All Jewish News All Jewish Views WITHOUT BIAS TELEPHONE FfEbETROIT LWISII CADILLAC 1-0-4-0 THE ONLY JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN VOL. XXXI, NO. 11 Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents 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 (Turn to last pars.)