Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1924-12-05

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Volume VII — 29
COLUMBU.S, OHIO
Beholds In Mexico Haven For Jewish Refugees in Cuba
Stanley   Bero   Marshals   Facts
Showing Latin Republic Is
Promised Land
BOUNDLESS RESOURCES
AWAIT EXPLOITATION
Declares   Racial   and' Religious
Consideratidi^s Are Foreign to
Mind of People
(Editor's Note: Thc author of this article has for seven and a half years been the general manager of the Cen¬ tral Relief Conimittce, a branch of the Joint Distribution Committee, Before this he was identified for many years with thc Baron de Hirsch Fund,' the - Jewish Agricultural Society, the Ica, the Hias and other organizations. The practical experience afforded Mr. Bero in this manner gave him an opportunity to become thoroughly familiar with the problems of the day—the more so private hobby is statistical studies of the various immigration problems.)
By STANLEY BERO
The Argentine welcomes farmers; the
• United States prohibits immigration.
Russia  is   offering   opportunities   on
the land to her Jews, as does also New
Roumania—but    only    land,    nothing
Canada has gone back on her prom¬ ise to afford asylum to those whose en¬ try over the quota into the United States is impossible. Today New Zealand and Australia want Englislimen only, and yet three-years ago I saw signs in To¬ ronto and 'Winnipeg thalt no' English need apply. If a line were drawn from Toronto westward and another parallel from St. Rupert eastward, there would be marked off a stretch of virgin terri¬ tory that could easily feed many times the present population of Canada.
Palestine, over \yliich floats the Union Jack, is adding to -its Jewish population at the rate of 2,000 or morc per month. (Saturation points, are physical and not necessarily ecoiiomic problems). The ' saying of'; M'artin Luther, "So fast as
u. thjysii'(-J?o *pA''X"'^*MiM?>'^*'^"-*'?''^ "wllKthV s'oul'"'fn'fh'e Tieavens sprmg,*" applies to Palestine, judging by the en¬ thusiasts who report the wonderful strides being made in this new.center of culture and of agriculture.
Tragic for Refugee
In Cuba, where the writer \vas some years ago, and where the word "He- judea" means "Scarecrow" as well as "Jew," conditions today have become tragic for the refugee. He was duped into going there by unscrupulous agents abroad, who, being unable to sell tickets to the United States, sent 4,000 or more customers next door. The 1912 death rate of Havana was very high—18.8 pet . thousand. The cost of living was pro¬ hibitive, rendering the condition among the poor very serious. There were poor Jews in Cuba in 1912. There are thousands of refugees there today.
If the Ort had got h9ld of the emi¬ grants in time through their information bureaus, they might have starved abroad, because of famine due to the war and the shortage of funds at the ^ disposal of the Ort, but they would not have come to Cuba, Besides, the Ort might have taught them trades and '   ifarming.
The failure of the refugees in Cuba is due not so much to lack of vocations as to the fact that apart from sugar, to¬ bacco,   pines   and  bananas,  racetracks {Continued on page 4)
Chicago HebrewTheological Sem¬ inary Recognized aai Ameri¬ can College With Regard to Quota Law ¦
CHICAGO, (J. T. A.) -The Hebrew Theological Seminary of Chicago was ifficially recognized by thc United States' Government as an American school, per¬ mitting prospective students of the col¬ lege to entcl" thc country as non-quota entrants according to G. E. Talman, Acting Commissioner General of the Labor Department, in a communica to Congre'ssman Adolph Sabath. The State Department has issued instruc¬ tions to notify American consuls in Eu¬ rope of this recognition.
Survival or £xtinc 'pn - The Problem of Jew^^ Today
By ELISHA ^I
Denoted io American
and
Jewish Ideals
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Reports on Marked Progress in the Holy Land After 2 Years
Dr.  Weizmann Notes Increased Immigration, Sanitary Improve¬ ment, Agricultural and Indus¬ trial Advance and Political' Normalcy
By DR, CHAIM WEIZMANN
From what I have seen during my icent visit in Palestine, I am satisfied that marked progress has been made iti the development  of  Palestine, particu¬ larly during the past two years.
Thc new agricultural settlements which have been founded in various parts of Palestine are beginning to find their feet, and I am particularly pressed by' what I have • seen of the group of colonies in the Vale of Jezrecl. Malaria, which had at one time looked like being a .serious danger, was rapidly irpated, and in a considerable area the Vale oi Jezrcel, whith three years ago was a malarious swamp, I have hardly seen a single mosquito. This is due entirely to the work of lamation. which, has been carried out by the Jewish settlers, assisted by the advice of "sinitary experts. In addition to the large area purchased for Jewish colonization two or three years ago> in Northern Palestine, a further dunam (about 20,000 acres) has recently beeft.,;,acaiaiw:(j...l}y,,rljie. Natio?i^,-JFun,d aiia the'Amencan''ZtbnXoimmtjnWBaWi; so that there, is now in the Vale of Jezreel and the adjacent are: tensive and continuous stretch of land most of which, however, has already been settldd so that more land needs to be acquired.
'    Increased Immigration
As >a result of the development which has taken place, Palestine has been en¬ abled to absorb a considerably increased number of immigrants, and I am happy to say that the immigration is improving in quality as well as in quantity, August the number . of " immigrants amounted to about two thousand, remarkably l^rge figure having regard to the size of the country—and for some months past, immigration has been on a larger scale than ever before, does not necessarily follow that the present rate will be continuously main¬ tained, but though there may be a cer¬ tain ebb and flow, thc prospects for the future are distinctly encouraging. How rapidly Palestine is able to absorb new immigrants depends entirely on the de-
ilopment of the economic situation, provided that progress continues to be made as at present, there is every reason for optimism.
It is noteworthly that the recent migrants included a considerable pro¬ portion of Jews who have come to Pal¬ estine entirely relying on their own re¬ sources. This "natural immigration" as it may be called, is an important and encouraging feature of the situation, growing proportion of the immigrants, amounting to something like 30 per cent of the whole, are now coming from various parts of the East, as, for ex¬ ample, Salonica, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Persia, Bulgaria and the 'lifemen. These Sephardic immigrants are a valuable element: they know the East, are con¬ tent with a modest standard of life, and many cases experienced agricultur-
Strangely cnbugh, overlooked one big fact in Jewish his-' tory. The contribution of Israel to tlidj cuUurc of thc world was made when; Israel was free and upon its own soil, and when it lived a normal life. Read:! ]; ing the annals of this people, one ,!«' struck by the contrast between theii^ fruitfulness in the short period before the dispersion and their comparativfl^ sterility in the long galuth. Thc history^ of Israel before that fatal crisis wa9 ft story of action, after it, one of suf-; fering. Creation and sclf-prescrvationj bestowing and husbanding—these thc antitheses of Jewish history.
Golden Period
Truly, the ¦ golden period in Jcvrisl post-biblical history found the Jewsjir| large communities in Spain — the ntfar; est approach to a normal life on alia^ tive soil. Ill literature Jehudah J-IaU found his muse, weeping in the htu of his fathers. , He lived and wr6t in the galuth, but thc spirit of hi^ once free fathers moved him. In art age given to scholasticism and theology} he evolved in the field of abstracj thought' the philosophic concept of monism. Ibn Gabirol reduced the world' to three catagoicsj God,' matter and will) Hasdai ^ Crescas rejected 'utterly philosophy, of , Aristotle, whicjli', led Maimonides and Gersonides' into,,op^ posite errors, and laid the basis Oil Spinoza's system, Spinoza gave us, & priori, a God-filled monism, to whj;h the researches of science are addliig abundance of proof. Owing ]to tt anomalous position of the Jewish pev pie, these geniuses created not fre;1y and normally but either neglected iot attacked by the Jewish communityi Rooted in Jewish life, they flowered outside of; it.     ,    ¦ ' ,""'"•
Aside from these irrepressible flasycE where conditions approached a noi;;ml .group life, the story Of Israel in ."jft-
theiuomcter can warm the waxing sun. The history of thc exiled Jew is thc in* dcx of growth of Aryan tolerance.
In tlie days of theological speculati and religious philosophy, Judaism had ;affccted thc Christian theology of Duns Scotus, Thomas Aquinas and Albcrtus Magnus. 'With emergence of Europe from the Dark Ages, the Jews' played the role of intellectual intermediaries between Arabs and Christians. A Jew by Caliph Es-Saffah to India brought back to Ar.ibic Europe the In¬ dian system of numerals, now used by
Thc first geometry in Christian Eu¬ rope was a translation from the He¬ brew of Abraham bar Hyya, and thc first arithmetic was translated by Ibn Daud. Abraham Zacuto, teacher at .Salamanca and astronomer royal to King Emanuel of Portugal compiled the astronomical and nautical tables, used by Columbus on his voyage of discov- low preserved at Seville. Levi ben Gerson discovered "Jacob's Staff' instrument to determine thc right as-
ision of the sun, which was used by Columbus, Magellan and YAsco Gama. Jacob ben Makir invented improvement on this and it was known as Quadrans Judaicus. Levi ben Ger- also discovered the Camera obscura. Under conditions of freedom, the Jew was creative.
Modern Scientific Spirit
However, with the rise of the modern scientific spirit and   of   the   inductive system, the Jewish people, confined ghettos where ever it existed at all, v shut out from the larger life of mi kihd..   Francis   Bacon's   Novum   Or- ga^num was preceded in  spirit by the wijrks of Gabirol, Gersonidds and other Jewish > rationalist    philosophers, freedom, the Jews might have brought oiv!' the    modern    movement, several diiatUrics previous'to its .arrival,, How- .persion ^s not one, of'expression buf'pji'ii^^'ft^jij^to'ry had it otherwise, impprCsSimi,-iiert -^f-fiftr^Wrt-^^W 'VTtee'"ronern!fcutk'wis Ve'ofat
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ATTEND MENORAH
MEETING SUNDAY
The Menorali Society of Ohio State University will hold an open meeting at the Ohio Union, Sunday afternoon at 3 P. M.
An interesting program has been arranged by thc committee. A rare 'treat is in store for those who attend.
The officers urge everyone to be present promptly at 3 o'clock.
"Neither Good Nor Purpose in Life" Declares Darrow
Science, Philosophy and History,
He Says, Throw No Light
on the Subject
(Courtesy New York Times) NEW YORK. —Clarence Darrow, thc Chicago lawyer, took thc neg¬ ative side of thc proposition "Is the Human Race Worth Work¬ ing For," the subject of a debate yes¬ terday at Town Hall. Professor Scott Nearing of thc Rand School, citiiig Soviet Russia, as a place where the human race has learned to live, sup¬ ported the affirmative. About 1,'700 per¬ sons paid from $1 to $2 each to hear the arguments.
Replying to Professor Nearing's crcnce to a Soviet Utopia, Mr. Darrow said he would like to see the Bolshe¬ vik! succeed, but he feared they would not.
From the Jiscus Judaicus ¦ in the first century down to the Kishineff sacre in Russia, civil disabilities in Rou¬ mania and legal restrictions on Jewish students in Eastern Europe, the talc is sad commentary on the un-Christian spirit of the Aryan race. Nietzsche's 'blonde beast'' was learning his lessons.
The Inquisition
Anti-Jewish decrees, the badg;e of shame, legal .restrictions, forced con¬ versions, interdictions against the study of thc Talmud, compulsory attendance Christian sermons, these were the shorj: notes sounded in the dirge of massacre, inquisition and exph The path of the crusade was traced in red, by the blood of Jewish martyrs. The human sacrifices of the auto da fe were barometers of the passion and ignorance of Spanish and Portuguese rulers. The crisscross path of wan¬ dering Jewry registered the accession and death of fanatic kings. If the Jews contributed anything to a world culture in these ages, it was thc subjective vir¬ tues of the human race rather than any objective intellectual contribution. Loyal¬ ty to an idea, patience in tense times, these are. virtues that are called forth as much by modern needs as ever be¬ fore. The Jews could not contribute in these ages any more than the rising
'^Vllite'C6pemlti Ptolemaic theory of epicycles by the true scheme of planetary revolution, and this in spite of the murderous opposition of the church, Venice was penning up her Jews in the ghetto. While Versal- lius, Falliopius and Eustachius were laying thc basis of anatomy, Portugal was instituting the Inquisition for Mar- rano Jews. While Tycho Braha and Kepler .were establishing thc laws of planetary motion, while Galileo, under thrcE^t of penalty, was demonstrating optically the truth of the Copernican theory and Bruno dying for it, Joseph Cara was writing his schulchan Aruch, Lurya was developing Cabalism and church Europe was racking its mind for neW forms of oppression to add papal .bulls, banishments, burnings the Talmud and Cossack murders I^oland.
While Newton was establishing the law of gravitation and showing its ap¬ plication alike to stone and star, thc Jews were preserving their culture by the Chassidic revival and shunting their repressed intellectual powers into end¬ less casuistry on hair-splitting distinc¬ tions in theology, while Akiba Eger, "the light ' of Posen", . and Ezekiel Landau, the sage of Prague, were delving in "responsa" literature. How {Concluded on page 4)
GIRL POISONS EMPLOYER AFTER HEARING AN ANTI-SEMITIC LECTURE
ists.
Industrial development is due mainly to the immigrants from Poland and the neighboring countries.
Cultural Progress On the educational side, progress is marked by the opening of the Technical Institute at Haifa, and by the arrange¬ ments, now approaching completion, for the opening of the first Department of tha Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which has already been provided with buildings on Mount Scopus, and with the nucleus of a staff, and which it is hoped will open its doors in the imme¬ diate future. One difficulty with which the Zionist Organization is faced is that of ensuring that its educational work {Concluded on paac 4)
WARS.^W, (J. T. A,)—A series of anti-Semitic lectures delivered in the city bf Grodno had, as their result, tlie poisoning of a Jewish  woman.
Jacck Chamietz, well-known anti-Semi¬ tic agitator, arrived in Grodno and an¬ nounced a series of lectures to be given by him on anti-Semitic topics. At first t!ie city authorities prohibited the lec¬ tures, because of their obvious inciting character. The pgitator then changed the title of the lectures, substituting for the word Jew, "crooked nosed.". The authorities then permitted the lectures to be given, during thc course of which CliamieU endeavored to convince audience, consisting mainly of unedu¬ cated elements, including a consideral)le iber of servant girls, that it was nec¬ essary for the good and welfare of the country to exterminate the "crool^ed nosed."
The Po'lish servant girl of Madp Wigdowitz,   the   wife   of   a   Hclir teacher, was present at the lecture.   Tjhe
following morning Madam Wigdowitz, after drinking a glass of milk, fell un- :ious. The attending physician es¬ tablished that she was poisoned.
According to the local Jewish paper, "Grodner Moment" charges brought against the servant girl stated that she had put poison into the mjik under the influence of the lecture. Investigati pending.
SISTERHOOD SABBATH TO BE OBSERVED
FRIDAY EVENING
The Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood of Tempie Isra'el will observe Sisterhood Sabbath, Friday evening, December 12th, at the Bryden Road Temple.
Mrs. Adolph Rosenberg of Cincin¬ nati, a National Sisterhood officer, will be the speaker of the evening. The regular Friday evening services will be read by Mrs. Marcus H. Burnstine, pres¬ ident, and Mrs. A. Luchs, member of the Religious Committee of the Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood.
Solos and hymns will be sung by various members and the ushering also will be in charge of members.
"I'd like to see their ideals fulfilled, he said. "But is it possible? I wish it were. You can make nothing else of man but man. Selfish, mean, aggres¬ sive, tyrannical, prejudiced: that's what man is, and a lot more. It is abso¬ lutely hopeless to change man; I don't care how much environment you give him. Heredity and not environment shapes the human race. If, by some trick, a superman is created, it would be a sad day fot' us because he would eat us up just as we, the supermonkeys, are eating up other animals. "Man is born with no volition on his . . jiiaft, he lingers^Jtroyind-for^a,while, and VepTacThg ¦ thfe | Ke^dreV^ We^'cbiild'improve lifglhealtilf some, but what's the use? Lots of peo¬ ple wouldn't get a vacation unless they got sick. And why cure man of tu¬ berculosis if he's just going to turn around and die from cancer? He's got die some time, and it may as well be from one disease as another."
Mr. Darrow said that men like Pro¬ fessor Nearing and Algernon Lce, who presided, have been building a society paper, without regard for the peo¬ ple who are to live in it and who make He compared this with the architect who builds a house without taking into consideration whether the tenants are to be dwarfs or giants.
There is neither purpose in exist¬ ence or a goal in living," Mr. Darrow declared. "If we knew where we were going we could pick out the road. But 3 science, philosophy or his¬ tory can throw any light on the sub¬ ject, we arc not going anywhei there's no goal and no purpose.
Pcopleare no happier now than they were years ago," he went on. "I know that I got more of a thrill when I was a kid, five miles from my house, than I half way around the world. And don't think that tall buildings add of human happiness. Don't think that the radio does. In fact I had one, but I go rid of it. Thc more radios you get the more sermons you hear, and I won't let any preachers come into my house uninvited. I never heard any Bolshevist stuff over the radio. J don't think you can get any over, although President Coolidge said during the campaign, referring to the radio, that the air is free. It isn't. Every invention we get is used by the strong for their own purposes. He characterized the earth as significant piece of mud, whirling around the sun, going in the same old fool path all the time," Mr. Darrow said he agreed with Anatole France's statement that *' the main business of life is killing time." A third of his life, said Mr, Darroty, he is asleep and just as good as dead. At times, he added, he becomes greatly interested in "some important work like Socialism or cross-word puzzles." "The more you fuss with man and le more you try to do to him, the un- happier you make him," declared Mr. Darrow.
Professor Nearing said that if Mr, Darrow "Wants to hear Bolshevism he should go either to Russia or to some other European country which can "listen in" to Russia on the radio. He said he wanted to sec every one guar¬ anteed an "adequate living" as well as a share of the world's leisure.
Why Jews Live Longer Is Explained By Life Insurance Statistician
Superior Longevity of the Jews Is   Attested  by   Every  Ad¬ missible Method of Inquiry
INTERESTING POINTS
ARE BROUGHT OUT
By F. L. Hoffman
Regardless of the age-long persecu¬ tion, often indescribable poverty, poor' housing and exposure to many life- destruttivc conditions, the Jews, live longer than any of the races or peoples with whom they have come in contact.
Often seriously 'hindered in their numerical progress, frequently herded than cattle in the foul quarters of the ghetto, yet the Jews have sur¬ vived, and today are morc numerous than at any time in their extraordinary social and economic history.
The superior longevity of thc Jews is attested by every admissible method of inquiry into mortality investigations.
The same" results are disclosed in Budapest or Frankfort as in the east end of London or on the east side of ' New York. It is an extraordinary phenomenon of human survival without a parallel in history.
The why and wherefore somehow hides the secret of man's mastery of human problems — the prolongation of the maximum duration of human life.
The term "Jews'! for the present pur¬ pose is used in the generally accepted sense. The Jews are not a race, but a people, and many of its members no' longer can claim purity of type or free¬ dom from alien admixture.
It is, however, chiefly the relatively pure type of Orthodox Jews that is re¬ ferred to when the claim is made of a superior life tenacity and substantiated by statistical evidence derived from a large field of trust-worthy sources.
How far the claim applies to mixed- blood Jews cannot be stated with cer¬ tainty,, but it may safely be asserted' that the life span of the Jews decreases in length with increasing departure from i the simple principles of the Orthodox, faith' a'ttd^"in'.conforinity /to-.the ttadJ-''.
For if the Jews are not a race, or a clearly   differentiated   species   of   the human  type,  they are  the  most  thor¬ oughly segregated of the religious sects, sect which ih its adherence to the laws of its being has shown both a won¬ derful tenacity and rational conformity. The root difference which separates the Orthodox Jew from the dissenter and the Gentile is the rigorous insist¬ ence   upon   dietary   which   itself   rests upon thc broadest conception of com- : as well as upon Mosaic wis¬ dom, acceptable alike to science and the unconditional beliefs of the faithful.
When the mortality of the Jews is subjected to critical analysis an as¬ tounding' contrast is presented in a com¬ parison of the death rates with those of other types of mankind.
The Jew is less subject to many in¬ fections, less to tuberculosis, less, as'a rule, to malignant diseases, but some¬ what liiore subjected to nervous dis- to insanity and considerably so to diabetes.
The infant mortality of Jew is, as a rule, surprisingly low, even in the worst of slum areas, while the birth rate is' generally much higher than the rates   prevailing   among  non-Jews.
Old age is extremely common, and here again the worst possible conditions of life and habitual undernourishment, often with vile surroundings, seem to be without a serious detrimental effect on exceptional longevity.
The Jewish dietary laws are really a code of morals in matters of personal hygiene. They touch upon most of the essentials which affect the individual's predisposition or liability to diseases generally considered preventable in the light of modern medical and sanitary research.
First in the order of importance come
the Jewish regulations  concerning the,
consumption  of  animal   food.    Ritual
slaughter and  carcass  inspection  were
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GENERAL SARRAILS SUGGESTED TO SUCCEED GENERAL WEYGAND
PARIS, (J, T, A.)—The i ion of General Weygand caused n ipeculation as to his possible successor is High Commissioner of Syria. The name of General Sarrails was mentioned but the parliamentary} opposition ob¬ jects because his views are considered extremely left and even socialistic. Gen¬ eral Weygand sacrificed his party in¬ terests  the  opposition  leaders  declare.