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"THIS FAITH OF OURS"
Congressman Blanton's bill, which calls for the
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
shutting of the doors of the United States completely to
An Inquiry Into the Relation of Religion and Reason.
President
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immigration for the next eight years, blasts whatever
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
Secretary and Treasurer
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Address Delivered at Temple Beth El Sunday morning, Jan. 29.
1 had a talk with Clarence Darrow the other night and
Masagiog Editor
hopes remained for a liberal American policy on immi-
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
—_.—
discovered him to be one of the very few Christians I
By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN.
as Second-clas• grittier March S. 19111. at the Poetogice at Detroit.
ever
met.
Ile
has
an
extraordinary
acquaintance
among
gration.
Entered
Mich.. under the At of March I. 1P74.
all other groups. What Darrow's religion is, not even
This does not mean, of course, that the fight for an
-
Bruce Barton knows, which is quite an assertion, for
I sat not long ago at a banquet 'Rive man lived in a universe tha
General- Offices and Publication Building
i..0..
Barton seems to know what nobody else knows. But this
open door policy be given up. So long as the cause of
board about which were gathered to his thinking was inevitably boo
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great lawyer and idealist, for he is an idealist, is a lover
a number of men who by common tile to him. Natural forces wen
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immigration is a righteous one, it is important that we
of his fellow-man. lie has such a sane outlook on society
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agreement fairly represent the in- so many enemies standing in bat
London Office:
ti
that it will take the world a few hundred years to catch
continue
to
hammer
away
in
urging
that
America
once
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up with his thinking, which is a tragedy. Ile is a friend
community of which they are is ing. The mountains, the streams
must
I
t i
again become the haven of refuge for the oppressed of
to every man, regardless of race, color or creed.
$3.00 Per Year
part. As happens frequently on the forests that later man came to
Subscription, in Advance
except the hypocrite, for Darrow cannot abide such. He
think of as the manifestations of
such occasions, the conversation
the
world.
So
long.
also,
as
the
immigrant
is
charged,
0
publication, all correapoodence and news matter must reach this
veored froin therne to theme, turn- a benevolent providence, were re
To ins.,
has a heart filled with pity for the downtrodden and that
office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing totices,
is why his talents are always at the disposal of the dis-
i
as Congressman Blanton does in the preamble to his
ing at last to the subject which is garded by infant civlizations
as
kindly .1.4 one eide of the pew only.
ates cruelty and vengeance. A
h
the
gods
always
a
ready
traget
for
the
the
instruments
whic
ed
o
s
pos sesn earth. Ile h One who deserves the thanks of
bill, with being everything under the sun, we must con-
on subjects of In terest to
t : p! ils, Chroni cle invite, corre.pondene
shafts of the intellectuals. I mean controlled to crush man into sub
philoso ph er. A thinker.
Ter. 1::tir.otew
a n indorvernen t o f th• rums
op e but Latvian. revpounibilitt fur
of course religion. Somehow the mission. Even the stars and tht
time to champion his cause. With exceptions so raw a ll l e vers of liberty for his masterful fight against the •
expres.ed by the writers.
_
kt,,,
intolerance in the Dayton trial.
very mention of the word religion suns and the spheres which increas-
forces of,bigotry and
---.--tes-e---
that they hardly exist, all immigrants come here to bet-
Sh'vat
12.
5,188
in such a group almost invariably ing knowledge taught him were th
February 3, 1928
very conservators of his life, the
Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, keeps steadily at hi;
lifts it neer to some faces and
ter their economic conditions and to find such peace
job of doing constructive service for all mankind. I no-
words of mockery fall from many first generations of mankind looked
..
upon as so many demons waiting
tice in the papers that he has been named to receive the
that they are robbed of in countries of oppression.
Speeches Do Not Satiate Hunger.
lips. And this occasion was no ex-
their chance to crush frail human
race relations award of e Harmon Foundation,of New
ception
to
the
general
rule.
The
But the fight on behalf of the imigrant is not a new
York, for his contribution to the improvement of rela-
The speches that were delivered at the Michigan
mention of religion was greeted beings into the dust.
And no they had to be appeased
one. As far back as almost half a century ago, Walt tions between the white and Negro populations of Amer-
with the usual good-natured gibes
Constructive Relief Conference, held here on Sunday,
ica. lie has done much for the colored
race through con-
•
which cut the truly religious man and propitiated with offerings and
Whitman, as editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, wrote the
tributions to colored Y. M. C. A.'s, and for better school
with
sacrifices. Like men the del-
more
deeply
than
any
open
on-
were not enough to satisfy the physical and spiritual
facilities for Negro children in the rural South. lie is
theargument
did not ties of primitive peoples were giv-
a
the
slaught.
want and suffering of the Jews of Eastern Europe. The following editorial plea for immigration to this coun-
an outstanding Jew and an outstanding American, in the
t,
continue to e a ltogether frothy en to anger and to jealousy and
ra
highest and best meaning of those terms.
and of the superficial character to cruel practices. Their strength
--- -
most enthusiastic among the delegates must have stop- try :
r4:-
was used to crush the weak not to
that most table talk turns to be.
So
Nathan
Straus
is
eighty
years
old
this
week.
Well,
It took a serious turn. Particular- sustain and support them. hence,
ped to think: In what way are we, who are assembled
On the shores of Europe are panting multitudes, who
if anyone ever deserved to live to a ripe old age, Nathan
naturally', fear it was that turned
ly arresting were the remarks of
sicken with nakedness and starvation. They weep—they
from every section of the state of Michigan, to assist
Straus is the man. lie is another Jewish humantiarian
honesty men to their {,ends. But granting
whose intellectuall thinking
curse life—they die. Partly through the excess of popula-
who has pointed the road to goodwill and shows that he
this, who that knows even the out-
one
as well as whose l
unfortunate Polish Jewry? Because all must surely
tion, and partly through the grossly partial nature of the
understands the message of peace on earth. I didn't
lines of the history of religion, or
one who knows him
rule,
no
as
laws and the distribution of property, half the aggregate
start
to
arrange
these
paragraphs
in
the
order
in
which
who that has studied the first chap-
have realized that mere words and pictures do not re-
selll would ev
er question.
number of the natives of the Old World live in squalor,
ters in the science of comparative
you find them, but here I have been speaking of three
Said
he
in
effect
among
other
and
misery.
Some
seasons
famine
stalks
through
men—Darrow,
Rosenwald
and
Straus—all
of
whom
rep-
want
religion, does net know that this
lieve want.
things: Religion has no place in
whole provinces and thousands are struck down ere the
resent the best that we find in men. Each has no boon-
was only a first stage in the devel-
the
program
of
a
rational
man.
Re-
Mr. Morris D. Waldman warned last Sunday's as-
;s4a
new moon fills her crescent. Then emaciated corpses strew
opment of a faith out of which man
dory line to his interest in his fellows. They do good for
ligion and reason by
A.'
the fields, and the groans of pale children ere heard on
sembly that the work of the Joint Distribution Commit-
goodness' sake. Nathan Straus is one o temost lovable
has groped his way not in our day
oppositionn
each
to
the
wayside,
and
savage
murders
are
committed
to
get
the
only,
but
even
in
those
remote
cen-
tee in Poland will have to be continued for at least five
the other. Religion is the refuge
means of life for dying women and infants. Amid the
for many more years of peaceful living. Because he
inte llectual turies when the prophets of Israel
years to come. The seriousness of the economic situa-
of the m oral and t
cities too (those great cities which many of our people
gave utterance to their sublime dic-
couldn't live without making himself of use to someone.
cowar d. Religion ishethe hav en of ta in regard to the relations of man
---e--as-e---
would like to emulate in grandeur) Poverty stalks un-
tion in that country, which brought forth warnings from
superstitution. Religion at best,
checked, dragging by the hand his brother, Crime. There
Now
we
come
to
another
Jew
who
is
doing
his
bit
to
continued this man reaching a cli- to God and to the universe? Who
Jewish leaders that a million Jews must emigrate as an
is too much mankind and too little earth ..
make this old world of ours a better place to live in. This
max, is an attempt to make the that knows even the opening chap-
only solution to the economic problem, is cause for very
time its' an actor, "Bob" Hall, to whom I refer. "Bob,"
And then look here at America. Stretching between
world in which we live bearable in ters in our Jewish literature must
who is famous on the Keith circuit, breezed in to see me
the Allegheny Mountains and the Pacific Ocean are mil-
grave concern. Because the doors to America are
the face of hostile nature and the not recall that already in the days
of Moses it was said that the God
the other day and he was chock full of enthusiasm over
lions on millions of uncultivated acres of land—long, roll-
ten thousand forces that array
closed; Palestine's posibilities to receive new settlers
his ten-year-old job of being vice-president of the N. V.
ing prairies—interminable savannahs, where the fat earth
themselves against man's comfort, of Israel was no longer the "El
are remote; and South America's doors are too narrow
Shaddai," the God of Might, but the
A. (National Vaudeville Association), of which Fred
is covered with grass reaching to a height unknown in our
iness.
peace and happ
"Yahweh," the Eternal God, and
Stone (another fine character) is president. The Avon-
less prolific north—forests amid whose boughs nothing but
to admit too many.
' Tend ency t o Follow Fads.
elation supports five tuberculosis hospitals, and Hall
silence reigns, and the birds are not shy through fear of
While I believe that there are that Isaiah more than five hundred
this t
So long, therefore, as the Jews of Poland are des-
beams
when
he
speaks
of
the
wonderful
values
of
these
human kind—rich openings by the side of rivers—trees and
comparatively few who would have years before th e beginnin of .
xpress the convic- era proclaimed Him as the Univer-
humanitarian institutions. lie is always on a mission of
verdure making from year to year their hearty deposits
tined to remain in their motherland and to work out
lio
courage
to
e
t
he
,
and
that
lie
was
known
to
mercy. He has organized benefits without number to
sal God
on the remains of the trees and verdure that decayed be-
n implied is this characterize- the fathers as the "El Mofilled
their own solution, and so long as American Jewry re-
leh Hach-
help the destitute of every race and creed. While in
fore them. The mind becomes almost lost in tracing in
tion
of
religion
as
brusquely
and
with
mains the one responsible element in the welfare of
Pittsburgh he rendered yeoman service in raising money
imagination those hidden and boundless tracts of our terri-
as frankly a: did the speaker whom animal," the God who is
for the women and children of the destitute miners who
I quote, I am tenvinced that there mercy, with kindness and with
these people, the immediate obligation is clear. First
tory—
were evicted in mid-winter by the kind-hearted (?) mine
is a considerable and perhaps a love? Presumptuous Critics.
and foremost, all pledges thus far made must be re-
owners, creating a situation which Fanny Burst describes
Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
growing number of the so-called
as the most "uncivilized in history." A situation along-
deemed. No man dare promise for the relief of a peo-
intellectuals who try to persuade It would lie as just and as logi-
Save its own dashing.
side of which Russian barbarism is refined civilization.
themselves that this is an attitude cal to discredit chemistry because
sadly
stricken,
without
living
up
to
his
obligation.
ple so
So went up and down the streets collecting'money for
We perhaps wonder what can be the intention of the
proper to assume toward religion it grew out of alchemy, or to say
But after these pledges are redeemed, we are duty-
the starving little ones. Another worker in the field of
Creator in leaving for so long a time such capacities for
in this day when free thought rath- that modern astronomy has nothing
humane service. So, after all, there are some decent
human existence and comfort undeveloped. We lose our-
er than clear thought is the rule. to teach the man of today because
bound to begin anew with a program that will continue
folk to make up with the others we have to live with.
It is such an easy thing to accept it had its humble origins in astrol-
selves in the anticipation of what may be seen there in
to contribute towards the ultimate stabilization of the
future times—the flourishing cities, the happy family
as proved an inference from prem- ogy, as to hold to the position that
economic conditions of our fellow Jews.
ices that are not logically ground- religion can have no appeal to the
homes, the stately edifices of public improvement, the sights
• My Zionist friend, did you mad Dr. Melamed's article
in the current issue of the "Reflex" on the "Bsais of Civ-
eel. and to draw blanket conclu- reasonable man because in the re-
and sounds of national prosperity.
American Jewry dare not sit back and leisurely ig-
ilization"? Did you, my non-Zionist friend? Did you,
gions from individual cases. More- motest centuries it was the refuge
llow, then, can any man with a heart in his breast
my anti-Zionist friend? Well, it's well worth Your read-
nore the fate of their kinsmen abroad. The Michigan
over, there is a tendency—quite of men who were fearful of the
begrudge the coming of Europe's needy ones, to the plenti-
ing. It is a most provocative article and will give all
pronounced in our time—to follow forces that were arrayed against
ful storehouse of the New World?
Conference had the important purpose of rallying anew
three of vou a great deal to think about in connection
fads and fashions in the intellect- them in a hostile universe.
all forces in this state for the redemption of outstanding
with the Zionist movement. I am inclined to agree with
It is quite apparent that ninny
ual and moral world. As has been
the
Doctor
that
the
backbone
of
any
civilization
must
pledges. When the delegates return to their respective
printed out on other occasions, we of those who set themselves up as
find its roots in the soil. That's rather a mixed metaphor,
the
accredited critics of religion are
their
business
to
relate
to
their
fellow
our
leaders
in
truly
sheep-
Wanted : 1,000 Detroit Zionists.
homes, however, it is
but then it is surprising what one finds when digging the
ish fashion, and peculiarly enough fairly presumptuous in their atti-
constituencies how great the need is. It is not too late
soil—if not back bone, at least backaches, but not heart-
ofttimes
the
most
ready
and
do-
tudes
since obviously they. do not
Under the chairmanship of Morris Fishman, De- aches. The Jews, instead of starting with an overdose cite of followers are those who know the
history, the content or the
to increase the pledges made. And the communities op-
of culture, should begin with agriculture, which is more
thinking
spirit
of the religion which is the
troit
Zionists
this
week
commence
a
campaign
for
one
boast their independent
posite whose names the figures of unpaid pledges, or of
of a fact than a pun. The Jew has been "cultured" to
and their freedom from slavery to subject of their attacks. As I took
thousand new members of the local District.
pledges too insignificant to be of credit to self-respect-
such an extent that he has forgotten how or is completely
convention, habit or tradition. occasion to say in a recent address,
to be a producer. Instead of praising our.
ing Jews, point an accusing finger at irresponsible
This campaign should not be confused with the disinclined
Once let a theory—however absurd, such an attitude toward any other
serves because a modern city, Tel Aviv, has been created,
however illogical, however untrue— of the philosophies or the sciences
pledgors, had better get busy. Because we are respon-
United Palestine Appeal, which is to issue a call in
it would be a lot better for Palestinian Jewry and for
be voiced by one in whom for good or the arts, would at once he recog-
Zionism as a whole to celebrate the creation of villages.
sible for the lives and welfare of hundreds of thousands
nized as intolerable. Basically the
lines 0
April for a Detroit contribution of $110,000 for the I am not speaking as a Zionist, because I am not on e, but reason along certain
tug people have co nfidence, and im- difficulty lies I believe in the fact
of our fellow Jews abroad.
Melamed
is
Dr.
will
upbuilding of Palestine. The upbuilding of the Jewish merely as an observer on the side lines.
mediately echoes o f the the y It that many men who think rather
ons.
right when he asks, Why transplant a section of Manhat-
clearly in other fields, do not real-
be heard in a dozen directior
Homeland is not dependent on financial support alone.
is peculiar that so many people of ize that to the subject of religion
tan to Palestine?
the scientific method is so appli-
To
retain
the
good
will
of
the
nations
of
the
world,
it
good
intellectual
endowment
are
The New Year of the Trees.
willing to be an echo rather than a cable as it is anywhere else. Pe-
Dr. Malamed thinks the cultural Jew is starting at the
is necessary that the machinery of the World Zionist wrong
end
to
build,
beginning
with
the
roof
instead
of
culiarly enough, however far they
The tree is the symbol of the Jewish settlement in
Organization be kept running ; it is important that as the cellar. I am sure the University can wait and the voice.
The ready acquiescence which the may have gone with the scientist
Palestine. It is expresive of the new Jewish life out of
Grand
Onera
can
wait
and
other
cultural
activities
can
in his researches along physical
onslaught
on
religion—to
which
I
strong a voice as it is possible to raise be lifted, for the
wait until the Jew digs a foundation for his home. That's
have made reference--received did lines, they have not gotten beyond
which is some day to grow a strong Jewish community,
cause of the Jewish National Home. This can be done
the reasoning of the pioneers in
the
most
importan
thing.
so
it
seems
to
me.
Already,
therefore
not
disturb
me
very
from which, so it is hoped, there is to radiate a cultural only when a truly representative section of the Jewish
Palestine Jewry is afflicted with the fashionable economic
much. I honor the intellectual in- evolution who applied their theor-
ies primarily—if not exclusively—
influence over Jewry everywhere.
&peewee
due
to.urban
life.
The
editor
of
the
"Reflex"
tegrity
and
the
courage
of
the
man
people is enrolled not as the mere financial supporter
wants Zionist leaders to stop and look, and above all, to
who gives voice to such an opinion, to the material universe. Appar-
The custom in ancient Palestine was to plant a tree
of the cause of Palestine, but also as the moral backer THINK of the millions that are being poured into the even though I believe that he is ently they do not realize—as of
whenever a child was born. The tree grew with the
country. and then to ask themselves whether they are on
thoroughly mistaken. I cannot say course they must to be en rapport
of the movement for the re-settlement of the Holy Land
quite so much for those who with- with modern thinking—that all of
the right track. If not, then to back track. At any rate,
child, the growth of the one becoming symbolic of the with Jewish pioneers.
out thinking the problem through, life, including our thought life, our
read
the
article.
Then
tell
us
what
you
think.
Discus-
growth of the other. Thus grew the ancient forest of
somewhere.
Detroit Zionists are modest. They ask for only sing the question in the open may get UV
by silence or by endorsement accept emotional life, our spiritual life, is
-
-
Israel, and for a man to be able to live "under his vine one thousand additional members. But they should at
equally subject to the laws of de-
such an opinion.
Religion and Reason.
velopment which we commonly call
Thank you very much. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and fig tree" was to attain the greatest happiness in
stop
at
-
least not deviate from the goal and refuse to
We want this morning to deal evolution. Indeed I em not sure
for your encouraging words. She just hail time to say
for a little while with the problem but that in these realms the pro-
life.
to a New York "Evening World" reporter that:
less than the accepted quota.
I am in full accord with President Roosevelt's
that is thus raised and to see sass of development has gone on
In the modern rehabilitation of Palestine, this cus-
whether the facts justify the as- more rapidly and with greater
view's on the subject of religious bigotry. Ile
tom is being revived. Through the Jewish National
or
a
Catholic
would
be
sertion that religion and reason are sureness than it has elsewhere.
Jew
hoped that some day a
What Humility!
Fund, the tree has again assumed a towering emblem-
elected President of the United States. He was of
"In the Material World."
mutually exclusive, that the reas-
the oninion that after a four years' presidential
onable man cannot he the religious
atic position. The tree has even been suggested, with
In the material world, as your
The defiling of the Scrolls of the Law in Rumania,
term by either a Catholic or a Jew, virtually all
man, and that religion is the ref- geologist will tell you, aeons of time
only pure white as its background, for the flag of the
Americans would come around to the idea that
uge of the cowardly, 14 the weak, may have passed between one per-
during the recent massacres in that country, called
their President's religious views amounted to just
and of the fearful. I grant at the
bat of development and another.
New Judea.
far as they were concerned.
forth
proclamations
of
mourning
and
the
setting
aside
outset that those who hold to the
nothing
at
all.
so
The various strata of the earth's
Chamisho Osor B'Shvat. the Jewish Arbor Day, is
You'd better watch yourself, Mrs. Roosevelt, or Sena- • belief that religion began in a sense surface represent not years, but in
of a special fast day.
tor Tom Heflin will catch you some day down in Alabama
therefore one of the most joyous days on the Jewish
of fear, have everything to justify greater likelihood many millions of
The proclamation, made public in our columns lax( and you may he tarred and feathered for such outrageous them. As has been sufficiently years of change and growth. In
calendar in Palestine. Throughout the ages it has been
shown by Frazer in his book "The the thought realm however, pro-
observed as a symbol of the Jewish life that once vege- week, through the courtesy of Rabbi Moses Kischer, American sentiments.
Golden Bough." by Jastrow in his
gress moves more rapidly so that
reveals that almost inbelievable humility still rules Jew-
A reader wants to know whether the Jews of Hungary
"Study of Religion," by Prof. Kent between the intellectual standards
tated in an all-Jewish commonwealth.
statue
in
memory
of
a
in his scholarly researches, latterly of two successive generations there
should co-operate in the unveiling
Chamisho Osor, to be celebrated this year on Feb. G, ish ranks.
of I.ouis Kossuth in this country. He seems to think that
by Lewis Browne in his hook "This may be a very world of difference.
"Because of the terrible pogroms and the Chillul
the present attitude of Hungary to the Jews might make
is strengthened in observance by the half million trees
Believing World," and by literally Particularly is this true in an age
I fail
it
undesirable
to
support
the
Hunearian
project.
dozens of others who have written
liashem
that
occurred
in
our
midst
on
account
of
our
planted in the Jewish Homeland during the past quar-
(Turn to next page.)
to see any connection between a liorthy and a Kossuth.
sins, we declare a public fast day obligatory on all in- The latter was one of the leaders in revolutions that swept upon the origins of religion, prim-
ter century. Diaspora Jewry joins its Palestine breth-
through Europe in 1848 and who was exiled as a result
ren on this New Year of the Trees in greeting the Jew-
habitants...."
his efforts to free the Hungarian people, including the
Such is the faith of the extremely faithful! What- of
ish Back to Nature movement.
Jews. The Jews worked with Kossuth, the great patriot,
e•er misfortunes strike them are constantly interpreted and regardless of who is behind the movement, is no
reason that Jews, if so inclined, should not assist.
as punishment for their sins.
From Levy to Leroy.
"Repentance and charity will avert the evil decree,"
I am in receipt of a letter from Lee R. Sack, a well-
Everett Levy is now Everett Leroy, and as a result they keep on repeating, and in their hearts continues known Scripps-Howard Washington correspondent, call-
ing my attention to the attitude of Senator David Reed,
A Sheaf of Sheilas
of the change in his surname he now hopes to speed to lurk the hope that as a result of such repentance of Pennsylvania, toward eliminating some of the hard-
ships that have ensued as a result of the present immigra-
God Almighty will speed the redemption of Israel.
his success as an electrical engineer. Unfortunately
tion laws. Mr. Sack (whose brother, by the way, contralti
By RABBI LEON FRAM
for him, however, he made application for the change
What humility!
the San Antonio "Jewish Record") is one of the best
Director of Religious Education, Temple Beth El.
of his name to a namesake. Justice Aaron J. Levy who
posted newspaper men in Washington, and in a dispatch
Only an eternal people is capable of such faith!
to the Pittsburgh "Press" on the subject, he reports the
unburdened himself, in his New York court. to the new
following statement of the senator's, which will be hailed
10. What Jew is judge of the
1. Who is Professor Masaryk?
Leroy in the following fashion:
with much satisfaction by Jews because of Reed's posi-
=
,
-
WHY NOT
ASK THE RABBI
The petitioner is twenty-five years of age• If he
of application
were more mature I doubt whether this sort
would be presented. Of course, I share his disappointment
and grief in his inability to get employment in his profes-
sion, and indeed lament the fact that this was entirely due
to the name he bore.
Character and courage are essential in fighting off
these vicious and bigoted influences, but, as he prefers to
run, let him. Doubtless he is wholly ignorant of the fact
that the Bible tells us that the tribe of Levi never wor-
shipped the golden calf. Let the application be granted, so
that his people might be well rid of him.
The next step for Leroy will undoubtedly be to
carve his Semitic nose, but he will soon learn that it
or an Anglo-Saxon name
takes more than a Roman nose
to be hoped he has learned
to prevent prejudice. It is
his lesson from Justice Levy's lecture that character
and courage will go a longer distance in combatting
"bigotry than the most successful operation on either
name or physiognomy.
.
.
Ransom for Torah.
The most unfortunate incidents about the recent po-
groms in Rumania were the contamination and defiling
of the Scrolls of the Law, the Sefer Torahs, by the anti-
Semitic students.
The arrogance and audacity of these students, how-
ever, is without bounds. One of three arrested last
week by Klausenberg police on a charge of complicity
in the anti-Jewish excesses has asked a ransom of G0,-
000 lei for the release of a Torah.
This means trying Jewish patience to the limit. So
long as it is only the Jewish body that is tortured, con-
ditions, by virtue of centuries of oppression. are at least
half tolerable. But as soon as anti-Semites begin to
torture the Jew spiritually, they fling our people to the
peak of suffering.
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tion and influence in immigration legislation:
While it is obvious to all thinking me, he said,
that adherence to our policy of restricting immi-
gration is essential to the welfare of our working-
men and women, particularly now when jobs seem
to be fewer and unemployment begins to worry us,
nevertheless the friends of that policy must give
thought to the eriticism that we have so enforced
the policy as to create unnecessary hardship, that
we have separated families and that we have
caused needless suffering.
This is not a necessary result of restricting
immigration. We can still have that policy intact,
while giving preference with the quotas to rela-
tives of persons already in this country. Much of
the cruelty of the first temporary quota law has
been ended by our present system of examining
immigrants before they leave their homelands.
We ought now, in all justice, to try to end this
other type of suffering and to permit the reunion
of families wherever possible. I intend to take
steps in the Senate at the present session to ac-
complish this.
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2. Who is the author of "Mich- United States Circuit Court?
11. What Jew is justice of the
igen Chattel Mortgages," a law
text-book used in the University United States Supreme Court?
12. What great city has a Jew-
of Detroit?
3. What Jew originated the lob mayor?
13. What Jews are among the
movement for the outlawry of
leading attorneys of the city of
war?
4. What Jew founded the In- New York?
14. What Jews are professors
ternational Institute of Agricul-
of law at Harvard University?
Lure?
15.
What is Jewish science?
5. Who is the executive direr-
16. Who is Francine Larri-
for of the United Palestine Appeal
more?
for Michigan?
17. Who are the Reform Rab-
6. What Detroit woman is a
leading authority on the platoon his of the state of Michigan?
18. What great composers have
school system?
7. What Jew was once Lord set Heine's poems to music?
Chief Justice of England?
19. Who is the author of the
of Theodor
8. What Jew is chief justice of latest biography
the New York Court of Appeals?
Herz!?
20. What is the Mizrachi?
9. What Jewish judge has been
invited to act upon the Interna-
(Answers on last page.)
tional Court of Arbitration?
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