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Brandeis on the Machine Age.

Of the countless tributes paid Supreme
Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis on the occa-
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sion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the en-
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I by the writers declares he has never been a self-seeker."
Mlity for an Indemeniant of the flews era
He naturally honors him for his understand-
Eighth Day of Chanukah Readings of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 41 :1-44 :47; Num.
ing of the "free press" and his battles for
7:54-8:4.
the right of free speech. his reminiscences
Prophetical portion—I Kings 7:40-50.
Tebeth 1, 5692 of the Brandeis of pre-Supreme Court days
December 11, 1931
who was ready to aid newspapers in their
That Unconstitutional Alien Bill.
battles for just causes and who was a kind-
The long-awaited decision on the Michi- ly counsellor to reporters and editors, are
gan Alien Registration Bill has finally been tributes to the idealism of the noted liberal.
handed down by Judge Ernest A. O'Brien,
But of greatest interest in Mr. Pew's tri-
in behalf of himself and his associates bute is his referencr to Brandeis's attitude
Judges Arthur C. Denison and Charles C. to labor, and here s Ale reveals the jurist's
Simons, who sat at the hearing on July 1. prophecies regarding the ultimate effects,
By declaring the Cheney Act unconsti- of the machine age. This reference which
tutional the three Federal judges have follows, is worth quoting verbatim:
given a deserved and severe blow to re-
The cause of labor, its right to protect itself
action and have restored hope that the prin-
by united bargaining, was always very real
to Mr. Brandeis. 1 recall hearing him discuss
ciples of the Federal Constitution and of
for hours one Sunday evening, the enviable
the truest American ideals will survive.
'plight of the workers of this country if they
did not take action to protect their interests
Theodore Levin, Former Judge Patrick
against the fast-moving invasion of labor-saving
machinery. Then, more than 20 years ago, he
H. O'Brien, Fred M. Butzel, Max J. Kohler
clearly perceived the situation which is the pro).
and Nathan L. Milstein have earned the
lem of this hour—oversupply of machine-made
merchandise and undersupply of work for human
gratitude not only of the right-thinking
hands. I recall that his discourse made such
an impression on my niind that I suggested
men and women of Michigan, but of all
he speak on the subject to union workers. This
liberals throughout the land.
he consented to do. On Monday I suggested it

Discrimination in Colleges.

T h e American Jewish Committee,
through its executive officers, went on rec-
ord at the annual meeting last Sunday as
opposing the establishment of a Jewish
Medical college. Judge Horace Stern of
Philadelphia, chairman of the executive
committee, in his report, made the follow-
ing declaration on this painful subject:

Information from reliable sources indicated
that the failure of the schools to accept Jewish
students in the game ratio as that of their num-
ber among applicants is not altogether traceable
to anti-Jewish discrimination, as other factors
are also taken into account. It is also true
that the facilities of existing medical schools are
far below the point when they can care for all
the applicants who seek admission, but those who
suggest increasing these facilities overlook the
fact that, compared with many other countries,
the United States is over-supplied with medical
practitioners, especially in the East, and that
because of the resulting keen competition many
abuses obtain. In the light of these and other
facts your committee reached the conclusion that
while it may be true that "a very large number
of ambitious and capable Jewish students . . .
are banned from the study of medicine," yet the
establishment of a medical school for the accomo-
dation of Jewish students is not the solution of
the problem this situation presents. It would
lead to the further overcrowding of an already
overcrowded profession, with an increase of the
difficulties and abuses resulting from heightened
competition; and, moreover, such a step would
be tantamount to an acceptance and a tacit en-
dorsement of discrimination in this particular
field, leading to further discrimination therein
and also encouraging such practice in other
scholastic circles. Your committee feels that the
solution lies rather in the direction of better
vocational guidance for Jewish students about
to choose professions. This must not be under-
stood to mean, however, that the committee ac-
cepts existing discrimination: We maintain, as
we always have and shall, that Institutions of
learning, which, in enrolling candidates for ad-
mission, are guided by considerations of race or
creed, violate the fundamental ideals such insti-
tutions are universally expected to foster and
promote, and we shall not abate out' 'efforts to
combat racial and religious prejudice in admis-
sion to such schools, wherever it may be
practiced.

to the President of the Boston Central Union
Council and on the following week Mr. Brandeis
addressed that body. His remarkable prophecy
was unheeded, of course, but is fully realized
by intelligent capital as well as intelligent labor
in this tense day. At that time Mr. Brandeis
was moved by working conditions among the
steel and iron laborers of l'ennsylvania. Ile
told me he had received his first information
concerning the 12-hour working day in the steel
mills from a small iteni, sent over a press wire,
published inconspicuously in a Boston news-
paper. Ile was outraged and set out to organize
a reform. Ile exposed the businesa. This sort
of service to humanity naturally earned for him
the bitter resentment of bankers, railroad opera-
tors and industrialists, who could not understand
why he should "mix into our affairs and tell us
how to run our business." Of course his idea
was that a 12-hour day, and a seven-day week,
constituted an inhuman exploitation of steel
workers. The men seemed to have no power to
correct the abuse heaped upon them. Ile took
up the cudgels without thought of recompense.
Scores of such instances might be related, ex-
plaining to a nicety the howl that went up from
the seats of the mighty when President Wilson
astonished the country, and incidentally the
friends of Mr. Brandeis by nominating him for
the high bench.

The Book Case

By FREDA R. BIENSTOCK

And then there is "Amnon, A Lad
of Palestine," by Mirian King.
This book, beautifully gotten out
by Houghton Mifflin, for but $1.75.
Your boy or girl of from 8 on up
through maturity (and even fur-
ther) will be delighted with this
lovely volume, which deals with
present-day life in Palestine from
the standpoint of a child's inter-
ests. Amnon and his pet goat,
Aleez, are the principal characters
in the book, which is copiously il-
lustrated by Elizabeth Enright,
who certainly seems to have
caught the spirit of the tale. With
Amnon and his goat as the center
of interest, Miss King manages to
give the reading child a very in-
teresting and unusually realistic
picture of Palestine and the Feast
of Purim. This would make a
splendid Chanukah gift.

Note. About Authors.
Did you know that our well
known Micky Mouse was created
by a Jew named Disney? And
that because of the author's racial
origin the Ilitlerites of Germany
refuse to have anything to do with
the Micky Mouse productions?
And did you ever hear of anything
sillier than that?—Rumor has it
that some of our smaller publishing
houses are due for a merge or a
fade if the Christmas season does
not pick up something splendid!
— Selma Robinson's "City
Child," which is beautifully illus-
trated by Rockwell Kent, is com-
pletely sold out in its limited edi-
tion, we are informed.—Ru-
mored that a certain large pub-
lishing house hitherto noted for
its avoidance of Jewish names on
its author-list is grooming a young
Jewish author, to date unknown,
in order to disprove future accusa-
tions of discrimination. Interest-
ing, if true!

2 RABBIS COLLABORATE
IN WRITING TEXTBOOK

Feuer and Glazer Author. of "The
Jew and Hi. Religion."

Two rabbis have collaborated in
writing a guide for confirmation
and high school classes in temples,
under the title "The Jew and His
Religion," and the result is a fine
addition to Sabbath School text-
books.
Rabbi Leon Israel Feuer, assist-
ant rabbi to Dr. Abbe 'Billet Silver
of the Temple, Cleveland, and
Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer of Ro-
def Shalom Temple in Pittsburgh,
of which Rabbi Samuel Goldenson
is the spiritual leader, are the au-
thors. Bloch Publishing Co., 31
West Thirty-first street, New
York, are the publishers. The
book is dedicated "to the memory-
of our beloved teacher, Dr. David
Neumark."
Under the heading of "Re-
ligion," this volume deals with the
origin and development of faith,
the essentials of religion, religion's
achievements and its place in the
modern world. The second part
deals with the religion of Israel
and discusses the rise and early de-
oa p e (r.i;to ,Jruhdea i s i m . 0,the Jewish

AKONICIA

By-the-Way

Tidbits and Newsl

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

THE SURPRISE TWIST:
The surprise ending is in rather bad repute in good literature.
And the objection to it, I suppose, is that it is an artificial sort of
thing. Genuine literature should mirror life and life is a sort of
inevitable affair.
Such in general is something of the case against the surprise end
ing, and it seems to me a weak case.
For the surprise ending is pretty common in life. Consider the
Jews of Russia.
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CONSIDER COLONIZATION:
Remember, some two and three years ago, how excited we all were
about colonization of Jews on the land of Russia. The Jews were de-
classe in Russia. They were not proletarian workers, and therefore
had no place in the new Russia. But the Russian authorities were
very nice about it. They would help along in the colonization. They
even spoke of special Jewish republics. And no inconsiderable steps
were taken towards making the Jew of Russia a land-animal. Of
course, there were some objections. My good friend, Dr. Melammed,
for instance, raged. What, he exclaimed, is the end of it all, that
the Jew is to become a moujik? Is that what we served the Lord for
en Mt. Sinai? Is that for what we studied the Talmud?
After Maimonides and Spinoza and Bergson and Einstein—to
become again a brother to the ox and dig up the land!
But the problem of the declasse Jew seemed real enough and colo-
nization appeared the only way out.

The Anti-Semitic Disturbances
in Poland

By DEPUTY ISAAC' GRUENBAUM

Member of Polish Sejm.

For many years now it has been made to compel the hospitals to
the custom to inaugurate the aca- send bodies to the prosectoria; to
demic year in the highest scholastic force the government to provide
institutions of Poland with attacks1corpses, but these efforts proved
upon the Jews. On occasion these unavailing. The Catholic clergy
outbreaks have taken a sharper refuses to consent to an open as-
course; other times they have been signment of human bodies for dis-
less violent. Always, however, secting purposes and it appears
they have been engendered by the that no law toward this end will
alleged failure of the Jews to ever be implemented. Some cir.
supply corpses for dissection by Iles find it useful to their own
Jewish medical students. The dia. ends to continue the opposition
turbances have centered around , which is constantly causing djsor-
the medical faculty. Jewish stu- tiers. For other groups, notably
dents were refused admission to the government party, the entire
the anatomic institute, and several matter is not of sufficient im-
times were rejected from the portance to receive attention as
school. All because no Jewish long as the government does not
corpses were supplied. It was re project any laws regarding it.
garded as intolerable that Jewish Thus the question of corpses re-
students should be permitted to mains an open wound which never
A PROBLEM PASSES:
That was yesterday. But today—the whole problem which brought make anatomical studies on non- heals.
Jewish
corpses. Polish students
forth the colonization project has collapsed. I do not know the pres-
This year, the non-Jews had no
ent status of those efforts at colonizatin which were begun. I presume refused to allow the Jewish stu- cause for complaint, for the Jew.
those which were started are proceeding along their original lines.
ish hospitals made available more
lege.''
But there is no more need for further colonization. The indus- dents this extraordinary "privi- Jewish corpses than ever before.
It is quite obvious that the lack Tilts year's anti-Semitic student
trialization has absorbed every Jew that wanted to work. There are
no more declasse Jews in Russia.
of Jewish corpses was not the crux disturbances, which led to clashes,
And it is likely that even if the present Soviet system should of the conflict. In the background assaults upon Jews; which encom-
collapse, that the present condition as far as Jewish employment is lurked the question of rivalry. passed practically every city
concerned, would continue. For Russia, under any other regime, The battle on the question of Jew'. which was the seat of a higher in.
would need building up.
ish corpses created a situation stitution of learning. causing the
Thus, almost imperceptibly, a great problem affecting several whereby the Jewish student lost a closing of all the universities, and
year's credit. Instead of com-
millions of Jews has been solved. The surprise endings of fiction are
c swept through the smaller
whih
puerile in comparison to this. Nature works
very much like 0. Henry. plating his cows. of studies in six cities, were rooted in a different
.
years, he was compelled to attend
cause.
medical school seven or eight
A NEW VOCATION:
years.
Anti-Jewish disturbances
Fear of Rivalry.
There may be a depression in the land, but the ingenious, it ap•
are a permanent fixture and the
The disturbances had their start
pears, find ways to meet it.
Consider the case of Solomon Quartin. Mr. Quartin is a Jew who problem of the Jewish intelligent- in the juridical faculties. Simpl • y
came recently to New York from Germany. He teaches mathematics, ma charged with "monopolizing enough their purpose was to bring
or threatening to "monopolize the about the introduction of a nu-
but could tind no job here. So what does he do?
Ile inserted an ad in the papers offering to give lessons in the free professions, particularly medi- merus clausus for Jews in all the
Einstein theory. The statement that only a dozen people could cine," has never been dropped higher schools, on the ground that
from the agenda of the day.
Poland's welfare was endangered
understand the Einstein theory is wrong, he declares. After 25 or 30
An Unhealed Wound.
by the alleged Jewish control of
lessons, he can teach anybody except a moron the theory.
Every one who has at all at- the free professions, with the re-
And he has gotten pupils who are helping to keep the wolf from
tempted to study the question of suit that the Judaization of Poland
the door.
the corpses has perforce been impended. In order to remove this
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brought to the immediate realiza- danger, they argued, the Jews
DON'T LOOK, PLEASE:
And then there is the case of another German Jew, a Dr. Solo- tion that the Jewish 'attitude must be deprived of their "privi•
mon. Photographers just now are doing a tall lot of complaining. toward corpses differs not at all , lege" of obtaining admission to
People don't seem to take pictures any more, they say. When they from the non-Jewish attitude. All ' Polish institutions of higher learn-
want a picture, they just go into the photomatons and get eight for a persons who believe in resurrec• ing. Jewish admissions must he
tion regard with distaste the dis• limited to a percentage propor-
quarter. What are the real photographers to do?
section of human bodies for ex- tionate with the Jewish population
Dr. Solomon faced this problem, too, so he got himself a peri-
perimentation purposes. More- of Poland. It is disgraceful that
scope. Aha, you say, the doctor is going to give up photography and olevfetir, uvnecrlayi.feeiw
d. JeFw
,oirsh ifbiarlei
re the Jews,
Jews, who constitute a scant
join the navy. But no—the doctor is using the periscope on land.
leastiave 11 per cent of the populace, shoul
relatives
Ile is using it in his photography.
of the deceased do not provide comprise 24 per cent of the stu-
With the aid of the periscope, he now takes pictures without look- proper interment, there are any dent bodies, they averred. This
ing at the person. Ile seems to have his camera focused on quite number of Jewish religious bodies argument soon became the battle
another thing, and lo, he has a picture of you.
who see to it that Jewish burial is cry of the National Democratic
With the periscope device he has taken many snapshots of celebri- given. It is quite different with students, who promptly began to
ties who refused to be snapped. And as a result, he has been in great the bodies of non-Jews. Many are forcibly evict Jewish students from
demand by the newspaper syndicates. His fame is such now that he left unclaimed and these are sent
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was invited to the White House to photograph the president and to the prosetoria. Attempts were
Laval and also of Ghandi.
It's a sort of painless and informal photography.

"How Did Baron de Hirsch
Make His Millions?"

BRIDGE TEACHERS:
You remember that old Yiddish song: "Soil ich sein a melarn-
med." It is the song of a Jew who is distressed about his
livelihood. And he lists the various occupations and then complains
that he can do none of them. A couple of the verses freely trans-
lated would be something like this:
(Continued from Page One.)
Shall I be a doctor;
I have no degree.
success, of being reckless and a
Shall I be a teacher;
visionary, who just had amazing
I don't know the A-B-C.
luck. Ile must have been ruthless,
too, in getting his point and in ex-
Shall I be a lawyer;
ploiting every advantage. I should
I can't stand the bar.
not he surprised to find his business
Shall I be a chauffeur;
methods similar in a way to those
I have no car.
de'aer
described by the famous archeolo-
Man," "The Moral Law of Jude-
,.
Well, today, the list of this sad man would be much longer, Ile
Sir Flinders Petrie, in his au-
ism, Jewish symbols and care• never considered being, I am sure, a bridge teacher.
tobiography which appeared only

The prophecy of Justice Brandeis is less
important here than his liberalism and his
great sense of social justice. And this at-
tittffie to labor in general reveals perhaps
in its truest colors his devotion to the cause
of a rebuilt Palestine as it centers around
an emancipated Jewish proletariat. On literary sources of Judaism, the ing a very handsome living. I am told there are some 5,000 bridge two weeks ago in speaking of Sir
future of Israel, etc. Under the teachers in New York earning in excess of $10,000 per annum. And Ernest Cassel, a kinsman of liar-
more than on one occasion he has thrown in heading, "Confirmation Into Is a great percentage of them are Jews. oness (le Hirsch and one of the men
whom Hirsch gave shares in the lea
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reel," the third part discusses "The
his lot with and extended his sympathies to Meaning of Confirmation," "The
when he founded it—the others
KEYS AND THE DEVIL:
the Labor Party in Palestine. This is in Privileges of . 13eing a Jew" and
I think it was Horace Greeley who once said that the key is the were Sir Julian Goldsmid, the presi-
dent of the Anglo-Jewish Associa-
j
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b Rezo
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ni sb , 011; triaelsm of
y aBa nsgaga. chief instrument of the Devil.
keeping with his ideals as a Zionist and as
o
What he meant by that was of course that the key made possible tion, and uncle of Mr. 0. E. d'
Avigdor Goldsmid( whose (laughter
Rested readings are appended.
a Jew, as well as a genuine liberal.
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—Sir Julian's—who died a little
The honor about to be bestowed upon "-
while back, left £15,000 in her will
to a Christian Science Church in
Justice Brandeis, who is to be inscribed in
London), l'rofessor Solomon Rein-
the Golden Book of the Jewish National
ach, F. I). Mocatta, Benjamin S.
by
Charles
Fund at Jerusalem, is appropriate and de-
Cohen and S. II. Goldschmidt. Sir
Ernest ('asset, by the way, did not
H. Joseph wait
serving, and it is fitting that Detroit Jewry
for his children to become bap-
should join in such an effort. So merited
tised • he joined the Christian
is this honor, that the number of Detroit
Church himself, and his grand.
Christian Gauss,
Ten million atheists! That's a' member of that firm and a justly
Princeton's
daughter has become a member of
Jews who subscribe to the Palestine re- well-known dean, spoke the other lot. But that number is claimed famed international lawyer."
the British Royal family as Lady
night
before
the
Young
Men's
and
by
Joseph Lewis, leader of the
demption fund, and through this means
Mountbatten, ha v in g married
s Hebrew Association in American atheist group. Russia
honor this eminent Zionist, should be the I Women
Queen Victoria's grandson, son of
Pittsburgh. When he had con- with its Society of the Godless is, Someone once told me an absurd
the
sister of his own friend, King
contributing
largely
to
the
move
story
of
whom
a
traveler
in
Africa
largest honor roll of its kind.
.! eluded his talk questions were
Edward VII.

RANDOM THOUGHTS 1

We not only endorse this statement, and
called for and one of the audience ment. Second to Russia stands was confronted in the jungle by a
agree that the establishment of Jewish uni-
A Bit of Malice.
• asked the (lean why there should Germany as an atheist country, lion, and in the rear a tiger came
versities is the wrong method With which
be religious discrimination in our some 600,000 atheists are claimed stalking him, while above him in
Sir Ernest Camel, too, was a big
A New Wave of Poverty."
colleges.
Ile
replied
quite
promptly
there.
In
this
country
the
move-
a
tree
was
a
huge
snake
about
to
railway
builder.
Ile built the Swe
"A new wave of poverty is sweeping over
to solve the existing problem of Jewish
i that there shouldn't be. But he in ment still seems to lag with a launch an attack on him. He was dish Railway and the Central Lon-
youth seeking professions, but we concur the Jews of Europe."
I turn inquired what place in the membership of 30,000. In 1933 asked how he escaped such a situa- don Railway, and he re-organized
Thus Dr. Bernard Kahn, European di- I world Was without prejudice? Be there is to be held a . world con- tion and the traveler naively !e- the finances of Uruguay and of
with the leaders of the American Jewish
marked that he didn't he died. M exico. But his great achievement
rector of the American Jewish Joint Dis- hoped the day would come when gress of atheists in Washington, That
reminds me of the situation
was his founding of the National
Committee in their belief that vocational tribution Committee, describes the condi- the world would be free of intol- at which time there will be an un-
erance and prejudice, but until veiling of a huge statue to Robert of the Jews in such countries as Bank of Egypt and the Nile irri-
guidance is of supreme importance in at- tion of Jewry overseas. "Every country is such a condition was brought Ingersoll. I sometimes wonder Poland and Rumania. The Jew gaptitotnriey.,,,ork.
among people generally, it whether an economic condition can't go anywhere. Almost every
suggestion seems to be
tacking the economic problem of the youth. affected," he declared on the eve of his de- about
was
little
such as this does not encourage country is denied him. And where that however great the benefit to
p
parture
to
resume
his
activities
abroad.
On several previous occasions we discussed
that colleges should be free from men and women to leave the ranks he may go the limitations are so Egypt of the Nile irrigation work,
a situation. A college, to my of the religious. Strangely enough severe that only the fewest can that was "only a good cover." "He
this problem in these columns, and at this "and the situation among the Jews in these such
mind, represents a cross-section of and foolishly enough they get gain admittance. He can't live
in Egypt a long tract of old
time reiterate our conviction that too many lands is much more tragic than at any time American life, and whatever you "out of patience with God," blam- under such oppressive condi- saw
Nil e Mal, of rich mud. obviously of
I find in the larger world outside, ing God for man's follies. I could tions and he can't get away from great value if it could he irrigated.
of our young Jews and Jewesses have been since the 1‘ orldstar."
will find in a college. That never quite understand to appre- them, so there is nothing left for Sir Ernest bought it for a nominal
Coupled with the horrible results fore- •you
misplaced in professions, and too few have
seems to be a commonsense view- ciateathe atheist position. It seems him but to die. That actually
. Then he wanted the water.
' seen from the boycott in Poland and the vic- point. It is to be deplored of to file to be so illogical. If as sizes up the dilemma in which the sum.
been guided to suitable trades.
As the Marquis de Soveral (then
:,-1
but until we are educated charged to religionists that they Jew finds himself these days in Portuguese ambassador in London)
It is one thing to speak of discriminations tory of the Hitler party in Germany, this course
c ear and dispassionate thinking have to take a God "on faith," so Poland. We have heard for years said to King Edward VII., he saw
and to exert everything in our power to description of Jewish conditions causes fear to
such • condition will continue
it appears to me that atheists have and years that our people must ac- 'the great importance of being Sir
offset the bigoted methods resorted to in to rule over Israel. "Whence will come re-
to take the non-existence of God commodate themselves to condi- Ernest Cassell; who could get
`what
It might be interesting to my
in which they live in Poland.
he wished as a burn-companion,
keeping Jews from employment. But an- lief?" is the question on all lips. Those who readers tie know that Dean Gauss on faith, too. Everywhere, even tions
we con - ider our puny selves They must live with the other Po- whose influence bore on the British
other and far more serious problem was cre- possess some means of offering partial re- believed that the colleges are turn- when
we see evidence of a higher power lish people because that's where government to push through the
ated by an overabundance of lawyers and lief owe a great obligation to oppressed and ing out entirely too many lawyers regardless of the name we wish to their future lies. Yet here we find high-water scheme in order to con-
call
that power. I sometimes won- the entire world of Jewry aroused vert Cassell's barren acres into land
doctors and school teachers. When univer- impoverished millions, and unless sonic sort and that the situation has grown
der if sonic of these anti-religious again over the extreme violence
sities attempt to curb further overcrowding of help is forthcoming the tragedy that is so acute that he looks for a most movements do not spring from en- offered the Jews in Poland. Stu- worth millions."
A little malicious, no doubt, and
of these and other professions, elements of certain to accompany existing despair may drastic change in ore er to correct mity to churches rather than to dent boycotts followed by business smacking
somewhat of the prodi -
,' an intolerable situation. Ile says religion.
boycotts are the rule. But as if it
prejudice and discrimination are in a sense assume proportions beyond imagination.
that it is impossible for so many
were not enough to deprive the gious stories of Jewish influence
lawyers to exist, and that it is be -
It is interesting to know that Jew of the opportunity to make a that are told by the believers in
overshadowed I ,y a tar more serious men-
increasingly difficult to there are any number of outstand- living he is set upon and put to the "Protocols of the Elders of
ace of overpopulation.
: There was a shortage of Chanukah can- coming
maintan in view of such a condi• i e.g
Jews in this country who are death or badly injured. There are Zion." (Sir Edward Camel was
Discrimination II' such, divorced from the dles this year. But Jews found a way out Lion
on a proper standard of ethics in comparatively unknown to the a lot of churches in Poland and a catually mentioned by name as one
conflicting problor ,,t of overcrowding in by using Christmas candles. And the spirit the profession. I agree with him general Jewish public. How many• great parade of religion. In fact, of the "Elders of Zion," in the cur-
that when competition becomes so of you ever heard of Col. Joseph that's where most of the religion I ious libel action which came before
professions, must, r aturally, be fought to of the Maccabees goes marching on.
keen that it resolves itself into a Ilartfield, a New York lawyer? , is—on parade. But in actual life! the lord chief justice's court in
the very last. But it is doubtful whether
problem of self-preservation that Yet there are few cases of impor- the teachings of their religion re-1 London in 1921, when Lord Alfred
those
practicing in such an over- tent national and international in- salt in acts that are on a level ' Douglas, Oscar Wilde's friend,
the creation of Jewish schools to supplant
The Jewish Centers Association is to be crowded
profession are likely to
affecting great banking with the peoples who are con- brought in the protocols as evidence
existing ones will even approach the prob- congratulated on its new Dexter branch. rut the corners in order to make a oortance
institutions in New York which temptuously referred to as barber- to defend himself on the charge of
lem, and there is reason t ;where that it More of such centers, and less of pool rooms, bare living. For the benefit of do not invitethe counsel of Hart- ions. It seems indefensible, re- having "invented vile insults
the Jews.") Yet I am sure
might even aggrav ate it. t7ertainly the for the youth is the best antidote for crime. those who did not have the privi- field. I happened the other day gardlesa of what the provocation, against
lege of hearing this outstanding on an item in 0. 0. McIntyre's that ouch cruelty, such UN- it could be capped by similar talcs
limited funds at the disp9sal of such schools
about
good
Christians like Cecil
college leader I might say to par- column referring to Col. Hartfield. CHRISTIAN, such savage cruelty
would so handicap tlo ot that they would
Simultaneous with the appearance of Jo- ents that he dies not approve of McIntyre said: should express itself in a CHRIS- Rhodes and Sir Basil Zaharoff, and
and
"When Col. Joseph Hartfield TIAN c o u n t r y. CHRISTIAN Stinnes, and the businessmann-
c o l -
have to lag far behind ti.e existing univer- seph Roth's "Job" in English translation, lege
I czy; BECAUSE THEIR 1111;
came to New York • struggling' CHARITY, CHRISTIAN 'LOVE, Icing of Belgium, Leopold IL, Queen
sities. And this we can of afford to risk. this novel appeared in Palestine in a He- WANT THEM TO GO. And he Kentucky lawyer he wrote to one CHRISTIAN MERCY. CHRIS- Vetoria's uncle, who made millions
of the Congo. And however
It is far safer to create a s. orld-famed He- brew translation. At the same time Mhz- does not believe that boys and of the leading firms for at least TIAN BROTHERHOOD — these out
whose class standing in high an interview. The answer came are terms used to point to the Baron de Hirsch may have made
brew University in Jerusalem. and great pah of Tel Aviv published the second vol- girls
school is in the lower third should back to his shabby rooming house: highest examples of ethical tele- his money, whatever feeling there
seminaries for the study of Hebraic lore in ume of the Hebrew translation of Shaw's go to college; to his way of think- 'I am merry we have no room for tionships in civilized countries, but may at one time have existed on
ing they are not good college ma- you.' To which Col. Hartfield re- what about those countries like that score, his wonderful benefac-
the Diaspora, at the same time battling "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Social- terial.
He believes that everyone plied: 'When you see me I think Poland where they point to the tions converted it all into praise,
from within against whateve r symptoms of ism." The Hebrew word is very evidently ahould have all the education' he you will realize I do not take up lowest examples? We hope that in the same way as the publication
prejudice might find root in colleges at setting deep roots in the hearts of the He- can stand, which does not mean much room.' He is pint-sized. the protests may have some influ. of Cecil Rhodes' will, as his bio-
that he can stand • college educa- The interview was granted and once on Polish authorities, but we graphers recall, "silenced his de-
whom such charges are now being made.
brew people and the Hebrew land.
tractors and converted his
tion. • Colonel Hartfield is now senior I have our doubts.

His name passed at once in the pub-
' lie estimation to the place which it
has taken in history." No doubt,
too, something similar was the ef-
fect of Andrew Carnegie's vast
benefactions and endowments.
Gave Away $100,000,000.
Hirsch's scale of giving was in-
deed princely. Lucien Wolf has
estimated the total benefactions of
Baron de Ilirsch and his wife at 18,
000,000. And of this 211,000,000
went to form the capital of the lea,
making it, as Lucien Wolf sugges-
ted, probably the greatest chari-
table fund in the world. Oscar
Straus put Baron de Hirsch's lame-
factions alone at an even greater
figure, exceeding $100,000,0011.
Perhaps it was the Baroness de
Hirsch, mourning in her childless-
ness for the death of her son, who
influenced him to turn his mind t o
these vast benevolences and to di-
rect them to Jewish ends. Though
clearly there•must have been in him
the willingness to be influenced,
and after all, their son died in
1877, a man of thirty—giving rise
to Ilirsch's characteristic remark
in reply to a message of sympathy
—"My son I have lost, but not my
heir—humanity is my heir"—and
it was about 15 years before that
he had already begun to give large
sums (a million francs at a tinn I
to the Alliance Israelite for its
work among the Jews of the Bah
kens and the Orient, and for years
he regularly paid the deficits
the Alliance, amounting to thous-
ands of pounds a year.

In 1882, still five years before Vie
death of his son, he offered the
Russian government .0,000,000 fa
the establishment of schools in Ile
Jewish Pale of Settlements, but the
Russian government, willing
enough to take the money, refused
him the control of the administra-
tion of the schools that he wanted.
It was this attitude of the Czarist
government that finally brought
Hirsch the realization that the snip
'helpful way of assisting the .1( ws
of Russia was to enable them ;"
emigrate from Russia and result it
in the formation of the Ica, throash
which, in his lifetime and sines 1•
has taken millions of Jews out
Russia and built up the great Je •
ish settlements of the Argenta •
and Brazil, and important Jew
colonies in Canada and in '
United States (Woodbine Agrksi
tura! School, for instance).
The heart that prompted him '
this must have been largely I.
own though his wife may have am:
ed her influence to his inclinatioe
where another might have sought
to dissuade. Even on the Jewi h
side of it, though we are told that
"he was not endowed with sonic
ment, nor was he religious in the
ordinary sense," he could write io
an article on his charitable ssoa k:
"In relieving human suffering I
never ask whether the cry of neces-
sity comes from ■ being who be-
longs to my faith or not; but what
is more natural than that I should
find my highest purpose in bring-
ing to the followers of Judaism wh"
have been oppressed for a thousand
years, who are starving in misery,
the possibilities of • physical and
mental regeneration?" And when
we look down the years, in this
century or in any other, in what-
ever land we turn to, there is this
fact that stands out grimly like
the rock the man himself has he-
come that no man at any time or

anywhere has ever given so much
money as he for the help of the
Jews of the world.

(Copyright. 1911. J. T A 1

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