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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 30:2.36:13.
Prophetical portion—ter. 2:4-28; 3:4.
Rosh Chodesh Ab Reading of the Torah, Wednes-
day, July 15—Num. 28:1-15.
July 10, 1931
Tammuz 25, 5691
Lessons of Registration Bill Fight.
s:
Many and varied are the lessons of the
battle waged during the past six weeks
against the alien registration bill. We have
already referred to some of them, and par-
ticularly deplored the lack of organized
vigilance force that should be on the guard
against the smuggling through. legislative
bodies of bills which not only are intended
to curb the rights of human beings who
happen to be foreign-born, but which in
the long run would undermine the tradition-
al principles of true American liberty.
But an even more serious lesson is sug-
gested in this battle by the attitude of the
masses of the people of the state who blind-
ly and unreasoningly favor any sort of leg-
islation directed against aliens. There is
no sense in trying to deny the truth, that
there exists a general feeling of hatred
against the immigrant, and that the coun-
try at large is now imbued with an anti-
alien spirit. At times we are inclined to
feel that the cause of the immigrant is a
hopeless one. In the instance of legisla-
tion of the type adopted in Michigan. the
only recourse remaining is to the courts,
and we feel grateful at least that liberal
opinion is again gaining a foothold in the
higher courts in this country.
The closing statement in the argument
of Kit F. Clardy, in defense of the alien
registration bill, was particularly indicative
of the spirit of hatred of the alien now dom-
inating this land. Aside from all its ill-
advised features, Mr. Clardy's attack on all
opposition to the measure as being inspired
by Communists and Communism was not
only a public insult to the conservative ele-
ments aligned in the fight against the bill,
but was evidence of misformation and of ig-
norance in many ranks, tending to classify
everything and everyone not born on Amer-
ican soil as being Communist.
In a similarly misinformed class belongs
the brief submitted to the court by Louis
M. Hopping, assistant United States attor-
ney. Mr. Hopping, by assuming to tell the
court that aliens, numbering 20.2 per cent
of the population, commit 46.2 per cent of
the crimes revealed an evident attempt to
prejudice the minds of the judges.
In the final analysis, the community owes
a vote of thanks and gratitude to Theodore
Levin, chief of counsel for the opposition
to the bill, and to his associates, Fred M.
Butzel, former Judge Patrick H. O'Brien
and Nathan .Milstein of this city and Max
J. Kohler of New York. Mr. Levin's argu-
ment to the court was a convincing, impres-
sive and dignified resume of the act. His
efforts in this important legal battle in de-
fense of honored American traditions pro-
tecting the right of all men to "life. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness," will not be
forgotten.
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urinating Engineering Society of the United
States. .
This far from exhausts the list, and is
merely typical of the honors conf erred upon
hundreds of Jews for their dit stinguished
services in their respective profe ssions. To
add to the list of American-hor iored Jews
those who ha. e been recognize( I and have
distinguished themselves in o. ther lands
would make a volume lending p ride to the
Jewish name.
The names of three noted Jew s who have
been chosen for honors overse as are de-
serving of particular mention. In Vienna,
the city council took steps to r ename the
Berg-Gasse, one of Vienna's let tding thor-
• oughfares, and henceforth to c 1 all it Sig-
mund Freud Gasse, in honor of the famous
Jewish psychoanalyst. In ( 7zernowitz,
Rumania, the city council voted, on the mo-
Lion of Dr. Siegfried Rosenzw eig, to re-
name two of the city streets after . Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Or-
ganization, and the late Dr. Jac ob Pistiner,
Jewish Socialist leader who represented
Czernowitz for a number of yi ears in the
Rumanian parliament.
Because there are a few in Jewry who
are lending discredit to the Je wish name,
these honors are important be cau se they
help to offset the damage done L iy the prod-
igal sons of Israel.
Thus shall it be done to the Jews whom
the world delights to honor.
Dr. Franklin's Bereave, nerd.
Comforters to thousands dur ing Temple
Beth El's rabbi's service to this community
for more than a generation, Di r. and Mrs.
Leo M. Franklin are now the mselves re-
ceivers of words of comfort and condolence
on the untimely death of their ( laughter.
A host of friends will mourn this sad loss
with the family of the decease d, who had
endeared herself to the thousan ds affiliated
with Temple Beth El. The Del :roit Jewish
Chronicle joins the community 7 in an ex-
pression of sympathy to Dr. and Mrs.
Franklin,
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BY•THE-WAY
Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personajities,
The Neighbors of the Shieks
V) ,
By Z. H. WACHSMAN
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✓ Charles
If. Joseph
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
HEADS AND SUPERIORITY
Dr. Isidor Lhevine, author of
that transiently suppressed
work, "Ariadne" has turned an-
thropologist. Lhevine has left
for some savage island, where
they practice shrinking heads.
Folks of that island, it seems, may
start out needing a hat, size seven,
and end up with a bonnet an inch
less.
I have read somewhere that
Hippocrates, the father of medi-
rine, gives some prescriptions for
achieving variations in the size of
the head. But some first hand ac-
counts of whole people doing it
should prove interesting. Per-
haps Dr. Lhevine will introduce a
new vogue in civilisation. Maybe,
the women folk of the future when
they visit the beautician will be
asked: "Would you care to have
your head done over? Wouldn't
you like a topper just a little
more dolchiocephalic than your
present noodle?"
HEADS DON'T ALWAYS WIN
Up to now the dolchiocephalic
(long-headed) people have been
doing a lot of boasting at the ex-
pense of ahe brachiacephalic
(broad-headed). The long head is
one of the greatest sources of
pride to the Nordic braggarts. The
long head, they tell us, is the sign
of superiority. Broad and round
heads are the characteristics of
inferior people.
1 have searched for reasons for
their conclusion and can only
find that the long head, have con-
cluded that they are superior by
the simple geometry of admitting
it. They admit they are superior.
Well, I don't know—maybe the
long heads are superior. But all
I want them to do is to explain
the fact that the broad heads and
round heads include such figures
as Beethoven, Plato, Napoleon,
Pascal. Shall I go and add to the
list? No. Let them answer as to
these first, and then I'll give them
a few more.
SOME MORE THEORIZING
The Cry for a Jewish State.
s,•-•-ecr
k
ilirift".4 III; RI l d 1
Amazing is the human effort to
prove one type superior to the
next. Our good friend, Arthur
Brisbane, was in the habit of
semi-annually, oracle-like issuing
a pronunciamento that superior
people have blue eyes. Havelock
Ellis once came forth with the
statement that the genius is either
short in stature or tall. A middle-
sized man could be no genius.
From which, all I can gather is
that Brisbane has blue eyes and
Ellis is not middle sized.
Lombroso was sure that the
genius was always ■ degenerate
Freud, that the genius is merely
the offshoot of an inferiority com-
plex. Dr. Watson, the behavior-
ist, says it all rests on the un-
striped viscera. .Moreover, Wat-
son says at birth all stand on ■
parity. Since the days of Rufus
Choate, we have been in the habit
of describing that phrase of the
Declaration of Independence, "all
men are created equal" as "glit-
tering generalities." But comes
Watson and says that it is the
cold, scientific truth.
All I've got to say in winding
up this discussion is, let us not as-
sume that it is the size of the
head, the pigment of the skin or
anything else that determines su-
periority, before we are sure that
there is such as thing as superior-
ity.
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THE HOUSE OF THE RED
SHIELD
KNOW the genuine sympathy of thousands who
know Rabbi and Mrs. Leo M. Franklin of Detroit
is tendered them in the loss of their daughter, Ruth
Franklin Einstein, who died in Pittsburgh after a
brief illness this week. Dr. Franklin is one of the
most beloved men in the American rabbinate and
he has a veritable host of friends. And I am sure
that the readers of this column will want me to con-
vey to Dr. and Mrs. Franklin their expression of
sorrow at the overwhelming loss they have aus-
tamed in the death of their daughter.
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HILE I am in accord with the formation of a
committee to study the racial and religious
influences in employment, I confess that I am pessi-
mistic as to the results. James Marshall, son of the
late Louis Marshall, is chairman of the group which
will study the Jewish phase of the situation, that is,
the discrimination against the Jew in the employ-
ment field. There are so many personal reasons
why some do not care to employ our co-religionists
that it seems difficult to correct the situation. It is
true, of course, that in institutions that are public
or semi-public in character such as hospitals, public
schools. city employment and the like, that evi-
dences of discrimination may serve to improve con-
ditions for the Jewish applicant. All of on recall
the trouble at the Kings County, New York, Hos.
pital a year or so ago when Jewish doctors com-
plained of the treatment accorded them, and I have
received several complaints in the past of other hos-
pitals which showed themselves unfriendly toward
the Jews. In the public schools the problem is more
acute and perhaps the committee in New York may
work out a solution that will be helpful to the large
number of Jewish teachers who are unable to find
employment because of their religion.
W
AT THE time this paragraph is written Dr. Wein-
man has resigned as the head of t°e Zionist
movement. I didn't think he would. Chaim Weiz-
mann is a great leader and had he invested his
Political talents in • non.Jewieh movement of an
International character. he would have been ac-
claimed a great statesman. He is a statesman of
the first rank but because of the fact that he was
identified with • class project the world-at-large
is not acquainted with his qualities of leadership. I
haven't the opportunity at this moment to com-
ment on the results which have been achieved at
the Zionist Congress now in session, but will have
something to say at a later date. I think the New
York Evening World-Telegram has shown itself
enterprising by engaging Rabbi Wise to cable a
daily comment on the proceedings of the Congress.
Our daily papers have been rather negligent in
this matter of using experts to convey their im-
pressions of Jewish gatherings of outstanding na-
tional and international importance.
H ERE
comes a letter from a disturbed young
Jews in the S•harra Desert.
A
French journalist just returned from a trip in the interior of
the Sahara tells of Jewish settlements, of Moslem - marran os . and
of the legend of Jewish kinitdoms in an interview especially
written for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Detroit
Editor', Note.—There
are
Jew:sh Chronicle.
In few spots on earth do the old
and the new meet as brazenly face
reverence, although no one ann
t`,!
to face as on the stretches if North
them is left who understands :.•
script or the language. The Arni,
Africa where the Sahara desert
are cool to these Moslems and
extends its transcontinental length.
are the few Jewish families in II,,.
city. The number of these M.G.
rano& Dr. Stahl reports, is rapid-
ly diminishing.
The Westernized traveller, driving
in his automobile may meet a car-
avan of Bedouin tribes, and ex-
change with them the refreshments
of the hot road, the precious drops
of water or the nutritious dates.
Further along the fringe of the Sa-
hara and even in its mysterious in-
terior, the traveller will find relics
of ancient peoples and ancient civi-
lizations. Sometimes those relics
are stone sympols that convey their
mute testimony to a people that is
no more. Sometimes these relics
are living flesh and blood that dif-
fer in many ways from their an-
cient ancestors but which carry a
thread of continuity binding the
present to the remote past.
Several suit finds of Jewish in-
terest were discovered by Dr. Leo
Stahl well-known German-Jewish
journalist, and Paris corespondent
of the Vossiche Zeitung, who re-
cently returned from an extended
trip to the Sahara desert of North
Africa. Dr. Stahl brought back
with him reports of Jewish settle-
ments in the heart of the desert it-
self. He reported findings that in-
dicate a Jewish kingdom of the
tenth century. He tells of groups
who have been forcibly converted
to Mohammedanism and who have
as a result become crypto-Jews, the
Marranos of the Moslem. Ile tells
of descendants of Berber tribes who
ages ago adopted the Jewish relig-
ion but who are even today looked
down upon by the other Jews whose
line of descent contains no such
sudden transformation.
Miter Are Skilled Artisans.
The country is a rich source book
of Jewish life. In Algeria he found
settlements with thousands of Jews.
In all Algeria Jews engage in
trade, chiefly in textiles, while
many of them are skilled artisans.
As a rule they live at peace with
their Arab neighbors although of
late some friction has appeared be-
cause the Jews rank as French cit-
izens while the Arabs are counted
as natives. Most of the Jews live
in European quarters. Ttie larg-
est Jewish community is in the
capital city, also called Algeria;
the second largest community is in
Constantine. Even the poorest Jew
of Constantine sits down to a Sab-
bath table decked with flowers.
From Tungurt to the next Iwo ,
Jewish settlements the road I
by a small oasis known as is..
There are not many Jews ther,
their lodgings and business, .ve
distinguishable by their supers,r
cleanliness.
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At a military outpost El Galiaii
there is a hotel owned by thr,
Jews. It was there that Dr. Stahl
witnessed an unusual scene: a
Passover celebration in the heart of
the Sahara. The bitter herbs, held
and heavy matzos, haggadah
ings, they were all there in • • t
unique memorial to the Jewisi
iday of redemptioy.
Dr. Stahl found a large .Ins
settlement of 2,000 souls in is
oasis-city of Gadaiah, 1,000
southwest of Algeria. Most of
Jews of this town are artisai
gold and silver. Many of then
merchants, doing a large-seal: • ..-
iness over the length and hi, ,
of the desert. The men, Dr.
reports, are all slender ben::: .
with fiery eyes and coal.! ,
beards and the women have a isis
exotic beauty. On Sabbath aft:,
noons the women gather in One ■ Pf
the patios of the richer Jews where
they sit on swings and sing old
Spanish-Jewish love songs, while
refreshments are served. Frew.
time to time fragrant rose-water is
poured over the guests is keep
them cool.
,t4S
"Jews" •nd "Israelites."
It is here that Dr. Stahl found
a division between "Jews" and "Is-
raelites." The "Israelites" are the
descendants of several Iterlier
tribes who in the seventh century
adopted Judaism, when a number
of Jewish kingdoms began to I,
formed in this region. The othid
Jews regard themselves as sin-
what superior to them, claiming to
be descended from Jews who came
to the Sahara desert even before
the destruction of the First Tem-
ple in Jerusalem.
man:
As these lines are being written, the re-
Dear Mr. Joseph:
sults of the seventeenth World Zionist Con-
I am thinking of entering the rabbinate. Do
gress at Basle, Switzerland, are not known,
you think there is an opportunity for a young
and it is impossible to judge at this time
man in that profession? In reading one of
the effect this important international gath-
your articles recently I gained the idea that
there are more rabbis than pulpits and that it
ering will have on the Zionist movement.
is becoming increasingly difficult to find suit-
Regardless of the outcome of the sessions,
able positions. It means years of sacrifice if
The Jewish youth of Gadaiah is
I do decide to become a rabbi. and that is why
however, it appears certain that the
very well organized. It is interest-
I am trying to get whatever information pos-
Revisionist forces and policies have gained
ed in everything that is going on in
sible on the situation."
the Jewish world everywhere.
strength and that the party headed by
Everybody subscribes to a Jewish
wELL, I hardly know what to say to that young
Vladimir Jabotinsky is now next in impor-
publication which apears in the
Jew. One thing I am sure of, he has not been
Dr. Stahl brought back fascinat-
tance to the Labor groups.
Orient, either in French or in
"called." He evidently is thinking more of getting
ing stories of the Jewish settle-
Arabic. They would all be willing
Because of this ascension to power of the
a good job than he is of his religious mission. I
ments further inland.
to pack up and go to Palestine at
scarcely believe that great ministers of any re-
Revisionists, it becomes doubly a matter for
In Tungurt, an oasis in the Sa-
any moment. This year they are
ligion are made of that kind of material stuff. They
regret that the issue of prime importance
hara desert, there are about 800
sending their rabbi to Palestine to
may later in life have obtained great, wealthy con-
Jews. Among them and among
report to them on the situation in
in the program of this militant element in
gregations, but I cannot bring myself to think that
the non-Jewish population as well,
the Jewish homeland and to find
they
started
out
with
that
purpose
in
mind.
How-
Zionism is the creation of a Jewish state and
a legend is current about the ex-
ways
and mean for establishing
ever I may be doing this young man an injustice. It
istence of several Jewish kingdoms
themselves there.
the demand for the inclusion in such a state
may be that after he takes up his studies in earn-
in the tenth century of the present
In this oasis, where the "musaf.
est that he will get on the right side of thought. He
of Transjordania. Not that such demands
I1er
era. The most important of them
ites," a Moslem sect which refuses
will place his work on a higher plane than that of
are not justified. But it is difficult enough
is reputed to have been ruled by a
to have anything to do with the it
just money-grubbing. From what I know and
woman, Queen Kahane. Bedouin
for Jews to battle for their minutest rights,
other Arabs, lives, Jews and Mos-
what I read, I am sure that rabbis of fine spiritual
shepherds to this day include in
lems get along very well. But in
worth, and scholarship with the right "tempera.
without becoming ultra-chauvinistic at the
their ballads and chants the story
ment" are always in demand. There are many men
another oasis, LaGuat, Dr. Stahl
present critical time.
of the "sultana it yahud,' the great
in the Jewish pulpit, and for that matter in the
foundgreat hostility on the part
and noble Queen Kahane. At sev-
The serious mistakes that have been
Christian pulpit, who don't belong there. The
of the Arabs toward the Jews. In
eral adjoining oasis settlements,
Jewish
boy
may
have
passed
his
studies
creditably,
I.aGuat there are about 100 Jew-
made by Dr. Chaim Weizmann and his as-
stone monument are found with He-
received his diploma and become duly ordained,
ish families, mostly artisans. Ile.
Nr
brew inscription. One such mon-
sociates in the past decade must be righted
yet he may be better equipped for a bond salesman.
cause of Arab hostility, they licr
ument gives a date in Hebrew:
What it is I don't know but I have always believed
by a moderate policy and not by extreme
in a separate street, and do net
,Z,'s
in the year of the rule of Ka-
that it takes something besides learning to make a
conduct business with the Arch
hane."
demands for a Jewish state or a Jewish
townspeople.
man a spiritual leader. And I am inclined to think
Nevertheless, they Nr
kingdom. The most serious error made
Last of Moslem Marranos.
that the young man who writes to me may lack that
are quite prosperous, front trade
The Austrian house of Botha-
very thing but I do not wish to discourage him.
since the Balfour Declaration is perhaps
with the nomadic Bedouins, who
Further on in his desert trek
childs, so the papers say, is being
Dr. Stahl came to Tungurt where
are very good customers.
(inc
the fact that Jews did not understand the liquidated. The holdings depre-
F EVER there was an opportunity to use the radio
there is a sect of Moslem marranos.
Jew told Dr. Stahl that for 15 years iq,
Arab problem. To demand a state at this ciated more than a score of mil- I for a constructive purpose it is in the forthcom- In 1610 a tyrannical pasha imposed he has been doing business w
lions. according to the same ac-
ing National Conference of Protestants, Catholics
his will upon the Jewish population
several chiefs of these wand,
time would mean to aggravate this prob- count.
s
la
and Jews in Washington on Feb. 2 and 3 of next
and forced them to accept :Moham-
tribes and he has during all • -
lem.
);n:
The reason giversby other bank-
year. And I urge at this time that if at all pos-
medanism. Today the descendants
time lost no more money •
.7s1s
ers
for
the
fall
of
the
famous
Naturally, the Zionist ideal is more pow-
sible that add the networks of the national broad-
would a European merchant :1
of those unwilling apostates are
house, which at one time
casting companies be utilized in the ennobling and
group apart. They do not wish to
•1,
business with people who
erful than any individual group in Zionism, banking
a
:l
held Europe in its palm, is the
fixed homes.
much-needed service of having eminent men of all
return to Judaism but they cling
and no better evidence is needed than the friction that has developed be- denominations
to recognirable Jewish
discuss and address the nation on the
iay
In the big oasis-city of Bus
tween
the
various
branches
of
the
e)
marry
determination of the settlers in Palestine. Rothschilds.
subject of "Religious Freedom and Mutual Under-
among themselves and
(which means "lucky place"). • :
Honors for Jews.
standing." I know of no better or more effective
live apart from the other Moslems.
Therefore it is only natural to expect that
last station in the desert, OW
The first Rothschild, you re-
medium of quickly creating good will and correct-
B ecause of their separatist life they
A distinguished list of Jews figures conditions should adjust themselves and member,
few hundred miles from Ale:. .
is supposed on his dying
ing misunderstandings than over the radio. The
have retained their early Oriental
4ia
among the men and women who have re- that the aspirations of the Jewish people bed to have importuned the mem- purpose
Dr. Stahl found a large Jew -ii
of the conference is to seek a way to mod-
appearance and are frequently mis-
settlement of about 2,000 pis I
.l ceived signal honors in this country.
bers of his family to stick to-
erate and finally eliminate • system of prejudices
taken for Jews. Many of them
Ltt
.
should triumph in the long run. Because, gether. And the truth is that the which
All the banks and coffee hous, .s
have in part been inherited and which dis-
have among their possessions age-
The appointment to the Detroit bench or perhaps in spite of this, the tumults at early greatness of Rothschild was
this town are in Jewish hands ar I
and distorts our business, social and po-
old heirlooms that mark their an-
many Jews are gold and ell:
of Charles Rubiner by Governor Brucker the Congress, particularly the ones which built on this cleaving together of figures
litical relations. I notice that Roger Straus is a
cient kinship with the Jews. Pray-
smiths. They have a beautiful s`.
the members of the family. But
is a source of local satisfaction.
member of the group having the arrangements
er books and other Hebrew books
agogue and a remarkably well ' -
marked the strife between Dr. Stephen S. a new generation has arisen, for
the
conference
in
hand.
So
I
personally
urge
are handed down from child to
H. L. Meites, editor of the Chicago Jew- Wise and Dr. Weizmann and between the which "knows not Joseph."
ganized congregation.
Mr. Straus to have three outstanding laymen (I
child. They are kept with special
would eliminate the clergy), a Protestant, a Cath-
(Copyright, 1931. J. T. A.)
4*si ish Chronicle and a veteran Zionist, was Revisionist and Labor elements are matters
RELATIVITY AND ROTHS-
olic and • Jew, address the nation on this subject
12' named superintendent of the Chicago water for sincere regret.
CHILDS
of
prejudice
with
a
plea
to
eliminate
it.
I
think
3, department by Mayor Anton J. Cermak
I don't know why it is, but blood
that that would have a far more reaching effect
doesn't seem to be very thick. Able
and simultaneously received the degree of
than merely to meet and have the proceedings re-
ibble perhaps expressed the
corded in a meager way in the daily press. As an
Jewish Mortality Rath its
doctor of laws for his history of the Jews of
truth prety accurately when he
The following Jewish Telegrar Agen- said: "Only • friend can be an amendment I suggest that three laymen speak on
Chicago.
one day and three members of the clergy on the
TAAMARAT EMANUEL, Director of the Falasha School at Ad II
a relative already it."
second day.
Abeba,
Abyssinia:
"There is no race prejudice in Abyssinia and
Edna Ferber, noted novelist, and Solo- cy cable from Jerusalem tells one of the enemy,
are
treated
as brothers.
Very few are the fortunes that
Our
mon M. Stroock, chairman of the board of most interesting stories that has come over last for more than a couple of gen-
emperor is an enlightened man, mot
humane
and
understanding,
who is anxious to make reforms for the
GUESS Jews are no different than other folk.
I According
erations. It's the old story "from
directors of the Jewish Theological Semi- the wires in a long time:
good of his people, without taking revolutionary means to do so."
to
an
article
in
the
B'nai
B'rith
Maga-
shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves." And
•
•
•
nary of America, were honored at the com-
zine by Louis Minsky, there are thousands of Amer-
HON. HERBERT 11.
perhaps, it is well that way. The
LEHMAN,
Palestine Jewry has the lowest mortality
"Good rosernment
ican Jews who are spiritualists. In Brooklyn there
•Lieutenant-Govern or of New York:
mencement exercises of Columbia Univer-
Torah seemed anxious to bring
percentage in the world, being 9.6 per thou-
the state "
is the Annette Levy Memorial Spiritualist Center
after all depends on the mass of the population of
about that very condition. The
sand, according to ■ statement cub mitted to
sity. Miss Ferber received the honorary
where hundreds of Jews find a common meeting
year of jubilee, in which all lands
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the Jerusalem health secretariat by the Jew-
place. We also have Theosophists with an Ameri-
degree of doctor of letters and Mr. Stroock,
Teverted to their original owners,
ish National Council In the last I One years
RABBI HERBERT S. GOLDSTEIN, International Synagogue, New
can section of the Associationof Hebrew Theoso-
a graduate of Columbia, class of 1892, was
was designed for that purpose.
York: "Judaism has a distinctive message in regard to state
infantile mortality among Palestine Jews fell
phists. Mr. Minsky, by the way, is a spiritualist.
Mr. Rosenwald is following the
lion. It begins, first of all, with the notion that the
the socia
is l que' -
50 per cent, the statement points out.
awarded one of the seven university medals
At least so I judge by the fact that he once resented
Jewish spirit in providing for the
a con'
Infantile mortality among Jews h
monwealth, and that every generation must redistribute its w
an attack I made on spiritualism. If Jews want to
given annually to alumni in recognition of
ere is 69 distribution of all of his philan-
ealth
per thousand, which is lower than t ahe infan-
through the system of the jubilee year. This brings to the fore a
be
spiritualists,
no
one
can
object.
If
they
can
c',`• their achievements since graduation.
thropic
funds
within
25
years.
tile mortality in Germany and Engl,nd.
divine
arbitration
the notion of capitalism on the one hard
believe all the hocus-pocus involved in the seances
In-
and
communism
on between
the other."
fantile mortality in the Emek is 30 per
rJ Meier Ilershtenkorn of Jaffa, Palestine,
p
thou-
that are held in this country they are welcome to
WASHINGTON A JEW?
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sand, the lowest in the world.
get whatever comfort they can get out of it. Hou-
a student at the Massachusetts Institute of
The temperature is in the '901.
dim "showed up" so many of them that it was just
RABBI
SOLOMON
GOLDM•N
Congregation Anshe Emeth, Chi-
Maybe that explains it. I am re-
cago:
"It
is
painful
to
reflect,
heart-breakin
Technology in Boston, was awarded the Dr.
It isn't necessary to commen t on the (erring to a good lady genealogist. too had. But even his exposes could not discourage part of this community is in the grip Judaism g to record that • goodly
Stratton first prize of 810 for the best stu- facts contained in this brief cabk C. It is a t who comes forth, na , ler LTV: the progress of the movement b.•01st after al:
small, unscrupul
d f
ines, to announce that George every one of us is eager to get in touch with our
into a racket. Phi' s ,'
dent paper presented under the sponsorship story that speaks for itself and is a glor - Washington
thropic organizations, educational institutions, congregations,
ritual
beloved dead. But Houdini used to bitterly assail
was • descendant of
of the campus professional societies. His ious tribute to the manner in which
customs
are invaded
by these parasites who suck at the vitals of Jewish
Devoid
of conscienc
i
the , King Solomon. She doesn't say the injury caused to trusting and highly emotional life.
e
men and women by fraudulent mediums. I have
paper was "An Introduction to the Quan- Jews of Palestine are building up t he health
bidder. Unrestrained by the or scruple, they are all things to every
hich of Solomon's thousand wives
decent they
been with Houdini when even the great Slater
was
the
mother,
but
just
knowing
the expedient.
tum Theory."
of the community. It directly contrasts
with
corrupt
all
that
they
support;
support all pursue
that pays.
Ambitious. The'
un-
.
that Solomon is the father is re-
refused to permit him the privilege of the floor to
re-
fledged youths are theiy prey; naive, old folks are their victims.
The noted German-Jewish author, Emil the increased mortality rate in tie e Dias_ a ssuring. I think it is very fine. prove that he could read any written message in a est
Hon
men shun public activity to escape contact with charlatans and -
sealed envelope. I have been with Houdini when
g
was not a
Cohn Ludwig. was awarded the honorary pora, particularly the increased n umber of George Washinon
while ingenious spirits retire, coggers contrive to debase the public.
That I long knew. No-
several spiritualists in a public meeting attempted
degree of doctor of laws at the commence. deaths from heart disease. The fact that Christian.
And plead
these men
steadily
the name of God, don the cloak of piety
to read such messages and the results were pa-
where in his writings, in his mill-
and
the cause
of invoke
Judaism."
thetic and ridiculous. If Jews want to believe in
orders, does he ever mention
ment exercises of Rutgers University.
the Jews of Palestine are reported I to be as tory
C hris
astrology, fortune-telling. mind-reading. spiritual-
although
he
mentions
Julius Daniels, assistant superintendent happy as they are makes up a t housand- Providence quite frequently. But ism and all the rest, I feel sorry for them. But be convinced.
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN: "Arabs must be made to
feel. mos!
of the promotion department of the Edison fold for the numerous modern thi ergs they triever knew till now that George then after all most of us are grown-up children
relationsh i
was
as
believing
in
rabbit's
feet,
horse-shoes,
•ar-leaf
p of the two nations in Palestine, we on our Par
Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, has are lacking in the primitive land they are w a Semite. Ile was a man clover for good luck
that we plate
no political
and Friday, Number 13, broken
on our
side sh domination. Bat they must also remember
hom any people could be proud
all ie
nver submo
been chosen for the presidency of the Illu- now rebuilding.
Provided that the mandate
it t
mirrors and spilling salt as tokens of ill-luck.
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respected,
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woul•I
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welcome parity."
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