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PALESTINE MANDATE IN PRESENT FORM UPHELD INCOMMONS
Government Policy Is Sustained After Churchill's Explanation
DEFENDS RUTENBERG,
ALSO ZIONIST POLICY
LONDON.—The delktc on thc ques tion of the British mandate for Palestine, was raised in the House of Coinmons' by Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, who moved a reduction of thc Colonial Secretary's salary in order to call attention to thc matter.
Hicks said the acceptance of the man¬ date  must  involve  Britain  in   financial and other responsibilities. He'^also urged that the Rutenberg Palest;iiie concession fhould be referred to a select commit¬ tee -for  consideration.    He  cojiiplaincd that   fhe    Government   had    permitted Zionists practically to control the Gov¬ ernment of Palestine, whereas thc Arabs represented 9(1 per cent of thc popula¬ tion.   He condemned the Rutenberg con¬ cession, declaring the Government's ob- ' ject was to block out all other applica¬ tions.   Thc contract, he said, practically, gave;Over the development of thc whole] whose  character  atj
VATICAN DECLARES  IT IS OPPOSED TO RECOGNITION OF "KINGDOM OF ISRAEL" LONDON (J. T. A.)—The Vat¬ ican   has   sent   d   note   to   the League   of   Nations,   reiterating its   contentions   With   inference to   the   draft   of   the   Palestine Mandate, the Rome correspond¬ ent of thc Times roportfft    Re¬ spect of the rights ofthe Chris¬ tians  in Palestino  is demanded in  this nqtc, and  the'exclusion of any recognition of the "King¬ dom . 6f    Israel."      The    note; signed    by    Cardinal    Gaspari, Papal   Secretary   of   State,   op¬ poses    the   administrative   and political   preponderance   of   the- Jewish   elements   and . requests that   the   control   of   ^churches, places of worship and other re¬ ligious   places   in   Palestine   be entru.sted  to  representatives  of the religions to which they had previously been assigned.
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Shall jews AcceptJ^Mexican Offer?
By ISRAEL ZANGWILL
Be Consciously Jewish Says Judge I. Lehman At Providence Meeting
country to  a mau
least  was  the  subject  matter of  very j^Varns Against the Drifting From
(President Obregon's offer to a com¬ munal worker of Chicago to grant a tract of land and f-acilitics for the set¬ tlement of Jews from eastern Europe, )ias attracted wide notice. The first to reach is Israel Zangwill, the brilliant author, who is he<id of the Jewish Ter¬ ritorial Organization, in whose opinion the proposition is not to be lightly en¬ tertained, not to be lightly rejected).
It is interesting to note how the pres¬ sure of life overcomes fixed ideas and even  fixed idealisms.    Thus, we sec in France the fiixcd ideii that the Versailles Treaty is a law-of the Medcs and Per¬ sians gradually giving place to the feel¬ ing that after all it'will have to be modi-'' fied.   Similarly, the pressure of life — or should  one   rather   say  of   death? —is destroying the fixed idea of the Jewish jpeople, that from Zion will come, forth not only the Law but the salvation for all   Israel.    The   unprecedented   massa¬ cres in the Ukraine .ind other disturbed regions  of   Europe,   the  panic-stricken flight of myriads of exiles, and thc re¬ cent restriction of immigration into the United  States have  combined  to  bring home to Jewry even amid all the glamor of rebuilding Zion, that Zionism can pro
World, nvcilookcd by thc Jewish Terri¬ torial  Organization  in   its  (incst   for  a land capable of recciviilg millions of im¬ migrants.   A member of the Council^ the lale.Mi. Jo-icph  l-'cls,  famous  as prac- tiAl (li>icii)le of Henry George, was ein- pdyrered to  take  up the tiucstion  with th'i late I'rcsident Diaz.    Diaz received hiiji vcrv amicably but was unwilling to seluestcratc a specific territory for Jews, Ol-\'.tlie ground that what .Mexico needed w4s "ot niore agriculture ,but more in- duUries.    Let the Jews therefore come iftjo  Mexico,  develop  its  manutacturcs al^l promote its commerce.    This sug- g^tion being, however, opposed to the pf^ciples  of  Terrilorialism had  to  be ntjbativcd.   My Organization never-con- sVjled to alter its principles for the sake oi'.'a showy success of a different kind. Tfie  Talmud   speaks   wittily  of   people wijo  first  shoot  their  arrow .and  then fix) the target.   There are organizations Which, having shot  their arrow,  re-fix thjij-.targct.
¦ i/Thc rearion the "Jewish Territorial Orginization adhered so inflexibly to its p/6gram was that it was convinced its 'l^'tyticiple contain thc only radical .solution ot, the Jewish problem.   These principles
AWAIT DEATH AT .  CEMETERIES TO AVOID
DEVOURING BY DOGS RIGA—While advices received from various sections of the Ukrain tend to confirm the re¬ ports that the general famine situation is. improving, the sit¬ uation in other sections appear to continue to be hopeless. To avoid being devoured by dogs, many famine-stricken people, knowing that death by starva¬ tion is imminent, proceed to the cemeteries and there owait death. ,They are thus assured of immediate burial.
Prices of bread and provisions have been gradually fallingj due as much as anything else :to re¬ lief activities of the Jewish organizations. Local relief -workers are better organized and trained, which has a telling effect- oii . the distribution of relief.
WOMEN IN PULPITS FAVORED BY RABBIS AT BIG CONFERENCE
Pass  Resolution Revolutionizing Ainerican Jewish Congre¬ gational Life
FAVOR COLONIZATION IN PALESTINE, NOT STATE
grave suspicion.
Concession Defined
Lord Eustace Percy, who followed, de¬ fined thc concession. He said no such similar scheme as that of Rutenberg had been submitted. There was nothing, he asserted, to justify the appointment of a select committee.
Sir J. Dutcher wanted to know if it" was correct that contracts in connection with the concession were being placed in 'Germany.
The attack on the Government's Pal¬ estine policy proved not ^ so formidable as had been expected — in fact, it be¬ came exceedingly dull — and when Mr.' Churchill rose to reply to the Govern¬ ment's critics he got the House so much on his side that the Joynson-Hicks motion was defeated by 292 votes to 35. Mr. Churchill was in his'best form,
Judaism Among the Young
EMPHASIZES GREAT WORK OF OUR CHARITIES
(Special to Ohio Jr.wisu Chronicle) PROVIDENCE.—Thc great neid for Jews to be consciously Jewish in thc face, of.the present manifestations of anti-Semitism, and the work of th.e Jew¬ ish community center to help thc Jewish youth of the land toward Jewish self- respect, was stressed by Justice Irving Lehman,' of the New York Supreme Court and President of the Jewish 'Wel¬ fare Board, in his address, wtiich was the climax of the fourth annual confer", ence of the Association of Jewish Com¬ muriity Center Secretaries, held in Prov¬ idence, from June 19th to Juiie 21st. We Jews have been proud for gen
our refugees, although it may raise thc political status of thc Jevvish people.
Land  of Refuge  Necessity
The absolute political- necessity of cre¬ ating a Jewish land of refuge was for many years proclaimed by the Jewish Territorial Organization, of which I had thc honor to be President. It is not, however,   ^throtigh    adhesion    to    this
vide no haven for more than a tithe ofWv'ei-c tersely embodied once and for all
itrtthe fornilila, "To acquire a territory liflBn an autonoinous basis for those J^iys who are unable or unwilling to re¬ main in their present lands."
'-.' Concessions   Issued
f'''t will be seen .at once that the'offer iged  to have been  obtained  by  Mr. theuberg of (i 1,000 square miles along tK.e  American-Mexican  border, for  the
Large Attendance at Joint 1.0. B. B. Picnic Is Now Expected
AU  Arrangements  for  the  Gala
Affaii'of Season are Now
Completed
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
AMONG ALL BEN B'RITHS
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and  occasionally members  roared with j erjitions' of   our   philanthropies,"   said
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"If Rutenberg had been . a "Bolshevik and come around to the Colonial Office for concessions I should have told him to go to Genoa," was the remark that made the House laugh most of all. An¬ other was: "If over, the gates of'the New Jerusalem was to be inscribed the legend, 'No Israelite need apply,' then I must ask to be relieved of my.resp9n- sibility for Palestine and devote myself r exclusively to Ireland."
Two   Issues   Raised
Broadly spe;iking lie said there were two issues raised:
"Are we to keep our pledges made in 1917 to -the effect .that his Majesty's Government will use their best endeav¬ ors to facilitate the acliievenicut of a national home for thc Jewish people or are we to abandon it?
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Organization or through any communiM.if'^ception   of   Jewish   immigrants   ap- cation with or from me, but through th^ pfoaches   the   formula   of   the   Jewish [sheer   pressure   of   practical   necessity, r^erritorial    Organization that the American Jewish philanthropist; Mr. Paul W. Rothenberg, seems to haVfe been driven to conduct negotiations with the Mexican authorities with a view to the establishment in Mexico of-a grCai area for the reception of Jcjvish imnii¬ gration.
Mexico was not, of course than any other undeveloped
hearly than did the conception of Pres¬ ident Diaz. Presidentv Obregon's original j^ncessions to colonists issued by him .ll April, 1921, contains no special induce- 'Bient "to Jewish immigrants, whom it ,foes not even mention. For the gen¬ eral immigrant as for, the individual c, any mitti;eh[('W bette]r conditions cah be had fromUvill again be partofthft    '' jdlQcriainiigfi'onjage 5.) '    [take on  the
tory of the Y. M. H. A. in this country, 1 jj„_,_„_„ and the development of the Jewish Wel¬ fare Board. "Hardly any Jew worthy of the name has stood aside from the work qf alleviating the distress of the suffering, of helping the handicapped, of providing for the poor, the sick, the orphaned. But our highest work for our own sakcs and for the sake of our coun¬ try' is, and must be, to develop our young people .so that they" will be worthy of this country and worthy of their heritage as Jews.
Drifting Away "Many of our young people are drift¬ ing away from us.' They realize that they are Jews only because of constant small discriminations which force them to recognize that they are members of another  race.    Our young iicople have
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Bitter, Biting Irony
By  MILTON  L. FARBER
(Specially written for the Omo Jr.wisii Chuon'ici.f.)
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Second, are measures  taken  by  the|j,";^" ^jgi^^ j^ demand of us that they be
Colonial Oflice to fulfill the pledge rea sonable and proper measures?" '. The House as a whole, he said, had definitely committed itself on more than one occasion to the general proposition that Britain should use her best en¬ deavors to make good her 'pledges and facilitate .^the .achieveme|it of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. There had never been at any time any serious challenge to that policy.
With-acceptance of the mandatory re¬ sponsibility for Palestine, he said, there was also accepted the responsibility of (Continued on page 8.)
There is irony, bitter, biting irony iHc was admittedly handsome, but his in the name pf Jew. It can be found no-; handsomeness was far from Jewish. He where else. No other race, no other il.ihd no Jewish manners, he had no Jew- nation, no other people have at their I ish features; and he did not appear tb back a name that has degenerated into I be Jewish.
VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY IN ROME; ARABS COMING TOO ROME (J. T. A.)—Vladimir Jabotinsky, member of the Zionist Executive, has arrived in ' Rimie, where he is under¬ stood to be holding conversa¬ tion,-with representatives of the '. Vatican and the Government concerning Italy's stand on the Palestine Mandate. , Announcement has also been m<ide here of^ the departure from Cairo on 'Wednesday of a deputation of Christian Arabs who will appeal to the Vatican to protect Christia,nity's Holy places in Palestine.
A similar Moslem deputatibn is proceeding from Cairo to Mecca to wairn the, Pilgrims -of the ' danger "in the establish¬ ment of the Zionist Government in Palestine."
A section of the Italian press insists that Italy possesses in-< ibon^ie»t}ble historical rightf 'as Kaklr<d|ian over, tho Holy Places, •nd' the. question cannot be re- ' ferred tqi kny commii'iion.'
given thc strength which the older ele¬ ments, of the community derive from our religious ideals • and r<acial tradi¬ tions. ' - I
I'The importance of prejudice lies in its effect on our young men and women. The respect of othcrs_ is desirable, but the maintenance of our own self-respect is imperative. It is for "us to help our yoifng people to gain that self-respect which comes from being afTirmatively, happily, consciously, Jewish. It is our duty, therefore, to provide for our young people centers imbued with the spirit of our religion and our racial traditions. In that way we may be able, if not to fight it, at least to counteract this prej¬ udice."
The significant progress of the Jewish community center as a leading factor in the cultural development of American Jewry stood out in sharp relief during the sessions of the conference. Covering a wide range of subjects, the discussions, above everything else, brought out the thought that a Jewish community center, whether it is so called, or is known as a Y. M. H. A., Y. W. H. A., Hebrew institute, or Educational Alliance, must welcome within the scope of its effort not only the young men or young women, but their parents and grandparents, as well as their little brothers and sisters; the recent "Viddish-speaking immigrant as well as the native born; and that with¬ out being partisan' it must be a common meeting ground for all shades of Jewish Opinion, religious or secular, Zionist or non-Zionist, Orthodox or Reform.
The Second Speaker
This was especially stressed by Harry L. GlUtksnian, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Board, who was the sec¬ ond speaker at the public meeting. Touching the growth of tile Jewish Center movement, Mr. Gluckman  said
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such a meaningless mockery. The time has cqme when Jews, loyal, .religious, praiseworthy JeWs, turn from the name of Jew in horror. The word contains, not the thoughts of religion nor mem¬ ories of racial suffering, but thoughts of personal shame and memories of re¬ peated jeers. Witness the evolution of modern American names from names of
Disliked,Being a.Jew
Fincberg was not averse to these dis tinctions. He often told me that he thanked his lucky stars that he was as he was., He disliked Jewish characteris¬ tics, Jewish features; and most of all thc fact that he was himself a Jew. There was a reason to all that. For fifteen years he had never seen a Jew, dut-ing  whicli  time, he  had  grown   to
According   to   the   great   number   of cards  sent in to the committee oil ar¬ rangements    with     affirmative    replies, hundreds of B'nai  B'rith members to¬ gether with  their  families and   friends will  attend  thc big event of  the year, thc joint picnic,  sponsored by the Co¬ lumbus,   Dayton  and   Springfield   B'nai B'rith   lodges,   which   will   be   held   at Tecumseh    Park   tomorrow.     At   this time, people  f.rom-Columbus will meet and    renew   acquaintances   with    their friends in  Dayton and  Springfield and that usual B'nai B'rith spirit of friend¬ ship which marks all I. O. B. B. affairs, prevalent^. The affair Will atmosphere  of  one  large 6ft-a.'-picnirr-*eadyj.-fo. enjoy all  the amusing details  which sucli an affair  offers.
Transportation Via Bus All those havin.g cars will motor to the park and will find directions on some other page in the CiiRONict.n. It is hoped that all cars will be filled to capacity with the families or friends of the car ^owners. Those nof h.aving cars, buses have been arranged for. These people will meet at nine o'clock Sunday morning in front of the Ohio Electric Railway ' Station, corner Rich and Third Streets. Buses will leave promptly .at 9:15. The entertainment committee promises
(Special to ,Onio Jkwisii Chronicle) CAPE MAY, N. J.—The ordination of women as rabbis was approved by the thirty-third annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which held sessions here, from June 28 to July 2. _^he following resolution was carried by an overwhelming vote:
"The ordination of women as rabbis is a modern: issue due to the-revolution in her status in our day. The Central Conference of , American Rabbis ,has repeatedly made, pronouncement urging the fullest measure of self-expression ^ for .women as well as the fullest utilira- j tion of her gifts in the service of the I Highest and gratefully acknowledging 'the enrichment and enlargement of con¬ gregational life which has resulted therefrom.
"Whatever may have been the specific legal status of Jewish women regarding certain religious. functions, her general position,in Jewish religious life has ever been an exalted one. She has been the priestess in the home and our sages have always recognized her as the preserver of Israel. In view of these Jewish teach¬ ings and in keeping with the spirit of our age and the traditions of our con¬ ference, we declare that women cannot justly be denied the privileges of ordi¬ nation. ,
The resolution was introduced -by a special committee, headed by Rabbi Henry Cohen,- which was appointed to draft such a resolution.
The Palestine Agreement
The president of the Con.ference, the Rev. Di*. Edward N. Calisch, of Rich¬ mond, Va., in his annual message dis¬ cussed  thc  numerous  activities  of the Coh ference during the past year-in be¬ half of American Judaism and on mat¬ ters ajppertaining to Judaism as a whole.' ','The Central Conference of  American 'Rabbisr"sald''i2rr.'''eaii5ch, "Wifs"Htnwi-{& - the leaders of the moral and religious forces that stood behind President Hard¬ ing in his call for the Disarmament Con- : ference." ' Speaking of the agreement drawn up between committees of the Central Con¬ ference   of   American   Rabbis   and   the Palestine Development Council   for .co¬ operation in the economic rebuilding. Dr. Calisch said;,    -    , ¦
"If there be one p'olitical doctrine to' which reform Judaism subscribes, it Is that of unwavering adhesion to the principle of the unimpaired separation of church and state. It is on this basis that  we  combat  every  move' to  insei-t
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thc most cLiborate and entertaining 1 the recognition of any religious creed program for both young and old even into the Constitution of the United enjoyed at an affair of this kind.   Such | States or of any single State, that we
enjoyable features as races • of past presidents, fat men's. races, dancing, music, games of various sorts, and prizes
oppose the reading of the Bible and the carrying on of sectarian exercises in public schools, that we object to any re¬
names common in American slums
Why ? I do not know. Nor do you; but somewhere back of it all there lies one fundamental thought. God grant it may never be forgotten. Jewish blood, whether or no there.is'such a thing, car¬ ries with it a determination, a bond of mutual suffering. It can never be sev ered. He may be leagues away from an orthodox synagogue, or a reformed tem¬ ple,, and his mind may have wandered far from religion, but deep in his con¬ sciousness it lies nevertheless. Let him hear a woman of Jewish extraction be¬ ing belittled by a Gentile. His blood boils,  his  respiration  is  labored,  hc  is.
mad with ahger.   Why?   He is a Jew-{s'^k couple.   I knew her when the fringe
 a noble oi her panties showed beneath the edge
will make up just a small part of thc | ligious test for citizenship or public of- day's fun. Tt is hoped that very - few, fice, to any discriminating legislation will let this opportunity, the like of | affecting Sabbath observance, etc., in which comes once in a number of years, \ short, to all attempts that may be made
^'ered in his mind, and when he found all his accepted habits and all his ac¬ cepted manners suddenly swept aside and replaced by Jewish liabits and Jew¬ ish manners he-rebelled. He refused to enter any Jewish place of worship; he held himself aloof; he complained bit¬ terly of being a Jew.
But Fate often, laughs at our out¬ bursts of temper. She did at Fineberg's. 'She introduced him (with the aid of his new landlady) to Sadie Gold.-.,1 do not know how to describe Sadie. She was as pretty as a moonlit night to a love
a reformed or orthodox Jew
or an ignoble Jew-^a rich or a
Jew — hut a Jew always.
There is a common bond. Beasts in their savageness feel the same sort of bond in common with their mates. It is the bond of mutual understanding and
mutual suffering.
He may have disguised his manner, j friend, had entrusted her raising to my he may have disguised his name ''"~     **"'  -" "¦'^"" w;...>Wnr mnfidrd
some, time, some place, it is coming out,
poor'of her dress, when she combed her hair ill braiids down her back and wlien her legs resembled the proverbial bean poles and when she ripened into red-cheeked maturity. She was' as beautiful and as dear- to me as my own child. We had been pals since her father, my life long
and when it does the Jew will stand naked. A Jew, be he willing or unwill¬ ing to proifess the faith, is a Jew. Why it is so can riot be answered. It is>i'ni- bcdded and embodied within his soul, and far beyond the searching eyes of mortals.
Henry Fineberg was such a Jew. Though had you know Henry with his slick, pompadour hair (parted in the tniddle); his characteristic laugh and smile (which Maizie in the ladies' ho¬ siery department thought displayed Irish ancestors) you would have looked twice. You would have bten told that he was a Jew, and you would have disbelieved.
Ijutjcare. And so when Fineberg confided to me and told me he would never be happy until she was his, I was glad. I knew that when my last day dawned my little Sadie would.be cared for.
After Fineberg had nerved himself until he was afraid he could contain himself no longer, he awkwardly and nervously burst out with the question. She was sitting, my darling little girl, at his side and I was in the next room listening as only an Old and irrespon¬ sible man can do. I heard her swallow a little cry, and I coiild imagine her sweet face dimpling into a smile., Then I heard, ever so faintly, a Soft meeting of lips- There Was a f ause, and then ~ (Continued oil page 7)^^
go by.
Great Enthusiasm
The great enthusiasm evinced by all Ben B'riths and the wonderful spirit of co-operation displayed by the various committees of the three lodges in charge of the arrangements of this pic¬ nic, make certain the great' success looketl forward to by all the Jewish peo¬ ple' of Central Ohio, and one that will lin.cjer long in their hearts as -a repre¬ sentative I. O. B. B. event.
The  various   committees   are  headed by thc  following:  Brother Shaman  of Dayton, general chairman of thei affair; | Broljier ,Ebner of Springfield, chairman of     the     Transportation     Committee; Brother Goldzweig of Dayton, chairman of   the   Refreshments   Committee,   and Brother Weinfeld of Columbus, chair-' man of the Program Committee. tl   Local   Committee   on   Publicity   and Transportation—Jidius   Zeckhauser,   Al Schottenstein, Bert Wolman, I. B. Jash¬ enosky,  Abe  Segal,  Lawrence  Polster, Monte Block and Benj. Neustadt.
Program Committee —- A, B. Wein¬ feld, Leo Yassenoff, Roy' Frush, Lester Jacobs and Mose Schlessinger.
to bring about, the illegimate marriage of church and' state, whose offspring history informs us have rarely if ever been a credit or a'help to either parent.
Against Nationalism
"It is, therefore, not only a mistake, it is  a tragedy,  for Jews to seek for. recognition of Judaism as a political or (Concludid from page 4.)
Hungarian Torture Camp to be Qosed
BUDAPEST, (J, T. A.)—The in- ternment camp at Zalaegerszeg, the scene of so many depravities perpe¬ trated upon the prisoners, particularly the Jews, is about to be closed, if an ofR^ cial coinlmunique is to be trusted.
The decision to disband the camp is apparently due to the recent hunger- strike in which a majority of the inmates took part.       '
YALE LECTURER FLAYS
HARVARD'S ATTITUDE BOSTON.—Harvard's attitude - toward Jews was criticised by Rabbi L4>uis, L. Mann of New Haven, a lecturer at Yale, in a report on "The Relation of , Judaism to Democracy," pre¬ sented at a meeting of the Na¬ tional Council of ^Education.
"That the press, public opin¬ ion and the alumni of Harvard would not stand fo,r Harvard's recent attempt to bar Jews as Jews from the University," he said, "is as great a tribute to the soundness of American democracy as it is to the eter¬ nal shame of Harvard for at-. te,mptin^ it.
"If limitation of members is necessary such flualifications should be equally ai^licable to Catholic, Prbtestant and Jew. Harvard's attempt to imitate the czars of Russia would cre¬ ate for future generations the same, problems that old Russia created for this jieneration in -'Russia/' ,¦. ¦
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