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America lavish Periodical Carter

GUFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 30, 01110

ntykrRorr fOMR C ROMIC14

Baron de Hirsch's Legacy.

The Religious Question in
Spain and the Jews.

(Continued from Preceding Page.)

(Continued from Page One.)

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has been a new attack launched
the minister said: The history of
on the Ica. Insidious whisperings
Spain is full of elimination ten-
had been going on for some time
dencies since 1492, the year of the
before a few of the things whis-
expulsion of the Jews, to whom I
pered began to find their way into
wish now in this house, while it is several of the Jewish papers. The
discussing the religious question, to Ica has long been held up as cal-
express our tribute and admira- lous and indifferent to the suffer-
tion."
ings of the Jew. To this charge,
Such an historic scene was impos-
through its representatives, issued
sible without a wave of deep emo- complete replies. Mr. d'Avigdor
tion. Parliament was swept off its Goldsmih dealt with the charge on
feet by the oratory of the minister one occasion when he actually re-
and by the ardent feelings of its peated the words in which it was
members, and for several minutes made. "The Ica is being accused,"
the house stood and cherred the he said, "of complete indifference
Jews. The representatives of the to the present critical situation of
Spanish nation for the first time the Jewish population in Eastern
freely elected by the free vote of Europe and especially in Russia
the people, stood and cheered the and Poland." And then he went
Jews, who had nearly five centu- on to rebut it by giving the fig-
ries before been murdered and ex- ures of the credit-aid institutions
pelled by their monarchs.
of the Ica in Russia and Poland.
"Let Us Speak of the Jews."
Bessarabia, Czechoslovakia, Lat-
It is not surprising that this his- via and Lithuania, showing how
toric speech, and especially its ref- they provide the Jewish co-opera-
erence to the Jews, has had a tre- tives with their working capital,
mendous repercussion in the press. and how the Ica is assisting Jewish
To take one or two instances, at agricultural and Jewish artisan in-
random. There is Don Pedro Maur- dustry, in these countries, and is
lane Michelena, one of the out- conducting training schools, sup-
standing authors in the country, plying the farms with their live-
who, writing in the grant daily stock and inventory, with their
newspaper El Sol, heads his article ; tractors and ploughs, their seed,
—"Marginal Notes on the Religious I and their graftings, and the work-
Debates: Let Us Speak Now of shops and industrial schools with
the Jews of Spain." After tracing their machinery and their raw ma-
the history of the Spanish Jews terial, and how in this way the Ica
from the thirteenth to the fifteenth is benefiting millions of Jewish
century, Mourlane goes on to write: souls in these countries of Eastern
The sons fo Israel were persecuted I Europe. And each time he came
in Spain. Even such human kings Ito the end of a paragraph in his
as Alfonso X., or Jaime II., were tale of the work of the Ica he re-
blinded by fury against the syna- peated, "this is another example
gogue. The wise king Alfonso of of the indifference of the Ica."
Castile protected the scholarly and
Unavoidable Attacks.
scientific Jews. In the Tablas Al-
It is in a line with the charac-
fonsies he had the collaboration of ter of the complaints made against
Rabbi Zagben Zegur and of the af- the Ica that at the very time that
terwards famous Yahuda Bar it was being accused of indiffer-
Mooch ben Mosca. Other rabbis tran- ence to the critical situation of
slated the "Canones of Albategui" the Jewish population of Russia,
and the "Lapidario" of Albolays. iit was on another side being as-
Others assisted the king in writing
the "Book of Astrological Science,"
and an Ibn Gabirol, a Yahuda Ha-
levi, a Bachya, and Abraham Ibn
Ezra, a Miamonides, belong just
as much to our Spanish history as
those who worked here in Latin,
Arabic, Catalonian or Galician.
"We hope," he concludes, "that
the Sephardim of the Orient will
find hospitality in Spain, so that it
shall no longer he said that they
live only by smelling at on empty

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sailed, rightly again from his come big landowners, but self •
point of view, by a famous Zionist, supporting independent farmers..
a one-time member of the Zionist
Mr. Tcharni—the Critic.
World Executive, for "pouring
After all, it is perhaps an well
money into anti-religious, anti- to leave it to a critic of the Ica,
social and anti-religious Russia." Mr. Tcharni, in an article which
when "I always understood that appeared only a week or two ago,
Baron de Ilirsch's idea was to get to tell us how "the lea's chief work
the Jews out of Russia." To which of colonization and credit-aid is
Mr. Leonard Montefiore, replying carried on in seven overseas coun-
for the Ica, could only say that tries—the Argentine, Brazil, the
Let us show you how a modern dry cleaning plant
"Baron de Hirsch could not have United States, Canada, Cyprus,
restores, renews and reshapes a suit. Inside seams as
known the Soviet government," Turkey and Palestine, and also in
thoroughly
cleaned as the coat lapels. Cuffs cleaned, too.
(his realization that the only hope several European countries like
Your suit returned just like new, for only .
for the Jews of Russia was to Russia, Poland, Rumania and Lat-
take them out of Russia came only via, and that if we add the activi-
Phone Melrose 4200 and we will get your suit, dry
because the then Rususian gov- ties of the Joint-Ica Foundation,
clean it and return it to you in perfect shape, protected
ernment refused to allow him to which is at work in Lithuania,
by a dustproof bug, within 24 hours. Give Forest Clean-

help them inside Russia) and that Bessarabia, Transylvania, Estho-
ers a trill and you will be convinced that it lives up to
"not only was emigration to the nia, Austria and Bulgaria, and of
its slogan—
United States practically stopped the Hicem committees, which are
"DETROIT'S BEST"
and to South America down to 50 functioning in all the countries of
per cent of what it had been, but emigration and immigration, we
Ladies' Hats Cleaned and Reshaped, 11.00
it was also cheaper to settle Jews find that the lea actually encircles
WOMEN'S FROCKS
MEN'S SUITS
in Russia, since it cost about a the globe, or at least the Jewish
thousand pounds to settle a lam; portion of it."
AND SUITS
Cleaned and Si
ily in Canada, Palestine or Argen-
Cleaned
and
It is not now the extent and the
tine and only a thousand dollars in
Preened
$15.
importance of the Ica's work that
Pressed
Russia, apart from the fact that
and os
is questioned. The new attack is
the la'nd was free," "and it would
directed rather to doubting
have been a great neglect on the
Service regularly. It ' s • good service
"Us. the F
whether this great and important
part of the Ica not to take its full
and • good habit."
work can be continued. "We know,
s hare of the work in Russia."
of course, that the Ica has had im-
The criticism, in face, is after mense losses," the new argument
all only the criticism that is in- runs." Some people doubt whether
escapable for anybody doing real the Ica has any real foundation
work, in the course of which it , capital I e f t. The Ica incurred
cannot help treading on the toes heavy losses in the war. The war
533.547 FOREST AVE E.
of earnest people who happen to was followed by the inflation in
have different ideas, or in some France. The Argentine peso has
cases, of people who have perhaps been steadily declining. Now the
expected, not unnaturally, to get English pound has fallen, and this
more out of it than it has been has not done the Ica any good
possible to give. For which reason either. And on top of it we hear
Ica, too. There is no secret abou
the Ica has found itself even criti- that the money the Ica has taken with his creation, his life-work.
that But the inevitable deprecia
cized at times by its own proteges into Soviet Russia has become
Of course, the charges are exag-
than
due to the world crisis doe
in the Argentine and elsewhere.
worthless, because the Soviets will gerated. Naturally, there have
not by a long way mean that th
been losses. There is no need to
This, too, the Ica has realized not reconvert it into dollars."
is on its last legs, and its wort
Ica
rack one's brains to discover that
Charges Exaggerated.
is unavoidable, and it could do no
is far from ended.
The Idea is to present the lea as the values of all securities have
more than explain that some of
Before the war, when Russii
the colonists have an idea that bankrupt or on the verge of bank- diminished. T he Anglo Jewish was still the greatest center
they should be allowed to utilize ruptcy. And these suggestions Association, one of the partnere Jewish life in the world, "it wai
all the opportunities which the are given wide publicity in certain in the Ica, as its president, Mr. the Ica," to quote Advocate Sli
great farmlands of South America Jewish papers—now, on the eve Leonard Montefiore, has just de- osberg, who was then one of tlo
could offer them, rod they could of Baron de Ilirsch's centenary! clared, has had a loss in the value great figures in Russo-Jewish life
probably follow up, but Baron de It would be indeed a sorry celebra- of its investments. In the same
(Turn to Page Nine.)
Hirsch did not intend them to be- tion if that was how things stood way, that has happened with the

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"Quo Vadis Israel? To Spain."

There is another characteristic
article in the anti-clericalist "Fray
Lazo of Madrid. "Quo Vadis Is-
rael? To Spain!" is the heading
of this article, written by Dionisio
Perez. Great Britain has deceived
the Jewish people, Perez writes.
The promise contained in the note
issued by the Foreign Office on Nov.
8926 TWELFTH STREET
2, 1917, has not been kept. Zionism
does not solve the question. So
Madison 5891
there is now a new Zionism. The
lowlsmemesleonalexemoingema.1 establishment of independent Jew-
,...animossolemi
ish states, spiritual fatherlands,
3XSOCNSMCWNSIMUSSIMIsliViValillOSIWASMICSMCWIMICIA3M3i where the Jewish people will be
offered at least a free territory,
which they can inhabit and collon-
ize. The Spanish Jews, the article
concludes, an find such a home-
land in their old Spanish father-
land.
I have taken these two articles at
random, without any attempt to
traverse the whole field of this kind
of writing in the present-day Span-
ish press, and without in any way
wishing to identify myself with the
idea that the repatriation of the
Spanish Jews to Spain is practical
politics or practicable. But how-1
ever that may be, taken in conjunc-1
For economy plus—we recommend Genuine SEMET-
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being delivered in parliament and
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with the general feeling that exists
now in Spain in regard to the Jews,
it shows how philo-Jewish senti-
ments have come to the fore in the
new Spain, and how modern Liberal ,
and Democratic Spaniards deplore
the wrong that was done to the
Jews centuries ago, and how they
feel that the wrong must he made
good to us, a feeling that has found
its best and clearest expression in
the words spoken in parliament by
the Minister of Justice, Don Fer-
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Joke on Hitler.

(Continued from Preceding Page.)

did not get very far. Every time
the laughter broke out with re-
newed force. In the end order
was restored. But the spell of i
'The Drummer's' oratory was
broken. In vain did he attempt
to take a new line by dishing up
another favorite theory of his, viz.,
Including Saturday, Sunday and Holidays
that the Moscow Comintern and
Lubrication Service
Wall Street are secretly in ca-
Special R•tes for Monthly Storage
hoots to wreck the present eco- I
nomic world system. Ile did not
succeed in recapturing attention.1
The quixotic question, 'Warum die
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him tell an open-air meeting that
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o failure of the authorities to
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