason fur making the cent of the Jewish population in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Fred M. Butte!, who presided at the
nowo about in continual fear of
trip to Russia in that year. Schwartz- White Russia were settled on the
The society also made loans for
KOENIGSBURG, East Prussia.—
banquet spoke briefly of the enthusi.
lives
lives."
."
bard explained that he joined the land, occupying an area of 13,000 the erection of synagogues and coin- (J. T. A.)—A marked decrease in
antic efforts that have thus far been
French military commission in 1917 desiatin, at present the Jewish land munity houses and has promoted and the Jewish population of East Prus-
put forward by the men and women
in his belief that the commission workers number 6 or 7 per cent of supported rural religious education. sia is recorded in the figures of the
ASKS FOR COMMISSION
workers of Detroit. He praised the
would raise the spirit of the Russian' the Jewish population and occupy an The society co-operates with the Na- official census taken in 1925, made
members of the committee and the
army in its fight for the cause of the area of 42,000 desiatin.
tional Council of Jewish Women and public here. According to the census,
scores of anonymous contributors and
WASHINGTON.—(J. T. A.1—Re-
In the White Russian Agricultural with the United Synagogue of Amer- the Jewish population in the province pudiating his previous proposal to
workers and he urged all Jews to get Allies.
Academy in 'Jerky, a chair for the Ica in advancing the social and re- decreased 10.7 per cent. The decline bring some measure of relief to the
behind the greatest movement in the
WARBURG ENTERTAINED
Ihistory
of
Jewish
agricultural
work
(igloos
phases
of
rural
life.
history of the entire Jewish race.
in the Jewish population has been separated families of declarants,
has been established.
The Jewish farm population in the going on for the last 15 years. Chairman Johnson of the House im-
Morris Friedberg outlined the plan
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.1—Felix(
0f the campaign and referred to Mr.
United States has grown from barely
migration committee proposed in
M. Warburg, chairman of the Ameri-; ANTI-SEMITIC PAPER ENDS
1,000 in 1900 to an estimated pops-
Butzel as "Detroit's finest citizen."
FRANCE LIMITS IMMIGRATION 'resolution in the House that a com-
can Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
lotion of over 75,000 in 1927. One
A. C. Lappin, the director, is given
mission to study the immigration and
mittee, who is visiting Palestine, was
VIENNA. — 1.1. T. A.) — Another million acres are being farmed by
Credit for having built up the finest or-
PARIS.--1.1. T. A.1—Stricter con- naturalization laws be created. This
the guest of Lord Plumer, the high ; anti-Semitic organ in Austria, the Jews and the real estate and personal
ganization of workers ever assembled
trot of immigration to France is the commission, according to the resolu-
ina Jewish campaign in Detroit. Ile commissioner, at • luncheon given at Taireszeitung, suspended publication property value of their holdings is present policy of the government, as tion, would be composed of members
said that so for as he knows this is the government house. A reception due to lack of funds. The newspaper over $100,000,000.
a result of the increasing unemploy- of Congress who have been elected to
Perry S. Straus is president of the ment. Few foreign workmen are ad- serve in the Seventieth Congress and
the first time in any Jewish campaign in honor of the distinguished Ameri-; was the organ of the Austrian !taken-
for funds that the demand for pros- can visitor will be given at the home , kreuzler. Nntil now, it was published, sociey; Lewis I.. Strauss, vice-presi- mated by the authorities and the re- would be designated by the chairmen
of Dr. Judah L. Magner, dean of the it was stated, with the funds received
dent; Francis F. Rosenbaum, tress- turn of immigrants to their native of the respective committees of the
Hebrew University.
from German industrialists.
(Sun to Last Pars.)
urer, and Reuben Arkush, secretary. countries is being encouraged. House and Senate.
JAMIESON TO SPEAK
TO FATHERS-SONS
MRS. MOSKOWITZ TO
SPEAK AT BETH EL
JEWISH FARMING Emmons to Lecture
. , •
Before
Banal
B nth
MOVEMENT IN U. S.
SHOWS PROGRESS
AGENT HAS RIGHT
TO EXCLUDE JEWS , to
d
i
MENORAH FOUNDATION
FOR RESEARCH PLANNED
Weizmann Has Little Sympa-
thy With Intellectuals Who
Disavow Zionism.
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—Plans
for the establishment of a Menorah
Foundation, the purpose of which
would be "to foster research and ex-
act knowledge and humanistic inter-
pretation of the whole field of Jew-
ish experience and expression, past
and present," were announced at the
close of the conference of the Inter-
collegiate Menorah Association held
here. The plans were formulated at
a business session of the Menorah
Association. Henry Ilurwitz, chan-
cellor of the Intercollegiate Menorah
Association, announced that a gift of
$25,000 by an anonymous contribu-
tor was promised for the foundation,
provided additional sums will be
raised for this purpose. According to
the plan, the Menorah Foundation
would "provide trained men and
women to devote themselves profes-
sionally to the field of Jewish re-
search" and "to nurture Jewish cre-
ative talent in thought; letters and
the arts." In the last 75 years, cov-
ering almost the entire period of
Jewish emancipation in Europe and
America, only three books on Jewish
history were written, Mr. Hurwitz
asserted.
The conference considered the
spiritual situation of the Jew in
America during its three days' ses-
sions. Henry Ilurwitz, chancellor of
the association, presided at the ses-
sions. Among the speakers who dis-
cussed various phases of the subject
were Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, Lewis
Mumford, well known literary critic,
Professor Irwin Erdman of Columbia
University and others.
Jewish Consciousness Needed.
A suggestion for the reorganiza-
tion of Jewish life and the revision
of the Jewish religious laws with the
view of assuring the perpetuation of
Judaism in America and its spiritual
values in the modern milieu was pre-
sented in an address by Dr. Mordecai
M. Kaplan. "The real problem fac-
ing us," Dr. Kaplan said,- "is the
strengthening of the Jewish national
consciousness and the intensifying of
Jewish life through the synagogue
and the home."
Viewing Reform as a failure be-
cause of its ignoring Jewish nation-
ism and Orthodoxy as inadequate in
its present form because it is ob-
livious of the influences of modern
life and lacking in creative energy,
Professor Kaplan urged the reorgan-
ization of the forms of Jewish life.
The two outstanding features of his
plan would include the placing of the
synagogue on a new basis and the
creation of Kehillaha, or what he
termed "Kultur-gemeinden" as dis-
tinguished from the "Kultus-gemein-
den" of the Jewish communities in
Central Europe. The synagogue
would serve in the new scheme as
the center of all Jewish spiritual, cul-
tural, religious and social activities,
while the "Kultur-gemeinde," which
would embrace the entire Jewish
community in each city, would be
the administrative and directing
power in all Jewish endeavors re-
lating to the spiritual life of the com-
munity, philanthropic enterprises and
participation in the rebuilding of Pal-
estine. Dr. Kaplan emphasized the
need of revising the Jewish religious
laws in such a way as to make them
feasible as a practical code for Jews
who have entered the scheme of mod-
ern civilization and whose concep-
tions are based on the facts of mod-
ern science.
Reformed Orthodox No Solution.
Professor Erdman, analyzing both
Orthodox and Reform Judaism in
America, expressed the belief that
; neither could offer a solution to the
Iproblem of Jewish self-preservation.
1Tracing the complexities of Jewish
; self-consciousness, he pointed out
that some Jewish intellectuals become
'aware of their Jewishness through
mystic forces, while others make the
discovery when they are barred from
Christian hotels or clubs. Neither of
these, however, knows how to satisfy
his racial yearnings, since the Re-
form temple does not differ essential-
ly from some Christian churches,
while Orthodoxy cannot be accepted
along with the facts of modern
science, which denies divine revela-
tion and miracles. Professor Erd-
man saw the solution of the problem
which confronts many American
Jews belonging to the intellectual or
the so-called "intelligentsia" clam,
in a devotion to research and study
of Jewish history and philosophy.
Suchpursuits of Jewish scholarship,
he claimed, would serve as a bond be-
tween the intellectual Jew and his
people.
Mr. Mumford criticized the views
of those who seek to bring about the
suppression of all other cultures in
America in favor of a uniform 100
per cent American culture. Such •
uniform culture, he declared, would
be injurious to the country. On the
other hand, he objected to cultural
activities of racial groups that had
no regard to the culture of America.
He urged the collateral development
of Jewish culture and American cul-
ture along lines of mutual inter-
change of spiritual values.
The conference came to a close
, with a dinner held at the Commodore
Hotel. Carl Van Doran, Philip Gue-
della, Dr. Jonah B. Wise, S. Baruch
and Dr. Chaim Weizmann were the
speakers.Mr. Hurwitz was the toast-
master.
Finds No Difference.
Carl Van Doren, author, lecturer
and critic, said that he had never
been able to find any difference la
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