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A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
HOUSTON, TEXAS, JANUARY 17, 1924
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Jewish Women of
Four States Discuss
Religious Problems
Root for Absolute
Immigrant Restriction
Kanterowitz spoke in behalf of the
Independent Order B’nai B’rith.
Jacob Fishman emphasized the in
justice that will be done to immi-
grants from certain countries, and
especially the Jews, if Mr. Johnson’s
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Washington, Jan. 8 (J. T. A.) —
.Jews and immigrants were brought
provide enlarged facilities
tubercular.
enport, Iowa, was the hostess organi-
nation.
Mrs. H. H. Mayer of Kansas City,
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Jews Severely Attacked
at House Immigration
Committee Meeting
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about. They were born Jews—that
was an accident. They may have re-
ceived a Jewish education. Yet they
insist that they have divested them-
selves of their Jewish consciousness,
and that neither Jewish religion, nor
Jewish nationality, nor Jewsh cul-
ture is any longer part of their spirit-
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Jews Protest Immi-
gration Restrictions
Zangwill Accuse Ku Klux
of Assass nation Threat
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Says Anti-Semitism
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American Colleges
“Our Sabbath Schools, like our-
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which convened recently at Temple
Emanu-El, Davenport, Iowa.
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New York, Jan. 7 (J. T. A.) —
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The author of this article is the
Russian correspondent of the Nation.
He is considered oneofthe best au-
thorities on present day Russian af-
fairs. He has spent considerable time
in Russia under the Soviet Regime
and how, after a short stay in this
country, is returning to Russia.
man, Honorary Chairman of the Cin-
cinnati Keren Hayesod was the toast pressed upon the delegate by the
master, and among those that wre president Mrs. H. H. Mayer of Kan-
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tion of Foreign Language Newspa-
pers, said the bill was against true
democracy and the spirit of the
founders of the United States. He
said that the members of the Com-
mittee should come to New York and
see for themselves the achievements
of immigrants who built the biggest
city in the world. Gedalia Biblic was
to shake Stoddard’s
lessen its effect, on
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Henry H. Curran,
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Dr. Weizmann Confers
With Reform Leaders
on Jewish Agency
that the Nordic race is superior, say-
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Are the Bolsheviks
Anti-Semites?
By Louis Fischer
TH ETEXAS JEWISH HERALD]
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THE ONLY JEWISH NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTHWEST 1
this may be overcome. It
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Mr. Fischer’s unbiased observat - _ .
tions on the Status of the Jews Un- ual baggage, They are thus thorough-
Jews desire to migrate to America
more than any other nationality in
Europe. They fill the quotas of the
European countries before the native
population of the respective countries
have a chance to apply for visas. Mr.
Stoddard charged that these immi-
grants are assisted in coming here
by certain Jewish immigrant organi-
zations in the United States who sup-
ply funds and advise.
He accused many ■ Jewish- immi-
grants of the practice of unlawfully
securing passports an dvisas by going
‘ to other countries when refused in
their own countries, and obtaining
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to task at the hearing today before
the House Immigration Committee
by Lathrop Stoddard, author of a
number of articles and books against a
immigration, who recently returned
from Europe. He declared that the. I
ethics to our daily lives. In religious
work nothing is more potent than
the religious education of the child.
We are not giving our children their
just inheritance. If a child has had
proper religious training in the home
the danger of shipwreck is negligible.
Too often our children are surround-
ed by every luxury but we minimize
the most essential thing, the cultiva-
tion of his soul. Let our women be
true mothers in Israel and inspire
spirituality in the home. The National
Federation, an organization of almost
50,000 women, stands primarily for
religion. The work of the state fed-
eration is a fight against the apathy
and indifference of the Jew to his
religion and his inheritance.”
A symposium on how the influence
• of Temple Sisterhoods may best be
exerted was the feature at one of
the sessions. The tendency of the
time, it was brought out, is felt in
the problems of its young people as
in the young peopleof every faith -
and there was a heated discussion on
whether the Sabbath School or the
home is to blame for the lack of
spirituality of the child and how best
testimony or
cross-examina-
helped a veritable army of sufferers
to cure and relief.
Although its facilities number
fully a quarter of all the beds in the
Jewish sanatoria in the country, the
Society is keenly aware of the many
thousands of consumptives to whom
aid is not given because of lack of
room.
With this intolerable fact before
it, and knowing that the Jewish peo-
ple are proverbially resolved to help
the unfortunates of their own race
they have instituted the present
$1,000,000 Tuberculosis Campaign to
tended by representatives of
After conferring with some of the
principal leaders of Reform Judaism
of America in Cincinnati on the sub-
ject of the Jewish Agency, Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, President of the Zionist
Organization, proceeded to Chicago
where he was the guest of honor at a
Convention o fthe Zionists of the
Middle West. In both quarters, the
non-Zionist reform circles in Cincin-
nati as well as the Zionist delegates
at the Chicago Convention, the lead-
er of the movement is reported to
have made a profound impression. A
special resolution expressing the con-
fidence of the Convention in the lead-
ership of Dr. Weizmann was unani-
• mously adopted in Chicago.
In Cincinnati, Dr. Weizmann ad-
dressed a group of 40 reform repre-
sentatives at the Hotel Sinton on
Sunday, December 3zth. Oscar Ber-
“American Israelite,” Marcus Fech-
heimer. Judge Robert Marks, Sidney
Fei berg, Alfred Bettan, Rabbi George
Zepin, Rabbi Jacob Kaplan, Philip
Cohen and others. Questions were ad-
dressed to Dr. Weizmann by mem-
bers of the audience and the Zion-
ist leader was very warmly applaud-
ed at the conclusion. He reported
also on the progress that he had
made ip interesting the leaders of
American Jewry of the Eastern sec-
tion of the country in the Jewish
Agency.
The Convention in Chicago was at-
The fostering of a deeper religious
spirit among the Jewish women of
Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kan-
sas and the establishment of closer
relations with women of the faith in
small communities and isolated dis-
tricts were the keynotes of addresses
delivered at the annual conference
of the 20th district of the National
- Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
Washington, January 7 (J. T. A.)
Elihu Root, president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association in a letter to the
House Immigration Committee which
was read at this morning’s hearing,
strongly advocated the absolute re-
stricting of immigration. He declar-
ed that 50% of the lawyers in New
York are of alien extraction, 15%
of these are foreign born. And all re-
tained their native European ideals.
A letter from Madison Grand, the
notorious author of the book ex-
pounding the theory of the superi-
ority of the Nordic race, was also
read, in which he stated that if the
United States continues to admit rel-
atitves in 300 years Americans would
be completely Europeanized and the
population would be of an inferior
type. Representatives Sabath and
Dickstein’ opposed strongly the print-
ing of this letter in the record, de-
manding that Grant come in person
and submit himself to a cross-exami-
nation. The Committee eover-ruled
the objections of Sabath and Dick-
stein and ruled to print the letter in
the record.
C. M. Ponanzio, the Italian sociol-
ogist of the University of Oregon
urged the passing of a bill restricting
industrial immigration along the lines
of the Emery proposal to temporarily
admit laborers to meet the industrial
needs, but favored a general restric-
to of immigration.
ceive its twentieth birthday present He quoted excerpts of the annual re-
—a completed $1,000,000 fund! (Continued on page 8)
other member of the Immigration
Committee was race prejudiced. Dr.
Wise replied he had on doubt but
that bill tended to discriminate
against certain races. William Edlin,
immigration' proposal is accepted.
Dr. Wise ridiculed the contention
had anti-Semitic tendencies which
aimed at Jewish immigrants ffom Po-
land, Russia, Galicia and Ron mania.
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address urged Jewish women to par-
hu- • ticipate in a program of constructive
Dm,' ' religious work. “In the biennial last
hhc- winter in New York,” she said, “the
E ' dominant note was the slogan, ‘Back
Ss5 , - to the Synagogue.’ The duty of every
. / Jewish woman has been defined, her
'' obligation as a Jewess, to the com-
• munity, to her family and to henelf
has been impressed upon her without
Bu reservation.
“Bible classes and private devo-
l tions are not to be underrated but
Asiatic race, and that the . Anglo-
Saxon laws are based on the Jewish
Bible. At this, Chairman Johnson
declared that neither he nor any
ter is too unimportant to bother
issue visas under such circumstances
although they know that the state-
ments in the application for an Orsa
are false merely in order to get rid
of these people.
Most of the immigration today, ac-
cording to Stoddard, is undesirable.
They are not laborers, he continued,
but belong to the clas of push cart
peddlers and organ grinders which
Mr. Stoddard identifies with New
York’s East Side. In fact, Mr. Stod-
dard goes so far as to say that most
of the Jewish population of foreign
countries who now immigrate to the
United States are the “peddler type”.
His observations lead Stoddard to
think that everybody in Europe
wants to come to the United States
not because of any real love of
America or its ideals but for the fur-
thering of their own selfish ends to
improve their personal financial con-
dition. . i
The members of the Committee in
favor of restriction on immigration
were well satisfied with Mr. Stod-
dard's testimony which, it is thought,
will prove very detrimental.
Representative Sabath was unable
accuses the House of Representatives
Committee of deliberately violating
treaties of the United States with al-
most every country in the world
which expresesly recognizes our obli-
gation to receive their subjects not
coming within the class of physically,
mentally or morally diseased, or pau-
pers or those likely to become pau-
pers, or contract laborers, and to
grant them all the non-political rights
of our own citizens in general.
“On the faith of such treaties,"
continues the writers, “millions of
males have come over here, entitled
to remain and to have their wives and
minor children join them here, for
the courts have emphatically • held
that it is an incident of such treaty
right.”
New Haven, Jan, 6 (J. T. A.) —
The Committee on Selective Immi-
gration of the Eugencis Committee
of the United States has made pub-
lic a report today recommending an
immigration law based on the census
of 1890, a more effective system of
inspection at American ports and a
preliminary selection overseas.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale
At the coming national convention
of the Jewish Consumptives Relief
Society of Denyer, Col., the success-
ful completion of the present $1,000,-
000 campaign is expected to be cele-
brated.
The fact that this national conven-
tion will mark the twentieth birthday
of the Society is an added incentive
to the members and friends of the in-
stitution to make this great, human-
itarian undertaking a success. Al-
ready over 2000 cities throughout the
country have come forward with gen-
erous contributions to this campaign.
Known throughout the world as
one of the most complete tuberculosis
sanatoria, and as the largest institu-
tion of its kind, the J. C. R. S. dur-
ing its twenty years of existence has
der the Bolsheviks, are undoubtedly
of great interest and importance.
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Are the Bolsheviks anti-Semites?
We could answer "yes” and prove
the answer; we could answer "no"
and prove the answer. We will not
begin by groping for a definition of
anti-Semitism. All will agree that
when the Poles massacred Jews, pull-
ed their beards, and threw them from
running railroad trains, they were
doing things that were distinctly anti
Semitic. Likewise when Mr. Henry
Ford willed a paper with scurrilous
attacks on Jews simply out of a per
verted desire to increase the amount
of hate in a world already too full
of the virus, he stamped himself an
anti-Semite.
Do the Belsheviks do these things?
No. There is no pogroming and no
beard pulling; no anti-Jewish eco
nomic boycotts as at times in Poland,
and no numerous clausus as in many
of the universities of Europe. Anti-
Jewish literature and anti-Semitic
agitation is frowned upon by official
Olympian Kremlin as angrily as is
counter-revolutionary or monarchist
propaganda. The conventional Jew-
comedian is under the ban of the
Soviet law, and even the well-known
and able poet, Yessenin, once the
husband of Isadora Duncan,,-eot
Chicago, January 4 (J. T. A.)__
Israel Zangwill, English writer, said
last night he had been threatened
with death by the Ku Klux Klan, and
challenges the Klan to debate with
him on the organization’s right to
existence.
Mr. Zangwill said the question to
be debated, if his challenge is ac-
cepted, will be “Is the Ku Klux Klan
.Fundamentally Right or Wrong and
Should it be Peerpetuated or Wiped
Out?” He will take the negative side
of the first part of the proposition
and the posititve side of the last part,
he said. He offered to debate with
Charles G. Palmer, grand dragon of
Illinois, Captain J. K. Skipwith of
Louisiana, or H. W. Evans, head of
the organization.
The death threat he said he receiv-
ed read: “Keep your tongue in your
mouth or we will assassinate you.”
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JUDGE LEHMAN SITS
IN COURT OF APPEALS
New York, Jan. 7 (J. T. A.) —
Judge Irving Lehman, former Justice
of the Supreme Court, will sit today
for the first time as Judge of the
Court of Appeals. Judge Lehman was
nominated for the Court of Appeals
by both the Republican and Demo-
Washington, January 4 (J. T. A.)
—Louis Marshall, Dr. Stephen S,
Wise, Gedalia Bublic, William Edlin
and Jacob Fishman appeared before
the House Immigration Committee
yesterday and severely protested
against the new Johnson immigra-
tion bill which is now being consid-
ered.
Louis Marshall declared that im-
migration restriction is the idealogy
of the Ku Klux Klan because the
Klan wants only white, Protestant
and Anglo-Saxon immigrants to come
to this country, and the proposition
to base the immigration quotas on
the 1890 census coincides with the
Klan principles. The new law would
reduce by nine-tenths the immigra-
tion from Southern and Eastern
Europe, Mr. Marshall said. He also
protested against the proposition to
fingerprint immigrants and proposed
that immigration certificates should
be used instead. He reminded the
committee of the great achievements
of immigrants, and pointed especially
to Marconi and Steinmetz. When
asked what he thought of selective
immigration/ Mr. Marshall replied
that the present law is already selec-
titve because it admits only persons
physicially, morally and mentally fit.
He opposed the examination of im-
migrants abroad, he said, because it
would create a number, of American
czars and it would be dangerous to
hand the decision about, the admis-
sien of immigrants to efficial
abroad.
the Christian. In their eyes the poor
and the workingman are entitled to
advantages and rights which the rich
and bourgeois do not deserve, but
Moslem, Jew, Pole, Russian, Yellow
Lap and White Caucasian are equal
before the law. This may be wrong or
just. Only one thing is certain. The
Jew gains by the arrangement.
The Bolshvks certainly are not
professed anti-Semites. They do not
countenance anti-Semitism, and as a
government they do all within their
power not only to prevent active out-
breaks of the anti-Semitic spirit, but
also to prevent its development and
growth. They teach the workingmen
that not* the Jew but the capitalist,
be he Jewish, Christian, Moslem or
Pagan, is the person whom labor
must fight. Rakovsky, the present
not insult a Jew without landing
himself in jail.
First, however, let us see what is
the attitude of those of the Russian
leaders who are Jews: Trotsky, Ka-
menev, Zinoviev, etc. None of these
will deny that he is a Jew, but every
oneof them will deny that he is Jew-
ish.
It has been said that Trotsky, Ka-
menev and the others have tried to
conceal their Jewish origin, the proof
of it being that Trotsky dropped his
revealingly Jewish name of Bron-
stein for that he now carries, and
Kamenev preferred Kamenev to Ros-
enfeld. It should be understood,
however that adoption of fictitious
party names is a regular communist
practise born of necessity in the days
when they were pursued and perse-
cuted by the Czarist regime. The
practise was followed by non-Jews
as it was by Jews: Lenin was born
Ulianov and only assumed the name
of Lenin; Stalin likewise acquired his
present surname after he had reach-
ed maturity. Instances among Chris-
tian Communists can be multiplied
with ease. But all of them keep their
first names and their patronymics.
Thus Trotsky is Lev Davidovitch,
which immediately singles him out as
being ‘of Jewish parentage. In other
words, the Bolsheviki who are Jews
take no pains to disguise their Jewish
origin. If they were asked they
would probably answer that the mat-
Cleveland, Dec. 28. (Jewish Tele-
cities of the Middle West as well as
1000 visitors. The chairman was Max
Shulman. One ofthe outstanding ad-
dresses of this Convention was deliv-
ered by Louis Lipsky, chairman of
the Zionist Organization of America.
He dealt with the economic, political
and organization problems facing the
movement.
Mr. Lipsky was followed by Dr.
‘Weizmann, who received a rousing
ovation and spoke of the progress
which Jewish effort had made in Pal-
estine in the Past few years. Among
the resolutions adopted by the Con-
ference was one expressing confi-
-dence in Dr. Weizmann and another
pledging the delegates to an inten-
&ive activity for the Keren Hayesod.
While in Chicago, Dr. Weizmann
•consulted also with the leaders of
reform circles including Adolph
Kraus, the head of the B’nai B’rith.
present were Dr. Julian Morgenstern, sas City, that the child needs the
President of the American Union spiritual back-ground of the home to
College, Dr. Leo Wise. Editor of he resist temptations of later life.
going assimilationists. In a way this
philosophy redounds to the benefit
of Russian Jewry. The Bolshevik
chiefs who are Jews are similarly
those who are not Jews recognize no
distinction of race, creed, color. From
this it followed that the Pale of
Settlement of Czarist Russia had to
be abolished and that Russian Jews
could not be subjected to any special
disabilities or restrictions, no more
than the Poles ' or Armenians or
Chinese in Russia could be exposed
to any discriminatory legislation. The
Bolsheviks divide the rich from the
poor, the workingman from . the
Bourgeois, but not the Ukrainian
was im-
of immigration at Ellis Island, was
also called today. The Commissioner
proposed that the present law be al-
tered, abolishing the right of appeal
to the Department of Labor in
Washington and vesting all right of
decision on appeals in the Commis-
sioner at port of arrivals. He also
suggested that there be no right of
appeal whatever where exclusion is
made mandatory by law as cases
where aliens are afflicted with con-
tagious diseases.
.Congressman Baker asked Com-
missioner Curran if there was a Jew-
ish organization who a tomatically
appealed for every rejected Jewish
immigrant. Curran emphatically de-
med that he knew.ot any such organ-
ization or practice.
Other witnesses called today were
Byron H. Uhl, assistant commissioner
at Ellis Island, who testified regard-
ing alien camen and John H. Clark,
Commissioner of immigartion at
Montreal, Canada, who described the
universities, declared Harold Riegel-
man of New York, national executive
of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, in ;
his annual report at the opening ses- 1
sion of the twenty-fifth annua con-
vention of the fraternity here,
Reviewing the history of the fra- g
ternity which was the first Jewish j
college society founded in America, -0
Mr. Riegelman pointed to the larse, a
number of Jewish students taking part 3
in college activities as proof of th 08
fact that anti-Semitism is "non-exist- 28
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that it could never thrive there. -
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Soviet ambassador in London, once
said to me in Moscow that “anti-
Semitism is the socialism of fools.”
This more or less presents the offic-
ial Bolshevik view. The Bolsheviks
place the social and economic evils
of the world at the door of capital-
ism; fools blame everything on the
Jew.
If the Bolsheviks were judged only
on the basis of what the Jews have
won in the field of education, the
sentence would undoubtedly be in
their favor. Tens of thousands of
Jewish children in Russia are today
attending public government schools
where Yiddish is the language of in-
struction. The government has es-
tablished special Jewish pedagogical
seminaries where teachers are being
trained to teach in Jewish schools in
Yiddish. And there are even univer-
siies with departments in which
Yiddish is the medium of teaching.
In the pre-revolutionary days of
the Czar Jewish attendance at uni-
versities was limited to four per cent
of the total number matriculated. At
present there is no limit placed by
the law or by tradition or by preju-
dice; in some universities as high as
50 per cent of the students are Jews,
and in the white .Russian university
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