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July 29, 1927

Will Durant, author of the popular "Outline of
Philosophy" says, in his chapter on Voltaire that the
great philosopher's outlook was one of "antiseptic
skepticism." That phrase describes the outlook of
"The Reflex," the new national monthly magazine of
Jewish interest edited by Dr. S. M. Melamed, of which
the first issue is now on the news stands. Its approach
to all things Jewish is critical. It's function is to apply
the cleansing antiseptic of skepticism to the ills of the
Jewish body politic. It promises no cures. It offers no
panaceas. It attempts a critical diagnosis, and offers
the antiseptic of critical analysis applied with wit and
satire. It is born of a conviction that if the wound is
cleansed with the germicidal agencies of realistic
thinking the patient will heal himself naturally with-
out the aid of the Messiah's nostrums. Like Spinoza,
it's primary purpose is neither to praise nor condemn
but to understand.
"The Reflex," says its editor, "has no desire to im-
prove upon creation, to effect revolutions or to precip-
iate Messiah's descent from the hills. It is interested in
all phenomena of Jewish life—as far as they are not
optical illusions—and it will try to understand them."

The Reflex is interested in Jewish reality, which is to-
day not religious but secular. The most orthodox Jew no
longer thinks "more theologico" but "more sociologico"—
a mode of thinking which is the outstanding feature of
twentieth century Judaism in America.
Not long ago Jewish life was identical with religious
life concentrated in the synagogue. Today it is to be
found in the labor union, in the club, in the offices of the
charity trusts, in the bureaus of social service, in the colo-
nies of literateurs and artists, in the theaters, and occa-
sionally in the synagogue. The Jew of 1927 attends re-
ligous worship as much as the Gentile, perhaps even less.
Complete economic and political freedom in the new world
brought about the secularization of Jewish life. The re-
ligion of the majority of American Jews no longer rests
on mythical or metaphysical ground. It is thoroughly
rationalized. This new development brings us face to face
with new problems, cultural, psychological and social. It
creates new values and new central figures in Jewish life—
new masters of Jewish destiny.
The Reflex has no special message, no program and no
particular policy save that of the aesthetizing of Jewish
life. The aesthetically sensitive Jew knows what is proper
and what is improper, knows what is duty and what is
superstition, knows what is true religion and what is re-
ligious jazz, knows what is true charity and what is philan-
thropic auctioneering; he has a thirst for knowledge con-
cerning his group life. In the slaking of this thirst, the
Reflex proposes to assist. A self-sufficient, babbittized
Jew may only want to know about the mortgage of his
temple and the salary of the rabbi, but a Jew with racial
personality wants to know considerably more about Jewish
life. He wants to know about the physical condition of
his race, its economic status, its religious tendencies. He
wants to know all about every phase of Jewish life and
about the background of all the figures in Jewish life, from
the gangster to the saint and from the beggar to the
millionaire.
The Reflex proposes to delve into this rich and curious
life and depict it realistically. It proposes to describe the
American-Jewish scene with all its concerns, just as any
modern magazine depicts the American scene. It goes
without saying that the Reflex, not being a partisan pub-
lication allied with any particular political or religious
group, will grant freedom of expression to all its con-
tributors whether or not they sympathize with the views
of the Reflex expressed in the editorial columns.
To give the readers of this magazine a true panorama
of Jewish life as it is seen by those who are interested in
it from a different angle. The Reflex has invited literary
personalities from all camps and all creeds to contribute
to its columns. There is no doubt in our mind that the
educated American Jew is intellectually ripe for such a
publication.

Yes, the educated American Jew is intellectually
ripe for such a publication. The writers are available
and the readers are numerous. We Welcome "The Re-
flex" as a distinct contribution to Jewish journalism in
America.

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A Suggestion.

Mr. Ford in his letter of retraction to Herman Bern-
stein promises to cooperate with him in withdrawing
from circulation the published translations of "The In-
ternational Jew," hundreds of thousands of copies of

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throughout the world.
It is a big job, more of a job than Mr. Ford realizes.
The copyrights of the translations are all in the hands
of anti—Semites of the most virulent character. They
will not consent to withdraw their profitable publica-
tions simply because Mr. Bernstein. or for that matter,
Mr. Ford asks them to. The English versions of this
infamous pack of lies was not published for profit. It
was sold at a figure that probably represented no more
than it cost or possibly even less. Whatever the motives
of its publishers may have been. profit was not one of
them.
With the translations it was different. The English
version was seized upon by pirate publishers of Europe
and exploited for profit. Its translators and its pub-
lishers may not have found Mr. Ford's recent repudia-
tion very convincing. More than likely they now re-
gard him as a traitor to their cause. Not one of them
has yet come forward with an offer to withdraw the
book from circulation or even a promise not to re-print
and circulate it in the future. In that respect Mr.
Ford's retraction and public apology has been devoid
of satisfactory results.
It is our guess that if the translated versions of
"The International Jew" are ever to be withdrawn
from publication in Europe those who own the copy-
rights will have to be spoken to with the gentle voice of

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business accompanied by the convincing jingle of coin
of the realm.
We do not know how Mr. Bernstein expects to per-
suade the European publishers of this dangerous book
to withdraw their publications from circulation. Nor
do we know .how Mr. Ford expects to co-operate with
Mr. Bernstein in bringing this about. But we have a
suggestion to make.
If Mr. Ford will inquire of Mr. Leibold and Mr. Cam-
eron he will find out how the Dearborn Independent
came into possession of the forged "protocols of the
wise men of Zion ." Perhaps this information will sug-
gest to his mind one effective argument to use inper-
suading the European anti-Semites to relinquish their
copyyrights to the translated versions of "The Inter-
national Jew."

Tammuz 29, 5687

Welcome "Reflex."

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William Henry Gallagher.

The Jewish people of Detroit have many friends
among their Gentile fellow citizens but none more
worthy of gratitude and praise than William Henr•
Gallagher, chief counsel for Aaron Sapiro in the now
historic Ford-Sapiro libel suit.
A native of Michigan by birth and a Catholic by
faith, Mr. Gallagher reflects in his personality and in his
career all that is best in American citizenship and in
Christian living. His is the gentility and the gentleness
that is implied in the name of Gentile.
In his statement to the press following the settle-
ment of the Ford-Sapiro case Mr. Gallagher said :

The litigation has ended. May its end mark the end
of racial and religious prejudice in our land.
I deem myself fortunate to have had even a small
share in this matter. When the case was tiled, there were
Gentiles who criticized me for taking any part, as they
put it, in stirring up animosities. They would have criti-
cized me even more severely had they known that after Mr.
Sapiro had retained me, but before Ford knew about it,
I was offered a retainer upon another matter on behalf
of Mr. Ford and preferred to reject it and to continue to
act for Mr. Sapiro. I felt that the prosecution of Mr.
Sapiro's claim was little short of a public duty. I knew
that successful prosecution would redound to the public
wet fare.

These words, and Mr. Gallagher's conduct of the
Ford-Sapiro case from first to last, entitle him to the
love and esteem of all Jewry.
The Jewish public of Detroit is proud to call him
friend and neighbor.

A Common Cause.

When nature in an angry mood speaks her universal
language of death and destruction man becomes con-
scious of his humanity.
Whether it is violent, sudden death by earthquake
or storm, or death by the slow inexorable hand of
Time, man, face to face with the forces of nature, is
made meeker but wiser. He realizes that just as every
man is his brother by birth and his brother in death, so
every man is his brother in life.
Earthquake—that most dreaded of natural cata-
clysms—visited Palestine recently. For a few moments
the earth, mother of men, trembled with rage and hun-
dreds of lives were snuffed out, thousands were maimed
and millions of dollars worth of property ruined.
Nablus, the Biblical city of Schechem, seat of the
ancient Samaritan sect, lies in ruins. Historic buildings
are demolished, hamlets are wiped out, families are
made destitute and houses of worship topple into heaps
of stone.
The black scene of destruction is terrible to behold
but, like all human misfortunes, it has its little high-
lights of hope. In the dispatches from Palestine we
read that Tel Aviv sent several truckloads of bread to
Nablus, "which has been considered the center of hos-
tile anti-Zionist propaganda."
Human suffering knows no creed. Man in his ex-
tremity has but one conviction—the alleviation of hu-
man suffering. Jew and Arab, Christian and Moslem,
all are brothel's in their need and every man in his
brother's keeper. This is the lesson that Palestine has
learned in this hour of her common sorrow.
The Zionist Organization of America this week is-
sues an appeal to American Jewry to extend a help-
ing hand to stricken Palestine. The funds contributed
to this cause will go to aid, not Jews, nor Arabs, but
simply suffering men, women and children. It is a
non-partisan fund.
And as such it deserves the assistance of all Ameri-
cans—Jew and Gentile alike. Let us give and give gen-
erously to this cause. Let us give as Jews for as Jews
we have always given. But let us also give as men.
We are all brothers by birth. We are all brothers in
death. Let us now also be brothers in the common
cause of life.

A Hint to the Historian.
"The Ladies—God bless 'em:'
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in America. He has blessed them with many things,
but most of all with an abundance of marriageable
males. And complacent, dependable males, at that.
To the Jewish woman in particular America is the new
Garden of Eden. Here she plucks not only apples but
big juicy plums as well and the Jewish male, like Adam
of old, eats out of her hand. Even the serpent in the
garden is not lacking to give counsel. As for the re-
proving Voice—it is not yet heard.
If there is one prenomenon of Jewish life in America
during the last thirty years that should be salvaged and
preserved for the future historian it is the host of Yid-
dish songs that celebrated the emancipation of the Jew-
ish woman in the goldena medina. Who does not re-
member at least a dozen of those exultant lyrics in
praise of the Americaner Yankee? They mark the
metamorphosis of the yiddina into the "lady." They
were heard on every Yiddish stage in the country and
sting in every immigrant household. That theme, the
emancipation of the yiddina, together with that other
familiar theme, the "star boarder." record a revolution
in the history of the Jewish home.
The evolution of the Jewish woman from yachna
to bridge fiend is a thrilling page in the fascinating his-
tory of the migrations of the Jew and his adaption to
new manners and new modes. It is a theme that de-
serves the careful, unhurried attention of the historian.
We commend it to his attention.

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It surely takes imagination to get through this life
successfully. I have heard of "scalpers" scalping amost
everything in sight, but I confess it was real news to
learn that they scalped tickets of admission to the funeral
of the late Jacob II. Schiff. When Mr. Schiff died, the
funeral services were held in Temple Emanu-El, New
York, and, owing to the enormous demand for seats, it
was decided to limit invitations to two thousand. One
ticket speculator says he had no trouble in getting hold
vitations and selling them as high as
of some of them
$20 and $25. Well, I suppose it takes all sorts of human
beings to make a world.

Never too old to learn. For a long time that word,
"kibitzer," bothered me. But in reading a criticism of
John Golden's newest managerial effort, "The Kibitzer,"
I discover that:

The title is taken from a Yiddish expression.
A Kibitzer is the kind of person who stands on the
edge of affairs offering all kinds of suggestions
but lacking the nerve to play the game himself.
There is one at every gathering, whether it be golf
or pinochle, bridge, baseball or anything you want.

I suppose a prize tight must be a wonderful place for
"kibitzers." I understand that while the central char-
acter of the play is n Hebrew 1?), the story is not what
might be called a Jewish play. 1 don't know whether
it's a good play or not, but the name will put it across.

Thank you, Mr. Meneken, thank you, sir! In his "Hir-
ing a Hall," the Baltimore Wasp has this to say:

The New York of today is far too worldly wise
to accord much authority to caste artificiality. It
long ago admitted and embraced the Jews anti, so
far as 1 have been able to observe, it suffers from
no regrets. In all circles, high or low, the Jews
who get in are the most notating people to be en-
countered. They lack altogether the dull conven-
tionality of the so-called Anglo-Saxon. They do
not take life too seriously, and now that the old
bars against them are down, they have ceased
even to take themselves seriously.

I air afraid that Henry is an optimist.

I don't see anything wrong in reading the Ten Com-
mandments to children, except that most of them can't
understand some of the Commandments. But we have
a living illustration of what happens when we allow the
"theory" of Bible reading in the public schools to be
"practiced." They start with some passages from the
Old Testament, then they use the New, and finally they
"work in" Christian hymns that are offensive to Jewish
children. The trouble is that the church-and-state linkers
can't stand a ltttle advantage. Once they edge in, they
don't know when to stop and the first thing we find they
are trying to introduce Protestantism in the guise of
"Bible reading." I become impatient with this back-
door propaganda that has for its purpose placing a sec-
tarian club in the hands of the state. We have seen
church lobbyists in action and we have too many laws
on our statute books placed there because one group of
religionists wanted to have a nation think and act accord-
ing, to their ideas. I am opposed to Bibe reading in the
public schools because I am opposed to a union of church
and state.

Believe it or not. In the August issue of the Forum
I find one A. R. Pinci, who seems to be more or less of
a political shark, one who has been in the confidence of
many Presidents, writing on the subject "Woodrow Wil-
son's Ford Boom." For Mr. Pinci, with startling exact-
ness, tells us the story of how he went to see Mr. Ford,
and he claims to have said this to hint:

What will you do, Mr. Ford, if at the next
Democratic convention Woodrow Wilson, leader
and master of his party, should nominate you? I
understand that is his plan. Such a nomination, I
believe, would be equivalent to your choice, and
your election. Mr. Ford smiled quizzically and,
dangling his legs in true Abraham Lincoln style,
said: "Well, young man, what would you do?"

Mr. Pinci insists that the late President Wilson told
him that he would like to see Mr. Ford President, and
that if Wilson had lived through the last years of his
life without mental impairment, Henry Ford would have
been President of the United States. I am not prepared
to agree with Mr. I'inci in his conclusions, which seem
to me to be subject to debate, but I do not question his
word that Woodrow Wilson was a Ford man and probably
would have lent the weight of his influence to him. Mr.
Pinci insists that Ford may yet be a candidate—and a
victor. Well, there is no use of crossing a bridge until
we come to it.

Because of the unusual character of Mr. Pinci's state-
ments, I thumbed through the pages of the Forum to dis-
cover who he is, and I find that he has been secretary to
two ambassadors, that he is one of the three reporters in
America who have interviewed every President from
Roosevelt down, that he was the author of the phrase
"dollar diplomacy" and that the Washington Star created
for him the first assignment as "diplomatic staff cor-
respondent" ever held by an American newspaper man.
The Forum insists that this articlt. reveals the "inside"
story" of a hitherto practically unknown episode in
American political history.

One gets tired of half-baked speeches and half-baked
thoughts. A gentleman occupying a public position in the
state of Massachusetts delivers an address before the
Kiwanis Club of Lawrence, Mass., which is published in
a Boston paper and then reprinted in pamphlet form and
sent broadcast throughout the country. It deals with the
Red Peril and is a plea for protection against "alien" in-
fluence in this country which has in mind overthrowinus
our government. Particular attention is called by this
speaker to the intellectual radicals who are upholding the
arms of the Reds and helping them put over their ne-
farious schemes. lie mentions as one of the outstanding
offenders Professor Felix F'rankfurther of Harvard, who
has been one of the principal protestants against the
hanging of Sacco and Vanzetti.

This man Ii wish I could remember his sunset speaks
like a Fourth of July orator and looks upon the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution as one of the greatest
factors in preventing this invasion of Bolshevism. Since
he is talking about law and order, I direct the genteman's
attention to the masked 100 per cent Americans who are
riding about the United States and lawlessly flogging and
inflicting other outrageous indignities upon men and
women whose conduct they don't approve of. And be-
fore we make any wild statements regarding the value
of capital punishment, we should study the situation and
see whether it is a deterrent or not. This man says that
Sacco and Vanzetti had a fair trial. He says this in the
face of overwhelming evidence that they did not. I don't
know whether they are guilty or not, but for a speaker
to place himself on record as a whitewasher of the judge
and jury and to insist the Italians should be executed on
the basis of his own prejudices shows him to be just as
dangerous a man to follow as some of the Reds he is
talking about. I certainly would not want such a mind
on the jury; it could not be trusted to judge a case on
its merits. It was quite proper that such an address
shout be delivered before the Kiwanis.

I sometimes wonder whether Dr. Arthur A. Hammer-
schlag, president of the Research Corporation of the Car-
negie Institute of Technology, who died the other day,
was a Jew. I am interested because, if he wan, his life
indicates just how completely it is possible for one born
a Jew and living a Jewish life in his teens to become
assimilated and die outwardly a Christian or a Gentile.
Several years ago I was told that Mr. Hammerschlag had
been an attendant at the Hebrew Technical School of
New York and that he was a Jew. Inasmuch as the mat-
ter was of comparatively sight importance to me, I never
bothered to investigate the statements. But when he
died I saw no reference to the Technical School and
there was not the slightest suggestion that he had ever
in any way been identified with Jewish life. Yet I am
wondering.

When Israel Dies

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By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

(Copyright, 1027, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.)

(Editor's Note:—Pierre van NUMMI, noted non-Jewish
journalist, who is at present European correspondent of the
Seven Arts Feature Syndicate and The Detroit Jewish Citron-
icle, here gives his impression of the forthcoming trial of Solo-
mon Schwartzbard, at which, he says, the supreme efforts of
European anti-Semites will be exerted. The article derives
particular importance from the effect which Mr. van Paassen's
dispatches to the New York World and allied newspapers have
had on an understanding of the elements involved in the
Schwartzbard case. Ile has done more than any other Gentile
publicist to reveal the anti-Semitic bias which has surrounded
the Schwartzbard case from the beginning.)

Up the street, a little way from
my father's house in the old land
there was a smithy. The smith's
name was Lanioen. Lamoen had
two sons. When the smith and his
sons got busy forging a horse-shoe
on the anvil, our whole tranquil
street clanged with metal music.
It was a carillon of steel, you might
say. Sparks would fly right and
left. Lumen always had an audi-
ence fur his hammer and anvil jazz-
band. If it was not ti group of boys
after school hours, then it might be
an idler or two or perhaps the vil-
lage, idiot. The sparks fascinated
the half-wit. Ile clapped his hands
when he saw them and he laughed
his imbecile grin. Sometimes this
fool also danced to the tune the
hammers played. That was great
fun fur us boys.
Lumen's sons, though, had to
leave to do their service in the army
and he was left without help. No-
body to tie up the big Brabant
horses that were brought to be
shoed and nobody to pull the bet
lows. Nobody, you think? Ah, but
then you don't know what it is for
a boy to pull the bellows that blow
the breath of flaming life into
smouldering coals. I tell you ',a-
men had plenty of helpers, volun-
teers at that. Ile did not need to
pay a cent. They did it for the love
of watching the sparks and to hear
the rhythmic beat of the hammer.
I was thinking of the bellows the
other day in connection with events
in Europe. Anti-Semitism, organ-
ized, determined, hitter, has started
to pull the bellows that will fan
the flames of hatred. The Schwartz.
bard trial is to be made the occa-
sion for an anti-Semitic campaign.
The first coals are catching tires
already. It will be a bright fire be-
fore long, a livid, searing, black-
ening flame. The peculiar quality
of fire is that it is positive. It says:
Yes. It goes on burning, burning
until everything in its path becomes
fire. That is, if no effort is made to
check it, to extinguish it.
Three days ago a leading French
weekly review, "Charivari," opened
the anti-Semitic campaign that is
to be launched in connection with
the Schwartzbard trial. It will be
recalled that Schwartzbard is the
Jew who sh u t and killed Petlura,
former president of the Ukranian
republic on a Paris street last year.
The name of Petlura needs no in-
troduction to Jewish readers. Ile
is, to put it shortly, the monster of
( he Ukraine, the murderer of 300,-
the Jews.
Schwartzbard has been in jail,
awaiting trial since the day of the
shooting, nearly a year ago. The
French government has not burn
able to set a definite date for the
trial. Disturbances are feared,
anti-Semitic outbreaks, violent
press campaigns, dragging in all
that is Icwish in French official
circles. from ex-President Miller-
and to Maurice Bokanowski, minis-
ter of trade and commerce in the
present Poincare cabinet.
Yet it is practically certain that
Schwartzbard will appear before
the bar of justice within the next
two months. It is generally believed
that he will le acquitted. The kill-
ing of Petlura comes under the
heading of political minus.. Usu-
ally, in such cases, the court decides
that the time elapsed between ar-
rest and trial is sufficient punish-
ment. At least so it was in the case
of Madame t'aillaux, who shot and
killed Gaston Calmette, editor of
Figaro, the Parisian daily, in 1913,
and so it was in the case of Raoul
Villian, the man who killed Jean
Juures, the great Socialist leader,
on the eve of the outbreak of the
war.
But it will not he a case if ac-
quittal with Schwartzbard, if the
anti-Semites have their way. They
want to see him condemned. They
want to strike at the whole Jewish
people by sending hint to Devil's
island in French Guinea. They
want to take revenge for Dreyfus.
Dreyfus escaped them in the end.
His innocence was victorious. But
it was a hard battle, a bitter strife
that raged around Dreyfus. If it
had not beet, fur men to whom truth
means more than anything else on
earth, he would have staved in the
Dantesque hell of the French penal
colony and the smirch of traitor
would have befouled the Jewish
people of France forever.
The anti-Semites want to make
the Schwartzbard trial a second
Dreyfus affair, a Beilis affair, an-
tither Tisza Eszlar process. As with
that last one, which struck terror
in Jewish hearts in 1052 in Hun-
gary, they want to make a new
threat to Jewish life. They have
unmasked their guns.
It is truly touching to see the
unanimity of spirit between anti-
Semites in France and Germany.
They might well howl at the "inter-
national" Jew. Their own hatred
also transcends the barriers of
their respective fatherlands. Hard-
ly had "Charivari" in Paris opened
the campaign against Schwartz-
hard when the anti-Semite bond in
Germany chimed in with complete•
approval, and )tie Rumanian Stu-
dent society, a notorious anti-Sem-
itic bdy, held a jamboree of re-
joicing, in the frenzied climax of
which they sent a telegram of soli-
darity to their French brothers in

hatred.

"Charivari" opened with the
statement, astonishing and ridicu-
lous at the same time, that there
had not been any pogroms in the
Ukraine under Petlura, that who-
ever dared to assert that there ac-
tually had been massacres was a
prevaricator and a paid agent of
the Moscow government.

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The review event printed wlso
purports to lie an army ord.
signed by I'etlura and sent to aS
troops under his command "to spa,
anti out leniently with the Jewisi,
population of the border lands,'
that is to say, in towns on the I'k
ranian-Russian frontier.
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Against that obviously forged
document stands the notorious,
damning evidence of another army
order, also signed by Petlura. It
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is 1111 answer to an inquiry by one
of his generals what to do with the
Jewish population of a certain
small town, "to evacuate them or
" Petlura replied: "Make the
Jews drink the Dniester rivet
empty." There are hundreds of
thousands of witnesses living tustqy
who saw the horror of the 1'01111a
scourge sweep over the Uknoro
and leave a trail of blood. Ter- of
thousands of those witness, liie
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in the United States today. To deny
that the pogroms took place is a
direct altruist to history.
The "Charivari" article, prelude
in the battle of passions, shows the
Hi
trend of action that organized anti-
Sit
Semitism will take. Schwartzbard
is to be accused of having been an
agent of the Soviet government. !t-
wits not actuated by any monies
of pardonable revenge over the fate
of thousands of his fellow Jews, it
is argued. How could he be? Since
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there were no Jews massacred?
The enemies of Israel, however,
have already received the first
check in their headlong, mad drive.
The burning fire has come up
against a barrier, an impenetrable,
incombustible wall. That wall is
51. Bernard ',maybe, a Frenchman
of high literary standing and un-
impeachable integrity. Mr. Lecache
has been to the Ukraine. He spent
three months going up and down
the region where Petlura once
raged and quietly he has been gath.
ming evidence. Everywhere the
Ukrainian government helped hint
and facilitated his search in town
archives and libraries. Ile discov-
ered army edicts signed by Petlura,
that specifically ordered the death sty'
of the Jews in it hundred different
localities. Ile talked with surviv-
ors.
M. Lecache assembled his evi•
dewy in a book: "Quand Israel
Meurt" (When 'spiel Dies) and
flung it into the face of the blood-
thirsty anti-Semites of Europe. The
book came like a thunderclap. it
fell like a bombshell in the anti-
Jewish camp and for the moment it
r ! ' t
enforced silence. For the nonce
they have stopped pulling the bel-
lows. For the Lecache elmument is is";
damning, unanswerable. Told with
sober earnestness, it carries the
brand of sincerity and truth. It is
no pitiful whine, no appeal for
mercy, it does not argue or hedge.
It simply tells the story, a story of
blood, hair-raising, ghastly.
Lecache tells in one place the
circumstances under which Petlura
gave his historical order. In one
town the battle veered between Pet-
lurists and Bolsheviks for several
days. Like Przemysl, this town
changed hands almost daily. Dar.
ing the sanguinary fighting in the
streets, the Jewish citizens re-
mained hidden behind the shutters
of their shops, in cellars and caves.
Finally Petlura was master. The
Bolsheviks retires!. He was told the
Jew's were still hiding. They were
probably fearing the drunken or-
gies of the Petlura troops. They
had good reason to dread what was
coming. Petlura saw evidence in
this news that the Jews had been
sympathetic with his enemies, the

"What proves it to you that the
Jews are hiding?" Petlura asked
one of his lieutenants. "To me," he
added, "it is overwhelming evidence
that they are guilty. A man with
a free conscience does not hide. Get
them out of their holes. And make
e th m ep m tyl d, rink the Dniester river

'the Lecache document, gathered
on the spot but four or five years
after the gruesome events took
place, have this advantage over
similar documents of atrocities
gathered in Belgium during the
mar. They rest upon evidence and
accounts rendered in the cool and
quiet aftermath, not under abnor-
mal conditions and frenzy that
strikes a people and individuals in
times of national upheavals. in
Belgium, people now, 10 years aft-
ageiintneteerpdaelol(yp.1 da e:that Germans
er,rm
But
people
As the matter now ds e t n ayridi s h , the
Schwartzbard trial seems to be de-
stined to become an important event
in Jewish history. Its results will
react upon Jewish life the world
over. It is for this reason that the
anti-Semites will launch a supreme
effort, an effort in which no me-
d b iu ra m eL ,foul or fair, will be spared to
drive yet another nail into the
thousandtimea crucified body of

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Rabbi Eliezer ben Zadok said:
"Perform the commandments for
the sake of their maker, and learn
them for the sake of !leaven. DO
n ot perform them as a crown
wherewith to aggrandize thyself,
nor as a spade wherewith to dig."
A fortiori, if Belshazzer was re-
moved from the world only because
he used the holy vessels of the sanc-
tuary for his everyday use, how
much the more shall one who makes
use for his personal porpoises of the
crown of Torah! (Ned. 62a; cf.
Ab. 7.)

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