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Irresponsibility Let Loose.

There is nothing more damaging to a civ-

ilized community than the action of irre-

sponsible elements in it. We saw excellent

example of it here last week, during the so-

called bread strike. A number of organiza-

tions, whose members felt the pressure of

economic conditions, undertook in orderly

fashion to negotiate with the master bakers

To in.re publication, all correspond.. and news matter
enust reach this °face by lands y evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kholl• us. one side of the paper only

in an effort to secure a reduction in the

The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee correspondence on sub-
Jetts of Intentst to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
ility for an indorse...ant of ....a expo ssss d by the writers

of Communists, whose loud yelping for pub-

Sabbath Resdings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 25:19.28:9.
Prophetical portion—Malachi 1:1.2:7,

November 21, 1930

Kislev 1, 5691

price of bread. Thereupon the small group

licity makes them appear like an army ten

times its actual size, .;aw a chance for no-

toriety and for beating political capital for

its party, and took upon itself to picket the

bakeries, to interfere with consumers, to in-

Hadauah's Civilizing Influences.

Out of the disappointment accompany-
ing the latest action of the British Colonial
Office again emerges the noble work of Ha-
dassah, the Women's Zionist Organization
of America. The contributions of this Jew-
ish health agency, to the entire Near East
as well as to Palestine, have been of such
a civilizing nature as to put to shame the
intriguing elements in the British adminis-
tration in the Holy Land. While Britain
has been playing politics, Iladassah has
been building up the health of the country
while the other Zionist agencies have been
creating colonies and cultural institutions.

cite to riots which led to the arrest of a

number from their own ranks.

Regardless of the merits or demerits of

a bread strike, which we do not here dis-

cuss, the irresponsible actions of the hand-

ful of Communist Jews are deserving of the

severest condemnations. Not only have

they interfered with an orderly effort at

reaching an agreement with the master

bakers, but they have, with their actions,

placed the entire Jewish community in a

bad light in the eyes of their non-Jewish

citizens. The Jewish Communists, by their

Some idea of Iladassah's contributions
may be gained from an extract of an ad-
dress delivered over the radio recently by
Mrs. Edward Jacobs, newly elected presi-
dent of Hadassah. To quote Mrs. Jacobs:

actions, during this bread strike as well as

If the twentieth and tenth centuries could be
juxtaposed, some idea might be gleaned of
the Herculean labors Hadassah has had to per-
form in introducing a modern American health
program into Palestine. Iladassah'a emphasis
upon and steady development of preventive
medicine has revolutionized the Oriental atti-
tude of fatalism toward health.

have turned the entire controversy over for

Steeped in a belief in myth and magic, the
natives of Palestine practised for generations
all kinds of ancient rites to cure illness—con-
jurings, smearings, amulet-wearing, weird in-
cantations and the application of hot irons to
affected portions of the body—intended to
exorcise "the devils of illness." Into this medie-
val setting came Hadassah with the latest

scientific ideas. Distrust, born of ignorance,

on other occasions, read themselves out of

a place in a civilized community.

Insofar as the bread strike is concerned,

it is a pity that responsible Jews could not

arbitration, thus avoiding the riots. Where

the price of foods is not regulated by law,

arbitration should be the only recourse of
public spirited citizens,

Excommunication!

According to rules regulating the elec-

tion of officials of Jewish communities, or
Kehillahs, in Warsaw, just promulgated by

greeted the first Hadassah nurses. But the

the government of Poland, it is reported

obvious benefits derived from this treatment,

that women will be deprived of voting

especially in cases of trachoma, the eye dis-

ease, quickly turned suspicion into wonder,

even awe, and the Hadassah doctors and nurses

powers, that Jews who violated the Sab-

bath or those who shaved their beards will

were suddenly regarded as supernatural beings.

lose their votes and that those who violate

These extreme attitudes, both bad, were gradu-
ally toned down as the people of Palestine

certain Orthodox precepts will be barred

began to understand the significance of scien-
tific application.

Throughout the Near East today, Palestine,

in area no bigger than the state of Massachu-

setts, is a widely recognized influence in mat-
ters of health. Neighboring countries have

begun to establish institutions modeled after
those of Hadassah and conducting them accord-

ing to Hadassah methods. Not long ago an
infant welfare station, similar to those main-

tained by liadassah, was established in Cairo,

Egypt, and another in Amman, Transjordania,

one of the most backard of the Near Eastern
countries.

Jewry's answer to British interference
must be an united effort to build up existing
settlements and to create new ones. And
among the Zionist agencies which must be
remembered is Hadassah. Locally, the Jew-
ish women have an opportunity to aid Ila-
dassah's work with their subscriptions to
the annual $25 luncheon to be held on Dec.
9. By strengthening the hands of Hadas-
sah's leaders, Detroit Jews will help build
for the security of the Jewish National
Home.

The Weakness of Concessions.

An anonymous author. writing under the
title "Mixed Marriage," in a novel pub-
lished by Harpers, presents a searching
study of the barriers that interfere with the
success of marriages of mixed religious or
racial natures. Although this novel ends
happily for the couple under study, it is in
itself a warning against intermarriage.

The concluding paragraphs of this excel-
lent novel contain also an interesting com-
mentary on the power of the Catholic
Church. The hero, who had become recon-
ciled to his Catholic wife and who was com-
pletely happy with her, passes her church
and, looking at it, thinks:
"You win because you make no concess-
ions. You know that is your strength and
your security. You won't take less than
you ask."
What a great truth! And how well this
at one time applied to the Jewish people!
The time is within our own memory when
Jews, too, made no concessions; when Jews
sat in mourning over children who inter-
yo
married because it meant the death of a
branch of the Jewish tree; when Jews took
no less than they asked. Our people now
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take less than it asks; nay, more than that.
we even ape that which is not our own. Are
we wrong in ascribing a temporary relig-
ious and national weakness to the fact that
we make concessions too readily?
Of course, it is not altogether fair to com-
ay
pare the position of the Jew, who belongs
to a small minority, with the Catholic who,
even under minority conditions, is in an en-
vironment all his own. Nevertheless the
matter of making concessions too readily is
easily ascribable to many Jewish setbacks.

from participation in the work of the Kehil-
lab.

Aside from the fact that the enforcement
of such rules will mean the whittling clown
of the powers of the Orthodox Polish Ke-
hillah to prat tically zero, we wonder what
the effect of such rules would be in an
American community, Certainly, in this
country such steps would be equivalent to
the old-time Cherem, or excommunication,
which no one would take seriously because
it would mean the practical reading out of
Judaism of the great mass of our people.

From the point of view of the Orthodox
who refuse to make concessions in their Ju-
daism, the problems created by modern
life, which do make possible excommuni-
cations in some parts of the globe, empha-
size the seriousness of the Jewish position
in strange environments.

Sholom Asch at Fifty.

To the average Anglo-Jewish reader
and theater-goer, the name of Sholom Asch
is prominent for his authorship of the fa-
mous play. "God of Vengeance" and of a
number of short stories in which modern
Jewish life is depicted. To this class of
readers in spite of the prominence given the
works and the plays of Mr. Asch, the name
of this great author is still comparatively
foreign. and the observance of his fiftieth
birthday serves as a means of popularizing
a great name.

Sholom Asch is a great student of Jewish
life and is today one of the leading artists
in the portrayal of the characteristics and
conditions of his people. Making his home in
Paris, this erstwhile Polish-Jewish Yeshi-
vah Bochur and Hebrew scholar is today
the most vigorous literary Jewish figure in
the world. Continually on the go, from
one important Jewish center to another,
from Germany to Poland to England to the
United States, he uninterruptedly studies
the life of his people, anti then transmits
his conclusions to his readers throughout
the world, in articles and in novels.

Sholom Asch's name is constantly becom-
ing more popular among English speaking
Jewries, through the translations of his
works, His "Kiddush Hashem" appeared
in English translation several years ago,
and earlier this year was published, in
English, his powerful novel, "The Mother,"
which was chosen as the first book for dis-
tribution by the Jewish Book Club. The por-
trayal by the Yiddish Art Theater, in New
York, under the leadership of Maurice
Schwartz, of his "Witch of Castille," which
is a dramatization of "Kiddush Hashem,"
literally meaning "for the sanctification of
the Holy Name," adds glory to the observ-
ance of the fiftieth birthday of a great fig-
ure in Jewry.

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ish Personalities.

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

SHAW AND EINSTEIN

We

have all seen those canvases
depicting the meeting of great
statesmen and diplomats. IS'ho
has not seen the painters' repre-
sentation of the Berlin peace con-
ference which brought together
such personalities as Disraeli and
Bismarck? It is to be hoped that
some artist will not permit the re -
cent dinner at which Einstein,
Shaw, Wells and other notables
were present pass unrecorded in
oils. This man Einstein is continu-
ally unfolding new and refreshing
facts to his personality. We have
long known that he was a great
scientist, and a great mathemati-
cian and no little musician, but his
speech on Shaw reveals a great lit-
terateur as well.
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BUT NOT PAINTING

But even Einstein, it appears,
has one blind spot in his make-up.
I am told he is not very susceptible
to painting. That should make a
lot of us feel more comfortable.
When we gaze at Rembrandt and
somehow cannot go off into rap-
tures, we shall now be able to con-
fess that fact and make no hypo-
cigical pretense of liking it.
Far be it from me to belittle
painting, and I am quite cure that
Einstein does not, but it has always
seemed to me that in the art of
painting, the real joy must be that
of its creator rather than in the
observer. Painting, it seems to
me, is one of the least communi-
cable arts.
If that is not so, why is it that it
is so possible to pass off forgeries
and counterfeits of the great
paintings even among the connois-
seurs? A masterful work of lit-
erature or of music can be detect-
ed, irrespective of the signature at-
tached, but not so with painting.

NO GENERAL RULE

Literature is replete with max
ims as to what the cultured man
must not be without, Aristotle, I
believe, had over the portals of his
sanctum the line, "Let no man en-
ter who has not mastered mathe-
matics." Well, Einstein could
enter that portal, but Goethe could
not. Ile had an aversion to mathe-
matics. Tennyson, who wrote
poetry, which is but the music of
literature, could not endure "real"
music. Darwin had no stomach
for poetry, and even Plato wanted
to exile all poets, though not for
reasons that he was unsusceptible
to poetry.

PALESTINE AND POPULATION

Amid all this talk about the
stoppage of immigration to Pales-
tine I wonder that somebody has
not said something about another
way of increasing its Jewish popu-
lation. The good old Biblical way
of "increase and multiply."
We have heard a great deal in
these ultra-liberal days of the op-
posite theory of reduction in the
sizes of families, but under certain
conditions, I suppose it would be
quite as logical to advance and
urge the opposite doctrine.
When Benjamin Franklin was in
London seeking the annulment of
some of the British colonial acts,
and despite all his effort the Stamp
Act came into being, many of the
Americans were howling for war.
Franklin was also exercised over it.
To an American who was just
then leaving for the American
colonies, he said: "Go home and
tell the people to raise children."
The colonies were then also re-
ceiving a large influx of immi-
grants, but not enough, in Frank-
lin's opinion. But by increasing
the size of the colonial families,
Franklin felt that the American
colonies would soon exceep in
population the British Isles, and
when once that was accomplished
Britain would bow to the Ameri-
can spirit, For small nations do
not relish war with larger peoples.
Manifestly, increasing the size
of the Jewish families in Palestine
will not take care of the Jews from
other lands seeking asylum there.
but it will in the course of a couple
of generations build up a large in-
digenous; population and it is hard
even for Lord Passfield to argue
against such overt realities. Per-
haps need a Roosevelt in Palestine
thundering against "race suicide."
The Palestine dailies ought to pic-
ture this Roosevelt seated with the
mother of a brood of say 14 to 16
Palestinian Jewish children.
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YANKEE AND JEWISH
FECUNDITY
Not more than a decide ago we
used to believe that Jews were
pretty efficient that way. Look at
the Jewish sections, with their
large families, we are told, and
compare them with non-Jewish
American families, generally much
smaller.
The truth is, that the earliest
American families were far more
prolific than even our early immi-
grant Jews. Thomas Jefferson was
one of a dozen children. John
Marshall had a similar number of
brothers and sisters. Benjamin
Franklin was the thirteenth or
fourteenth child.
I am inclined to think that psy-
chologically, the children of these
very large families were better off
than those of smaller families.
They were not bothered with,
fussed over, pampered as much.
They were forced necessarily from
infancy to depend a great deal on
their own resources. Anti thus
forced into more self-reliance.
The feline which when quite
young bids her offspring good bye
may have much to teach our pro-
fesaors of pedagogy.

THE JEWESS AND LEISURE
The tendency to the other ex-
treme, in America, as to size of
families, is to my opinion, creat-
ing a problem, whose significance
is scarcely realized. Particularly
AO in the smaller towns of the
south and west.
It seems to me I have noted an

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Charles B. Joseph

THANKS to Mr. :Mortimer Schiff, I have been
favored with the volumes of "Jacob H. Schiff:
His Life and Letters," edited by Dr. Cyrus Adler.
These letters of the lute leader in world-Israel were
published some two years ago by Doubleday Doran.
My regret is that most of these letters are not airily
available to the Jewish reading public of this coun-
try. I have read and re-read them with absorbing
interest. They reveal a great man and a great soul.
One is amazed at the Rooseveltian interest this
man took in the diversified phases of human activ-
ity. Whether it was buying a few tickets to help
some children to further a small welfare movement
or in addressing himself to a world-ruler in behalf
of his co-religionists, or devoting his attention to a
vast financial project, interesting himself in a civic
movement for the good of his beloved city, New
York, establishing a foundation at a university,
pleading the cause of the impoverished, encourag-
ing Jewish education, striking a deep spiritual note
is an appeal for a cessation of race and religious
prejudice, helping the colored people to a more self-
respecting position in the country, encouraging art,
music and literature, preaching a high form of
patriotism, establishing a rigid moral code in public
and private life, and on and on and on, touching the
highest and the humblest lives, showing himself to
be a righteous man and a pious Jew, a humani-
tarian, a statesman and a valuable citizen, one is
deeply stirred s he reads the letters which reveal
the soul of Jacob II. Schiff.

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F ONLY the wealthy men of all elements in so-
ciety, Jew and non-Jew, could read these letters

giving, as they do, expression to the thought that
after all, the rich are only stewards, to whom has
been entrusted, thanks to the goodness of Almighty
God. the wealth which they possess. And at least a
goodly part of this wealth should be returned to
society in constructive form. Jacob Schiff may
have been a great man, but lie was humble in the
sight of God. For everywhere we find him humbly
acknowledging that whatever he is and whatever
he has is due to the grace of the Almighty. Speak-
ing for myself I found a genuine spiritual stimu-
lation as I followed the THINKING of this man
from the first letter he wrote when he decided to
come to America until the last note just before his
death when he expressed his appreciation of some-
one who was thoughtful enough to inquire about his
health. And his uncompromising attitude toward
the truth. Once he writes Lord Rothschild that
credit must not be given him in a certain public
matter because he does not deserve it. I could
quote a hundred letters that would make far better
reading, matter in the Jewish journals of this coun-
try than most of which now appears therein. His
opinion on Jewish affairs abroad, his keen analysis
of the Russian Jewish situation, his attitude toward
loans to countries that oppress the Jews, his posi-
tion on Zionism, his attitude toward the Jewish
Congress, and a thousand other matters affecting
Jewish life.

I

NOTE in a recent issue of the Jewish Forum a
discussion regarding the advisability of estab-
lishing a Jewish medical college in this country.
There seems to be quite a difference of opinion on
the subject. A physician connected with a New
York hospital says that there is noubt but that there
is a definite quota recognized by the deans of most
colleges in considering Jewish students. He also
says that a surprisingly large number of Jewish
boys from America are studying in Europe, and
that, in fact, so numerous are the applications that
some European institutions are beginning to ques-
tion their requests for admission. So he strongly
advocates the creation of one or more Jewish medi-
cal colleges, which, of course, shall be non-sectarian.
James Marshall, son of the late Louis Marshall,
quotes his father: "Personally, I ant opposed to
the creation of Jewish colleges and universities.
The effect would be most unfortunate upon Jewish
students who desire to attend the long established
institutions of higher learning of this country. It
would be apt to lead to the introduction on a large
scale of the infamous 'numerus clausus' which now
prevails in German, Polish, Austrian and Hungar-
ian schools, It converts the Jew into a self-created
alien."

A

JEWISH physician, Dr. George Blumer of New
Haven, has this to say which is worth careful
consideration, because this matter is coming up all
the time:

It is very doubtful, however, whether the
Jewish people have been discriminated against,
if we consider the ratio of Jews in the general
population as contrasted with this ratio in
medical schools. In the only medical school in
Connecticut there are usually four or five hun-
dred applications for admission and only about
55 places. . .. The percentage of Jews in this
school is as high and probably a good deal
higher than the proportion of Jewish people in
the population. . . . I do not believe that the
Jewish students in the United States are en-
titled to any special consideration on account
of their race. . . There have been brilliant
Jews in the profession of medicine but it is
quite another matter to prove that by and
large the average Jewish medical student
makes any better doctor than the average Gen-
itl• medical student. . . . The fact of the
matter is that Jewish students are trying to
get into professional schools in numbers which
are entirely disproportionate to their racial
ratio in the population. This may he an en-
tirely praiseworthy ambition but I personally
feel that it is not advantageous to any profes-
sion to have a preponderant representation of
any racial group.

The impression seems to be gaining that we have
too many doctors and too many medical schools,
and that too many Jewish boys are trying to crowd
into she field. And that a Jewish medical college
would be a calamity!

SOMEBODY'S loony. I noticed in the Texas
Herald a dispatch frfm the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency regarding an editorial which appeared in a
daily paper of Mexico City. The editor says that
there is a tremendous influx of Jewish immigrants
from Europe in the making. Forty thousand will
be in Mexico within the next six months. I can't
imagine even the remote possibility of 40,000 Jews
migrating to Mexico. What in the world can they
do there to make a living? Economic conditions
are not of the best. Someone must have more ac-
curate information on the subject than the editor
of the newspaper in question. It might be a good
thing for an organization like the 111AS to set the
Mexican spokesman at rest on the subject.

TIIEY are going to allow 1,500 more Jews to
S O enter
Palestine. Well that shows that the Brit-

ish didn't mean everything that was written in the
White Paper. Poor Sydney Webb (Lord Passfieldi
must be distracted by this time with the hornet's
nest that he raised about his ears. But I have had
a feeling right along that some kind of a way would
be found out of the Palestine mess in which the
Labor party has finally got itself. And it looks
very much as if that hunch of mine is going to
work nut. But this much I am quite sure of, re-
gardless of what compromises are effected, the
Zionist leaders will have to reconcile them to put-
ting a soft pedal on their political activities. They
may not like to hear this, but facts are facts and
must be faced. Great Britain is sitting on a keg
of gunpowder smoking a pipe and unless she
watches her smoke there's likely to be an explosion.
I am sure that the Jews will be given whatever is
possible in the circumstances, but in no event will
the British go out of their way to make their posi-
tion with the Arabs uncomfortable. The fact of
the matter is that the English made too many prom-
ises that can't be kept both to the Arabs and the
Jews. So it is a question of wiggling out as grace-
fully as possible.

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Billion Dollar Gunsberg

EDITOR'S NOTE: Dentistry, real estate, international in-
trigues, harems, Turkish nobility, intricate diplomatic negotia•
Sian. and b'llions in crown jewels and royal property are the meat
of this fascinating tale of Dr. Samy Gunsberg, the best dentist
in Constantinople, and former royal tooth-puller to the late Abdul,
the Terrible Turk.

By MEYER LEVIN

Dr. Samy Gunsberg, is a dentist
in Constantinople. A Jewish den-
tist.

script. But all the same he needy
a dentist.

And what better dentist war
there in Constantinople than Dr.
Samy Gunsberg, who knew his was
about the new offices of the die-
tatoriat as well as he had known
his way about the royal seraglio?
The adjustable Dr. Gunsberg
brought over his chair, and became
dentist to the dictator.

In the days of Sultan Abdul
Hamid, popularly known as Abdul
the Terrible Turk, Dr. Sant} , Guns-
berg enjoyed the patronage of the
Turkish ruling (entity. That is, he
was dentist-in-extraordinary to
Abdul the Terrible Turk. And
perhaps to Abdul's nine wives. And
perhaps to Abdul's 13 children.
And perhaps to all the cousins and
aunts of the Terrible Turk. For
Dr. Samy Gunsberg was one of
those dentists who gets to know
the family.

Often and often Dr. Samy Guns-
berg made visits to the royal se-
raglio in Constantinople, that lux-
urious temple of the East, whose
very walls seemed becrusted with
jewels, whose floors were matted
with softest carpets of brilliant
hue, and whose myriad screens of
intricate scroll-work, lacy tapes-
tries, careen and embroidered di-
vans, and mosaic fireplaces, all
glowing with somber indolent
beauty under the flame of the Ori-
ental sun that came tempered
through the colored windows of
the seraglio, united to create in
the little Jewish dentist a dream of
old-world opulence.

No one knew how much the Sul-
tan's possessions were worth. He
owned, as his personal family prop-
erty, and nut as state property,
huge domains in Syria, Mesopo-
tamia, Macedonia, Salonika, Pales-
tine and Thessaly, he owned parts
of the islands of Cyrus and Tassos,
anti he owned most of the undevel-
oped Mosul oil fields.

Annual Income $15,000,000,

Some said his possessions were
worth a billion and a half billion
again, in dollars. His annual reve-
nue from his estates was some-
thing like $15,000,000. And that,
through the most lax and primitive
means of development.

For Abdul the Terrible Turk
was a Sultan true to form. He
dreaded innovation. Ile had no
use for gadgets and jiggers of
modern civilization. Tractors,
cranes, steam-shovels, dynamos—
nix. One sometimes wonders
whether he allowed his Jewish den-
tist to make use of a modern drill.

Be that as it may, Dr. Gunsberg,
whose soul was in the twentieth
century, realized nevertheless that
he lived in the middle ages at the
court of the Sultan. And he went
even further back. The Jewish
dentist to the Terrible Turk played
the role of the Jewish doctor in
the courts of Egytian kings. Ile
became the mysterious physician,
who knows all. Everything from
astrology to international guaran-
tees on personal property rights.
So for many years Dr. Gunsberg
passed in and out of that house of
sparkling diamonds and luxuriant
perfumes. And then came 1909,
the Young Turk revolution. The
Sultan was tossed into prison, and
all of his property rights were
tossed up into the air. llis wives
were scattered all over Europe.
Every capital received a liberal
sprinkling of Turkish princes,
emirs, pashas, caliphs, and curved
scimitars.
And the Jewish dentist? He
remained a Jewish dentist, in the
city of Constantinople.
Dentist to the Dictator.
Years passed. A war began and
ended. With the war ended the life
of the Sultan Abdul }remit! II, the
Terrible Turk. I'erhaps he is the
"Abdula-buthul-amir" of whom
Americans sing when they twang
to a twanging guitar. Perhaps he
does not even live in American
folk-lore. But his name lives, the
dentist has discovered, on a num-
ber of title deeds.
The Terrible Turk died in 1918.
Ile died, as befits the tale, in a
dungeon.
And still Dr. Gunsberg was a
dentist in Constantinople.
And there came one Mustapha
Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey.
Mustapha Kemal Pasha was a man
of the new world. He believed in
putting Turkey on the map. Ile
began to industrialize the coun-
try, introduce tractors and dyna-
mos and machines. He changed
the print from Arabic to Latin

Meanwhile, things had been hap-
pening in the world.
France,
Italy, Greece and England having
shared victory in a great war, had
set down their hands and grabbed
up appreciable chunks of what
once had been the property of Sul.
tan Abdul, the Terrible Turk. Not,
mind you, state property, but per-
sonal property.

A Royal Settlement.
Nobody seemed to know just
how it came about, but the estates
in Thessaly, the oil fields in Meso-
potamia, the zinc-mines in the isle
of Tassos, the olive-gardens in Cy-
prus, the vast domains in Mace-
donia, Syria and Palestine were
now in foreign hands.

And the cousins, brothers, wives,
princes and princesses of the Ter-
rible Turk were starving in for-
eign lands. Then it was that the
Jewish dentist's proclivity fur
dabbling in real estate began to be
manifest. Ile got in touch with
each of the nine wives. And with
many sons and cousins. Anti he
put it up to them.
Since then there has been go-
ing on a campaign of legal agita-
tion that has aroused the interest
and won the admiration of lawyers
all over the world. More, it has
won the support, it is said, of a
group of American and British
capitalists.
Most of all, the first victory,
though it may prove to be only a
moral victory, has been won. The
government of Greece has offered
to settle with the descendants of
the Sultan for $50,000,000. Of
course, an offer of settlement is
one thing. And cash in the hand
is another. Nevertheless, to a
dentist of Constantinople, it may
be possible even to extract money
from the government of Greece.
Clause in Lausanne Treaty.
The chief of the claimants is the
aged I'rince Abdul Medjid, cousin
of the late sultan, and heir to
what was a throne. After him
comes Bedrifelek, first wife of the
late Sultan, with all of her sons
anti daughters. Then come the
children of Bider, late second wife
of the late Sultan. Then come
many ladies of 60 and 70, all le-
gitimate wives of the late Sultan.
And after them come their chil-
dren, all princes and princesses.
The claimints live in all the
capitals of Europe. They are
fiercely jealous of each other. The
hardest part of Dr. Gunsberg's
work, he says, is to get the various
wives to act in accord. But then,
he is a dentist.
To facilitate the matter of col-
lection, Dr. Gunsberg has organ-
ized himself into the Anglo-Hel-
lenic Corp., the Valideh Trust,
Ltd., the Aegean Financial Trust,
Ltd., and various other institu-
tions. Ile has collected a good por-
tion of the 50,000 title deeds to
the Sultan's properties.
The legal basis of the claim of
the Sultan's heirs is the clause in
the Lausanne treaty of 1923, in
which it is provided that the pri-
vate property of Turkish citizens
is to be respected by the Allied
nations that have since the war
taken over parts of the Ottoman
empire. To this, the Allies reply
that the descendants of the Sul-
tan, after the Young. Turk revo-
lution, were no longer Turkish citi-
zens, But the case is debatable, as
it involves the very first princi-
ples of property rights.
Turko-Italian Tribunal.
A Turku-Italian commission,
upon which high Italian officials
sat, considered Dr. Gunsherg',
claim for ;12,500,000 of property
now in Italian hands The com-
mission decided it had no power of
jurisdiction.
A Turko-English tribunal is
about to convene to consider Dr.
Gunsberg's claim for $60,000,000

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IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Mlle. I.ena Bernstein, noted French-Jewi s h aviatrix, who undertook
a flight from Paris to Tokio, Japan, has been forced to halt her flight
near Bagdad, Iraq. as a result of her airplane's crashing, the French
Air Ministry announced. Mlle. Bernstein was slightly injured.

Rabbi Edward N. Calisch of Richmond, Va., representing the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board, of whose army and navy committee he is
a member, delivered the principal address Armistice Day, at the grave
of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.

Ralph H .
Korn, author of books for music-lovers and amateur musi-
cians, received a gold medal for his latest book, "Building the Amateur
Opera Company." The award came to him from the Washington
Heights Musical Club, of which Miss Jane R. Cathcart is president. Mr.
Korn's book has
been endorsed by outstanding leaders in the world of
music, including Gatti-Cesazza, Walter Damroseh, Mme. Marcella Sem-
hrich, Arthur Bodanzky, Fortune Gallo and many others. Mr. Korn
is a member of Jordon Lodge, I. 0. B. B.
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Dr. Albert Einstein was honored with an honorary degree in Zurich
by the Swiss Institute of Technology in connection with that institu-
tion's celebration of its seventy - fifth
anniversary.
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Sidney M. Ehrman, San Francisco banker and
a leader in civic a nd
Jewish affairs, has been honored with an appointment by Governor C. C.
Young to a place on the board of regents of the University of Cali-
fornia. Ile will serve
a term of 16 years. Ehrman has played an active
part in financing the musical studies of Yehudi Menehin, the boy vio-
linist, whom he took as a protege several years ago when the lad first
showed unusual talent.
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Louis Ritman, just
returned to Chicago from Paris, was awarded

the Mr. and Mrs Frank G. Logan prize of $1,500 for his painting
"Julien" at the annual exhibit of American painting and sculpture at
the Art Institute of
Chicago, Mr. Ritman also received the William
M. R. French gold medal. Jacob Getter Smith of New York was
awarded the $750 Logan prize for him painting "Friends," Beatrice
Levy of Chicago received an
honorable mention for an architectural
subject. Max Epstein, famous Jewish capitalist, philanthropist and art
collector, was one of
the
members
of the jury which selected the prize
winners.

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