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A Pious But Hopeless Wish.
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Scanning the
Horizon
The Lubawischer Rebbe fascinated us
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Pt/Midden Co,
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during
his visit in this city and inspired us
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Entered as Second-class matter March 11, 191e, at thy Poet.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 1, IBM
with his devotion to the best interests of his
Charles de Joseph
General Offices and Publication Building
people, wherever they may be. In spite of
525 Woodward Avenue
I HAVE before me an Associated Press dispatch
By VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY
being a (7hasisdic leader, he rose above fac-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Telephones Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
from London which indicates that England has
London Office
tionalism in his wish for the advancement of
received a polite but nevertheless stinging rebuke
EDITOR'S NoTE:—The note•I Zion•
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
sense the difference is not no grea
poet. linaui-it .11 traveller discusses
from the Mandates; Commission of the League of
the highest ideals in Judaism.
A DISH OF PEACE
Coffee conies from Brazil, tea iron
the fate of the Jewish middleman and
Nations. To my mind it will prove far more effec-
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Bernard
G.
Richards
tells
it
and
defends him as •n important factor in
Ceylon or China, bread perhaps
But at the Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical As- says it's authentic, but
tive in bringing about a change of policy on the part
.r econemir life without whom we
I have me of Great Britain toward Palestine than a thousand
from Argentine,
To Insure publication, ell correspondence and newt matter
sociation convention the Rebbe expressed "loots." It's a good story, though.
poorest
amo
ntninge'usanuderrs ° c5 lothTinhi,
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
would
steW
t ' Vat '11hre je,ti rl i t: " M171 ki hr
or ten thousand Jewish parades and mass meetings.
the middleman, who is .ooften
• When mailing notices, kindl y use one .Lie of the paper only.
a wish which, in spite of its sincerity, is It was at the recent Zionist con- The Mandates Commission in its report tells us • withoot
and shoes, which are produced in
Jew.
vention. Talk of peace floated
from
10
to
12 countries. While a
The Detroit Je•elak Chronicle invitee correspondence on sub.
nevertheless hopeless. Urging the young through the air like rumors on a nothing new when it char•.es that Britain didn't
man spends an ordinary day of his
Mete of Interest ti the Jew1•11 people, but dieel.lmr reepon•i•
have enough soldiers or police to curb the riots.
They want to bury him, the life in France, he
idlity for an indorsemint of the views "pressed by the writers
Orthodox rabbis to talk Yiddish and to boon; day at the Stock Exchange.
And as everybody else knows trouble had been
trader.
Not only factionally— soap, cleans his teeth washes with
Delegate X in particular was
teach it to the growing generation of Amer- much
h with a tooth
brewing for months—it was in the air, so to speak.
which I, his fanatical adherent, can
Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
perturbed about peace. All
brush and paste, writes a letter
And
only
a
thick-head
couldn't
have
sensed
it.
Pentateuchal
portion
-Num.
25:10-30:1.
ican Jews, he said: "Without the Yiddish day he talked of peace—all night
JY
still excuse on economic grounds— with a steel pen, which he dips in
Prophetical portion- Jer. 1:1-2:3,
but also morally, Why its people ink, on a sheet of paper, smokes a
language you won't go very far in implant- he dreamt of peace.
Worn out by the peace maneu-
make an ideology of every simple cigarette, incidentally lighting a
B UT the most interesting and significant phase of thing?
One Call
July 18, 1930
Tammuz 22, 5690 ing Judaism in this country."
vers, at noontime, he went into a
the report, from a Zionist standpoint, lies in
say in very short mulch, rides on an autobus for the
and convincing terms: Since a autobus rides over hint and crushes
the statement of the Mandates Commission that
Forgetting for the moment the impossi- restaurant.
healthy
economic organism cannot
"What will you have?" asked
it regrets that the mandatory power (Great
him with its tires), in short, during
Rabbi Ashinsky Remains.
bility of foisting upon our youth a language the waiter?
stand more than 10 or 12 per cent a normal day he has made use of
Britain) has not succeeded in the total execu-
of trailers, one should find for the nature and of bunion effort
"Peace," replied the Zionist ab-
tion of the mandate, has not carried out its
which,
regretfully
nevertheless
factually,
is
Rabbi Aaron M. Ashinsky is the recog-
stractedly. The waiter brought him
Jews other means of earning a throughout the world. And the .
obligation to encourage the establishment of a
I
But this is not sufficient— house in which we five, the floor
Jewish national home, and has failed to insure
nized leader of the Orthodox Jewish com- more and more becoming a strange tongue a dish of peas.
1'
forapparently this alone does not upon which we walk, this very
for
adults
as
well
as
youths,
the
Rebbe
the condition essential for the development of
munity of Detroit. A noted traditional He-
NEXT TO ROSENWALD
yet
stir the necessary enthusiasm. Parisian air which I breathe, and
a national center for the Jewish race, security
failed
to
learn
from
historic
experience.
In
To create enthusiasm, especially which is
brew and Talmudic scholar, he has at the
for its life and property.
Last week, in this department,
filled with gasoline smells
noted the fact that the net
among us Jews—that is, among and coal smoke—for all this we
same time mastered the language, tradi- many lands, in successive generations, Ju- we
the sons and grandsons of genera-
Well, we are likely to hear more about that! The
profit of the New York Times fur
to thank the trader, who has
tions and customs of the land, thus becom- daism, Jewish lore and Jewish idealism, the past year was seven millions English lion won't let anyone twist his tail in so tions of tradesmen—one must be- have
converted this globe into a small
sides construct ideologic "reasons." place.
a fashion and with such painful results
ing the recognized spokesman for Ortho- has been taught and studied in many lan- The item furnishes food for vigorous
Should we abolish him,
without letting out a few roars. Nevertheless the
This is naturally not difficult; on Paris, London and New York
guages.
In
Spain
it
was
the
Spanish
and
thought. A statistician would
..-1
dox Jewry to the outside world. Nation-
Zionists have every reason for rejoicing over such
the contrary, it is very easy. Any would become villages and every-
probably say that any business net-
Arabic
tongues
in
which
have
been
written
o n e i ow it: o neh .,
a report.
as
,
peayp
eer,
ro
t
ally recognized as a leader in Orthodoxy,
ting that much annual revenue
thing that we call culture would
or
.nadthien saubbjeockt vanish as dust.
and
spoken
the
words
of
great
and
loyal
would be worth at least 15 times
Rabbi Ashinsky has for more than a gener-
that much.
time ago I received a copy of an article
can declaim the poem by heart: It is not a reciprocal influence.
S OME
ation devoted himself to causes for the good Jewish scholars. In Greek and Latin, in
If there is anything to this cal-
The tradesman is unproductive; One should not say that the growth
which appeared in the Yale Law Journal entitled
,: hoo.
ob
both
ro;
of his people, winning the love and respect Russian, French and English, Jewish culation, Mr. Ochs, owner of the "Denial of Equal Rights to Religious Minorities, thhee ispraodmuciel dieamml
of production stimulates the de-
r
a n th consumer,
thought lived and thrived.
Times, must be worth more than
Non-Believers in the United States," written by B.
a velopment of trade in the same
sr :
not only of the congregations he has been
parasite, a superfluous social figure manner as trade stimulates pro-
$100,000,000. This, I beliave,
H. Hartogensis, Esq., of Baltimore, Mil. I read and
But the rallying language for all move- would make him next to Julius re-rend that article because I found it to be the who has played no creative part in duction. One cannot compare it.
serving as spiritual leader, but of the corn-
ments in all lands was always Hebrew. It Rosenwald, probably toe wealthiest most illuminating and logical presentation of dis- world
history—in short, he is Naturally if a Paris fashionable
munity at large.
"trete" from every standpoint.
Jew in America.
crimination against religious minorities that I had
tailor is creating a new style, the
And to have made it all in iour-
It is therefore a source of joy and satis- was neither the Germanic language which
ever seen. Anyone who considers with an open and
This is a bad, dangerous and ready-made clothes shop will have
nalism—and from one newsnaper
stupid ideology. It is bad because something more to sell. But this
unprejudiced mind Mr. Ilartogensis's array of facts
faction to know that Rabbi Ashinsky has became the tongue of millions of Jews, nor —not
a chain. Old Rothschild • or
we Jews have already been a no- is a small matter in comparison
to prove his case must be convinced that the time
rejected the offers that have come to him the languages of nationalities among whom was it Napoleon, must have been has come when the country must back-up the Con- tion of traders—until 50 years ago with the fact that the whole origin
Jews
lived.
It
was
always
the
mother
this was our chief characteristic in and the whole development of pro-
right,
when
he
advised
putting
all
stitution
of
the
United
States
in
Sl'IRIT
as
well
as
from congregations in Pittsburgh to return
your eggs in one basket.
world economy, and it does not elution (taking out of considera-
in LETTER. He says "the purpose of the present
to that city where he served as preacher tongue which inspired and was at the cen-
sound right when we ourselves con- (ion the patriarchal family life of
discussion is to show how religious beliefs of the
HOW HE SUCCEEDED
demn our old mode of activity. It the time of the Biblical flood)
and teacher in Israel for close to a genera- ter of all revival movements. Much there-
dominant Christians in the United States are
is
:17
You remember the story they
allowed effectually to control our every-day affairs,
is dangerous because a Jew is an from beginning to end the result
tion, prior to his return to Detroit five years fore as we regret the decline of Yiddish used
to tell about the newspaper-
not in moot questions or exotic dead-letter blue-
impressionist and takes all this of the work of the trader. Since
ago. The Orthodox community can ill afford we are nevertheless not affected by the man who accumulates] a fortune laws, but through laws that are actually in force or, very seriously, especially the without him no factory would be
!:4 ,
;...
young, modern and educated Jew: able to obtain the machines and
if not enforced, still dangerous to civil rights of
to lose the leadership of this man, who may scare that its death will injure the Jewish of $100,000 •
4
He was interviewed on the se-
citizens because enforceable at will. And I must
He begins to be ashamed of his raw materials which it needs to
!'s
rightfully be looked to not only as a local soul. The original Ilebraic tongue ever cret of his success.
father's business, even when it produce the first pair of shoes.
say that Mr. Ilartogensis has in the most effective
emits rays of hope to our people.
.rk4
"Well.
I'll
tell
you,"
he
said.
"I
manner
proved
his
case.
goes
very
well
(that
is,
when
life
And
without
trailers
there
would
leader but as one of the national leaders
shows that this trailer at least is
worked hard, never looked at the
in general be no possibility of
of his people. As organizer of the Vaad
clock, staved up late, rose early,
"superfluous"), and the end existence for any factory, fur any
I FEEL that this article should be reprinted in not
Hair, the federation of Orthodox congre-
never took a vacation, saved my
is that intelligent forces which are
Cuza--"The Thirteenth Apostle"
institution, which works for a
:
pamphlet form and sent to every believer in re-
pennies, and my uncle (lied in
needed in trade are not utilized, world of merchants.
gations; as leader of the Board of Kash-
ligious liberty in this country. It is only by first
and we lose important economic
In a recent issue of The Register, a week- Africa, leaving me $99,500."
And not only material culture is
ruth, as the guiding spirit of the Mizrachi
ascertaining the facts which conclusively show that
positions.
But evidently in view of Mr.
a child of trade: Spiritual culture,
.:r
equal rights are not granted religious minorities,
Orthodox Zionist movement, Rabbi Ash- ly published by the Catholic Publishing So- Ochs' success, the story needs re- as
"Habit of Eating."
too, with the exception perhaps of
,
well as non-believers, can an intelligent discus-
vision.
It is difficult to take one or an- religion, was brought about and
insky's efforts are the center of all Ortho- ciety of Denver, Colo., appeared the follow-
-
sion be entered upon. Mr. Hartogensis has ren-
other branch of human activity
developed by it.
What would
HE KNEW BETTER
dered a most valuable service in marshalling his
tM dox Detroit Jewish activities, His rejec- ing interesting item, under the heading
and to say: This is the most im- have happened to astronomy (to
Talking about Mr. Ochs reminds
facts, but to confine the results of his findings to a
"Jew
Baiter
Is
Fought
by
Catholic
Clergy:"
•sa•
portant
machine
which
brings
to
say
nothing
of
geography)
if
the
tion of Pittsburgh's call is Detroit's gain.
me of a story I recently heard
limited reading public, while of value, retards just
life all other forms of culture, merchant would not have been
"'life Catholic clergy of Rumania have about his father-in-law, the late what he suggests in his conclusion, namely:
We welcome his decision with great satis-
Collective life is very complicated
forced to study the path of the
Rabbi
Issue
M.
Wise,
founder
of
faction.
begun a campaign against Professor Cuza,
and decentralized—a real analogy
stars, in order to find for his shin,
It
is
certain
that
the
people
in
every
state
Reform Judaism in America.
the right pathway across the
between it and a true organism—
the prominent Rumanian anti-Semitic lead-
One day one of the members of
must he fully enlightened as to these religious
like the human body, where center
ocean? '
A ho gave Columbus
er, because in a recent appeal published by his congregation conic to Rabbi
prescriptions, by the fullest possible discussion,
is the heart—cannot be found. If money for his expedition, and
Wise and asked him to officiate at
Dr. Theodor Herzl and England.
the Cuza press, anti-Semitism was labeled the
you separate one factor from the why? For whom have all cheer-
so
that
a
body
of
interpretive
law
may
be
pro-
1
marriage of his son.
whole complexity and say: This is
Isis, mechanics and mathematici-
duced. Then constitutional amendments will
Long before the World War and the Bal- a religious Christian movement originating
"And I'll ask you, as a favor,
the heart, the root, all other things
ans
worked?
Even
for
pure
poetry
follow apace until non-conformists, disbelievers
four Declaration, Jews looked to England in the New Testament and Cuza was called rabbi," said the member, "to give
are branches of creativeness and
I make no absolute exception.
a little boost to marriage in your
and religious minorities generally, will have
activity which stem from this, such
as the land whence would come great aid the thirteenth apostle."
Shortly before the war there ap-
speech. You know my son is not
succeeded in procuring recognition of their
a statement then has only a
peared in France a book by Leon
for the Jew in his emancipation from op-
very
enthusiastic
about
marriage,
In view of the renewed activities of Pro-
rhetorical value. But even if we
rightful demands for equal rights before the
Berm, "The Semitic Origin of
we had to persuade him to
pression. Zionists especially placed faith fessor Cuza and his followers, this is en- and
should adopt this theory, then it is
Homer's Odyssey." The writer
law.
take this step."
really
trade
which
promotes
all
shows
that this immortal poem, the
in the British Empire as the power that couraging news. The violent character of
"I'll tell you," replied Rabbi
of creativeness, which
beginning and the foundation of
would facilitate the creation of a publicity the Cuzist attacks upon Jews makes it obli- Wise. "Why don't you get Rabbi RABBI STEPHEN WISE is neither the Jewish branches
fulfills the role of a motor or of a
epic
world
poetry, consists entirely
to perform the ceremony.
pope nor a Jewish cardinal. But Dr. Wise has
heart more than all the other fac-
recognized and legally secured home for gatory upon Christians to put a stop to in- G—
of travel impressions and adven-
He can make a better speech of
been one of the greatest Jewish leaders of this day
tors.
tures of Phoenician seamen and
the Jewish people in Palestine,
and age. He has fought the battle of the Jew; he
decencies practiced in the name of Chris- that kind. Ile's not married."
Here the fact that only a small
pirates and is built upon that:
has sacrificed much for his people. Mistakes he has
percentage of people can make a
Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zion- tianity. If the report in the Denver Regis-
THE FURIOUS SCHNORRER
Again merchants! As to the Iliad,
made,
many
of
them.
Frequently
he
has
not
been
living from trade, not more than a
Louis
Lipsky
has
that
Jewish
we
have known long ago that the
ist Organization, the twenty-sixth anniver- ter is true, the Catholic clergy will have
as diplomatic as some would wish in discussing in
tenth of those who can make a
streak of mercy which makes it im-
whole fight between the Greeks ..
a
critical
way
movements
or
agencies
in
Jewry.
sary of whose death is being commemorat- earned the gratitude of our people for hav- possible for him to turn down n
living from agriculture and indus-
and the Trojans was only the final
Despite all this, however, we can never forget that
try, is unimportant. A heart, too,
"schnorrer," and the "schnorrers"
act of a long conflict between two
ed this week by Jews throughout the world, ing set out on the right religious track.
American Jewry is under deep obligation to this
is small, certainly not even one-
know it and take advantage of it.
trading peoples, which expressed
in his address at the Fourth World Zionist
leader
and
that
as
one
of
the
most
distinguished
tenth the sloe of the human body.
But sometimes even Lipsky can
itself historically in the destruction
rabbis
of
the
country,
he
is
entitled
to
respect.
And
The main thing is not the size, but
Congress, delivered at London on Aug. 13,
be irritated by them. One schnorrer
of the ancient fleeter; culture,
I contend that regardless of the relations that have
the role. Here we have, first,
found Mr. Lipsky in such a mood.
Jews in the Wars of the Republic,
whose last colonial stronghold
1900, said: "England is one of the few
existed between Dr. Wise and the Zionist Organiza-
trade in all its phases and then
"Co away," said Mr. Lipsky, "I
Troy was. The real reason for the
of America, and despite the tactless statement
sanctuaries where Jew-hatred has not yet
"production" in its various forms,
Hon. David Hogg, Member of Congress can't give vou anything-1 haven't tion
Trojan war was not the beautiful
he issued on the eve of the convention in Cleveland,
Which of the two conditions de-
Helen, but the fact that Troy at
taken root. ... England, mighty England, from Indiana, under leave to extend his a cent with me now."
that
the
organization
is
politically
and
morally
termines
the other—which is the
"What to you mean?" asked
that time played the same goo-
free England, with its world-embracing out- remarks in the Congressional Record, pub- the schnorrer furiously. "You just bankrupt, there was no warrant or justification for father and which is the child?
graphic role which the Dardanelles :
ill-mannered demonstration which greeted his
The answer lies in the very ques-
look, will understand us and our aspira- lished an address delivered by General gave another schnorrer a dollar. the
play today, and that it didn't allow
name. Nor was there any justification for Jacob
tion. A beginning, a minimum, of
What's the matter with me? Is he
the merchant fleet of the Greeks to
tions. With England as a starting point we Crosby at the Washington Hebrew Ceme- any
Fishman, the editor of a Yiddish daily, crying nut
production must, quite indepen-
better than I ant? The idea
the granaries of the Black
may be sure that the'Zionist idea will soar tery last month, General Crosby's tribute you can't give me anything. I am that he would be "damned if he would vote for Wise dently of trade, be present, even enter
Sea.
and Tulin," or words to that effect. Resentment
on Robinson Crusoe's island, for
surprised at you."
True
Fighter for Pro.
further and higher than ever before."
to the Jews who served in the wars of the
there might be, and cause for it there was, but
the great reason which Mendele
It's difficult to convey the hu-
One should be proud of such a
For more than a generation, English Republic is a revelation not only to non- mor of the situation, but it struck after all it is unbecoming for a national Jewish body Moicher Sforim calls "the habit of
historic
mission
and not ashamed!
to spread itself on the pages of the daily press of
eating." But even the smallest
statesmen have held out hopes to us, justi- Jews, but to Jews as well who have much almost speechless at least this on- the
Unproductive? Columbus ac-
country in such a manner. I am still old-fash-
Progress in production, from that
fying the faith Jewry placed in them and to learn from this general's searching looker of the scene.
complished
more
for production
ioned enough to believe that there is "respect due
moment when man brought with
all the peasants and manual
their government. Christian Zionists have statement. We quote a paragraph from his THE ORCHESTRA IS BURNING the cloth." If Mr. Fishman didn't want to vote him from the chase more skins than
laborers of his generation put to-
for Dr. Wise that was his privilege. If the conven-
Yesterday to see Julius Nathan-
than he needed for himself or his
been most outspoken in behalf of the cause very informative address as an indication son,
gether; and he was himself a mer- •
tion disapproved of his statement that was its right.
Yiddish vaudevillian, IT to
family, or cultivated more land
chant, and merchants sent him out
But there are limits to which conventions should
of Palestine's reconstruction as the Jewish of the Jew's loyalty to this coutry:
the station. Nathan is westward
than he needed for his mainten-
for trade purposes. There is a
go in venting their disapproval. I, for one, am
bound on a stage contract. Sec-
ance—this first development of
National Home. All of which makes the
stupid near-sightedness in this
completely out of sympathy with such actions as
ond avenue tells a good story
Production only had a value be-
That the Jewish soldier was a brave soldier
feeling of shame of the modern
puzzle of present events more difficult to
have been reported from Cleveland.
about Nathanson in days when, as
cause man simultaneously discov-
and did his duty for beyond the call of service
Jew when he is reminded that we
a boy, he worked in boxoffice of
ered the art of exchange.
solve. The present policy pursued by Mr.
were
and are a trading people.
is not a matter of mere conjecture and sur-
Yiddish theater.
We all know that. But we sel-
the other day an interview with Theodore
I READ
MacDonald's government is a contradic-
niise. I would refer you to the volume on
Historically, the trader is the
dom think of the role which the
One day, when house was empty
Dreiser written by Raymond Dannenbaum in
American
decorations
published
by
the
war
true
fighter
for progress, the first
tion unworthy of the powerful British Em-
and Nathan and manager of thea-
trader plays in our lives and how
which Dreiser attempted to analyze the Jew. I use
department, which contains no less than 1,100
among those who bear the banner '•
we would look without him.
ter were in box office, a fire broke
the term "attempted" advisedly because to date no
pire. Only a month after shutting the
of civilization.
citations for valor awarded to men of Jewish
If what is said is
out in the orchestra.
one seems to have analyzed the Jew successfully,
No Culture Without Trade.
faith. Seven hundred and twenty-three were
true, namely, that the first and
doors of Palestine to Jewish labor immi-
The fire department was sum-
not even the Jew himself. One statement of Drei-
In an English primer for school greatest of all merchants was a
conferred by the American command, 287 by
moned. As the firemen were work-
ser'ss attracted my attention. Ile said: "Justice?
gration, we read in Britain's report to the
children one can find statistics giv- Jew and that we still play this role
the French government, 33 by the British and
ing away at the blaze, the tele-
The Jew an eternal defender of justice? Bunk!
ing the number of countries that today, then we should not re-
League of Nations that Palestine's demand
46 by various other allied commands. While
phone in the box office rang.
Jews
have
always
cry-babied
about
justice,
but
had
to be called upon to prepare nounce this honor. Since even the
only 78 congressional medals of honor h ave
"Will you reserve me two seats
for labor is greater than the labor market
what they want is justice for themselves—a spe-
the breakfast of the child. Nearly smallest village tradesman, even if
been awarded, three sit' these fell to the lots of
in the orchestra for this after-
cial and particularly pro-Jewish justice. That's not
20
countries
of the five continents he only peddles with stockings, is
there can supply. Yet this course, which
Jewish soldiers. The distinguished service
noon?" Caine a voice.
justice!" No, that's not justice, Mr. Dreiser, neither
of the world. Other children, part of this nobility, is a member
cross is worn by more than 150 American Jews.
must prove detrimental to Palestine as a
"Sorry," replied Nathanson, "but
is your statement just! It is quite true that there
Jewish,
for
example,
are perhaps of a class whose historic achieve-
Four American Jews claim the French medatfie
the orchestra is burning. I can
arc many Jew's who want certain PRIVILEGES,
whole and particularly to the Jewish peo-
not as well catered to at their ments and whose role in the pres-
militaire, and 174 Jewish soldiers properly wear
give you two seats in the balcony."
which
they
are
denied,
and
they
confuse
those
with
breakfasts,
but
in
a geographic (Turn to Next Page.)
ple, continues to be pursued, with the Col-
the Croix de Guerre. I am further indebted to
justice. But that is true of every people. But
the American Jewish Committee for the thor-
NOT LESS THAN TEN
onial office, headed by Lord Passfield (Si(1-
there are Jews, any number of them, who all
oughness with which they investigatedthe army
Walter Winchell tells one about
through the ages have fought, whenever they had
ney Webb), continuing to justify
records to learn of the commissioned officers of
a Jew who. during the last thou of
ts i contra-
the opportunity for justice, NOT for themselves,
Jewish faith within the military ranks. The
the stock exchange, was worriedly
dictions and inconsistencies.
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but all the world! They have even forgotten they
names of nearly 10,000 Jewish commissioned
scanning the ticker tape.
were Jews! We have Jews today in Russia bound
The most recent rebuke of Dr. Chaim
officers have been listed. In the army there
"This is terrihle—ai weh "' he
up with a social experiment that they believe means
JUSTICE
LOUIS
D. BRANDEIS: "When 18 years ago I first gave
were
more
than
100
colonels
and
lieutenant-
muttered.
"Millions
are
being
Weizmann, uttered by Lord Passfield in an
justice to all the human race. But they never think
serious thought to the problems of Jewry and began to search for the
colonels, more than 540 majors, 1,400 captains
wiped out in a minute. 1 wi-h I
interview commenting upon Jewish resent-
of themselves as Jews, they even resent being iden-
means
of
preserving
the spiritual legacies of Israel as an active force
and upward of 7.000 lieutenants. In the navy
had just 10 per cent of what is be-
tified with Jews, but whether they are right or
in the world, I became a Zionist and a follower of Herzl. My visit to
ment of England's failure to live up to its
there were 500 Jewish commissioned officers,
ing lost today."
wrong in their program they are thinking interna-
Palestine
in
1919
rendered
more powerful the appeal; removed any
one
even
reaching
the
high
rank
"Yes, and I guess; you'd take 1
of rear-
promises contained in the Baufour Declara-
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tionally, NOT JEWISHLY. In this country Jews
lingering doubts as to the practicability of the undertaking; and con-
admiral. In the marine corps there were said
per cent, ton," said a friend stand-
with a passion (or Roriel justice are fighting for
tion and the Mandate, must have given
vinced me that in carrying out the principles of the Balfour
to be over 60 Jewish commissioned officers,
ing beside him.
Defla.
:3;
justice,
not
for
themselves,
not
for
other
Jews,
but
ration the welfare of both Jews and Arabs would be advanced. The
including one brigadier-general, the late Gen-
cause for hurt and deep disappointment to
"No, no—I couldn't afford to. I
for ALI. SOCIETY. You, as a writer, with a wide
events since have deepened these convictions."
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eral Laucheimer, who died in the service and
got partners."
every loyal Jew. Not only is the Colonial
experience
with
all
phases
of
humanity,
with
all
now lies buried in Arlington Cemetery.
currents of society, with all manner of movements,
A SECOND MAN
Office failing in its pledges to Jewry and
RABBI NACIIMAN H. ERIN: "We strongly oppose late Friday
should know better than to no sunerficially say that
evening services. They should take place at sunset when the Sabbath
He's a Second avenue character
General Crosby's address is an emphatic
is hindering Jewish efforts in Palestine by
,
the Jew being a defender of justice is "bunk."
is ushered in. As Orthodox rabbis, we uphold the time-honored tradi-
and he has a weakness for the bot-
repudiation
of
the
bigoted
statements
heard
Whatever justice we have today seems to me to
its discriminating attitude, but it is adding
tle.
tion that women be segregated from men during worship. We are
have its inspiration in the JEWISH prophets! And
from
time
to
time
against
family
pews.
There
should
be
a
women's
gallery,
or
partitioning
The
other
day
he
came
running
in
question of Jewish
insult to injury by personal attacks upon
should be made."
it is hardly fair to say they wanted it only for them-
into the Cafe Royal. "Well. I'm
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selves.
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the leader of the Zionist movement. Dr. loyalty.
on the water wagon. Off the sarong
RABBI ABBA 1111.1.EL SILVER: "The revolt of youth
stuff for good. And when I say
Herzl must have turned in his grave when
has been
over-played
by
middle-aged
moralists
and
lecturers. Our young people
for good, believe me—it's for
I RECEIVED a letter the other day from a rare
Lord Passfield, erstwhile liberal and hu-
are no more critical, or radical, or intellectual than their elders. The
"Only 7 per cent of the children attend- good. No monkey business."
soul living in Crockett, Texas. For years he and
manitarian, spoke in contradiction to that ing the schools of the Jewish Agency in
American people today is economically conservative ”s'itically ortho-
"Of course, I'm not such a big
his wife have been taking care of old people who
doz. internationally narrow-minded, religiously indifferent and morally
policy which has endeared England to Palestine are affected with trachoma," fool as to think after all these had no possible means of support. They did this as cruising.
And so are the young people. If this generation of young
years I should stop altogether
a labor of love, never taking a cent from those they
;);
Jewry.
states a report from national Iladassah. abruptly. No, that's foolish. But served, and using up all their own means for the people were truly revolutionary in thought and mood, it would give i 'v le
evidence
of
it in its attitude towards the economic problems, the social
I'll
tell
you
one
thing—I'll
just
The Jewish people hopes that the Brit- Judging by the increase in bigotry which
purpose. Now they have managed to get hold of a
problems, the political problems and the international problems of
take one drink with every meal—
farm in order to take care of more of the indigent
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ish government will give us cause again to motivates the attacks on Jewish communi. that's
our day."
all, you understand —just
aged and they are asking for money. anything from
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renew our faith and affection for it, by liv- ties in Eastern Europe, all mental trachoma one drink."
a time to a dollar, in order to pay for this farm no
LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN: "The American Jew, like his brother in
Partaking of the one drink, he
they can carry on their humanitarian task. One
ing up to its agreement with us with regard seems to have been transferred to the ranks slipped
Europe and elsewhere, views
the bottle back into his hip
with pained indifference the falling away
does find great hearts in this out world of ours. It
to a rebuilt Jewish homeland.
of a certain percentage of co-religionists because of unworthy motives,
of the anti-Semites.
L. a relief to find such humane folk among so many
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that are selfish and indifferent.
such as those who are enticed by the glamor of majorities or the lack of
idealism."