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A WIEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
THE OLDEST JEWISH N EWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTHWEST
HOUSTON, TEXAS, DECEMBER 29, 1927.
Twentieth Year
No. 38
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HENRY KAUFMANN OF PITTSBURGH
GIVES $200,000 TO NEW YORK Y.M.H.A.
Congress Asks
Straus Monument
Edward Ellsberg
Sent to Scene of
Washington, D, C. Dec. 17. (J.D.B)
A resolution for erection of a monu-
Dr. C. C. Hunter of
American Commission
Denounces Roumania
theory as applied to the American
immigration problem was attacked by
Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman of Tem-
ple Beth Israel and upheld by Dr.
Dr. Jacob Solis-Cohen
Noted Physician and
Jewish Leader Dies
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Will it take Ford, Kishineff, Aus-
tria or Roumania or the Ku Klux
aliens.
awaken
Sacramental Wine
Distribution Changes
On January 1,1928
There is not a business man any
where who would consider such a
venture a profitable investment spi-
ritually or physically.
would certainly have a stimulating
effect.
In some cities, having handsome
and expensive edifices and high pric-
ed rabbis, the attendance is usually
poor.
And for that matter it is not my
intention to offend the non-attend-
ants.
If we just put them there for our
own use why are they not used by
more of us?
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NORDICISM AS AMERICAN POLICY IS
DEBATED BY AUTHOR AND RABBI
The respect accorded to the Sab-
bath eve varies in most cities.
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ance is very satisfactory.
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While the Jew recognizes Satur-
day as the seventh and Sabbath day,
the ordained day of rest, a lesser
number of Jews observe it than do
the Seventh Day Adventists.
of the labor
fac’urei wa-
immirrin
fcth Israel Hospital, Ne-
son immigration act of 1021 closed
the gates to the hordes seeking ad-
mission; and America was saved from
an inundation which would have shat-
tered,its economic and cultural, unity
- In other communities, where the
number is not so great and the syna-
gog less imposing, and the rabbi not
so well compensated the attendance
at the Sabbath eve services is rela-
tively greater.
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g or will we do it
our duty and obliga-
“Roumania. has now nearly three
times her pr-war territory and pop-
ulation,” he said, "and her mistreat-
ment of her minorities has in many
Owing to the custom of the coun-
try in which we live, it would put the
Jew at too great a disadvantage to
observe Saturday as the Sabbath, ac-
cording to the letter of the law, as it
is written.
Civil War.
were referr
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statue, and thus the American peo-
ple would bear perpetual witness to
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And now, consider the rabbis-
the spiritual leaders. Place yourself
in their position.
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inequality of support resulting from
lack of authoritative information.
William J. Shroder was named chair-
man.
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I. E. Block Appointed-
Regional Director
Of Texas Zionist
Steps to organize a committee rep-
resentative of the Jewish community,
to pass on the merits, amounts and
time of conducting all drives, were
taken at a recent meeting held in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. The action was de-
termined upon in order by concerted
action to eliminate the continuous
drives conducted by local, national
and foreign organizations, and of the
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The synagogue and ministry, gen-
erally speaking, meet the require-
ments of their congregations!
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But how about the congregations
. or the congregants?
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Have they no obligation?
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Have they no responsibility except
the payment of dues?
To those who do attend these lines
can not possibly give offense.
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Would you care to study from six
to twelve years to become a rabbi,
and week after week preach to empty
benches?
American minister to Persia?
10. Hqw many times was Jerusa-
lem destroyed?
11. What city has the largest Jew-
ish population in the world?
12. What American Jew has been
the chief figure in saving Russian
Jewry from destitution?
13. Name three of the six Jews
wwho have served in the U.S. Senate.
14. What Ameriean bureau has for
its purpose the study of Jewish social
conditions?
15. Approximately what percent-
age of the total population of the
United States do the Jews constitute?
16. What European country is next
to Russia in the size of its Jewish
population?
17. Who was called “the Jewish
Socrates?”
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So, while the rabbinate finds it-
self embarrassed to a greater or
lesser degree by this non-observance
by the members of their congrega-
tions, Friday night, the Sabbath eve
attendance is harped on and encour-
aged to a much greater degree.
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The officer or director who will
not attend services the greater num-
ber of Fridays throughout the year
is no example for the flock.
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The Value of moral and religious
support can not be mentioned in dol-
lars and cents.
the Home of Consumptives, Chest-
nut Hill, from its founding.
Dr. Solis-Cohen was a trustee of
Gratz College, one of the founders
of the Jewish Theological Seminary,
trustee of the Jewish Publication So-
ciety and former president of the He-
brew Sunday School Association. He
was a delegate to the third Zionist
Congress in Basle in 1899.
He contributed essays and original
verses to various Jewish and general
periodicals and translated many po-
ems of Gabirol, Helevi, Ben Ezra and
others from the Hebrew.
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Nathan Barnert, well known phi-
lanthropist and former mayor of Pat-
erson. N. J., died at the age of 89.
He had resided in Paterson for fifty
years, having held various, offices in
public life and serving two terms as
mayor.
With the war, Americans
\ ladimir Tiomkin, well known
leader of Russian Zionists who is now
residing in Paris, is gravely ill, as a
result of a heartattack. Little hope
is held out for his recovery.
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How would you feel and what
would you do?
Congregational officers and direc-
tors will probably say the subject
should be avoided and not discussed
in the press.
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Do we build them for our own use
or do we place them there just to
show the gentile?
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Washington, D. C., (J.T.A.)—The
House Immigration Committee has
favorably reported to the House of
Representatives a bill liberalizing the
naturalization law in two respects.
The bill would remove the present
requirement that if an dlien has
lived in different places in the same
State .he must produce two witness-
es regarding residence in each place
and subsitutes the present require-’
mnt of residence of one year within
the State by residence of six months
within the counrty • here the peti-
tioner resides at the time of filing
the application.
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The Zionist organization of Amer-
ica announces the appointment of
I. E. Bloch, formerly Executive Di-
rector of the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association of Holyoke, Mass., as
Regional Director for the State of
Texas. Mr. Bloch was a member of
the Jewish Legion which fought in
Palestine under Lord Allenby, and
was one of the first legionnaires to
be given an appointment on the Oc-
cupied Enemy Territory Administra-
tion whih had charge of affairs in
Palestine until the formation of the
civil government under Sir Herbert
Samuel. He was an officer of the
Treasury Department of the Pales-
tine Government until the end of
1923, when he came to Easton, Penn.,
to direct a campaign for a Jewish
Community Center in that city. Mr.
Bloch will have his headquarters in
Houston, where he is occupying tem-
porary space in the office of L. A.
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! icor .
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' My question is.this—Does an aver-
age synagogue attendance of 200,
250, or 300 justify an outlay of
$250,000.00 for a house of worship?
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Does it require such expensive edi-
Tices to accomodate‘the usual aver-
age small numbers who attend serv-
ices?
ple toward immirratinn 1r1
Would $5,000.00 to $10,000.00
compensate you? Certainly not—•
you had rather preach to trees or
tombstones than empty benches,
wouldn’t you?
brawn. Is nt thrift :
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And anyone who attempts a fair
discussion of this subject is apt to
make himself unpopular also
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For the sake of brevity I’ll use the
word synagogue, meaning thereby,
the Jewish house of worship, of any
and all shades of belief or profession.
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the bituminous real minins.
Cent in the worst'd and w, I
and destroyed its political life. We in
were saved from becoming' what ‘Ted- l not family unity. s
dy’ Roosevelt called a ‛pplyglot‛ I
17 years old. stu-
.! er . (‛hilds High
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an ovation when
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of Dr.
Hartford, (J.T.A.)—The Nordic being a Nordic, he can go to bed of
and jovial w al mt h W .
greatest bridge bider
Ralph Moje-ki, a N on.
Or the chief iti, o!
Lothrop Stoddard, of Boston, in a de- ..
bate held here Monday night.
The debate, on “Has the Immigra-
Berkeley, Calif., De. 17. (J.D.B.)
Roumania’s treatment of the religi-
ous minorities; especially the Jews in
that country, has been in many cases,
atrocious and shocking, Dr. Graham
C. Hunter of Fullerton, Calif., de-
clared in an address at St. John’s
Presbyterian Church. Dr. Hunter re-
cently returned from the commission
of five, sent by the American Com-
mittee of the Rights of Religious
Minorities, to find out the truth of
reports of serious oppression of the
religious minorities.
A gift of $200,000 to the 92nd
Street Young Men’s Hebrew Asso-
ciation by Henry Kaufmann, of Pitts-
burg, was announced by Judge Jo-
seph Proskauer, president of the as-
sociation, at a special meeting of its
board of directors held yesterday af-
ternoon. This gift, which carries the
Y. M . H-A. Building Fund campaign
$75,000 beyond its $1,500,000 ob-
jective, it is stipulated by the donor
is to be utilized for the construction
of an audtiorium in the new building
of the association, to be erected on
92nd Street, on a plot adjoining the
present building.
The auditorium, which will be
named the “Theresa L. Kaufmann
Auditorium,” and on which the di-
rectors of the Y. M. H. A. are au-
thorized by Mr. Kaufmann to spend
up to $200,000 will be a memorial
to the donor’s wife. It will have a
seating capacity of 1200, and Mr.
Kaufmann’s contribution will make
possible the construction, also, of an
adequate stage and scene-lofts for
dramatic performances, dressing
rooms, a loggia and other pertinent
rooms and their adequate furnish-
ing.
The y. M. H. A. Building Fund
Campaign, which has been complet-
ed through Mr. Kaufmann’s gift, was
conducted last spring by a commit-
tee headed by Judge Proskauer, for
$1,500,000 for the erection of an 11
story fire-proof annex to the present
building which was donated to the
association by the late Jacob H.
Schiff 27 years ago. The plans for
the new building provide, in addi-
tion to the “Theresa Kaufmann Au-
ditorium” for a hotel of 200 rooms,
a swimming pool, a gymnasium, 25
class-rooms and three sound-proof
music rooms, a library and reading
room, and a number of club rooms
for the cultural work of the asso-
ciation.
Among the larger contributors to
the campaign were Felix M. War-
burg, who gave $100,000; Mortimer
L. Schiff, $75,000; Frederick Brown
and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., $50,-
000 each; Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J.
Hanauer, Arthur Lehman and Mrs.
Jacob H. Schiff. $30,000 each; the
Altman Foundation $25,000 ; Col.
Herbert II. Lehman, $20,000; Lyman
G. Bloomingdale, Motty Eitingon,
Judge Irving Lehman, Louis S. Levy,
Aaron E. Norman, David A. Schulte,
r to ' he
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And if the membership feels that
E the payment of dues concludes their
W obligation, why the investment in an
elaborate synagog and high priced
205 ' rabbi?
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What do they avail without use,
support and co-operation?
The example in synagogue attend-
S ance should be demonstrated by the
22 officers and. directors.
- . If they are the leading lights in
Mfr, ■. the community and they would not
M2 be selected for the high offices they
850 hold wor. they not, their example
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Edward Ellsberg, former Lieuten-
ant Commander in the navy and the
man regarded as chiefly responsible
for the raising of the S-51, left Sun-
day for the scene of the sunken sub-
marine S-4 at the hurried request of
Admiral Hughes, chief of navakep-
erations. After being inducted into
the special service in the .First Naval
District Mr. Ellsberg was rushed
from the Whitehall Building to the
Grand Central Terminal in a navy
hospital ambulance in order that he
might catch the 3 p. m. train.
Ellsberg intimated the raising of
the submarine might be a matter of
a couple of weeks:
From the Boston Navy Yard Ells-
berg went to Wood End aboard the
Coast Guard patrol boat Burroughs.
He took with him from Boston five
divers from the U. S. S. Lexington,
all of whom worked on the raising of
the S-51.
Ellsberg is regarded as the man
who knows more about submarine
salvaging than any other man within
or without the service.
Ellsberg retired from the navy on
Dec. 4, 1926, and since has been con-
nected with the Tidewater Oil Com-
pany as chief engineer. His resigna-
tion came soon after the Navy De-
partmerit had declined to advance
him in rank. The recommendation
was made by Admiral Plunkett, but
the Department held it was not its
policy to recommend promotion , of
officers as a reward for service.
In spite of this .twenty of the en-
listed men engaged in salvaging the
S-51 were promoted, and Capt. E. J.
King, the nominal chief of the sal-
vagipg operations, received the ap-
pointement as commander of the U.
S. S. Wright, airplane tender.
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Resolution in
and chest of Philadelphia Polyclinic .
Hospital. He was senior physician at i his greatness.
Ito the threat, the
Washington, Dec. 21 (J.T.A.)—A
new system for regulating and check-
ing the distribution of sacramental
wine will be inaugurated in New
York on January 1st, 1928. If suc-
cessful there it will probably be ex-
tended throughout the country, ac-
cording to an announcement of Pro-
hibition Commissioner Doran fol-
lowing a conference yesterday be-
tween Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Lowman and a committee represent-
ing the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of
America consisting of Rabbi M. Mar-
golis, L. Selzer and C. H. Block.
The new system of check books
will be similar to-that employed bv
physicians, Rabbis who are connect-
ed with congregations shall be author-
ized to issue certificates to members
for one gallon per person and not
more than five gallons for a family
per year. The certificate is to be
bonded by the. winery where wine
must be kept. Rabbis also must fill out
stubs returnable to the Government
which will then be checked against
the quantity of wine withdrawn from
the winery. Prohibition officials
feel that the new system will prevent
wine from getting into illicit chan-
nels.
Bill to Facilitate
Naturalization
monynthe ('hamber of Com-
Fuiding The sihject of the
• ulmitted wa- “Cooperation:
gold, principal of 1)
School, who declrri
dated the conelu no
dard.
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ment to the memory of Oscar S.
Straus in the. Capitol grounds , at . „
Washington was introduced into the i instances been atrocious and shock-
House yesterday by Congressman ing. A violent movement, originated
Emanuel Celler. f' • Ci
Rabbi David B. Alpert of Temple
Beth-Fl, Gilens Falls, N. Y., conducts
a class in Bible regularly each Sun-
day evening at the Christ-Methodist
Church of which Dr. Charles Otis
Judkins is the minister'.
Every Monday Evening.
WHK—Cleveland, Ohio. (265.3 M.)
7:15 to 7:45 p. m. Eastern Time.
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner,Ques-
tions and Answers.
Philadelphia, (J.T.A.)—Dr. Jacob
Solis-Cohen, internationally known
throat specialist, died at his home
here December 22, after a prolonged
illness.
Dr. Solis-Cohen was honorary pro-
fessor of laryngology at the Jeffer-
son Medical College and emeritus
professor of diseases of the throat
and lungs at the Philadelphia Poly-
clinic Hospital and Colege for Grad-
uates in Medicine. He was the author
of many text books on diseases of the
throat. His removal of a laryngeal
cancer in 1867 was said to have
been the first succesful operation of
its kind.
Dr. Solis-Cohen held the Congres-
sional Medal of Honor, the highest
decoration within the power of the
American people to give, awarded a
half century after his service in the
Civil War, in recognition of that
service.
He was born in this city September
1, 1847, the son of Myer David and
Judith Simiah Solis-Cohen. He was
educated at the Central School, and
received his Bachelor’s degree in
1872 and his Master’s in 1877. He
graduated from Jefferson Medical
College in 1883. He volunteered for
service in the Civil war and served
as surgeon wit h the 26th regi-
ment.__He wan., three deen'ratums for,
valor during the war.
In 1883 he was named honorary
professor of .laryngology to the col-
lege, and in the same year became
professor of diseases of the throat
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perpetuate the . wi 1
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2. When did tl e .lev,
deeply imbued w ith tl
spirit!
came to a head last spring. An or-
ganization of students calling itself
the National Christian Students’ De-
fense League, undertook to organize
the universities against Jewish stu-
dents and professors and to drive the
Jews out of the professions, business,
commissions and army. It included
several university professors in its
membership and until last June had
the acquiescense if not’the backing
of the government. Its followers even
undertook to throw Jewish passen-
gers off the train.
“The other minorities suffered
greatly, although not so greatly as
the Jews. The fine old schools, Ro-
man Catholic, Unitarian and Protest-
ant, some of them 300 years old, are
being slowly strangled to death.
“In Hungary we found that there
were many abominable persecutions
of the Jews and on the other hand
a vigorous enlightened group, includ-
ing Count Cethlen, one of the ablest
spokesmen of Europe. The standard
of living there, as also among the
minorities of Romania, is desperately
low. Workmen are in despair as they
see no prospect of anything better
for their children.”
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Aid for the unemployel miners and
their families was given by Bernard
Baron, well known philanthropist of
London. The sum of $25,000 was
forwarded by Mr. Baron to aid the
miners:
portant cities of Palestine?
19. What state has the second larg- .
est Jewish population in the country? "
20. What proportion of Ameriean 2
Jewish children receive religious <;
training? , 3
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Judge Otto A. Rosalsky. who head-
ed last year's Greater New York
campaign of the United Palestine
Appeal, has accepted the chairman-,
ship of the 1928 campaign, Louis
I ipsly, presilent of the Zionist Or-
ganization f.Amorica, announced.
lied for the
nrh if to be
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the Unitid
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Temple and synagogue attendance
is, generally speaking, an unpopular
topic. <
per cent • in the i
per , crt :r firi
inate?
4. In w hat
Jews have to p;
marry ?
5. Why is a
Freed, campaign director of the U.
- r g c . , 1P. A., 817 Post-Dispatch Building. „ . ■
8s mHeHgsoeseshea-lidahey
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Max D. Steuer, S. W. Straus, Solon
Summerfield, Charles A. Wimpf-
heimer, $15,000 each; Juli,us Gold-
man, Murray Guggenheim, Nathan
Holfheimer Foundation, Adolph S.
Ochs, Samuel Sachs, Jacob and El-
liott Sperber, $10,000 each; Samuel
Untermeyer, Ludwig Vogelstein,
$9,000 each.
in a contemporary
In a statement issued today, Con-
gressman Celler declared:
“The Roman Cato once said T had
rather it should be asked why I had
not a statue, than why I had one.’
There are none who question in the
slightest a monument to Oscar S.
Struas. On the contrary millions
would applaud.
“Humantarian, scholar, diplomat,
patriot; he served with distinction
under four administrations. He was
ambassador extraordinary and pleni-
potentiary to Turkey, and a member
of Roosevelt’s cabinet.
"He was born abroad, and was
thus ‘a citizen by choice,’ and he
loved America with all his soul Up
could ‘walk with kings, nor lose the
common touch.’
“The Capitol grounds at Washing-
ton Would be a fitting setting for his
tire. Voicing his thanks that, not 1..
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Zelea Cordianu, notorious ring
leader of the Roumanian anti-Semitic
students, was sentenced to six months
imprisonment by the court of appeals
at Bucharest, December 17.
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The Be.stun Amos Lodge B’nai
B’rith has presented a $200 scholar-
ship to the Hebrew Teacher’s College
for the current academic year. The
presentation was made by David
Scott, president.
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When the Kiwanis Club of Troy. N.
Y., decided to make a drive to have
the merchants change their advertis-
ing wording from XMas to Christ-
mas, Ben Weinberg, a Jew, was se- ■
lected to head the’ committee.
a night without fear of the Latin
bugaboo, he recited Tom Brown’s
quatrain :
tion of the last Fifty "Years been an
Asset or a Liability to the United
States?” was held at the Hotel Bond
under the auspices of the Get-Togeth-
er Club, more than 100 members of
which were present.
Dr. Stoddard, who is the author of
numerous articles advocating the
Nordic theory, declared that the
Johnson immigration act stopped
what threatened to doom American
ideals and institutions. He said that
at the middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury America was a full-fledged na-
tion in an area of fine achievement
and standing on the threshold of a
fine future".
Immigration waves up to and in-
cluding that of 1840 had been thor-
oughly and speedily assimilated, he
said, but the Civil War weakened the
assimilative powers of the country
and the waves of immigration poured
on in ever increasino size.
“During the last 80 or 90 years,”
he said, “America has been confront-
ed with the most stupendous human
migration in history. After the first
wave of 1840, which was easily as-
similated, other waves of increasing
magnitude poured in. But there was
a difference in the later waves. Each
one was made up of peoples less like
ourselves; more and more they came
from eastern and southern Europe
and from Asia, bringing with them
a culture and ideals wholly unknown
to u. . .
“The climax of this stupendous
mass movement was reached at the
beginning of the World War, when
immigrants were arriving at a rate
of more than 1,000,000 a year. All
Europe and Asia were on the march
and but for the fact that the war
checked the migration, America
would have been deluged with these
in I niversitiee to be held at
hit,y, .anutry 2 to 1.
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whiire
lining ope rat io us
"Now I ah-yu, are the men w l ■
produce this ecoromie w < i h a . as
.set to the country or a lialility ' You
I wark. N. J.. will be dedicated on Feb-
ruary 51h, and begin funetioning in
all departments on the. following day,
nerording !> an announcement by ,
Frank L Live right. President of the
institution.
A unjen ’( : ween the Kodimo Syn-
agogue and the Beth El Congrega-,
tion, Fprinetiel!. Maiss.. in the build-
iritr ,f a $1;1,011 tne Hebrew school
of .W- wjm t .<.
A In e 11 l,’ . . 1 .1 r
He defenled ’l e
on d Fenertes '
agi ” ai c py
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t he a t gi; me 1 1 1
or hi- -che I • ,
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of the mes • j. ! • I
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Friday Night, Dec. 30th, 1927.
WMBS—Harrisburg, Pa. (231 M.)
7:45 p. m. Eastern time. Rabbi Sid-
ney L. Regner, Of Reading, Pa.
Sunday Morning, Jan. let, 1928.
WWJ—Detroit, Mich. (352.7 M.)
10:45 a. m. Eastern Time. Dr. Leo M.
Franklin. Subject of address: “The,
World Tomorrow.”
WNAC—Boston, Mass. (430.1 M.)
11:00 a. m. Eastern Time; Rabbi
Harry Levi.
"That," । a id the i id 9. i "i exutly
the attit tide uf l In pei on w h , refu
ed to like the immiprant of Hie last
50 years. We hear il -ai ihat the
‘old’ immigran wa a bles jr; that
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123
Benjamin Iranhli wa quotce a: lite
author of a,trat which slated -that
"those wlio Come to th; . land now are
almost always . tupid ami prejudicer"
The Rabbi pinted .at that "line-
half of those who came to the col-
onies came as indentured servants!
sold on thrirrrimnthereitoservir.
tude. hi Philadelphia and New York
boat loads of such immhrrants were
sold at the dork-, and it’ no buyers
appeared they wire chained together
in 1e/I .....r irnorant,
promt ridal n Irisl, oust-
and escaped jail birds.”
The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asy-
lum of San Francisco will receive a
sum estimated at $ 1 000.000 accord-
ing to the terms of the will of Rube
Fogel. whe died in New York Novem-
ber 30. "The romantic .story of his
grateful remembrance of the former
kindnesses became known upon the
receipt of a telegram outlining the
terms of Mr. Fogel’s will.
Lowns and sold.," *
Rabbi T eldman un01 from I red-
eric J. Haskin’- colimn ii. I in (ur-
ant tile contrihuton. the "now"
immigrant. .
and no vice. On the other tian, we
also hear that the ‛newi immigrant, is
a curse , is the -111 of Hurojw, and
that he must be eliminated from the
country by fair means or foul. A few
satisties may be informinp."
The rabbi then cited 111 in 1 rat m ns
on the attitude of the A mericain pco-
"I do not love thee Dr. Bell
The reason why I <••1111.0' tell
But this I do know \. ry well,
I do 11 ol |o\ e then Dr. Bell.”
""
l fome 'he ‛ vnat11
a 11 Ci l ie i i 1 ■ ‘' in l . m. < ’ '
in. Ital bi I'
1tbbi Lee .1. I evinrer. director of
i I ;‛na i P’rit I H ilh ) lonndation at.
and Jewish cormuniy house is now
under nay. Harry H. Ehrlich and
hmes P. Nauri are the chair-
1 11 : mien • f the commmitter.
Where, then, is a better place to
discuss it?
-0- -0- -0-
Silence on the subject will certain-
ly not better the condition.
-o- -0- -0-
Mention of it here can hardly
make it any worse.
!r. Studdmd’ • 1 .
st reet, direet f1 t -.
educat ion asi. • i lb
he obi a i ned H1t-‛
the crum' rec rd 1 :
ation. Dr. Siodlar
orthodox Judaism opn ed to Zion-
ism ?
6. What European conqueror of
the nineteenth century thought of
returning Palestine to the Jews?
7. What does beating of the
breast symbolize traditionally with
Jews?
8. What is the characteristic of
the old oriental chant?
9. What rabbi has been made
boarding house.
Dr. stoddard called attention to
the make-up of this country’s popu-
lation in 1920. At that time he
said 40,000,000 out of a total of
110,000,000 people were foreign-
born or of foreign parentage. With
this ratio,-he said, the American pen-
pie are faced with a tremendous prob-
lem of assimilation. America, he said,
suffers today from a profound uli n-
ism which will take many years to
overcome.
Were it not for the Johnson act, he
-aid, the task would be hopele ss; if
the gales are reopened America will
be "doomed to disruption and inter-
nal convulsions of the most terrible
kind.” The problem that must be
faced now, in his opinion, is how to
assimilate the immigrants already
within the gate. -
The asssimilation of the earlier
groups uf' immigrants—those before
the Civil War-—was .made compara-
tively easy because they came from
the west and north of Europe, where
they possessed institutions and cul-
tures similar to Americans," he said.
“America is still mainly populated
with peoples of the north and west
European ancestry, and if this coun-
try is to have an harmonius evolution
it must be an outgrowth of the past.
This is impossible unless the ag-
gressively alien populations can be
assimilated.
Dr. Stoddard raised considerable,
oppositon by his statement that the
"most alien minded people in this
country today are that unhaimilv
large portion of our population born
in America but not of it. They are
the second generation immigrants.
They sneer at the culture of their
fathers and grandfathers and have
taken up nothing in its place. They
sneer, at our loyalties and disciplines'
just as they do at those of their pa-
rents. They are most prone to vice
crime and seditious ideas. They form
the large portion of our gun-men,
prostitutes, gangsters and bolshevik
agitators. They want to tear 'down
the traditiona structure of this
country and replace it with something
different.”
Rabbi Feldman asked Dr. Stoddard
whether the group that had been in-
volved in the oil scandals at the very
center of the national government
were immigrants. “Is Fall a Pole?
Is Sinclair an Italian or Daugherty a
Jew?” asked the rabbi.
Dr. Stoddard attacked the idea of
permitting America to become a
“synthetic or a pluralistic nation.”
The latter would make this country
not “an orchestration of mankind”
as some advocates of the plan aver,
but a “Balkan Bedlam,” a microcosm
of the whole world, he said. Equally
fallacious is the idea of a melting pot
civilization, he declared. Biologically
it has been proved, he asserted, that
this is “one of the most grotesque
fallacies ever perpetrated upon an un-
suspecting nation,” and would lead
to a complete breakdown of langu-
age, culture, ideals and morals.
Rabbi Feldman’s reply to Dr. Stod-
dard was started with a shaft of sa-
1‛ikl‛y ! I irh | dent at t hi- iva
1 11 invi , Nhool, who na
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ne of the meeting
1 V, intion for Re-
"In I ! 1 3. 79 in r e
in iron and stei m
cont’ibuted ly tin- :.
he said; "85 per cett
he was e ne ryot ic . turds,
thrifty and pj- • ed o1 ,
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