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November 4, 1927
Not Guilty.
Schwartzbard did not kill Petlura. He did not even
wound Petlura. Ile was entirely innocent of any crime
and could not any longer be held in prison.
Such was the verdict of the French jury that acquit-
ted Shalom Schwartzbard of his self-confessed murder
of Semion Petlura.
It was a verdict worthy of Solomon, an act of poetic
justice that must make the name of France and French-
man beloved by Jews throughout the world. It was more
than justice. It was equity—a distinction that Aris-
totle made long ago and which the law is more and
more tending to recognize—the distinction between
equity and legality.
For legally, of course, Schwartzbard was guilty. He
had slain Petlura with "malice aforethought," as the
indictment charged. But equity demanded more than
a legal phrase. Equity demanded that the court should
seek out the reasons for this "malice" and find out if
there was not back of it some sufficient cause. Thanks
to the brilliant defense prepared by Henri Torres,
Schwartzbard's counsel, made posible, by the way, by
the contribution of Jews both in Europe and America,
the story of the terrible pogroms of 1918 to 1920 in the
Ukraine were told from the witness stand. It was this
story that laid bare the background of Schwartzbard's
"malice" and placed his act in the full light of truth.
It was the cries of Petlura's victims re-echoing through
that Paris courtroom, after a silence of seven years,
that freed Schwartzbard. The verdict was not so much
an acquittal of Schwartzbard as a condemnation of
Petlura. Not only was it poetic justice to Schwartzbard
but it was also stern—though belated—justice to the
killer of the Ukraine.
It is interesting at this time to recall the attitude of
American Jewry towards the Schwartzbard affair. The
stand taken by the two outstanding organizations in
this country reflected faithfully the embarrassing prob-
lem posed by the murder of Petlura. American Jewry,
and world Jewry, for that matter, was faced with a per-
plexing problem. It could not sanction murder, how-
ever just. And yet, it could not abandon Schwartzbard
or repudiate him. It could not rejoice in his deed and
yet neither could it withhold from him the sympathy
and aid that he so richly deserved. This dual perplex-
ity was reflected publicly when the American Jewish
Committee condemned the deed and the American Jew-
ish Congress came to Schwartzbard's assistance, It was
as if American Jewry pointed an admonishing finger at
Schwartzbard with one hand and extended the other
hand to him as friend and brother.
It would be unbecoming to blame the American
Jewish Committee or to praise the attitude of the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress. Both attitudes faithfully re-
flected the confused mind of American Jewry. One
was speaking for the brain and the other for the heart
of the American Jew. The American Jewish Commit-
tee has no cause to reproach itself for its attitude and
the American Jewish Congress has no cause to rejoice.
It was, after all, an unfortunate episode from start to
finish and, if there is any reason to rejoice, it is to be
found in the fact that Schwartzbard is free and the in-
cident is closed. In fact, the most fortunate thing of all
is the fact that the trial lasted such a short time. Had
it dragged on, growing, as it did, in bitterness, it might
have resulted in a wave of anti-Semitism throughout
Europe and probably even in our own country. It was
probably that possibility that weighed most heavily
with Mr. Louis Marshall and the other gentlemen of
the American Jewish committee in taking the stand
they took. But it is over and we may all be thankful
that it did not last longer.
Reports from abroad indicate that M. Torres has
been invited to visit America. Other reports say that
Schwartzbard has been invited to visit here. Both are
welcome—if it is their intention to tell the story of the
Ukrainian pogroms for the enlightenment of the Ameri-
can public. But, if it is their intention to boast of their
victory and sing hymns of vengeance triumphant, they
are not welcome. So far as the killing of Petlura is con-
cerned we can only say that we are glad to accept the
verdict of the French court and consider the incident
closed. The less said about it the better.
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Like Father Like Son.
When the Detroit chapter of the A. Z. A., junior
order of the B'nai B'rith, meets the Grand Rapids chap-
ter in debate on Nov. 14 we shall have an opportunity
.-; to judge somewhat of the accomplishments of this in-
, teresting organization.
Like the parent order, the A. Z. A. is primarily an
* educational and cultural fraternity, so intellectual ad-
vancement is probably its chief concern.
It is no secret to those who are familiar with the
history' of fraternal organizations, that the pursuit of
wisdom is more often a pretense than a practice among
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the brotherhoods. Committees are appointed, plans
are laid and then the matter is quietly and conveniently
forgotten. The indications are, however, that the De-
*? troit chapter of the A. Z. A. takes such things more ser-
iously than do other organizations. In that respect it is,
ay as the saying goes, "a chip of the old block." For Pis-
gah Lodge has a very vigorous cultural program and
many of its public functions have been red letter days
in the intellectual life of the Jewish community.
The question which is to be debated is phrased:
"Resolved, that modern industrialism contains the seeds
of destruction." That should prove interesting mater-
ial for the young orators. It is sure to interest a wide
public. Need we remind the reader that the continua-
tion of such commendable cultural programs depends
upon the warmth of his or her encouragement?
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More of a Good Thing.
What could have been a more fitting finale to the
activities of Education Month in Detroit than the an-
nouncement of E. Rabinowitz, president of the United
Hebrew Schools, that the board has projected a compre-
hensive system of small branch schools to bring the
splendid service of our Talmud Torahs within the reach
of a wider group of students?
Mr. Rabinowitz, Mr. J. Friedberg, Mr. Isaacs and all
the other able gentlemen who have the welfare of Jew-
ish education at heart and are giving their lives to its
propagation, are to be congratulated on their courage
and their foresight. As Mr. Rabinowitz points out in
his statement to the Chronicle, Detroit Jewry is in a con-
stant state of migration from one section of the city to
another and it is therefore unwise to build large and
expensive school buildings. Small but well-equipped
schools are better for our local needs.
Mr. Friedberg who is vice-president of the schools
and as well-informed as any man in the community
about our educational needs, took occasion, in his com-
ment, to remark on the United Hebrew Schools' "well
merited record for superior standards and accomplish-
ments." He should know, for he has been a leader
among those who have made those superior standards
and those accomplishments possible.
The building committee which is headed by Louis
Duscoff and David Robinson is an able body and fully
alive to its responsibilities.
As we remarked in these columns a few weeks ago,
there is only one way of improving on a good thing and
that is to get more of it. Everything possible should
now be done to meet the financial problems arising out
of the expansion program of our Talmud Torahs. We
can't have too many of them.
A Worthy Cause.
The Umpartayishe Folkshul Gezelshaft has
launched a campaign for $100,000 in order to carry on
its valuable work on a larger scale. The latest achieve-
ment of this organization is the erection of a chil-
dren's theater which was formally opened on Oct. 22.
On this occasion an appeal to the audience by A. Kom-
aroff, yielded $12,000 in donations to start off the cam-
paign.
There are several good and sufficient reasons why
this enterprise should find support among all groups
and classes in our community. In the first place it is
an educational project of the highest order. It reaches
the young during their most impressionable years,
through the medium of the stage—perhaps the most
effective medium for young and old alike. In the second
place it is liberal in tone and highly intelligent in con-
tent. It is modern. Unlike many other Jewish educa-
tional enterprises it is not intended to combat the mod-
ernizing, liberalizing influence of the secular schools,
but rather to give Jewish meaning and direction to that
influence. And, lastly, it is in able hands. We can de-
pend upon its sponsors to maintain the highest stand-
ards. It is sure to be a credit to our community.
Those who are not yet acquainted with the work of
this organization would do well to familiarize them-
selves with its aims. It is eminently deserving of the
backing of the entire community.
Jewish Statistics.
As everybody knows, the only kind of information
that is of any real value is the information that is based
on carefully compiled scientific data. Statistics are the
bed-rock of fact and the basis of all wise economy—es-
pecially in communal matters.
What is really known about the Jew?
Every issue of the American Jewish Year Book con-
tains a survey of the year. The purpose of this survey
is to convey essential statistical information to Jewish
communal workers. This year the review was written
by H. S. Linfield, director of the department of infor-
mation of the Jewish Bureau of Social Research. On
reading the review by this competent statistician we
find that very little is really known about the vital ac-
tivities of our people even in highly-organized America.
Here are a few samples gleaned from the survey to in-
dicate the paucity of definite data:
CONVERSION AND APOSTASY.—Complete statistics
of•the number of non-Jews who embraced Judaism during
the past year and of the number of Jews who were con-
verted to other religions, were not published during the
year, nor were adequate statistics .. . etc.
HEDER-YESHIBAll EDUCATION. --- As in former
years, no information was published of the number of
hadarim, or the number of their pupils.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.—Statistics of the extent
of Jewish technical education in the various countries are
fragmentary.
UNIVERSITIES.—Complete statistics concerning the
number of Jews enrolled in the secular institutions for
higher learning in the various countries were not published
during this year.
HEBREW AND YIDDISH.—As in preceding years,
little was published during the past year to shoot the status
of Hebrew as a vernacular among the Jews. . . . As in
previous years, no information was published during the
year under review of the extent of Jewish literary activity
in English, Yiddish and other languages.
PRESS.—Little was published during the year on the
status of the Jewish press in Hebrew, Yiddish and other
languages.
PHYSICAL LIFE.—Concerning the number of Jews
in the world, no statistics are available for the year. . . .
No adequate statistics of the Jewish birth-rate or of the
Jewish death-rate are available.
CRIMINALITY.—Fragmentary indeed are the sum-
maries of statistics published on criminality among Jews
as compared with rion-Jews.
These citations will give the reader some idea of
the status of Jewish statistical information—and that
is about the only scientific fact we know about the Jews,
it seems. We know that we don't know. That would
be a good beginning for some real studies of the subject
if we could see from what source the funds for such
studies are forthcoming. Here is an opportunity for
some benevolent Jewish gentleman who would like to
do a lasting service to Jewry. Endow a group of good
statisticans to make a study of all the phases of Jewish
life—at least in America—anti you will be laying the
bed-rock foundation for really intelligent communal
progress.
GIAS.
dOSEPH - =---
There is such a thing as personality. Take Father
Duffy of New York for example We have never seen
seer heard him, yet so unusual is the personality of this
humanitarian priest, so ninny acts of unselfishness are
to his credit, that the whole country has heard of hiss.
Ile is the rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, in an
office-building district of New York, and his parishioners
move away so rapidly that it keeps the church busy pay-
ing its telephone bills, So on the ()tension of the seventy-
fifth anniversary of this church an endowment fund of
$250,000 is to be raised by Jews, Catholics and Protes -
tants, which in itself is a remarkable tribute to the per-
sonality of Francis P. Duffy, chaplain of the famous old
Sixty-ninth Regiment of New York.
Otto Kahn, who is the treasurer of the fund, said that
"Father Duffy has aided every cause in New York that
he could. Ile has friends among every sect and every
profession. Who wouldn't back Father Duffy, a wonder-
fully good, delightful, red-blooded man." Other well
known Jews behind this movement are Jules Bache,
Adolph Zukor, Col. Michael Friedsam, Bernard Gimbel
and Robert Guggenheim. Before closing this paragraph,
I would like to mention that Ott. Kahn is about the "help-
ingest" person on the island of Manhattan. There isn't
very much that goes on in that section of the United
States that Mr. Kahn doesn't help. I noticed only the
other day where he is to he virtually the backer of Eva
LeGallienne in her Civic Repertory Theater movement.
But it would take a page to mention the generous gifts
of Mr. Kahn, I am only sorry that he joined the Epis-
copal Church.
I don't believe in feuds and vendettas. That's the
sort of thing that kept West Virginia, Kentucky, Ten-
nessee and a few other of our states lagging behind the
procession of civilization. So I am not prepared to ap-
plaud the method adopted by Schwartzbard, who assassi-
nated Petlurn, because of the Russian pogroms. Pet-
lura, like every other murderer and torturer, deserved
the worst that could happen to him. But to assassinate
him the way Schwartzbard did was to most lawlessness
with lawlessness, which means nothing more than more
lawlessness. Despite the fact that he was acquitted,
Schwartzbard has had to go in hiding because he will
probably suffer from revengeful friends of Petlura's.
That's the way that sort of thing works and the first thing
you know there is a full fledged vendetta under way.
Taking the law into one's hands is a dangerous weapon
to use in obtaining justice.
Glenn Frank, the president of the University of Wis-
consin, scores the attempt to create a Nordic Jesus. Un-
der the title of "Religion and Racialism," he has this to
say in his syndicated column in the daily press:
With one magnificent gesture Jesus interna-
tionalized what had been until his time a racial
religion. One would imagine, therefore, that
Jesus would be the lust figure in history anyone
would think of relating, even indirectly, to race-
consciousness or race discrimination.
And yet, from time to time, the incredible at-
tempt is made to unite the non-racial religion of
Christianity with the Cult of Racialism. I find it
difficult to believe that Jesus, the Jew, flouted his
own race in order to flatter even the Nordics.
And although my own ancestry has been, for
as many generations as I am able to trace it,
white, Protestant and Nordic, I cannot quite con-
cur in the intermittent attempts to convert Jesus
into a mere press agent for the Pilgrim Fathers.
A heretic! Call out Dr. Straton! No Christian would
ever dare talk in such a manner! Some day the Stratons
and the Bowlbys and all the others of the tribe of literal-
ists (I hope the typesetter doesn't make this read "liberal-
ists") may learn just what Jesus the Jew stood for.
Walter Hurt seems to be getting ready to issue a
very interesting magazine, if the titles of some of the
articles are any criterion. The magazine, the Gladiator,
is not yet ready for publication, thugh Mr. Hurt is re-
ceiving pledges for subscriptions, but he wants no money
sent. Articles on these subjects should prove of interest
to our readers: "A Real Cure for Race Prejudice,"
"Truth About the Catholics," "A White Man's Chance
For the Negro," "Rational Relationship of Capital and
Labor," "The Only Way to End War," "Perils of Inter-
Marriage," "How Tolerant Are You?" "Self-Made Anti-
Semitism."
A reader sends me a copy of a journal called the New
Leader, and marks an article, a part of which I quote:
I pick up the morning paper and note that
American bankers are about to go through with a
loan to Poland of $75,000,000. That same eve-
ning I meet a near relation who has just returned
from a visit to her immediate folks in Pinsk, Po-
land. In simple style she narrates to me the hor-
ror of the Jew's lot under the regime of the liber-
ated Pole. Three millions of the youth are just
rotting away in enforced idleness. There is no
work, since there is no industry. They live off
American relatives who send them scanty sums
monthly. The great occupation is to stand for
hours and days in filthy public offices awaiting the
money order or registered letter. . . . There is
no horror on earth like the Ghetto of Poland.
There is no greater inhumanity to man than that
practiced by the military butcherdom of Poland
on the Jew. . . . And now Jewish bankers are
contemplating lending the inquisitors of their own
people the huge sum of $75,000,000.
Severe criticism was visited on the London Roths-
childs for lending money to Hungary, but whether the
same criticism is justified in the case of Poland is an-
other question. It may be that by helping Poland's eco-
nomic situation, the Jews, too, may be indirectly helped.
Well's there's a reason for everything. After reading
the article by the Jerusalem correspondent of a Berlin
Communist paper, I begin to see why Russia isn't so
kindly disposed to the Zionist enterprise. The writer
charges that England is simply using Palestine as a
strategic military base, having in mind unfriendly inten-
tions on the Soviet Union. That English imperialism is
linked with both Jewish and Arab exploiters in Palestine
for the purpose of making selfish use of the country.
And are informed that the Jewish and Arab peasant and
worker are now organizing against their capitalistic
bosses and will be heard from sooner or later—probably
sooner. The Communist writer calls the whole business
a complete failure, saying that the economic breakdown
has disgusted the Jews who went there earlier and who
are now leaving. During 1925, over 35,000 Jews went
to Palestine, but now there are only a handful. I carom.
see the reason for such a pessimistic picture. It is quite
natural, if there is a lack of employment. that only fools
would encourage Jews from other parts of the world emi-
grating to a coutnry where they would become a charge
on the community. But what does interest me and ap-
pears to have some significance is the beginning of a
radical labor movement in the country, uniting the Jose
and the Arab laborer.
They are certainly a mean lot in Hungary. If • Jew
sneezes in that country a riot is on in a jiffy. The other
day they staged a series of riots because a Jewish dra-
matist wrote a play called "High Lady or Maria Theresa,"
which was produced in the National Theater in Budapest.
The National Theater, to begin with. is an anti-Semitic
institution, which by the way shows just where the Hun-
garian government stands officially. Where else would
there be a tehater sponsored by the government dis-
criminating against one class of its population? The riots
grew eo severe that the play was finally withdrawn. The
university boys, of couree, were in the fray. playfully
maltreating many Jews. tearing the clothes off their backs
and acting true to form as hoodlums. In Hungary, to
he admitted to a university evidently one must be a
tough.
An Agriculturist Expert's Viewpoint
Jewish Birthrate Higher In Palestine Than
Elsewhere.
By DR. ARTHUR RUPPIN.
(Editor's Note:—The statement that the Jewish birthrate
in Palestine exceeds that of the Jewish birthrate in any other
country was the hopeful strain in the address of Dr. Arthur
Ruppin, Zionist colonization expert and formerly a member
of the executive, delivered at the Fifteenth Zionist Congress.
The opinion of Dr. Ruppin on the present state of affairs in
Palestine is based on knowledge and is supported by his ob-
servation of many years.)
I see the present agitation
against the workers in Palestine as
something more than a chance ap-
pearance. I see it as a conflict
between the principles of pioneer-
ing and of ordered business life.
The Chaluzim are still essential
to us. Theirs is more than a na-
tional or religious enthusiasm.
Such may lead a Jew to Palestine,
but could not keep him for years,
day in, day out, from early to late,
doing work beyond his strength.
trade, but that they must engage
in their right proportion in all the
branches of work which constitute
a sound form of economic life. In
the Galuth lands the Jewish mer.
chants, even if they constitute 50
per cent of all the Jews engaged
in earnng their livelihood, never-
theless form only a small percent-
age of the total population served
by trade. In Palestine, where the
Jewish merchants are practically
limited to dealing with Jews, suet
a high percentage of Jewish trail-
ers would result in a catastrophe.
With a healthy agricultural work
as a basis, industry, trade and
building activity will develop in
the towns. Without such a basis
the economic life in the teems,
built upon itself or upon the urban
population and the needs of the
tourists, cannot meet with mush
suecess. If we take as an example
countries like Denmark or Switzer-
land, which are similar to Pales.
tine in their lack of metal and
coal, we find that about 26 to 35
per cent of the population is ac-
tive in agriculture. It seems to
me that the Jews in Palestine must
be represented in agriculture to
approximately the some propor-
thin. At present only 15 per cent
of the Jews in Palestine are en -
gaged in agriculture and this is a
foundation too weak for our eco-
nomic pyramid.
In their origin and their ma-
terial position, there is no inherit-
ed difference between our immi-
grants. Our Chaluzim are largely
the children of Balleibatim and
our middle class elements have,
many of them, such small means
that they may just as well be
counted as proletarians. What
distinguishes them from each oth-
er are not so much their occupa-
tions and their means, but their
age and their social attitude. The
Chaluz is ready to do any work,
0'5'11 if it means insufficient food,
sickness and danger. The middle
class man demands at least a cer-
tain amount of ordered life and
agreeable surroundings. Both
groups with their well-defined
mentalities have their place in our
colonization work, but each of
them must be placed in their right
It is futile to talk of a program
place. The swampy Emek, invest-
of immigration so long as we have
ed by Bedouins and hostile neigh-
not emerged from the present
bors, could not be conquered by
crisis in Palestine. The present
staid fathers of families belonging
crisis is crippling every systematic
to the middle class, but by an en-
activity, because the need to re-
thusiastic youth which does not
lieve the unemployed swallows up
shrink from danger to life and
money in unproductive ways the
health. Ten years ago no Jew
lack of which is then felt in pro-
dared venture into the streets of
ductive directions. I believe that
the Emek because of human ene-
it is possible by the time of the
mies and of malaria. Only now
next congress to make the transi-
that it has been made one of the
tion to normal conditions, but it
most healthy and safe parts of
depends on one condition and that
Palestine, can we begin to talk of
is that we should immediately, at
settling other elements than Cha-
the beginning of the next budget
luzim there.
year, succeed in putting at the dis-
We must not forget that Zion-
posal of the executive such a sum
ism, as it now appears clearly, is
which will, together with the pay-
a work for a very long time ahead.
meat of debts, bring about a set-
We shall not tomorrow, or the day
tled financial condition and with
after, in five or ten years' time,
be able to rest our hands in our the start of the amelioration works
laps and say: Well, it's done! It will put a stop to need of relief
is a work which will engage the of the unemployed.
It is certainly a deplorable thing
coming generation, particularly
the coming generation in Pales- that the burden of debts upon the
tine. Every Jewish child born in executive, which in 1925 was only
Palestine is a valuable force for 115,00, has in the last two years
our work. It is fortunate that the increased tenfold. But if you want
fear of bearing many children to guard against a repetition of
which has seized the Jews in the such conditions, you must see to
it that the executive should cease
Galuth countries has not
reached Palestine. In Palestine to be regarded as a maid-of-all
work in Palestine. Whatever hap-
we have optimism, the hope of the
pens in Palestine, the cry goes up
future, which still regards chil-
to the executive. The executive
dren as a blessing, as our forefa-
is not a government and it cannot
thers did. The Jews of Palestine
by turning the screw of taxation
have the highest birthrate of all
provide increasing sums for in-
the Jews in the world. But the
creasing obligations. It has very
most important point is that this
definite and very limited means at
youth remains in Palestine and is
its disposal and if its work is not
not drawn tto turn its back on
very definitely circumscribed from
Palestine by the greater material
the beginning, it most land itself
prospects in other countries. We
in a financial catastrophe. It must
must keep their enthusiasm in our
be understood that work of a phi-
youth.
lanthropic character is not part
The opponents of the workers
of the duty of the executive and
think that they understand every-
that it is useless to appeal to the
thing better than the workers do.
executive with matters which do
I want to warn them against ex-
not definitely come within its
aggeration in this respect. There
budget.
is no people in the world whose
Do not become impatient when
working class can compare in in-
we find difficulties in our road and
telligence with our working class.
when
sometimes we have to go in
If you have read the reports of the
zigzag fashion. Do not forget how
last conference of the labor or-
short a time it is since we started
ganization in Palestine, you will
systematic work in Palestine. Shall
see that the workers themselves
I remind you that in the year 1909
have very severely criticised their
the entire budget of the Zionist
economic failures. I would re-
Organization for Palestine was
gard it as the greatest of mistake's
f800? Shall I remind you that in
if you were to render more dif-
1914 America had not yet been
ficult the natural evolution of the
discovered so far as Palestine is
workers toward the spirit of sta-
concerned? Shall I remind you
bility, if an hostile attitude were
that it was only in 1921 that the
to be formulated by the Zionist
Keren Ilayesod was established?
Organization toward the workers.
That it was in that year that the
Do not forget that scarcely six
first big tract of land came int.
years have passed since the first
our hands? I believe that when
pioneers put their foot on the soil
you Lake all this into account and
of the Emek, or the workers took
on the other hand you estimate
up the first public works. What
what a vast sum of national en-
are six years in a work of such
ergy is embodied in a single set-
size and such difficulties? I be-
tlement, such as Nahalel, or Da-
lieve that the impartial observer
genie, you will agree that there
will wonder that the workers have
has been a very considerable
gone so far on the road toward
achievement. I believe that we,
stability rather than that they are
can calmly await the judgment of
so far behind.
history.
When in 1925 I first took up
And a last warning. Ih, ns t
seriously the plan of a loan, I went
make the mistake of under - e - . 1.
to the Emek settlements and I told
mating enthusiasm and person:0
the settlers there that I saw no
self - sacrifice among the new Jew:
possibility of a loan for the ex-
in Palestine. It is not enough that
tension of our settlement work so
we Jews have done things in the
long as the existing settlements
past. We must in the present else
did not pay. Therefore, I told
win every day anew the respect
them, every man in our settle-
and sympathy of the world
ments must do his utmost to make
through our achievements. And
them pay. I found every one
I can hardly think of anything
eager to listen . It is very easy to
destroy the enthusiasm which for that is more likely to do this than
the self-sacrifice and the spirit of
20 years we have guarded as a
sacred flame. And when once you selflessness which distinguish oar
Chaluzim. I hope that there will
have extinguished it, it is impos-
be a more just mutual recognition
sible to rekindle it. I call upon
you to give justice due to the Cha- of the Right by the Left and e'f
luzim and I am convinced that the the Left by the Right, and that
workers will more and more real- this world, shaken by social ea:
ize how important stability is to flict, we shall provide a living es-
the extension of our work and that ample of a community in which
they will make further progress in this conflict is reduced to a min'
mum, and the happiness of the Ir.-
this direction. It would be best
dividual is the greatest concern.
for the Zionist movement if one
united front with the workers to- There may be those who believe
ward the outside world would be that a higher humanity will grow
formed. Those who are sowing up in Palestine on its own. I do
enmity between us and the work- not believe that. We shall reap
era are placing us in grave dan- in Palestine that which we new
ger. The arrow whch they aim sow. And that is why it is so ire-
against the workers may very portant that the seed we s( ,
early fall back upon the whole should be good seed. More cent-
Zionist Organization and destroy dence, more understanding, on one
side and on the other, those are
i ts most valuable possessions.
Now for the question of the sea- the conditions under which we
nomic structure which the Jews may hope to progress successfully
on our road and to establish in
are to build up in Palestine. The
Palestine a Jewish commonwealth
peculiarity of our work lies in this
of high ethical value. — (CM -
that the Jews in Palestine cannot
right, 1927, by Jewish Telegraphic
as in the Galuth lands concentrate
Agency, Inc.)
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