MEI/Er r:0M AMA visa, s el'en'eb'eb P' • T, •7'7 7 T o To To T. , TT''''`'T T T 1.?.?“ T DETROITJEWISII (RON LChE Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. JOSEPH J. CUMMINS JACOB H. SCHAKNE PHILIP SLOMOVITZ MAURICE M. SAFIR Entered President Secretary and Treasurer Managing Editor Advertising Manager as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the PostufAce at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March I, 1079. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Cable Address: Chronicle Telephone: Cadillac 1040 London Office: 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England. $3.00 Per Year Subscription, In Advance To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of eachweek. When mailing notion, kindly use one side of the paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee correspondence on @objects of Interest to the Jewish people, but disclaim. responsibility for an indorsement of the views expressed by the writers. Sabbath Portions of the Torah. Pentateuchal portions—Lev. 10:1-18:30. Prophetical portion—Ezele. 22:1-19 (or 16), or Amos. 9:7-15. Rosh Chodesh Reading of the Torah, Friday—Num. 28:1.15. May 3, 1929 Z. T. Mr. Morrison's Gift. .bo oifp-44, —GAS. (JOSEPH-. To the roll of honor of outstanding liberal Jews is now to be added the name of Isidore D. Morrison, law- yer, Zionist, a noun possessed of great heart. Two years ago Mr. Morrison established an $100,000 endowment fund for Zionist work. Last week he duplicated his liberal gift of four years ago with a contribution of $100,000 for the establishment of an ophthalmic in- stitute in connection with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and to this gift he attached a clause pledg- ing $10,000 annually for the maintenance of this in- stitute. More than that. he has informed Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the university hospital commit- tee, that he has made provisions in his will to extend the institution. Mr. Morrison has done it great work for Palestine. Due to the neglected condition in the land, as well as to the climate, trachoma and other eye diseases are among the most dreaded in the Holy Land. Institu- tions such as Mr. Morrison makes possible help to re- move disease from the Jewish settlements and to build for health and physical strength. I wonder if this is true. The story comes from rather a reliable source. The dean of a well-known college was rather peeved, or perhaps to be more accurate, the trus- tees were the ones whose noses were out of joint because Jewish athletes had won more than their share of honors of the college, and Jewish students had won too many prizes in their studies. So at the beginning of the year the dean said that the trustees or governors or whatever the name of the governing body had inquired whether or not the college was being run for "aliens" or for Ameri- cans! They could not understand why the aliens were gaining such a foothold and were carrying off all the honors, The phraseology may nut, and is probably not exact, because it has been passed along to me by several tongues, but the thought is there. I wonder to what extent heads of colleges look upon Jewish boys as "aliens?" 411■1111.■ Nisan 23, 5689 Rabbi Ashinsky's Re-Election. The United Jewish Campaign. rZ M I S 5 S 5 5 r I , EVIMI l'INIV1 Rita. Only a fortnight seperates us from the United Jew- ish Campaign, and it is well that the Jewish commun- ity be well prepared to live up nobly to the obligations that face it. The coming drive is generally styled "a small cam- paign" by the leaders backing it, and it is therefore natural that they should express confidence in its suc- cess. This drive is labelled a "small" one for reasons that are very obvious. More than 25 causes are cov- ered in its budget; one of the finest Hebrew school or- ganizations in the country is to be financed with its funds; not only local movements, but national and in- ternational as well are to be cared for. For such a wide range of causes, covering so many fields of philan- thropy in American Jewish life, the sum of $150,000 from a community like ours is a comparative trifle. The campaign therefore has every reason for ap- peal to the community at large. It does not offer a single loophole even to those most lacking in public spirit by which to evade responsibility to it. Coupled with the cause of Jewish education in this campaign is the appeal for continued relief efforts for European Jewry. With them also are linked the pleas for the Hias (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society) whose good works are spread over stations in Eu- ropean and South American countries as well as on this continent; for the Hebrew Free Loan, whose good works locally are among the most religiously sub- scribed "mitzvahs" in Israel; and the many other in- stitutions whose enumeration in the news columns pre- cludes their repetition here. By combining all these causes under one banner, the Jewish Welfare Federation helps to eliminate the multiplicity of campaigns, and under one banner aids many appeals. A united community should enroll it- self under this banner. Congregation Emanuel has chosen to pay due hon- ors to its rabbi. At a meeting held early this week, members of this synagogue re-elected Rabbi Aaron M. Ashinsky as their spiritual leader and teacher for a period of Live years and thus not only honored their rabbi, but earned the right to claim honor for them- selves by their wise action. Rabbi Ashinsky has built for himself a position of unquestioned leadership both by his learning and by the fine public spirit he displays toward all Jewish causes, For his learning he has become known throughout the land as one of our leading Talmidei Chachamim, as one of our most informed teachers. By his activities in the cause of Palestine, Jewish educa- tion, relief and whatever worthy movements have called to him, he has earned a reputation as an out- standing leader among Orthodox rabbis. We congratulate Rabbi Ashinsky on his re-elec- tion, and his congregation on its vision. It is a pleas- ure to know that Jewry in Detroit is to continue to de- rive benefits from Rabbi Ashinsky's residence among US. The Sabbath, Fusion and Confusion Dr. S. Felix Mendelsohn, writing in the Chicago Sentinel, predicts that within two decades "the Amer- ican born and bred Jew will realize that while theoret- ically there may be differences between Reform and Orthodox Jews, practically there are no such differ- ences. Both eat trefah and both violate the Sabbath— why, then, assume the burden of maintaining separate congregations when the two can work peacefully to- gether?" As if to strengthen this idea, Dr. Alexander Lyons of Brooklyn, N. Y., another Reform rabbi, writing in his excellent monthly magazine, The Supplement, on the Sabbath question, states: Some of the rabbis of New York City are greatly dis- turbed over a proposed change of the calendar. They claim that it will result in what they term "a wandering Sab- bath." In my judgment they had better center their solici- tude upon wandering Jews. There are so many Jews in America who are indifferent to the Sabbath as it is that it makes no difference to them whether it wanders or not. They are the real problem, not the Sabbath. They are a dangerous influence. Their example is infectious. Personally, I am in favor of any day maintained as the Sabbath as long as it is seriously observed and not as a mere pious pretence. It would be a great gain for them- selves and for America generally if its Jewish citizenship resolved to sublimate Sunday, the national day of rest, into a sacred institution. In no doing they would furnish an object lesson, badly needed, to multitudes of so-called Christiana. A Sabbath Day of Rest, Recuperation and Spiritual Stimulus is a necessity to the individual and to his nation. I am for a traditional Day of Rest when it can be observed properly by sufficient numbers to maintain its influence for good. It loses its appeal and becomes dan- gerous when for unavoidable reason it deteriorates into a mere theory without practical compulsion. Any day sacredly observed is more of a Sabbath tome than a Sabbath Day preserved merely as a sanctimonious superstition. A Sign of Growing Unity. The decision reached by representatives from Jew- ish communities in England, Wales, Scotland and Ire- land to join the extended Jewish Agency for the up- building of Palestine marks another step in the direc- tion of unity in the ranks of world Jewry for the most important task facing our people. At an historic Lon- don meeting which, if we judge aright from the news- paper reports, matched in importance the great meet- ing held in New York last fall to take the initial steps for the Agency movement, British Jewry has followed the example of American Israel and has, by such de- cision, linked both meetings with a cord of great his- toric importance. In London, as in New York, it was Lord Melchett who delivered the keynote address, and at least one of his exclamations, followed by a question directed at his audience, is worthy of emphatic quotation. Said Lord Melchett who has himself given large sums for Pales- tine's reconstruction and who is investing sums which may run into the millions for the development of indus- tries in the Jewish Homeland: "It is foolish to ask, after cities have been estab- lished, colonies replaced malarious swamps, the Jor- dan harnessed and cheap power produced, whether this thing is going to be a success? It is a success! Are you going to participate in the success, or are you going to allow other people to take up the benefit after you yourself made the success?" This is a statement important both for the devotion of the speaker to the Zionist ideal, and for the warning it contains. "Are you going to allow other people to take up the benefit after you yourself made the suc- cess?" he asked, and the implications are self-evident. The Jewish pioneers, Jewish brain and Jewish brawn, have built the foundation for the Homeland. In the land whose sap has been drained by centuries of neglect there is now developing new strength, new industrial power, a new race of sturdy Jews who arc promising great things from Zion. If the Jewish people does not "participate in the success" begun by the pioneers, other nations will. The Jewish Agency spells Jewish participation in Palestine's reconstruction, in Jewry's great success in Zion. The Jewish Agency, therefore. must be made the greatest single united Jewish undertaking in all our history. At the Sign of the Cross. In the township of Deliatyn, Galicia, over the bar- racks where fourteen Jewish families are housed, un- known mischief makers affixed two crosses which were naturally removed by the Jewish inhabitants. The cry thereupon arose that Jews had "violated the cruci- fix common to all Christians," with the result that it be- came necessary for troops to be dispatched to prevent dire results from the agitation. A guard of Zionist youths had to be organized to keep vigil over the bar- racks against their being placed on fire. Thus, in this Galician community, whatever good will and amity may have existed between Jew and Christian, was wiped out at the sign of the cross. Me- dievalism, it seems, still rules a religiously bigoted Europe, and at the sign of the cross Israel must suffer. Now, that is a perfectly fine sentiment for a gen- eral day of rest which was, in a sense, forced upon the non-Jewish world by the original idea of the Jewish Sabbath, Also, Dr. Mendelsohn is correct when he speaks of both Reform and Orthodox eating trefah and violating the Sabbath. But if we may offer advice to the Jewish gentlemen of the cloth, we would sug- gest that not to observe the Sabbath and at the same time legally to rule it out of existence is something much more dangerous than the condition, albeit hypo- critical on the part of some, as it exists today. For, in all ages we had breakers of the law. But from age to age we retained the law. So long as we always boast- ed of a remnant (Shearith Israel) that remained loyal, the people was destined to live. Without the law we might not have had this remnant. As Achad lIa-Am has said: "More than the Jew has kept the Sabbath, has the Sabbath kept the Jew." Yes, we need the law, and we need the differences that enliven Jewish existence. and when Dr. Mendel- sohn suggests fusion he only creates confusion. Two Opinions on Palestine. The opinion of the Rev. John Haynes Holmes on the relation of the British Government to the Jewish settlers in Palestine, published in an earlier issue, and quoted at length in our news as well as "Random Thoughts" columns, is interesting in view of the very friendly attitude toward Zionism by the pastor of the New York Community Church. To contradict it in part, however, comes the statement of the former Acting High Commissioner of Palestine, H. C. Luke, to a cor- respondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at Trieste. that "Palestine Jewry is now deeply rooted in the country," and that "the Palestine government is willing to do its utmost to fulfill the duties it assumed under the Mandate." In the long run, there is one power that counts in the Palestine enterprise: the will of the Jewish people. \Vithout this will all our efforts are wasted ; with it we are in position to accomplish wonders. It is the will of the people that brought the pledge of Great Britain; failure to retain this will and to translate it into action on Palestine soil will weaken the pledge. There still rules the admonition of the late Dr. Theodor Herz!: "Wenn ihr willt ist es kein maerchen,"—"If you will it, it is no dream." cK4444. , ., S4,14.11:44,44:4A:s1W=4144 Well, the Daughters of the American Revolution is probably the most reactionary organization in American life. Last year it wrote itself down as stupid and as reactionary as the Ku Klux Klan when it broadcasted a blacklist that was a disgrace to itself. This year it could not again face the wave of ridicule so the Daughters con- tented themselves by asserting that some school teachers are planting the seeds of communism in the country, that every teacher should be forced to take the oath of allegi- ance, that more criminals should be deported—of course, aliens. But I haven't yet seen anything condemnatory of the oil scandals and other such incidental trifles. The D. A. R. may take itself seriously but thank God the rest of the country does not. Those estimable ladies who undoubtedly mean well should really resume their house- hold duties. I am afraid that the weight of dignity they carry with them because they are the daughters of some plain, old-fashioned Americans is turning their heads. • — - I see where the worthy Cardinal O'Donnell has attacked Einstein. It seems that the cardinal doesn't think much of Einstein or his theory and he says so in a very nasty way. Which, to say the very, very least, is unbecoming in a cardinal. I never knew that Cardinal O'Donnell as such an eminent scientist as he gives one to believe and thus far I have not discovered any new evi- dence to make me change my opinion. But what puzzles me is, why the attack? Surely, a prince of the Church would not attack the discovery that has created a sensa- tion in the world of science, just because the new theory was presented by a Jew? Yet it seems no strange that he talks in a rambling sort of way about this new theory as being atheistic, and that in some queer way it threat- ens Christianity? I scarcely believe that the prince of the church need worry about the Einstein theory threat- ening anyone or anything because thus far no one seems to understand it, least of all the cardinal himself. Strange, isn't it, how some churchmen will insist on discussing things they know so little of? But I am sure the dear old cardinal can sleep comfortably. He need have no fear that the amiable and kindly disposed Einstein is hatching another international menace against the Catholic church. It is interesting to get the following reaction from a non-Jewish source to Cardinal O'Connell's attack on Ein- stein. It appears in the current issue of the Nation: William Cardinal O'Connell, dean of the Ro- man Catholic hierarchy in the United States, be- lieves that behind the Einsteinian speculation on space and time there lurks the "ghastly apparition of atheism"—thus reads an Associated Press dis- patch. After condemning "petty, befogged pro- fessors" who have set up new standards in order "to attract attention to themselves," the cardinal, it appears, declared: "I mean that while I do not wish to accuse Einstein at present of deliberately wishing to destroy the Christian faith and the Christian basis of life, I half suspect that If we wait a little longer he unquestionably will reveal himself in this attitude." Many people have con- fessed their inability to understand what it is that Einstein is driving at. Cardinal O'Connell appar- ently not only knows exactly what Einstein has put on paper, but also, by mere intuition, what it is that Einstein has in the back of his mind. In this the Cardinal is merely running true to form both his own and that of his church. Somebody might remind him, however, that a similar attitude toward the great philosopher Giordano Bruno re- sulted in his church's burning that martyr on Feb. 17, 1600, a victim to the Inquisition, Today a statue of him stands on the place of his execu- tion in recognition of his greatness and the cor- rectness of his views. Then there was a certain Galileo, still one of the imperishable lights in the astronomical world. Cardinal O'Connell's church also condemned this man as "Vehemently suspected of heresy," yet its teachers today admit that the science of motion began with Galileo. Freemasonry has always been an interesting subject to the Jews, and I ant sure that the following letter sent to me by Charles Kahn, an attorney in Chicago, will be very interesting: On the subject of Jewish past masters referred to in Random Thoughts. On page 341 of "The Evolution of Free ma- sonry," by Delmar D. Darrah, Past Grand Master of Illinois (19201, is a picture of Israel Israel, grand master of Masons in Pennsylvania in 1805, who issued the dispensation for the formation of the first Masonic lodge in Illinois. This indicates that Jews played a great part in the establishment of Masonry in America during and following the Revolutionary War, as they did in the business and financial management of Washington's cam- paigns, though the uninformed would have us be- lieve that Masonry is an organization founded solely by Gentiles. It is unfortunate that in this world men are regarded by the religious label rather than by their works. This accounts for their separation into groups commonly referred to as "Jewish lodges" and "Gentile lodges" among men who should know better. It's strange that some Jews don't care to go to Pales- tine though they are willing to go everywhere else in the world. This short message to the Survey Graphic from Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes might change their minds. Ile says: Go to Palestine: See a land inscribed in every nook and corner with Bible history. Get acquaint- ed with an international situation of thrilling and momentous interest. And study at first hand the development of the bravest social ventures in the world today. Go to Palestine! BRITISH JEWRY FOLLOWS AMERICA'S LEAD AND DECIDES UNANIMOUSLY TO JOIN JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE (Continued From Page One). have been established, colonies re- placed malarious swamps, the Jor- dan harnessed and cheap power produced, whether this thing is go- ing to be a success." Lord Mel- chett exclaimed. "It is a success! Are you going to participate in the success?" he asked. "Or are you going to allow other people to take up the benefit after you yourself made the success?" The first resolution, which was unanimously carried, declares that "the conference of appointed rep- resentatives of the Jewish congre- gations and institutions in the British Isles would welcome the representation of the Ang,loshowish community on the enlarged Jewish Agency and its participation in the discharge of the duties assigned to the Agency by the mandate in- trust to his majesty's government by the League of Nations." The resolution further pledges Anglo-Jewry to "do its utmost to support the government in giving effect to the mandate and use its best endeavors to promote the Jewish work of reconstructi , n in Palestine." The second resolution, moved by Sir Matthew Nathan, Colonial administrator, former governor of Queensland, Australia, and sec- onded by Miss Nettie Adler, repre- senting the Union of Jewish Wo- men, declared that the conference "authorizes the Board of Jewish Deputies to appoint six persons to represent the Anglo-Jewish com- munity on the Jewish Agency for a period which the board shall de- termine." The resolution was unanimously adopted. Create Special Committee. The third resolution, moved by Lord Walter Rothschild, and car- ried unanimously, requested the Board of Jewish Deputies to set alt a Palestine committee, which shall include the Anglo-Jewish represen- tatives on the Jewish Agency, to deal with Palestine matters. The proceedings of this Palestine com- mittee are to be submitted to the Board of Jewish Deputies. This resolution was seconded by Na- than Laski. Mr. D'Avigdor Goldsmid, in wel- coming the delegates, made an ap- peal for the sinking of minor dif- ferences so that a united Jewish front, making possible a united Jewish effort for Palestine, may be created. "The Zionist Organization has loyally fulfilled the duties required of it in the Palestine mandate, both as the acting Jewish Agency and as the initiator of the move- ment to enlarge the Jewish Agency," he stated. "The Zionist Organization has addressed an in- vitation to the Jewish community of the United States to join the Agency. The American Jewish Community, under the enlightened leadership of Louis Marshall, the great defender of Jewish rights, passed a resolution proving its readiness to bear a part of the re- sponsibility. The essence of the problem facing this conference is: what is our duty as members of the Anglo-Jewish community and as British citizens?" he asked, stating in reply, "Letters of lead- ers of the community who are best qualified to judge because they have themselves administered ter- ritories under the Crown, show clearly what our duty should be. "Impartial persons cannot nesp but admire the zeal, the sacrifice and the devotion of the Zionists. It is therefore the duty of those who have so far looked on while to take a hand in the I'alestine work. The questioning fact which many oth- ers have noticed while visiting Pal- estine is the feeling of I'alestine Jews that they are in Palestine by right and not by sufferance, which makes all the difference in their at- titudes in daily life. The work done in Palestine is very remark- able in itself. It has proved de- votion and enthusiasm, but the re- port of the Joint l'alestine Survey Commission shows what still re- mains to be done, which requires more money. "There is no use shirking the facts," he stated. "Palestine is an expensive country to develop. However, no territory which is be- ing administered by the Crown has ever had so much enthusiasm, zeal or capital lavished on it. It is for that reason that we claim from the British government that the terms of the mandate be loyally adhered to." Referring to the exercises at the opening of the Ilebrew University four years aago, Mr. D'Avigilor Goldsmid stated that none can deny that the foundation and the development of the Ilebrew Uni- versity are proof of the highest form of idealism. "Our duty is to assist in the development of the country whose capital city will be a great center of knowledge and research and of influence through. out the world," he said. Mess•ges From Reading, Samuel I just can't get over those thickheads down in Georgia who refused to permit four Jews living in one of the illiterate counties of that state to serve on a jury. The case was finally decided against the fanatics by the supreme court. It was charged that religious prejudice was at the bottom of the incident. One would imagine that the day of such bigotry had passed in this country, but it seems that sonic of these jerk-water minds have not yet emerged from the Dark Ages. The Marquis of Reading and Sir Reading's Message. The Marquis of Reading in his message to the chairman stated that he was in full sympathy with the proposed resolutions, which he would support if he were able to attend. "It is obviously the duty of the Anglo-Jewish community to give assistance to the Agency to the best of its powers in discharge of the duties of the mandate en- trusted to the British govern- ment," the marquis wrote. Sir Robert Waley Cohen, man- aging director of the Shell Trans- port and Trailing Company and of the Angles-Saxon Petroleum Com- pany, vice-president of the United Synagogue, in his address before the conference stated that the up. building of I'alestine was the ex- pression of world Jewry. "Re- building a home for Judaism means for the Jews in the realm of religion what the League of Na- tions means for all nations in the realm of politics. We need not be alarmed that the religious life of the Jewish settlers in Palestine is not in accord with the conception of many people regarding Jewish traditions, because the settlers are intensely devoted to the idea l of upbuilding the Jewish home. The spiritual regeneration of Palestine will be accomplished if the Coup- try is materially regenerated, re- quiring that good government and the peaceful enjoyment of the ne- cessities of life be secured." Chief Rabbi Dr. J. IL Ilertz re- ferred to the Zionist developments and the struggle of the movement since the days of Herz!. "I fun glad that Zionism has ceased to be an affair of a handful of leaders and n partisan question and has become the affair of united Anglo• Jewry." Lord Melchett's Address Lord Melchett, in his capacity as president of the English Zionist Federation, read messages from Nahum Sokolow and Dr. Chaim Weizmann. He then referred to the non-Zionist conference in New York under the leadership of Louis Marshall which, he stated, unanimously and enthusiastically joined hands in order to come into the Jewish agency. That meeting was a memorable one, he said, and (Turn to Next Page). Gems From Jewish Literature Selected by Rabbi Leon Fran,. We hear a lot of bosh about the Jews demoralizing the theater, so it's interesting on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the famous Theater Guild of New York to recall that Jews were instrumental in making this extraordinary drama-group possible in America. My memory nosy be at fault but I think that one of the Lewisohn girls and Maurice Wertheim were most respon- sible for the Theater Guild. Others, of course, are to be given credit because it required a band of faithful devotees to the highest interests of the drama to bring such a movement to a successful fruition. Elsie Fergu- son, who has the habit of saying nasty things about Jews and the drama, might take notice. MEDIAEVAL WISDOM "Take care to honor every man, that ye may thereby be honored, as it is written: 'For them that honor Me I will honor.' Some people asked a wise man: 'flow is it that we always see thee honor every man?' lie replied: 'I have not seen a man in whom I do not dis- cover an advantage over me for which I should honor him. If he is old, I say: 'This man performed more good deeds than I.' If he is rich , I say: 'This man gave more alms than I.' If he is young, I say: 'I committed more sins than he.' If he is poor, I say: 'This man suf- fered pain.'" JUDAH B. ASIIER I hear that Morris Gest is going to produce the Pas- sion Play in this country next fall. Maybe I am mis- taken but I think his father-in-law, David Belasco, is also interested in the same enterprise. If this be true some kind Jewish friends who are more acquainted with the character of the Passion Play than these eminent show- men should point out to them the mistake they are mak- ing. We have more than sufficient non-Jews to create prejudice without Jews doing it. Sometimes I wonder what these Jews are thinking of. Belasco produced the "Merchant of Venice," another medium for keeping alive anti-Semitism. If Gest does produce the Passion Play he will have a headache by the time the Jewish press gets through with him. • 4.9.Q. • • • Herbert Samuel, two of the out- standing British Jews in active the affairs of the liritish empire, expressed their concurrence in the resolution of the Anglo-Jewish community to join the extended Jewish Agency fur Palestine in messages they addressed to 0. E. D'.Avigolor Goldsmid, president of the Board of Jewish Deputies, who presided at the conference Sun- day. Both expressed their regret at their inability to attend. Sir Her- b•rt is now in WHIPS, where he is campaigning for the Liberal party on the eve of the parliamentary elections, delivering live speeches a day. "I ant in entire agreement with the objects of the confer- ence," declared Sir Herbert in his message. "I always regarded it as it matter of the first importance that the efforts of the whole Jew- ish people and not one section be focussed upon the upbuilding of the Jewish national home in Pal- estine. There will always be dif- ferences of opinion concerning matters of the speed of the work and the shape it may take in the future. Those differences are nat- ural and their expression is heal- thy. They need not cause per- turbation. But underlying them there is a large common measure of agreement which the Jewish Agency is intended to evoke and (o express. "It is necessary to remember," Sir Herbert continues, "that the Palestine mandate forms the foun- dation on which the whole move- ment rests. The mandate, while recognizing the Zionist Organiza- tion as the Jewish Agency, re- quired it to take steps to secure wider Jewish co-operation. "The Zionist Organization has borne the chief burden for many long years past. The Zionist Or- ganization, under the wise and farseeing leadership of Dr. Chaim Weizniann, accomplished great re- sults. Acting in this matter in 3 broad and self-sacrificing spirit, it is now proposing a half of the seats on the new authority to be filled by organizations which are now for the first time definitely participating in the work. I trust definitely that the present oppor- tunity will be seized for creating a fully representative body, power- ful in personnel and resources, which will be a visible embodiment and effective instrument of all that Judaism stands for in relation to l'alestine," Sir Ilerbert wrote. Quoting Edmund Burke that "the state includes the past, the present and the future genera- tions," Sir Ilerbert concludes by saying "We have the responsibility to all those who have gone and all who are yet to come. Let us rise to the height of our duty." TO A C1111.13 Th. •rta. • tender Anweret, 50 pent], and pure. and fair: I glue on thee. and s•dneuis Comes over me unaware. 4. 7 I feel, •. though I should Hot. ' , e'er My hands on thy head with a pny That God may keep thee, my darling. Ac gentle. and pure, and fair . HEINRICH HEINE EPIGRAMS FROM THE TALMUD One Rabbi asked, "Why is the word of God compared to water?" To this question the following ans- wer Wan returned: "As water runs down from the mountains and rests in the sea, not the law, emanating from Heaven, can remain in the possession of those only who are humble in spirit." Another Rabbi inquired, "Where- fore has the Word of God been likened to wine and milk?" The reply was made, "As these fluids cannot be preserved in golden ves- sels, but only in those of earthen- ware, so those minds will he the best receptacles of learning which are found in homely bodies."