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Sabath Readings of the Lew
when we consider that in spite of hard-
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 20:18-42
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 1:1-6:8
ships no one would dare to suggest the clos-
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Sunday and Monday, Oct. 30 and 31: Num. 28:1.15 ing of our public schools, our colleges and
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Tishri 28, 5693 libraries. These must continue to function
October 28, 1932
at all costs, at all times. For if we permit
the soul to become starved it will be so
The Zionist Conference.
much the worse for the land and the peo-
•Delegates from many cities in Michigan
are expected at the Michigan Zionist Con- ple now so critically afflicted by the evils
ference which takes place here this week- of the depression.
For the Jew, and for those who know
end.
and
understand the soul of the Jew and
This conference is important in many re-
spects. First and foremost, it is an expres- the history of the Jewish people, this cer-
sion of a successful effort to create a great tainly is no paradox. Dr. Chaim Weiz-
center for Jewry in the Jewish Homeland. mann, noted scientist, until recently presi-
Representing as Palestine does the oasis dent of the World Zionist Organization.
in •It desert of Jewish life, and by summed this question up well when he
virtue of the loyalty the conference ex- stated on the occasion of the laying of the
presses for the great reconstruction move- cornerstone for the Hebrew University on
ment, the present gathering is unique in the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem in 1918:
LEHMAN AND HORNER
Two Gubernatorial Candidates from New York and
Our Film Folk I By-the-Way
Tidbits and News
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1932, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
By HELEN ZIGMOND
HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN
You recollect the Gilbert and Sullivan piece which runs to-wit:
HOLLYWOOD.—An energetic
Ile might have been a Roos-ian,
little busybody during the past
French, Turk or Proos-ian,
Holy Days was Benjamin Warner,
Or an Italian;
the father of the Warner broth-
By HENRY W. LEVY
But despite all the temptation
ers . . . he's president of Temple
(Copyright. 1532, Jewilh Telegraphic Agrnr1.
To belong to other nations,
Bethel a Ilollywood schul, which,
He remains an Englishman.
he says, was packed to'the doors
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the war years, 1915 through . . . half the Warner Studio was
The news that Lieutenant Gov-
1919.
there . . . among the celebs was! BRET HARTE'S ANCESTRY
error Herbert Il. Lehman has
The words came back to me, as I was reading in one of the
been honored by the Democracy POINTS OF LIKENESS
George Sidney. Mr. Warner, usu-
A survey of the backgrounds ally called "Pop," gives much of Hearst
of New York State with the gub-
papers a little sketch by Havelock Ellis on heredity, in which
I
of the gubernatorial candidates his time and a good deal of his Ellis writes that Bret Ilarte wrote to him, in answer to a query of
ernatorial nomination of his
reveals many points of likeness. money to the affairs of this achul. his, that on his mother's side, he, Harte, was of Dutch ancestry,
party has been received by Jews
Aside from their both being affi- Sometimes when a members is in while on his paternal side he was English. That is, to the best of
all over the world with no small
liated with the Democratic party, need, "Pop"' gets him a job as his knowledge.
display of pride. The selection
thty are both 53 years of age, extra at the studio.
Which is a very remarkable statement for Bret Norte to have
of this distinguished and recruit
and both, while in politics, are
to the political arena as the Demo-
Warner has lived in many made. His father might have been an Englishman, as the verse goes,
not
politicians.
The
lieutenant-
cratic party's successor to Frank-
. . . Maryland, Canada, but he was actually a Jew. And Bret Harte certainly knew it. Ile
governor, in fact, has been active places
lin D. Roosevelt focuses attention
Ohio . . whenever he himself used to tell of his being taken by his father to the New York
in politics only in the last four Virginia,
on the unique and hitherto un-
had
money
he bought a ticket and Stock Exchange to see his grandfather, Bernard Hart, a leading Jew
years since he received the nomi-
precendented phenomina of hav-
of New York City and secretary, I believe, of the Stock Exchange
nation for the office he now holds. travelled to new places. His nine
ing Jewish gubernatorial candi-
children
.
. six sons and three at the time.
previous to that, he was known
dates in the two most pivotal and
And he, of course, must have known, as all his associates knew,
only as a banker, philanthropist, daughters . . . were born in al- that the marriage of his father and mother had given great dis-
important states of the Union,
successful arbitrator and social- most as many different cities. He
New York and Illinois. For it
minded humanitarian. From a finally settled down and lived for pleasure to the families on both sides. His Christian mother's folks
was about six months previous,
political viewpoint, he was known 31 years in Youngstown, Ohio, wanted to throw their Jewish son-in-law out, and his Jewish father's
on April 12, that Probate Judge
principally as the brother of from whence the boys brought him home threw their Christian daughter-in-law out. Neither side liked
Ilenry Horner was chosen the
Judge Irving Lehman of the New out to Hollywood. He and his the intermarriage and boycotted it.
Democratic standard bearer of
These are such well known facts that it is hard to see how
York State Court of Appeals. wife have celebrated their fifty-
Illinois. Now, with the Maine
Judge Horner was removed from sixth wedding anniversary . , . the novelist, Bret Ilarte, could have written to Ellis what he did. In
upheaval in mind, both men—
fact,
if Harte did not know his father was Jewish, a glance in the
"and,"
chortles
Pop,,
"you
tell
'em
the active political arena by rea-
especially Lehman in the gener-
mirror must have revealed the Jewish blood to him very quickly. For
son of his high ranking posi- I'm just a kid of seventy-six!"
ally prevailing Democratic New
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his
physiognomy
was decidedly Jewish, as many of his friends truth-
tion in the judiciary and the po-
York, are conceded to be almost
litical immunity that such an
A new one for our Yiddish fully told him.
certain election day winners.
I can't understand the letter of Harte's at all, except on the
album . . . Ethel Kenyon, who
office affords its holder. Since
That their respective organiza-
plays in Ben Lyon's latest pic- supposition that Harte, when he said his father was English, was
1914 he has served continuously
tions, and the people of their in-
ture, "By Whose Hand," is of possibly referring to his having been of English-Jewish stock.
—being re-elected every four
dividual state at large—Judge
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years, despite all changes in the
the Jewish persuasion
llorner was nominated in a state-
political head winds—as head of
though she's often taken for SCHWARTZ FOR PRESIDENT
wide primary, while Lieutenant
the Probate Court of Cook Coun-
The more I read some of the utterances of some of the presiden-
Spanish
nowadays.
The
nem.
Governor Lehman was named at
ty, the county which encompasses
tial candidates, the more I am disposed to throw all caution to the
was Genyon.
a state convention—should have
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the city of Chicago. Annually,
winds and announce my own candidacy for President..
so much confidence in the two
his
court
handles
estates
valued
Did
you
know
that
Lewis
Mile-
If I could only get a good name for a party to run on. The
men is especially gratifying in
at around $200,000,000. His job stone, heap big director, entered name is very important. You remember the old time Whigs had
these days of stress, Ilitlerism,
is
that
of
presiding
over
the
larg-
the
movies
as
a
result
of
the
war?
pretty
much the same principles as the present time Republicans,
nationalism and general anti-
est court in the world composed Was in the camera division of the but that name Whig proved a liability. When they changed it to
Semitism.
of only one justice.
U. S. Army ... afterward he came
it was an entirely different story. And I imagine that
Not longer ago than four years
Both men seem to derive their to Hollywood ... as a cameraman Republican,
nothing hurts the Socialist party so much as its name. The old time
back the ugly head of religious
greatest pleasure from•working. . , with directorial ambitions.
Populist party was not so very much less radical than the present
intolerance played an important
Before entering politics, the lieu-
that it affords an opportunity for rejoicing
"It is true that great political and social
Socialist party, but the name Populist did not conjure up the specter
part in the rendering void of Al-
tenant-governor led a strenuous
Harpo
Marx
was
in
•
small
problems still face us and will demand their
of free love, atheism, bloody marches and all the rest that the tag
fred E. Smith's presidential as-
life as a member of the banking
over actual achievements.
the
populace
was
solution from us. We Jews know that when
of Socialism somehow conjures up in the mind of the average dweller
town where
pirations. And though this be the
firm of Lehman Brothers. His
the mind is given fullest play, when we have a
at
last
catching,
up
with
the
As a state convention, it is also import-
on Main street.
land in which any native son may
working
day
more
often
approch-
,
center for the devedopment of Jewish con-
"The Cocoanuts." ' He bought
aspire to the presidency, it is
ed 12 hours than the generally
ant in the sense that it serves to knit to-
ticket
and
went
in
to
see
if
his
sciousness, then coincidentally we shall attain
•
nevertheess a fact that Catholic-
HOOVER ON IMMIGRATION
prevailing eight and numberless
old picture was still funny. The
the fulfillment of our material needs. In the
But to return, one of the reasons that makes me want to run
ism was a liability to James G.
gether the scattered communities through-
off hours were devoted to one
man in the next seat seemed for the presidency at this belated hour was the recent speech of
darkest ages of our existence we have found
Blaine 60 years ago just at it
form or another of philanthropic
out the state and to bring together the
very excitable and jumpy. When Mr. Hoover in Cleveland. Mr. Hoover, in telling what his adminis-
protection within the walla of our schools and
was to Smith four short years
endeavor dear to his heart. He
it came to the scene showing tration did to preserve prosperity, pointed to the reduction in immi-
colleges, and in devoted study of Jewish sci-
ago. And it, of course, hardly
has particularly been interested
Zionists of Michigan in discussions in be-
Harpo eating a telephone, the gration, achieved by his administration. Said Mr. Hoover at Cleve-
ence the tormented Jew found relief and con-
need even be mentioned that no
—serving as a director and trus-
next seat neighbor punched him land:
solation. Amid all the sordid squalor of the
half of their common cause. ,
Jew ever so much as been sug-
tee of many organizations—in en-
violently in the ribs and blurted,
Ghetto there stood schools of learning where
gested
for
a
presidential
nomina-
"Had the net immigration taken place, which took place two
terprises catering to the under-
For Detroit Jewry it is a holiday occa-
"Say, do you know that there years previous, we would have had 400,000 jobs taken from our
numbers of young Jews sat at the feet of our
tion. This, no doubt, in accord-
privileged. Workman's compen-
guy
is
actually
crasyr
Harpo
teachers and rabbis. Those schools served as
ance with one of those unwritten
sion because our community is to act as
people or had just that many persons added to our unemployed. That
nation, child care, widow's pen-
large reservoirs where there was stored up
laws with which the United
found th e nearest exit before might have been worse."
sions and old age assistance were
host to the delegates, and because of the
States seems to abound in.
during the long ages of persecution an intellec-
the lights went up.
Now in the first place, the immigration laws were pretty tight
passions with him in his days as
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tual and spiritual energy which blossomed
a private citizen; since taking
PREVIOUS EXECUTIVES
long before Mr. Hoover came to the White House. Immigration was
opportunity we are to have to welcome
forth for the benefit of mankind when the
public office, he has helped write
Irving Pichel's father was a virtually completely restricted to a small quota from the so-called
Of
course,
it
is
true
that
two
national and state leaders who are to be
walls of the Ghetto fell. The sages of Baby-
and direct legislation furthering newspaperman. He worked 47 Nordic countries.
Jews, Louis D. Brandeis and
lon and Jerusalem, Maimonides and the Gaon
their causes. In Illinois, Judge years on the Pittsburgh Gazette-
Moreover, I doubt very much if any additional tightening of the
Benjamin N. Cardozo, are valued
guests on this occasion.
of Vilna, the lens polisher of Amsterdam and
Horner has similarly been an ac- Times.
immigration screws by Mr. Hoover accounted for the subsequent
members of the Supreme Court
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Karl Marx, Heinrich Ileine and Paul Ehrlich,
The event has additional significance
tive worker in social work. The
decrease. For the fact is, that for the past couple of years more
of the United Stater Neverthe-
Judge has allied himself with
are some of the links in the long, unbroken
Molly Piton, famous Yiddish immigrants have been trying to get out of the country, as any ship-
less, their appointments have
because the convention is to close with the
hospitals, nursing homes, lodging
chain of intellectual development."
stage star, is planning the pro- ping company will tell you. than to come in.
been occurrences of this very
houses and such. In addition he
duction of 10 Yiddish film mu-
celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of
generation and in the matter of
It is in order to prevent the breaking of Justice Cardozo's appointment has served on the executive com- sicals in the East.
IMMIGRANTS HELP PROSPERITY.
the Jewish National Fund and the fiftieth
mittee of the Chicago Boy Scouts.
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is a nasty re-echo in the re-
And then again, I just wonder if the effect of 400,000 coming
this mighty chain of intellectual Jewish there
And both men peculiarly have
cently published "More Merry
anniversary of the Bilu movement which
At this season much forecast- in would be altogether so adverse as Mr. Hoover suspects. I know
an
aversion
for
holidays.
After
development that Jewish leaders are look- Go Rouod' which charges that the long and arduous primary ing is indulged in concerning the that most people--most Democrats, probably most Socialists—would
was inaugurated with the founding of the
Cardozo'a appointment was op-
to be voted upon next agree with him. But I am presumptious enough to question it never-
ing into the future. It is generally admitted posed from within the court it- campaign, which won for Judge awards
first Jewish colony in the present era of
Horner the nomination, It was ex- month by the Academy of Motion theless.
Indeed, I think one might build up a pretty good case, that the
that the world today suffers from a dearth self on the sole ground that the pected that he would vacation at Picture Arts and Sciences. On
court be not "afflicted with an-
Jewish reconstruction efforts in Palestine.
the list of nominees this year are reason the depressions of former years, of 1873 and 1893 and of
of great leaders, that the most serious other Jew." It is also true that French Lick, or one of the other Josef
1907,
were less protracted than the present was that there was e
von
Sternberg
for
directing
nearby resorts, where Illinois po-
In view of the truly great achievements by
the governors of two other states
world-wide quest today is for able leader- —the
litical figures are wont to spend "Shanghai Express" and Samuel constant and huge flow of immigration into the country at the time.
Democratic Arthur Selig-
When
hundreds of thousands of immigrants come in, they need
the Jewish National Fund, this is indeed a
Hoffenstein
for
writing
the
screen
leisure moments. Judge
ship. For the Jewish people, the conse- man of New Mexico and the Re- their
in.
Horner was different. He pre• version of "Dr. Jeykell and Mr. clothes. That gives the tailors work. They need homes to live and
great occasion for celebration.
publican Julius Meier of Oregon
That
gives
carpenters, painters, contractors, lumber dealers,
Hyde."
Our
Boys
seem
to
have
ferred to "relax" on the bench
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is pleased quences of poor leadership are much more —are Jews.
of the Probate Court. Ile wanted a genius for directing . , . Lewis lawyers work. It gives railroads work. It gives Ilebrew teachers
Nevertheless, the fact remains
to be certain that "everything Milestone won the award in 1926 work. It gives rabbis and doctors work. They need to eat and that
to • be among the institutions extending serious than for other peoples. Every- that never in the history of thid was
running all right." Only in and again in 1930 and in 1931 helps farmers.
where a minority, driven from pillar to country has there been a Jewish this way,
But Mr. Hoover would say: These 400,000 people that would
he said, would he have Norman Taur . og took the prize.
greetings of welcome to the delegates. It
executive of so important
the piece of mind to reax. Lieu-
have come in have no money.
post and suffering from bigotry and prej- chief
a state as Illinois or New York.
is to be hoped that the conference will
And I answer, "My dear Herb, no immigrants of any conse-
tenant-governor Lehman, like-
Eddie Cantor has been given
And that our past history has
numbers that ever came in brought any money with them.
succeed in strengthening sentiment for udice even in most enlightened countries, been studded with but five Jew- wise, does not believe in vaca- the air . . . he'll broadcast for quential
In fact, the poorest, the most proletarian of all immigrants were
tions—at least for himself.
coffee
company
at
$2500
per
we
are
lost
without
informed
leadership,
■
ish governors—one of whom was
Palestine and in assuring the continued
the
earliest
colonial immigrants. All men start out empty-handed.
Though Governor Roosevelt took
yodel, which . . . figured on •
a half Jew and another who
frequent leaves of the state capi-
and uninterrupted loyalty of the people of without the guidance and generalship of but
flat scale crescendos to the The wealth is in the natural resources of the country. That is, the
was appointed governor of a
tal
during
his
four
years
in
office,
raw
material
is in the natural resources. And the labor working on
tune of • couple bank notes
Israel for Eretz Israel.
men and women who know and understand Federal territory.
his co-worker, his "right arm,"
wealth."
every third beat. Oh, pahleesel this raw material produces the
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The
first
Jewish
state
executive
•
—as
one
of
the
newspaper
cor-
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their kinsmen's problems, who are trained or record was David Emanuel of
respondents termed him—seldom
SPECULATION
AND
DEPRESSION
It happened in Australia. Joan
to know the approach to a solution of these Georgia, who took his oath of left Albany except on state busi-
If too much population is the cause of the present condition, I
office in 1801. Then came Mich-
Public Opinion Against Prejudice.
ness. His vacations, as a mat- Blondell was 18 and playing the ask you to explain the great panic of 1837. Surely the country was
problems.
ael Hahn of Louisana who was
ter of record, constitute ttvo one lead in "Girl of the Golden West." not over-populated at the time.
A burly ranch owner in the audi-
The National Conference of Jews and
But it is not for the training of leader- elected in 1864, but who resigned week fishing trips.
What is the cause of the present condition, you ask. I don't
ence took a sudden fancy for her,
Christians, organized "for justice, amity ship alone that we are so seriously con- the following year to take a seat SAVED DETROITERS
profess to know. But I think it might not be so foolish for Mr.
in the United States Senate.
When In the first winter of and sent a note back-stage. The Hoover to consider that previous to the panic of 1837, for about five
and understanding between the groups that cerned over the problem of Hebrew edu- From 1870 to 1874, Edward S. Lehman's official resident in Al- note was speedily returned, torn
everybody was getting rich or thought they were getting rich
comprise America," has issued an appeal cation. The Jewish people, so often re- Solomon, an appointee of Presi- bany, the City Trust Company neatly in half. Insulted, enraged, years,
on paper profits in land speculation, and that previous to the present
Grant, governed the then
failed in New York City and its he dispatched his men to shanghai one about the same thing occurred. When people try to get some-
for financial support, the organization now ferred to as the People of the Book, de- dent
Washington Territory. And at
resident committed suicide, her to his sheep rancho, miles out.
facing the question of where to get the rives its greatest pride from its intellectual about the same time, 1873-75, a Roosevelt called on his assistant's The sheriff was informed of the thing for nothing, as the speculator does, there is likely to be trouble.
can get something for nothing only on the condition that the
means to carry the work over the winter. aristocracy. We are anxious for the per- half Jew, Franklin J. Moses, was banking experience to save the kidnapping, but he couldn't work People
has to pay for the something.
governor of South Carolina.
depositors of the bank the five up any enthusiasm for it. Then others get nothing. Somebody
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It is pointed out that the central office of petuation of this aristocracy. It is well to the
The fifth of the series, previous
million dollars in deposits which someone explained that it was the
this movement for good-will among Jews, remember that a people, like an individual, to the present incumbents, Moses they stood to lose. After a few girl who had given his daughter REVENGE FOR WINCHELL
Developments seem to be following in the Winchell plot thick
died this year. He
Protestants and Catholics spends $20,000 to survive and to live honorably, must have Alexander,
(Turn to Next Pagel
and fast, recalling the Passover story of the dog that ate the cat
(Turn to Next Page.)
was governor of Idaho during
and the wolf that devoured the dog and as on.
a year for its entire national program.
something more than bread and the mater-
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You recall, as noted in this column previously, that the editor
A quotation from the letter addressed to ial things necessary for life. There is need
of the Mirror recently wrote a volume called "The Scandal Monger,"
the editor by Everett R. Clinchy, director for a little bit of romance, and for young
painting Winchell as the villain and himself as the hero. Well now
of the National Conference of Jews and Jews especially there is need for such inter-
there has come another volume from the press called "Circulation,"
in which the young woman who was formerly the secretary of the
Christians, will no doubt interest our read- pretation of Jewish history that will intro-
author of "Scandal Monger" paints the author of "The Scandal
ers. Mr. Clinchy writes:
duce a joy into Jewish living by Jews. This
Monger" as the villain, and Winchell gets off pretty well. And the
With an exceedingly small investment this
gossip goes that the young woman has done a very good job.
is not a myth. In the ghettoes of Eastern
Conference program is gaining, the voluntary
Now if someone will expose the young woman secretary, the job
BOOST FOR LEHMAN
f
I
reel
was
fact
that
the
house
of
Is
Europe where Jews knew their Jewishness; EINSTEIN IN U. S.
research work of university professors in the
I
am
very
much
interested
in
the
should be complete.
denied this privilege in the days
social sciences; it is engaging the attention
So Einstein is coming to live of his glory.
attitude of most of the New York
in Western European Jewish centers and
of religious educators and clergy; it is af-
America. Thanks for this are
toward the candidacy of
in this country among informed Jews, our in
"Mr. Munger points out that the papers
fecting editors and writers; it is enlisting civic
Licut-Gov. Lehman for governor.
due to the extraordinary group
people relived and re-acted by their very who compose the Board of the love for music and the business de- Regardless of political affiliation
leaden and church officials. Probably at no
time in the 1900 years of Christian and Jewish
being the great romance of Jewish history. Fuld Foundation created by the I termination are earmarks of In- there is a note of great respect for
adjustments has an effort to genuinely sincere
Bamberger, the Newark gull's Jewish heritage. This being his character and his record as a
Our people might never have survived Louis
and so intelligently mature been exerted to
merchant, and Mrs. Felix Fuld. the case, we'll be obliged to agree public official. The New York
without
this
romance.
create just and rewarding relationships. The
By M. A. TENENBLATT
There is to be a sort of super uni- that the German masters, as a mat- World Telegram Is supporting Mr.
National Conference is forming a public opin-
versitylocated near Princeton, to ter of fact, the entire German peo- Lehman and the following excerpt
Whittier, when he wrote
ion against prejudice.
be known as the Institute for Ad-j ple, have Jewish blood in their from an editorial should be pleasing
(Copyright, 1532, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Ise.)
vanced Study. Dr. Abraham Flex- veins. For are they not musical? to us as co-religionists of one whose
No one will deny that at no time was
Tradition wears • snowy beard,
g hl re g ard-
CHA RACTER is so hi
ner is the director and, according
Professor Theodor Innitzer, the respect the ancient Jewish values,
there greater need for the creation of a
"As for the business determina-
Romance is always young
to his statement, this is to be a tion, the Jewish race has never ed:
Archbishop of Vienna, and as which we Jews are trying to per-
"When
Mr.
Lehman
describes
the new
strong "public opinion against prejudice."
where they will produced a Henry Ford, and I am
professor's
Utopia
such
the head of the Catholic petuate. One of the essential
social welfare program start-
There is no doubt that the present "effort" must have been thinking of the Jewish be freed entirely from financial , sure he would bitterly protest great
Church, to which about 94 per cent tanks of the Leo Society it to see
ed
by
former
Governor
Smith
and
people.
That
tradition
which
has
arisen
worries
(Heaven,
indeed!),
and
of
the
population of Austria be- that Catholicism does not slip away
against the accusation that his carried on by Governor Roosevelt
Is the sincerest that has yet been made to
where the students may pursue
- grandfather walked the as a new kind of progressivism in ings, has always been a great from its moorings in the Old Testa-
reach the desired understanding, but un- from our being the oldest surviving people the purest ideals of scholarship great
friend
of the Jews, and the Jews ment, from the rock on which it is
streets of Jerusalem. Possibly his this state he is describing some-
consequently delighted at his built and without which its leaders
fortunately prejudice is so deep-rooted that on earth has never been shadowed by the in their own way. The Jew again protest would be lodged with more thing
he not only knows in detail are
hoary
beard.
On
the
contrary',
it
has
appointment.
Jewish organizations believe the new Testament would
emphasizes
his
deep
interest
in
vigor and force than his condemn- but knows as an expert active pro-
it is impossible to visualize actual accom-
both religious and nationalist, have be left floating in air, without
all things educational!
ation of the Jews a few years ago. moter.
plishments. Instead of seeing bigotry up- gained in influence and importance by the
messages
of congratula- foundation, without historic back-
sent
him
And what of the business determin-
"Likewise when he talks of state
ground, without derivation.
ation of the Morgans, the Hills, the measures for relief of distress in tions, full of heart-felt sincerity.
rooted we are witnesses to an increase in romance which has kept is ever young. THE INSULLS
In every public office he has held,
the present economic depression he I The new Archbishop is an au-
discrimination, to continued elimination of Every page of Jewish history, every age,
In answer to my request for in- Rockefeller!, the Vanderbilts and
Professor Innitser has been a con-
of
many
more
outside
the
pale
thority
on
Biblical
research
and
speaks from first-hand knowledge
regarding the statement
Jews from industry and the professions, to practically every generation, gives evi- formation
sistent
friend of the Jews.
of the problems and from first- ' on the archeological excavations in
that the Insults are Jews, I am in Judaism r
In early days, when he was en-
vicious discrimination against Jewish appli- dence of a mixture of achievement and receipt of the following from S. B.
hand experience in dealing with Palestine, and the Bible is the in-
spiration of his life. He plunged tirely devoted to learning, his con-
martyrdom, of a stoic determination con- Komaiko, editorial contributor to
them.
cants for employment.
"'Human and liberal govern- into life, into politics and adminis- tact with Judaism and Jewish tra-
Jewish Morning Journal of New
WORDS
This increase in discrimination should in tinually to remind the world, in spite of the
ment' is not for him • science to tration, he became a professor and ditions was only abstract, book
York.
It
is
a
copy
of
a
letter
sent
Words are much
be learned. He is already a part of rector of the uinversity, • leader knowledge, but when he began to
turn increase the counteracting efforts in obstacles and persecutions, of the message by Mr. Komaiko to the Chicago
Like glass bulbs by night;
such government. His career, pub- of the Christian Socialist Party, take part In the administrative side
behalf of the good-will movement inaugur- of Jewish ethical and moral law, of our Daily News:
At
the
poet's
touch
lic and private, has been a notable and a member of the government, of the work of the university and
passion
for
social
and
economic
justice.
"Royal
F.
Munger,
in
his
first
ated by the National Conference of Jews
They fill with light.
contribution to the advancement of and he endeavred to introduce the he entered general politics, his con-
in stallment describing the dramatic
humanitarian aims and ends. He teachings of the Bible and of his tact was with living Jews, Jewish
It is in order to be able to carry on this rise
and Christians, co-chairmen of which are
Samuel
teeI, in-
in-
Shade and shape
is far beyond the thinking stage. Christianity derived from the Bible individuals and Jewish organiza-
is
l
reader
e r that :Ir a
orms
Newton D. Baker, Professor Carlton J. H. traditional mission that the young Jews of f .
He has long been on the job, do- into the Catholic political and ad- tions. It soon became known that
In words are hid;
of Jewish blood somewhere
ministrative life of the university this' new professor at the meetings
They
only
escape
ing the work.
Hayes and Roger W. Straus. Bigotry must today must be given that training and strain
in his ancestry, which, perhaps, ex-
of the academic senate not only
"Could New York find • better and of the country.
At the poet's bid.
not be permitted to travel over this land scholarship which is the sacred heritage plains in part both his love for
did not Join the anti-Semitic profes-
man
to
be
its
governor
at
a
time
Ceesisteat Fried of Jews.
and his extraordinary busi•
unchallenged, and the challenge must come of their people. In our own community music
more
when human needs were never
Dr. Innitzer was the secretary- sors in their attempts to prejudice
And things obtain
ness determination. Insull himself
urgent and acute, when there must general of the Papal Leo Society, Jews, but used every opportunity to
State and name:
from a group in which the Christian forces the United Hebrew Schools are the torch-
i e ,
t t h raat
be wise, experienced adjustment which is one of the most important oppose them, to defeat their efforts
Rhythmic as rain,
dominate. The National Conference of bearers in the present important intellec- 17,1) ; s n .t cer his family know; h
of the Catholic learned societies, and to condemn the practice and
between economy and relief!
Fulgent as flame.
antes-
ha
ces-
I far enough. His immety liattreeean
tual
pursuit.
We
have
faith
that
the
re-
"We think the state is fortunate and it is • remarkable fact that it the teachings of anti-Semitism. If
Jews and Christians should receive the
e not m of the Jew-
ton fwetr h embers
to
have
this
able,
liberal,
tested
sults
of
the
educational
efforts
will
be
to
is among the scholars of the Cath- anti-Jewish disorders broke out, or
But none shall see
support it asks, and it should be a very easy
i,i faith.
friend of humanity, specially fitted olic church that one finds most un- Jewish students were in any way
The magic start:
"We are at a loss to understand
natter to raise the comparatively insignifi- give worthy leaders not only to Israel, but why,
by
his
terms
as
lieutenant-governor,
derstanding and friendship for th e treated unjustly, the Jewish stu-
wthmataelienstuoll
i f tal:,ei n, an I The battery
now
to take over the duties of the go.. Jews. It may be that their Bibli- dents knew that they could always
Is the poet's heart.
cant sum that is needed to carry on its also to the peoples among whom Israel
I.
cred it
cal studies have taught them to
ernorship."
—Philip M. Raskin.
(Ton to Next rage.)
dwells.
the Jewish race, In view ofm tre
Illinois Whose Chances Are Highly Rated
by Competent Observers.
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