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October 31, 1930

Cheshvan 9, 5691

An International Tragedy.

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to govern themselves and to work out their
own destiny, irrespective of the threats and
the menaces of their greater neighbors.
Probably the greatest step we had taken
in this direction was in the recognition of
Zionism."
Thus, ad infinitum, statesman after
statesman in England endorsed the aspira-
tions of the Jewish people to re-create in
Palestine, the cradleland of Israel, a home
for Jews who desire to settle there and to
build a new creative life. Since the Bal-
four Declaration, close to one hundred Jew-
ish colonies were built and more than $200,-
000,000 was invested by Jews, by far the
largest portion coming from Jews of this
country. These investments were made on
the strength of guarantees to the Jewish
people not only by Great Britain but by the
leading 56 governments in the world. On
the strength of such guarantees more than
100,000 men and women, of the sturdy pio-
neer type that first settled thiscontinent
four centuries ago, risked their fives in or-
der to create in the wastelands of the Holy
Land a new civilization. They have trans-
formed waste lands into flower gardens
and have drained malaria-ridden areas
which they have re-created into traditional
spots "flowing with milk and honey." They
have brought to the poverty-stricken Arab
people of Palestine a prosperity which has
not been enjoyed in Palestine in a thousand
years, and one of the most cheering results
of the Palestine experiment for the Jew is
the friendship that is being displayed for
the Zionist movement by the Arab masses.
But a handful of Arab landowners, who
deem the efforts of Zionists to be detrimen-
tal to their own selfish ambitions for the
continued oppressions of the Arab peas-
ants, have conspired to undermine the great
historic effort of the Jewish people, It is
this false propaganda that has misled the
present government in London, and it is
against the breach of trusteeship in Pales-
tine contained in the statement issued on
Monday that Jews express their indigna-
tion and protest.
In protesting against the action of the
Labor Government, however, Jews will re-
affirm their faith in the British people, as
expressed in the statements of Stanley Bald-
win and Lloyd George, former Prime Minis-
ters, Sir Austen Chamberlain, General Jan
Christian Smuts, former Premier of South
Africa, and others. The encouragement
given us by these leaders will strengthen
the hopes of the Jewish people that liberal
Christian nations will honor their pledge
to Israel. Such encouraging declarations
will give the Jewish people new strength
to carry on the work for the reclamation of
Palestine as the Jewish National Home,

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Tidbits and News of Jew-

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By DAVID SCHWARTZ

TALKING TO ONE'S SELF

What was it that Dave Resnick
was saying the at her day about a
number of people in big cities one
sees walking about talking to one's
self? Well, whom else can one
talk to in New York? Big city
develops miles of passing acquaint-
ances—few friends, if there are
such things—and so one must talk
to one's self, it he wants to talk
at all. . . But after all, if John
B. Watson is right, then all think-
ing is talking to one's self . .
doesn't he call thinking subvocal
talking or something like that?
. . . We think with our throats
. . . maybe if they sold more
cough drops we'd have better
thinking. . . . Octavius Roy Co-
hen . . . is back in New York
and is sore at people thinking he
only writes darky stories . .
says he has agood mind to write
a sequel to "Kent's l'ure Reason,"
. . . We like that name Octaviva
Roy Cohen. . . What did they
say about Balfour, that he liked
democracy because the word Wan
no mouthfilling, like Mesopotamia,
for instance. . • . What's in a
name, quoth Shakespears . . . "a
rose by any other name would
smell just as sweet" . . . but
there is a wizardy in fine sound-
ing names and worth nevertheless
• . . how well I know it. . . .1
can't mention his name but he is a
big figure in world of philanthropy
and once he counselled friend
strenuously against use of word
idatistics.
Instead use "demog-
raphy," and he is one of the pro-
nounced successes for reasons
largely of that kind.
Lincoln is
sometimes given as a clinching
demonstration of the beauty of
simplicity and Lincoln's later style,
it is true, was far less effusive than
that of his earlier years, yet if
!sheer simplicity is all there is to
mastery how explain such expres-
sions, for instance, as "four score
and seven years ago." Why not
simply have said eight-seven? ...
Irving Fineman, author of "Pure
Young Man," which won $7,500
prize, is broadcasting, lecturing
and what not for his publisher to
stimulate sale of book. . . , Is
prize money making pure young
man less pure? "Geld" has been
known to work that way. • .
So
Leblang wants to build structure
to surpass in size even Al Smith's
Empire State .
100 floors .. .
maybe soon all New York will be
one building .
and then maybe
they'll start making one big dining
room for all, one big ice box
.
one big bed .. . where will they
stop? . . . that was funny story
Leavitt told about old Cohen ...
Ile was a figure as trueas any
character in fiction . . . and his
English, if somebody had only
taken down his speech . . . pure
translation of Yiddish , .. remem-
ber one time he remonstrated
with southern judge who fined Jew
$50 for peddling without a license,
"Ile hasn't got the money," he told
judge.
"Oh," said judge, "Mr.
Cohen he has $50."
"Fifty dollars, he's got, judge?
Boils and diseases he's got."
F'unny that phrase, "boils and dis-
eases." Funny how Jews swear
. . . "may you break hands and
feet," "may you get the cholera."
It seems the worst thing a Jew
wished his enemy was an illness.
Remember that story of Sherwood
Anderson where he tells how he
was distressed at the sight of some
factories in which the workmen
were notoriously underpaid.
"I hope," said Anderson to
Hecht, "that these factories burn
down."
"I hope," replied Hecht to Ar-
derson, "that the owners of these
factories develop an inflammation
of the lower membranes of the in-
testines."

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exclusive republication in this column of the
letter of the late Archie Butt, aide to the late
President Taft, referring to the alleged threat made
by the late Jacob It Schiff to the president, when
he was importuned to abrogate the treaty with Rus-
sia, has created widespread interest. I have received
any number of letters referring me to this or that
document containing a reference to the meeting by
a committee representing the American Jewish
Committee and the B'nai B'rith with Mr. Taft. But
thus far I have not been able to obtain any authen-
tic information from any one present at that con-
ference who can categorically deny that Mr. Schiff
ever suggested that if the president did not comply
with his wishes the Jews of America would vote the
Democratic ticket. But of this there seems to be
evidence from the papers published concerning that
fleeting, that Mr. Schiff did not in the name of the
Jews of America utter such a threat. It has been
suggested by some of my correspondents that Jacob
Singer, one time head of the B'nai B'rith, might be
able to throw some light on the subject. At any
rate the greatest interest has been aroused among
Jews whose activity centers around the period in
which the incident took place. It will be my pleas-
ure to publish whatever documentary evidence is
received by me. I would thanks readers to
forward their communications direct to me to the
Clark Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE British White Paper issued by the colonial
office of the government outlining its future
position toward Palestine, has brought dismay to
the Zionist organization and has induced the resig-
nation of Dr. Weizmann, Lord Melchett and Felix
Warburg from their respective offices in the vari-
ous units of the movement It is the consensus of
opinion that nothing that has occurred since the
Balfour Declaration has created such a confusion
and brought so much discouragement to the whole
idea of a Jewish homeland as this announcement by
colonial office. Protests have been made by
Zion , sts throughout the world, realizing as they do
that a fatal blow has been struck against their pro-
gram, involving a loss ofprestige in the country.
Immigration has been suspended and will remain so
for some time to come; a new attitude will have to
be adopted toward the acquisition of land by the
Jews. The suggestion has been made that the
Arabs have not been given a square deal; and that
Great Britain has determined to rule Palestine
affairs with an iron hand, to the end that the spirit
of the mandate shall be carried out. The alleged
dominance by the Jews is charged in a special
report made by Sir John Hope-Simpson, who went
to Palestine as an investigator and who reported
his findings to the colonial office. The leaders of
the Zionist organization charge a betrayal of trust
on the part of Great Britain and insist that the Jews
are being discriminated against. It is impossible
at this time to view the situation with the calm-
ness its seriousness requires. One thing I am
sure of, that the desertion of the leaders of Zion-
ism at this juncture from their posts of responsi-
bility will weaken the cause. It is obvious that
Zionism has reached the most critical period of its
development and it will require statesmanship of
the highest order to bring it safely through the
crisis.

I T IS interesting to get accurate statistics on the

number of Jewish students seeking education.
The other day the head of a Pittsburgh educa-
tional institution in Pittsburgh told hie, that he had
made a survey of the pupils in the h schools of
that city and here is the information he had: Out
of 100,000 Protestant children there were 16,000
in the high schools, or 16 per cent; the Catholic
Parochial schools had in their high schools 3,200
children out of a total Catholic children population
of 42,000, or about 8 per cent, while there were
some 2,4(10 Jewish children in the high schools out
of a Jewish child population of about 8,50(1, or
about 27 per cent. That gives a pretty good idea
of the desire on the part of Jewish children for
education.

I JUST opened a letter from Mr. Sol Levitan,

by the way, will again sweep the state of Wis-
consin tar treasurer next month. Ile refers to my
comment in the American Israelite in the Taft-
Schiff incident and encloses the following copy of a
letter from Mr. Schiff written to him in 1912. It
is interesting for many reasons, not the least of
which that it shows the innate modesty of Jacob
Schiff and his desire to give credit to others:
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Dear Sir:

Thank you very much for the thoughtful-
ness of your note of the 30th ult., congratulat-
ing me upon the successful outcome of my ef-
forts in respect to the abrogation of our treaty
with Russia.

While I was greatly interested and active in
the various steps which brought about this sat-
isfactory outcome, I have perhaps done less
than others who by chance became less con-
spicuous than I had to be in these activities.
But the main thing is that we have succeeded
in what not very long ago appeared as an im-
possibility: that we have vindicated our Ameri-
can citizenship, and that, as I think, we may
cherish the hope that, as a result of what has
not taken place, better things are likely to be
in store for our hard-driven Russian co-religion-
ists. I cannot imagine that, after we have now
brought Russia's attitude into the limelight of
international public opinion and have shown
the way how to vindicate human rights, some
of the European nations at least will long
lag behind, and I believe that in consequence,
the Russian autocracy will find it necessary to
change its own attitude against its unhappy
Jewish subjects.

Faithfully yours,

(Signed) JACOB H, SCHIFF.

ONE of the evils of Jewish philanthropy has been
the duplication of organizations engaged in
the same type of work. For the past 10 years the
Philanthropies of New York and Brooklyn have
been trying to merge. There is fictional separa-
tion between the cities which is called the Brook-
lyn bridge, but to all intents and purposes that is
lust one vast Jewish community in that entire
Greater New York. One might just as well sepa-
rate the Bronx from the Manhattan Borough Fed-
eration. Last year Ralph Jonas of Brooklyn offered
a million dollars if the two groups would merge.
After conferences lasting until this week it was
given up as a bad job. TO us at this distance we
can't see much sense in maintaining two big organ-
izations. New York has the most money but that
shouldn't be considered in such a situation. If sec-
tions of an entire state can have a common com-
munity chest why can't the Jews of Greater New
York have one? At one time there was talk of
having a national Jewish chest.

CONGREGATION B'nai Israel of Galveston,
Texas, in a spirit of appreciation over the honor
conferred upon their spiritual leader, Rabbi Henry
Cohen, in being chosen as one of the 10 outstand-
ing spiritual leaders by Rabbi Stephen Wise, sent
a resolution to Dr. Wise of which one paragraph
attracted our attention:

We feel that your public expression of Dr.
Cohen's standing gives him no greater promi-
nence than his life and accomplishments justify
and we are indeed grateful to you for dissemi-
nating the true greatness of his worth and
service to God.

If every rabbi could only feel that his congrega-
tion thought so well of him. What a joy it would be,

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BRITAIN'S STATEMENT
SCORED BY LEADERS

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BY•THE-WAY

Were it not for the fact that we are a
people accustomed to suffering and to na-
tional setbacks, and were it not that the
eternal spirit of the Jew is one of patience,
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which has survivedpersecutions andperse-
cutors, the present Palestine situation cre-
ated by the newest British White Paper
might be classed among the greatest trag-
edies in all Jewish history. Except for the
determination of the Jewish people to car-
ry on the work in Palestine, with the as-
surances of our remaining good friends in
the non-Jewish world, the thirteenth an-
niversary of the Balfour Declaration Sun-
day evening, Nov. 2, might be termed the
third Churban, the third destruction of Is-
rael's identity in Palestine, and might be
observed as another Tisha b'Ab instead of
as a holiday in commemoration of Israel's
rebirth. But the determination to go on
with the work, anti the almost miraculous
manner in which radicals and conserva-
tives, rich and poor, in Jewry have been
united by the new tragedy leads one to be-
lieve that this cloud too has its silver lin-
ing.
The new Passtield statement, which is
evidently aimed at destroying the Balfour
Declaration and at undermining the hopes
of millions of Jews, has created an interna-
tional tragedy in the enactment of which
are being enlisted all the nations of the
world. When, on the thirteenth anniver-
sary of the Balfour Declaration this Sun-
day, Jews in New York, Detroit, Chicago,
Bombay, Warsaw, Berlin, London, Johan-
nesburg, Capetown, Rome, London, Shang-
hai and in every capital of Europe, Asia,
Africa, America, gather to protest against
the new statement and to reject its decrees,
it will be the verdict of a people that rebels
against a new effort to force national sui-
cide upon it. And when the Jews of De-
troit and of the world at large convene this
Sunday evening to pronounce their defiance
against a breach of international obligations
to them, this new drama that has been
Doctor A. M. Hershman.
written by Passfield will be marked by a
new lease of life to the undying spirit of the
The Jewish Theological Seminary has
Jew.
conferred a deserved honor upon Rabbi A.
Now that the first moments of anger and M. Hershman of Congregation Shaarey
despair over the new Passfield comic-trag- Zedek of Detroit bestowing upon him the
edy are over, it is for the Jews to recognize degree of Doctor of Divinity.
that it is well that the new decree has final-
If ever the application of the title "a
ly come and that we know once and for all gentleman and a scholar" was justified,"
that certain elements in the government it is in the person of Rabbi Hershman. A
of a great empire have been playing man of great learning, a Jew who is devoted
cat-and-the-mouse with the Jewish people. to everything that is intended to benefit
The Passtield statement should be wel- the Jewish people, the new Doctor of Di-
comed as an end to this game of political vinity has won national recognition for his
trickery. Jewish aspirations have been contributions to Jewish learning, to the
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played with long enough, and the contin- Conservative pulpit and to his people's
A FAIR EXCHANGE
They're telling this one about
ued whittling down of a sacred internation- worthiest causes,
the famous violinist, Mischa Le.
al pledge calls for a final show-down which
Locally Rabbi Hershman has long ago vitsky. Recently he was at some
must come with this new declaration of pol-
swank party on Park avenue. Le-
icy by the new Haman Who once hailed as been recognized for his scholarship as if he vitsky (lid not know how to dance.
One of the young damsels insist-
the radical Sidney Webb and is now Lord already had the title Doctor. Nationally, ed,
however, on Levitsky getting
too, he has been recognized, and the confer- on the
Passfield.
floor with her.
ring of the degree upon him is a mere for-
Finally he consented. For sev-
The promises to the Jew ish people have mality. It is a pleasure to congratulate eral hours the young lady dragged
been so whittled down. that the Balfour Rabbi A. M. Hershman, D. D., on the occa- Levitsky around the floor, until he
became quite adept in the terpsi-
Declaration and the Mandate have been sion of the honors conferred upon him.
chorean art.
reduced to a scrap of paper, and the new
Beaming with satisfaction at the
end, she led Levitsky to her
Passfield paper must serve as an opening
mother.
wedge for a revaluation of the pledge to
Canned Meat for Jews.
"So you've taught Mr. Levitsky
how to (lance?" said her mother.
the Jewish people for the establishment of
Jews
are
not, as a rule, great users of
"Yes," replied the young miss,
a Jewish National Home in Palestine. It
canned foods. Canned meats are especial- "and tomorrow afternoon Mr. Le-
should be made known, once and for all,
vitsky is going to teach me how
play the violin, aren't you, Mr.
that the establishment of an independent ly foreign to our people, due both to habit to
Levitsky?'
and
to
the
strict
regulations
of
Jewish
die-
Jewish commonwealth in Palestine was the
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A TIME FOR EVERYTHING
original intention and the original promise tary laws. The passage of laws prohibit-
ing Schechita. the Jewish traditional meth-
Eddie Cantor's latest is the fol-
to the Jews. In 1920 the "Handbook on
od of slaughtering animals, in a number of lowing:
Zionism" published by His Majesty's Sta-
A Jewish stone worker in a
countries, may however, compel Jews in quarry
was accidentally killed by
tionery Office stated that the government
those lands to go in strongly for canned a boulder which was displaced by
knew of Zionist aspirations before the Bal- foodstuffs.
a blast of dynamite. The foreman
four Declaration was issued and described
hurried to his home to break the
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report news. He arrived as Mrs. Cohen
these aspirations in the following terms:
sitting down to a dinner be-
from Munich tells us, to quote one instance, was
tore a large plate of soup.
"Jewish opinion would prefer Palestine
that "the Jews of Bavaria are taking meas-
"Sirs. Cohen," began the fore-
to be controlled for the present as a part,
ures to import sufficient quantities of meat man, "I'm sorry to say your hus-
or at any rate a dependency, of the British
band has just been killed at the
from nearby countries to overcome the quarry."
Empire; but its administration should be
shortage of kosher meat in Bavaria as a re-
Instead of turning to the visitor,
largely entrusted to Jews of the colonist
sult of the anti-Schechita law which went she continued eating her soup,
"But, Mrs. Cohen," protested
type... Zionists of this way of thinking be- into effect on Oct. 1." In Bavaria, at least,
the bearer of the sad tidings, who
lieve that. under such conditions, the Jew-
a market is thus created for canned meats was amazed at her apparent indif-
ish population would rapidly increase until prepared according to Jewish dietary laws, ference, "your husband has been
the Jew became the predominant partner of Enterprising Jewish canners have an un killed."
Even that did not cause her to
the combination."
in her efforts to empty the
stud professional opportunity opened for pause
soup-plate,
Lord Robert Cecil, speaking at the Lon-
I on tit 001.
"Madam." he shouted, finally,
don Opera House two months after the Bal-
you realize that your hus-
Added proof that Jews may go in very don't
band is dead?"
four Declaration was issued, was reported
strongly for canned foodstuffs will be found
"Wait a moment, please," re-
by the London Daily Telegraph to have
also in the efforts of a Jewish canner, a plied the widow, pausing between
made the following statement :
spoonfuls. "When I finish my
former Detroit young man, to perfect the soup, oy, what a hysterical woman
"Our wish was that the Arab countries preserving of stuffed fish, the popular you will see."
should be for the Arabs, Armenia for the Jewish diet known as "gefilte fish." When
DE DUCK GOT IT
Armenians, Judaea for the Jews... One of his experiments, which have already proven
Harry Simonhoff, former mem-
the great causes for which we were in this successful, are made public, they will no ber of the legislature of South
Carolina and now active in Zion-
war was to secure to all peoples the right doubt create quite a sensation,
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Statement by Dr. Leo M. Franklin.

DR. LED M. FRANKLIN: "Tragic as the situation created by the
Simpson report and the action of the British government undoubtedly
is to those millions of Jews who have looked to Palestine as to a lam,
not only of promise but of salvation, it is not altogether surprising t
those of us who have had our ear to the ground from the beginning
We who dared to say these many years ago that the Balfour Declar,
Lion was born not out of love for the Jew, but out of the politieal
interests of Great Britain, were roundly scored for our attitude. It
a pity that this lute in the (lay this position, to the heartbreak of so
many of our people, should justify itself,

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"Mass meetings of protest against what many term the treachery
of Great Britain will avail but little now. What is needed is a clear
statesman-like facing of the fact that Palestine is not a solution of the
Jewish problem and that the destiny of the Jew cannot spell itself out
in the terms of nationalism. It is a bitter blow to the Jewry of the
world but with courage, with patience and with faith such as have
characterized the Jew in every crisis of his history, this bitter disap-
pointment will be overcome and the Jew will not be stopped from the
fulfillment of his mission in the world to spread the knowledge of
God among men and to bring about in the fulness of time th..
Messianic •
era of human brotherhood."

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Rabbi Fram Calls It Morally Weak Act.

RABBI LEON FRAM: "Great Britain is reverting again to its
ancient tradition of muddling through. Faced by a great alternative,
it is choosing the easiest way in the hope that in the long run it will
again strike the right way. But while the British empire can afford
to muddle, the Jewish people cannot. Palestine iPa small country. It
either is or is not a homeland for the Jews. Its designation as a
homeland was a by-product of the epochal, spiritual upheaval of the
World War. Great Britain's betrayal of the Balfour Declaration
means that the Jewish people is called upon to wait for some other
epochal human upheaval before it shall again be afforded the right to
rebuild the ancestral home. Great Britain is calling upon the Jewish
people to wait another 1,000 years.

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"The unfairness of the thing is bound to be evident to the enlight-
ened public opinion of the world and is bound to bring a rebuke from
the League of Nations. What is more, the resultant conditions in
Palestine will rebuke the British policy, Without Jewish purchasers,
land in Palestine will become worthless. Without the enthusiastic
economic activity accompanying Jewish immigration, there will be
more unemployment in l'alestine than ever before.

"Great Britain's policy stands condemned as a way of sacrificing
the whole future of Palestine for the sake of pleasing a few din-
gruntled Arabpoliticians. It characterizesthe government which
adopted it as morally weak and politically incompetent."

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Statement by Jacob Miller.

Jacob Miller, who was resident manager in Palestine for two
years of the Judea Life Insurance Co., in a statement refutes the con.
elusions of the Simpson report. Ilia statement follows:

"Simpson's report states that 'it is not right that if there are Arab
workmen unemployed, the Jewish workmen from foreign countries
be imported to fill the existing vacant posts.' I must say from p•r-
sonal knowledge that the statement is unfair. The Arab effendis do
not employ Jewish labor and the government employs very few.
When the road was built between Jerusalem and Jaffa in groups of
40 and. 50 working men, probably about five Jews were to be found,
in some groups, none in other groups. On the other hand, many of the
Jewish colonies employ considerable Arab labor, whereas the Jewish
working, man remains unemployed. But surely Mr. Simpson does nut
expect the Jewish people to pour in millions and millions of dollars
for no other purpose than to give employment to the Arabs?
"The Arab has benefited a great deal by the Jews. Take, fur
instance, the city of Tel Aviv, which is a strictly Jewish city, and
spends thousands of dollars weekly for vegetables, poultry, etc., which
glues into the Arab haunts.

"I will cite another instance. In Jerusalem there is a cigarette
factory owned by Baddour Brothers, When they planned to expand
their factory, an Arab money lender promised to loan them 86.000.
When they came to sign the papers, he tried to exact 15 per cent
interest and about 6 per cent or 7 per cent bonus. A Jewish firm
loaned them the money for three years, at the usual rate of hank
interest, without any bonus whatever. Baddour Brothers to not
employ a single Jew in their factory, yet the money that the Jewish
film loaned them enabled them to expand so that they could hire at
least 20 to 30 more people in their factory. Does Jewish money help
them? Space will not permit many more facts of this nature.
"Simpson also states that 1:30 dunams of land is required to main-
lain a fellah's family in a decent standard of living. There are no
rentals in Palestine who ever did cultivate so much land. The most
that a tellah cultivates is between 15 and 20 dunams and, at the most,
25, as he is still working not only as an old-fashioned farmer but in
the most primitive way.

J. N. F. Head Calls for Redoubled Efforts.

AARON KURLAND: "The English government desires to place
its colonial arm about the nomadic tribes of Arabs who have despoiled
Palestine fur hundreds of years and who have allowed that land to
remain barren and desolate. It says, in effect, that the Jewish people,
the land-hungry and homeless, must not be allowed to come into Pales-
tine, the home or Israel, there to toil, to labor, and to draw sustenance
and strength from its dried and desolate wastes. Surely a travesty im
the preachments of all civilized peoples! Surely a mockery of all
standards of national honor!
"The English government, however, will not stay the verdict of
the world. 'fhe will of a united Jewry will refute England and the
right of a wronged Jewry will convict her for obstructing the path of
our progress towards a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
"The Jewish National Fund still stands today as the one institution
which can and does assure the establishment of that National Home in
l'alestine. Let us work with redoubled effort and success will surely
crown our aim. It can not be otherwise."

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"Wiser Statesmen Will Reverse Position" — Stern.

MILFORD STERN: "The natural reaction to Britain's new policy
in Palestine has been disappointment and indignation,
But calmer second thought suggests that this English pronounce -
ment is the error of weakling statesmen and that it will be effective
only temporarily. A saner and fairer policy reflecting Britain's obli -
gation to the mandate and to the Jewish people will sooner or later be
enunciated, and the work in l'alestine will go on.
"Wiser statesmen know that England yielding, to Arab pressure
against the Balfour Declaration is put preliminary to England yieldin
to greater Moslem demands. England demeaning herself, bowing and
suing for the favor of the Arabs, is but a preface to England Yieldins"
back to the Moslems the control of Palestine. England breaking her
pledged word to the Jews, by virtue of that fact is brealsing faith with
the entire Christian world. Commissioned by the Allies to keep as
Holy Land for the Christian world, England simply cannot afford to
fail its commission. Wiser statesmen know that without a Jewish
buffer community planted in Palestine and nourished by JewisS
enthusiasm, resources and statesmanship, it is utterly impossible for
the Christian nations to keep control of the Holy Land.
"It is to be hoped that when the wiser statesmen of Britain intel-
ligently review the situation they will bring about a reversal of the
present unflattering defeatest position taken by his majesty's govern-
ment."

Statement by Pisgah Lodge President.

BEN F. GOI,DMAN: "The fog and mist that surrounded thy
epoch-making Balfour Declaration for 13 years has finally been lifted
and, much to its disillusionment and despair, Jewry the world over is
apprised by the British government that the document hailed as our
Magna Charts in reality is but a 'scrap of paper.'
"Onrushing as the situation universally appears, it will bring about
the salutary effect of decisively clarifying the question as to what, if
any, rights the Jew has in Palestine under the ambiguously worded
masterpiece of Briti.sh diplomacy. Shall we, in effect, develop a state
where the Jew will be a citizen with the rights appertaining to every
way proud of his independence, or shall we continue as mendicants
subject to the whims and caprices of Britain's ever-changing govern-
ments?
"The League of Nations and - the Christian world's conscience no
doubt will refuse to listen to the piccolo voice of any of a dozen Jew-
ish factions, but must be aroused by the symphonic stentorian voice
of a united Jewry the world over."

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The stone contract was let to Acme
Cut Stone Co, John Ginsburg.
Ares. The lumber contract to Sib-
''LETTER 13 0 X I ley Lumber Co., (Harry Berger).
The electrical contract to Kogan
Electric Co. (Max Kogan). Plumb -
Shaarey Zedek President ing specialties to J. S. Souls and
Lists Jewish Contractors
Linwood Plumti^g Supply (1).ay-
idson Bros. and ' s llerlf'Ssal
Working on Synagogue
outlets and terminals to Bull Dog
During the construction of the
Electric Co. (H. and J. Frank.)
new Shaarey Zedek, I personally
It is thus obvious that both Jew-
secured work for the 15 men of the
ish
labor and Jewish contractors
Jewish faith simply by requesting
the contractor to give them employ- have had employment on the new
building.
ment. Before letting the contracts
an advertisement appeared in The .
The building was designed by
Jewish Chronicle asking for tend. Albert Kahn, Inc., architects and
ers. The contracts were let in ev- engineers.
ery instance to the lowest respon-
A. LOUIS GORDON.
sible contractor able to perform.
President Con. Shaarey Zedek.

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