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October 7, 1927

Tishri 11, 5688

Mr. Waldman Goes to Poland.

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In Morris D. Waldman, executive director of our
local charities, the United Jewish Campaign has chosen
an able and well-informed representative for its sur-
vey of Poland. Mr. Waldman will bring back with
him for presentation at the Constructive Relief con-
ference in Chicago this month a true and unbiased re-
port of the condition of Polish Jewry.
Those who are familiar with Mr. Waldman's past
labors on behalf of foreign relief are eagerly awaiting
the report of his findings in Poland. They feel sure
that the truth will be told—all sides of the many-sided
truth—and nothing will be added for the sake of ap-
pearances or for the protection of incompetents.
We do not wish to imply that the truth has not hith-
erto been told about conditions in Poland. And we are
far from crediting the irresponsible gossip of Max
Steuer, as we have been at pains to point out in these
columns. Nor do we question the veracity of those
who have spoken officially for the relief organizations
in the past. But the lips can speak only of what the
eye has seen. And some eyes see more than other
eyes.
Mr. Waldman has the seeing eyes and the under-
standing heart of the true social worker. We can con-
fidently predict that Polish Jewry, as seen through the
eyes of Morris Waldman, will be Polish Jewry as it is—
not as it might be or as it should be. That is the infor-
mation that will be of the greatest value to the Con-
structive Relief conference. Efficient reconstruction
must proceed on the basis of accurate, scientifically
gathered data. With such a foundation the conference
can arrive at some really beneficial decisions. And it
is just such a foundation of accurate scientific data
that Mr. Waldman can give it.
We Jews of Detroit can take a just pride in having
the foresight to engage the services of so able an execu-
tive for our own local relief and reconstruction prob-
lems. And the United Jewish campaign can congratu-
late itself on having made a wise choice for so impor-
tant a commission.

"Normal Progress."

"The Basle congress has cleared the way for normal
progress in Palestine."
It was in these words that Louis Lipsky summarized
his views on the fifteenth Zionist congress in an inter-
view given to the press on his arrival in New York last
week.
In all the thousands of words that came out of the
Basle congress there were none that held so much prom-
ise for the future as these words of the president of the
Zionist Organization of America. Mr. Lipsky does not
pause to define his notion of "normal progress" but his
meaning is clear. The obvious implication is that the
progress of Palestinian colonization in the past has not
been "normal." By that we can only understand that
it has been forced—abnormal. And that comes very
close to a true picture of the actual situation.
It is needless to point out now that such a view has
been held in the past by many observers. The encour-
aging thing about Mr. Lipsky's remark is the fact that
he and other Zionist leaders have at last come to share
the opinion of those who were inclined to view critically
the colonization methods of the past. But all this is
now a matter of history. Zionist leadership has at last
decided to. face the issue squarely. Led by that incom-
parable statesman, Chaim Weizmann, the Basle con-
gress ruse to the occasion and made a clean sweep of
all the old baggage of blind sentimentality that has for
years hampered the highly practical business of ef-
ficient colonization.
Henceforth, says Mr. Lipsky, there shall be normal
progress in Palestine. Not the hop, skip and jump
methods of yesterday--with one dollar in the treasury
for every hundred dollar's worth of enthusiasm—but
a policy of sane financing and conservative coloniza-
tion. With such a poliQ there will be less room in the
movement fot. the "hot" Zionist but there will be more
room fer the cod Zionist—and it is his kind that will
eventually make the .1.2wish National Home a real home
and not just a haven of refuge.

The Second Commandment.

While the Jewish erai: , t.,.. na-1 their masters and
their master-piece, Jew ish p.i.iding and Jewish sculp-

ture have been al c,o3t. .vhnlly neglected. Many have
sought to explain this surprising indifference to the

graphic arts by pointing to the second commandment
which foibids the making of graven images. While it

is true that the Jewish priesthood always frowned on
the making of idol!• it is not true that they altogether
succeeded in suppressing the art. The teraphim, house-
hold idols that resembled the human figure, were com-
mon everywhere in ancient Palestine and, especially
in the homes of farmers, shepherds and herders, they
are known to have been in use throughout the entire
period of priestly power. It is even doubtful if the
priesthood made any strenuous efforts to discourage the
practice. Under the reigns of David and Solomon and
later under the dual monarchies the priesthood devot-
ed itself mainly to the elaborate rituals of State Wor-
ship and gave very little attention to the personal piety
of the individual. It was the prophetic party that in-
troduced into the Jewish worship that insistence upon
personal piety that has until very' recently character.
ized the faith of Israel. It is quite posible that the
Temple at Jerusalem was not without its graven images.

the great court. If this view is correct we must infer
that the decorative themes employed in the Temple
were borrowed from Babylonian-Asyrian and Egyptian
sources. It is generally agreed that the metal work and
the decorative parts of the wood work used in the
Temple were the work of Phoenicians or Hebrews who
had gone to school to the Phoenicians. There were no
doubt many Hebrew c ra ft men who had learned their
art in the cities of Tyre and Sidon. Perhaps their serv-
ices were only too welcome to the royal house and the
priesthood but owing to the suspicion of idol-making
that haunted their profession they were no doubt
promptly paid ofT and conveniently forgotten. In much
the same left-handed way did king and priest land cer-
tainly the laity) avail themselves of the arts of the
magician and soothsayer. Such a practice might well
account for the presence of the teraphim in the homes
and the seraphim in the Temple and also explain why
no mention of a class of artisans, like those of Egypt,
is found in the Bible. The Hebrew artist was the
"shabbos goy" of his royal and priestly masters.
The indifference of the Jew to painting and sculp-
ture becomes even more puzzling when one reflects on
the fondness of the Jew for pictures of all kinds. As
far back as the twelfth century the Haggadah has been
illustrated and since the invention of printing two-hun-
dred illustrated Haggadahs have been published. Per-
haps the rabbinate was willing to permit this violation
of the second commandment for the same reason that
the Temple priesthood winked at the practice of keep-
ing teraphim in the homes—the Passover service is es-
sentially a domestic one. And it is not without sig-
nificance that the designers and illuminators who exe-
cuted the famous London and Sarajevo Haggadahs are
nameless. Another evidence of the Jew's love for pic-
tures is the custom of buying Shavuoth pictures. And
the modern corrolary of the Temple seraphim will be
found in the lions that flank the tablets above the altar
of the synagogue. It must also be remembered that
the Jew has been since the earliest times a merchant of
the arts. Not only has he been for many centuries the
Jeweler of Europe but he has always been a collector
of pictures both privately, as in the case of wealthy in-
dividuals, and publicly for purposes of trade. And
lastly he has been a connoisseur and a critic of painting
and sculpture and a student of antiquities and won
world-wide recognition in both fields.

Walter Rathenau.

Germany last week celebrated the birthday of a
dead man—a dead man who is today, five years after
his passing—more alive than many of the living.
Walter Rathenau, former minister of foreign af-
fairs for Germany, was assassinated on June 24, 1922.
The circumstances leading up to his tragic death re-
veal a combination of anti-Semitism and political in-
trigue. Rathenau was a German through and through,
but he never denied his Jewish origin nor did he leave
the Jewish faith. "I am a German of Jewish origin,"
he said, "My people is the German people, my father-
land is the German fatherland." Yet it was always as
the Jew that he was attacked by his enemies. He was
a liberal in politics and, although he possessed a deep
love for the fatherland, he was not a nationalist of the
jingo variety. His ultra-nationalist, hundred per cent
German foes attributed his liberalism to his racial ori-
gin and heaped upon him the insults and abuses that
only racial prejudice can invent. His assassination was
a double outrage. It was blow at the German republic
and one of the darkest deeds of anti-Semitism.
Chancellor Marx, in his address at the memorial
meeting in Berlin last week, declared that Rathenau's
policies as foreign minister opened a new era of inter-
national amity between Germany and her neighbors.
Rathenau the German, devoted to the best interests of
his fatherland, conceived the idea of meeting the erst-
while enemy with sincerity and frankness. This policy
won for his country advantageous treaties with Russia
and France. But it was Rathenau the Jew who, alone
among all German statesmen, was able to meet the
former enemy without rancor in his heart. It is this
role of peacemaker that has often fallen to the lot of
Jewish statesmen. In a sense it can be said to be the
role of the Jewish people throughout the world.
Walter Rathenau deserves a place in Jewish his-
tory although he took no active part in Jewish affairs.
His life was the Jew's gift to the peace of post-war
Europe—a gift that the world will sooner or later ac-
knowledge as it should.

Building for American Jewry.

As the new year opens we hear report after report
of new building projects all over the country. Ameri-
can Jewry is building as it never built before. Talmud
Torahs, community centers, hospitals, synagogues.
Buildings to house the multitudinous activities of
American Jewry.
We read in this issue of the Chronicle that Hartford,
Connecticut has just dedicated a synagogue to house
1,000 worshippers. Jacksonville, Florida laid the cor-
ner stone of a Jewish community center to cost $'250,-
000. Two new talmud torahs to be erected at a cost
of $330,000 are authorized by the Philadelphia Feder-
ation of Jewish Charities, the Deborah Jewish Con-
sumptive relief society launches a campaign in Pater-
son, New Jersey to raise $250,000 for a new hospital
building and Pittsburgh lays the cornerstone of the new
Montefiore Hospital.
These ambitious projects represent only a small
part of the building operations now under weigh in the
United States. They indicate how widespread is the
present spirit of progress in American Jewry—how de-
termined is the will to survive. And they hold a valu-
able lesson for Detroit Jewry.
With Jacksonville, Florida and its two or three
thousand Jews building a $250,000 community center
and other small Jewish communities raising large sums
for communal building Detroit Jewry may well pause
to consider its own needs. Much still remains to be
done in our community before we can lay claim to ade-
quate social and communal facilities. We cannot ex-
pect to accomplish everything all at once but we should
be making at least a start in the direction of a compre-
hensive building program.

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"The Saving Remnant"

By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN.

There are three kinds of people
timists among us. Was ever a tim
in the world. There are those
when the Jew's today was brighte r
who see everything bright and
or his tomorrow so pregnant with
rosy-hued — whu say with Pope
promise?
that "whatever is, is right," and
But their joyous and triumphant
who sing with Robert Loveman "it song of victory is not the only
isn't raining rain today, it's rain-
sound that falls upon our listen-
ing daffodils." Very pleasant peo- ing ear today. There is a di,
ple these with whom to spend a
sonance in the chorus, for from
little while now and then, but they
another quarter comes the sound
are very seldom intellectually or
of weeping and of wailing, of
morally stimulating. After a while
moaning and of groaning, ov•r the
their very sweetness loses its savor
I am glad to see Elsa Weihl, the editor of Young Is-
sail present and the yet more
and turns sour. The philosophy tragic future that awaits the Jew
rael, begin to take her place in the big league of writers.
of "smile, smile, smile" may help
1 note her name as collaborator with Lewis Browne in
The music of the Jew has indeed
men to bear up in some crucial
the new MacMillan book just issued, The Man Heine,"
usually been written in the minor
moment, but it can't change trag- key. It's the wail of 11 spirit cry.
Miss Weill spent several months in Europe gathering
edy into triumph. Merely closing
data for this volume, which I understand is a most fasci-
ing against impending We.
one's eyes to the existence of evil
nating biography, done in Browne's best style.
a note of heart-break and of bit-
doesnot destroy evil. It may even
ter pain. And that cry today we
permit it to take deeper root. The
The Jewish Year Book contains some very interesting
hear above the other, for our sec-
world is not all as it should be.
ond group is larger soul ofttimes
information. What puzzles me is that the Jewish popu-
And it is both right and necessary
louder than the first.
lation of the world varies so peculiarly. Ten years
that we should recognize this fact.
age, we had 13,000,000 Jews in the world; four years ago
Ilear its plaint. The Jew today,
it says, is victim alike of the
we had over 15,000,000. Now we have 1,000,000 less. In
There is another group of peo-
the United States we hold pretty much to the same fig-
world's and of his own
ple—larger than this one whose
weakness and indifference. The
ure, about 3,500,000. Although that is also puzzling to
outlook is diametrically opposite
forces of anti-Semitism are grow-
me. What is needed some day is a real census of the
to theirs. They may be described
Jewish population. I venture to say that in most cities
ing stronger and more insolent
by an interesting phrase in the
of the country Jewish leaders simply guess the number
every day, and there's no spirit is
Bible which tells of "those who
of Jews.
the
modern Jew to stand against
call the vile good, and the good
s
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evil; who say of the bitter, it is them. We do not even compre-
hend
the bitterness of our own lot.
In Andre Maurois' biography of Disraeli we find thH
sweet, and of the sweet, it is bit-
statement concerning his adventure into Christianity:
If ghetto walls have fallen, it has
ter." This rather adequately de-
been only that merged with the
Speaking of Isaac Disraeli, the father of Benjamin, he
scribes those whom I have in
people of a larger world the Jew
says:
mind. Nothing in the world is
right. Everything is out of bal- should the more surely lose his
One of his friends, Sharon Turner, the his-
ance. Nobody does anything ex- distinctive personality by the pro-
toran, pointed out to him that it would be advan-
cept what they describe as with a cess of absorption. The Jew is no
longer in exile, but his soul is in
tageous to the children if they conformed to the
motive. They can trace a sordid
"Goluth."
religion of the English majority. To sons espe-
or a sinister purpose in everything
The lack of faith in Israel and
cially, if unbaptized, many careers would be
one says or does or believes. No
in Israel's (sod that is involved in
closed, since Jews, like Catholics too, were deprived
one—except of course: themselves
such
an attitude does not occur to
of certain civil rights. . . . Isaac Disraeli let
and perhaps their nearest relatives
him. That the mission of the Jew
himself be persuaded. Catechisms and prayer
—are honest or above board. In
—the
very phrase is obnoxious to
books made their appearance in the house, and one
their eyes the world at which they
after another the children were led off to St. An-
look through colored glasses is him—that the mission of the Jew
cannot work itself out save the
drew's Church and there baptized.
awry. Hence they assume a con-
stantly critical attitude. Whether Jew be scattered to the four cor-
ners of the earth, is not a part of
Rut the holy water could never wash out the Jewish-
it is dress or philosophy or religion
his belief. That belongs to the re.
ness in Benjamin Disraeli, for it was more than skin-deep.
that they discuss, their mental
- —
processes are the same. They are ligious philosophy of the liberals
NC
at whose feet he lays the responsi-
A chap by the name of Eaton is editing a magazine
cynical, skeptical, suspicious. On
bility for the present hitter plight
called Plain Talk. He writes a paragraph that has me
the whole they are very unpleas-
of
the
Jew.
These
liberals,
he
puzzled:
ant people to live with. They
claims, are robbing him of his chil-
should be given a wide berth.
Ses
dren's allegiance as though he
A Jew is an Anglo-Saxon who has achieved
Between these two stand the
could not read the writing on the
unity of preaching and practice. The Anglo-
normal, sane, healthy-minded peo-
wall,
"Thou
has
been
weighed
in
Saxon's antipathy for the Jew is envy that apes
ple, who look at life neither as a
contempt. A Jew doesn't mean maybe.
Mayfair nor as a tragedy, who see the balance, and art found want.
ing." He does not know that
in human beings neither all saints
many of the children of a second
I doubt very much whether the Jew has "achieved
nor all demons, who look upon the
unity of preaching and practice." I would like to have
good where there is good, and are and a third generation will be lib.
eral
Jews or not be Jews at all.
Mr. Eaton be a little more explicit.
not afraid to face the evil where
In every compromise with modern
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it exists and to call it by its name.
conditions,
he se's another nail in
The grandchildren of lest Zeiter are busy snarling
For the most part these are
over the money-bones the old man accumulated for them.
thoughful people, morally courage- the coffin of Judaism. With every
concession
to
the philosophy of a
Of course they long ago have denied they are Jews or
ous and intellectually free. They
that any member of their family was a Jew. One can't
may not be as numerous as one new day, he finds another cause
fur
his
dispair.
easiest much from folk who through snobbishness raised
might wish, but there are fortu-
Anil between these two groups
to the nth degree even deny that their mother ever lived
nately enough of them to keep civ-
there is no sympathy or under-
in such a plebian community as Chicago. Still they came
ilization alive.
standing. There is—as it were
by that honestly, us Lord Curzon was one of the world's
All three of these classes are 11 confusion of tongues. Co-oper-
outstanding snobs. So both the Jews and Chicago should
definitely represented in the Je•- ation between them in anything
be more happy that they are done with this family.
ish group life and the Jewish situ- mere than a superficial sense is as
Doesn't take much to make some persons inoxicated with
ation has teen diagnosed and,dis-
impossible as it was for the work-
their own importance. I presume if old Levi Zeiter were
cussed and treated from their vari- ers on the Tower of Babel. To.
to return to this life and happened to call unexpectedly
ous angles. I have a deep-seated gether they will never build a com-
on his grandchildren they would probably make him eat
notion that it is because our prob-
munity. Their attitude toward
in the kitchen. Just like a fairy story, but fairy stires
lem has been treated from such
each other is not right. It is dig.
sometimes do come true.
very different and contradictory tated not by charity or by fratern-
viewpoints that it has so often ity, but by hostility and the spirit
Here's a good resolution for the New Year: "Re-
seemed beyond solution. Jewish of competition. Shall there never,
solved, that we, the Jewish leaders in American Jewry,
conditions have been as variously then, be, unity in !Friel? Must
will not launch a drive in 5688 unless we are driven to
described as was the elephant by hope for it be altogether given up?
it." It's all very well to sell philanthropy on the install-
the blind men. They were all right
I have said that there is a third
ment plan like radios and pianos and washing machines,
within measure, but they knew group, in whom perhaps there is
but frequently the community overbuys and then comes
their subject only from one side— hope. Before dealing with their
a day of reckoning when the payments have to he met.
and a very inadequate one—and
attitude toward the Jewish prob-
It is better to sell the average rean what he can afford to
therefore their conclusions were lem, however, let me make this
pay for than to use high-powered salesmanship and make
essentially false and wholly dis- clear. I want no compromise with
him regret his pledge. In the long run he doesn't give
torted.
principle. When a man barters
any more and he gives it grudgingly.
Moreover, this fact accounts to his conviction, he sells his soul.
it certain extent for the rather sav- When, therefore, I say that what-
There is one industry well organized in Jerusalem,
age differences that &spite all ef-
ever hope there is for the Jew lies
and that is the collection of sucker-lists. Around the
forts at unity persist among the with this group, I do not think of
holidays one's mail is simply deluged with appeals for
various schools of present-day Ju- those who compose it as quitter,
aid for institutions that no one has any opportunity to
daism. The truth is that in look- or as compromisers. But they are
check up. Somebody organizes the collection of these
ing at Judaism they do not at all the sane, sensible, open-minded
names which are probably taken from contributors to
see the same: thing. How then can
men and women who are honest
local and national philanthropic campaigns. Undoubted-
they discuss it sympathetically or enough and courageous enough to
ly, considerable money is gathered through this promis-
arrive at a program of concerted look at the problem of the Jew
cuous circularization. If it wasn't a good graft the' num-
action in regard to it? We must
from all angles. If you have lis-
ber of appeals wouldnt increase each year. I received
understand each other; we must
tened carefully to what I have al-
at least a dozen from Jerusalem, where formerly I used
reach some common ground of ob- ready said, you will agree that the
to be honored with two or, at the most, three.
servation before anything ap- attitude of neither of the groups
proaching unity of action may be
thus for discussed—divergent as
A very good point is made by a prominent Catholic
hoped for. If one stands on a high
they are—is wholly wrong nor
who intends to vote against Governor Smith because of
hill and looks down at the land-
wholy
right. There is ground for
his attitude on prohibition. lie says that it is just as
scape he sees something vastly dif-
optimism, and there is reason for
intolerant to vote for a man because of his religion as
ferent from the other man who is
some sadness in the Jewish situa-
it is to vote against him for the same reason. That's the
in the depths of the valley and
tion today. Of course things are
proper way to view the situation. There is no reason
looks up at it. Prejudice, parti-
not as they should be . We al!
why the Catholics should vote en masse to put Smuth into
sanship, self-interest, cupidity are
know that materialism is rampant;
office, as there is no good reason why a Catholic should
all factors that give tone and color
that
faith has gone out of fashion;
be President. But if a Catholic runs for President, there
to anything and everything within
that religious observance is the
is no good reason why, if he is capable, he should be kept
the range of our experience. Each
target
for the scorn of the SO
out because he is a Catholic. In othr words, 100 per cent
individual focuses his thought called intelligentia; that emphasis
Americanism demands that the only test of a man's value
upon some one phase of a prob-
has been transferred from the
in relation to public office is character, ability and his
lem. How few of as ever see it synagogue to the social center;
attitude toward public questions. Religion should be
as a whole.
that Youth mocks at the things the
sent to the woodpile.
Rosh Hashonah is a time for in-
fathers revered; that religion
trospection, for calm judgment of
plays little part in the home, and
Will it ever be possible to do away with holding of
ourselves by ourselves, for the
that the ideals which the Psalmists
"mushroom" services on the Jewish holidays? All over
testing of our strength and of our and the l'rophets preached are not
the country halls are hired and tickets are sold for the
weakness. In the light of this altogether popular in an age whose
services. In Coney Island, two men sold between 1,000
lye
characterization of our lloly Day, chief interest is to get rich quick
and 1,500 tickets at $1.50 to $2 each for New Year serv-
I speak to you this morning.
and to be happy—though only for
ices to be held in one of the theaters. No services were
That all is not well with the a day. No sane observer will seek
heist and the ticket purchasers were swindled. Why
House of Israel today, only the
to deny the painful reality of
shouldn't Jews who are so eager to attend services on
most foolish and the blindest of
the high holidays affiliate themselves with a regular con-
conditions. That they fur-
optimists will fail to admit. To be these
nish no ground for exultation and
gregation and attend services throughout the year? Is it
sure there are such among us.
the singing of joyful Hallelujahs
necessary to rent theaters and hawk tickets? I am will-
They belong essentially to the first
ing to be shown.
of the three groups of which I must be obvious.
And yet to hold that they justif"
spoke at the beginning of this dis-
Some criticism was voiced against Mr. Dreyfuss,
course, I.et us se!' their line of the sort of pessimism of which I
president of the Pittsburgh Ball Club, because one of the
have spoken is puerile and foolish.
approach to the Jewish problem.
world's series games was held on Yom Kippur. It is
The claim that all these manifesta-
They will sass of course there are
unfortunate that accusations are made without investi-
defections from our ranks, but so tions of disinterestedness—even of
gation. I happen to know that Mr. Dreyfuss tried with-
repugnance—to things Jewish are
have there always been. They
out avail to have the series so arranged to avoid the need
will point out that even in the not unique can easily he proved
of playing on the Day of Atonement. After all, it is ex-
days of ancient prophecy, doubters even by the superficial student of
pecting too much of the whole world of sport to arrange
our history. Indeed the whole oast
and skeptics within the household
its affairs to accommodate any one group of people. The
of the Jew has been a series of
of the Jew were not wanting. How
fact that a Jew happens to be the head of one of the
often were the vials of the proph• contests for survival against hos-
clubs does not alter the situation. But it is to Mr. Drev-
tile
forces within as well as with-
et's wrath poured out upon them!
fuss' credit that he tried to avoid an embarrassing situa-
Nor, say these people, are the va- out the Jewish camp. And in the,
tion. I think that Jewish leaders should be careful in
porings and even the violence of contests the Jew has always made
making statements to avoid unfounded attacks. Retract.
the anti-Semites of Europe and gond. And he has made good not
tions are in order.
at the sacrifice of principle, nor at
America
manifestations unique in
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the cost of his distinctiveness
our time. Have we not always had
Here's a good way for churches to promote a better
to meet them! Have we not had among the nations, nor of the les-
understanding of Jews and Jewish life. A Methodist
our Hamann, our Torquemadas. sening of the fealty that has been
Protestant church in Pittsburgh, through its wide-awake
his to faith and to truth.
and their ilk, in other days and
pastor, Rev. Ronald Tamblyn, includes in the church's
The one means of salvation is
overcome them? Why, then, be
weekly bulletin a chapter on Rosh Ilashonah and, after
that which your sane, intelligent.
fearful today? Besides we live in
briefly describing the New Year observance, he says:
thoughtful
Jew stands for, name-
America and in the twentieth cen-
ly, consecration—consecration to
tury—a country and a time in
Among the prayers that will be uttered tomor-
a
mission
to
which through the
which bigotry cannot persist7 Has
row evening in the Hebrew sanctuaries is the fol-
not Mr. Ford recanted? Have not centuries the Jew has been des.
lowing:
tined by his God. Translated into
other batters of the Jew in season
"0 Gail, guard my tongue from evil and my
the simplest of terms, this means
and out acknowledged that many
lips from uttering deceit. Be my support when
that the Jew living among men
of their best friends are Jews?
grief silences my voice, and my comfort when woe
and
learning from them, shall also
Resides are not we Jews through-
bends my spirit. Plant humility in my soul, and
out the land building great tem- be their spiritual teacher. It
strengthen my heart with perfect faith in Thee.
means
that Judaism and Ameri-
ples, whether or not we attend
Help me to be strong when temptations and trials
them? Aren't we so prosperous canism, that Judaism and humani-
come, and to bs• meek when others wrong me, that
tarianism,
that Judaism and clear-
that we live on the fat of the land,
I may readily forgive them. Guide me by the
and even have sufficient left to ness, of thought on social, eco-
light of Thy counsel, and let me ever find rest in
nomic and moral problems, that
give a pittance to our poorer
Thee, who are my Refuge and My Redeemer.
brethren over,eas! What more Judaism and progress, that Judo-
Amen."
would you.' cry these cheerful op-
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Arthur Brisbane says that the Joseph Pulitzer prizes
awarded to high school boys in New York were always
won by Jewish boys. Since the tote Mr. Pulitzer was of
Jewish origin, his advisers felt that it wouldn't be well
for all the prizes to go to Jewish boys, and that's why
Mr. Brisbane says some Gentile boys now share in these
scholarships. Perhaps Mr. Brisbane is too sympathetic
to the Jewish group. All through the years, ever since
I first recall the great editor, he has been a warm cham-
pion of our people. In fact, many think he is a Jew,
which of course he is not.

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