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Says Average Jewish Girl Lacks Religion; Thinks Only of "Jazz" Mrs. Caroline Benjamin, Educator, Says Only Cheap Music and Movies Appreciated in "Bank Book" Homes. Special to "THE JEWISH PRESS." New York, July 20.—The average Jewish girl looks upon religion as a "kill-joy" and thinks of music in the terms of "Jazz", according to Mrs. Caroline S. Benjamin, -well known woman educator of this city. Mrs. Benjamin is nationally known as an educator of girls and has been actively identified with the Council of Jewish Women and its work. In her address on "The Council of Jewish Women and The Jewish Girl", she said: "Knowing well the Jewish^ girl, her attainments and the lack of the same —her sins of commission and'omission, I am forced to conclude that the \ various Sections of the Council and its members and the mothers at large have left undone a most vital, wonderful, essential work, a most splendid field untilled, unsown—hence a rather sterile result , . "I shall only speak of one appalling lack—which to my mind spells the Tinfulnllment of the whole law/and •the; prophets—all other omissions are more commentary. I refer to the atrophy in the Jewish girl of a religious sense in general and a Jewish religious sense in particular. ! "The average Jewish _ girl looks upon religion, which should be considered and was considered by our forebears as the very joy and main spring of life, as a kill joy. Thismay be applicable to the ^average young girl or person in general, but we* - are concerned now-only •with the Jewish; girt W.£r.George^ t h e ; English novelist,, said he noticed a belief amounting almost to a religion 4hat the young American girl must have a good time. And: this : seems true. For this her whole scheme of life is planned her clothes, her amusements, her light accomplishments. "Religion^ responsibility, restriction, are not the three E's to be cultivated in her curriculum", but are sacrificed on fiie altar of good times—good times at any cost, good food at any price, good clothes at the tailor's price, cheap shows at a high , price, good effort at no price. The Bank Book rules. • *Tbis is fostered by over-indulgent parents—the good mother without vision, and the poor father, so busy in the persuit of the wherewithal to pay for these pastimes, that his role in the scheme of home is that of the useful if not ornamental cash register, his right hand often cramped from frequent signature — lower right. What sort of atmosphere is. thus created? A home often where ths only book discussed is the bank book —the only music appreciated, the Jazz, the only • picture • viewed, the : movie. • : "I once wrote, to about forty-five heads of the best girls' schools in the country, asking their attitude as to receiving Jewish, girls and their candid reasons for rejecting them. It was not their criticism of the Jewish girls' love of display and lack of control of emotipns, appetites, etc., that impressed me, because this is applicable to other girls to a more or less degree, but what impressed me and depressed me was their criticism on the Jewish girl's not bringing a Bible withjher to school, not "bowing the head ^nd bending the knee* in prayer, not thinking that attendance at religious service should be a natural part of her life. We cannot be cultured without religion." MISSIONARIES PLAN CAMPAIGN IN PALESTINE AND EUROPE. London. (J. T. Agency.) The con, gress of British Missionaries held • here has decided on an intense campaign among Jews in Palestine and ; Central Europe. A special commit| tee has been dispatched to those places to study the situation and the possibilities of success. ;
Another Attack on Jewish Passengers in Poland. Warsaw. (J. T. Agency.) Jewish train passengers were attacked and beaten at the railroad station ia Tchernow, Galicia. Samuel Sheinberg, Wolf Potole, and Jajjs^&sssfS s s r e
SEEK RELATIVES. Rudolph Streit, Backengasse 52, Trappau, Czecho-Slowakei, is seeking the whereabouts of Wilhelm Streit, South Auburn, Nebr., and Sheina-Roche HandLatvia is seeking the present ler, Petrograder St. 58, Dwinsk, Latvia is seeking the present whereabouts of Anna Paje Greenberg, Nevinsville, la., according to the Joint Distribution committee. The American addresses listed here was the last known. If you know the present whereabouts of those being sought write to the Editor, Jewish Press.
Found no lush to America Hebrew Society. Aid Says Conditions Abroad* Are Exaggerated. Immigration conditions abroad have been exaggerated and there is no con* certed rush of foreigners eager to come to the United States, says Jacob Massel, who for eighteen months has been Commissioner of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society in Europe. Mr. Massel, who directed the work of reuniting Jewish families separated in.the war, submitted a rport of his activities at a meeting under the auspices' of'the society in Cooper Union. Mr. Massel said that conditions were not at all" so bad as pictured in reports to Congress. European Jews had no desire to leave tbeir native countries. Those" coming here were generally wives and children or other close relatives of "persons already established in this country. - Mr. Massel took a hopeful view of the future, saying that European Jewry soon would be in a position to take care of its own problems. AH that would be necessary for the Jews here to do would be to exfeud a ielping hand, he tolu his audience of 3,000.
Court Bdes Against State language Bill Fremont; Neb.,"July 21.—The case is in which: the German evangelical Lutheran syno'd of Missouri seeks to enjoin the governor. and Attorney General of Nebraska from enforcing the Reed-Norval act on the grounds, that the law is unconstitutional will be tried on its merits at some future date in the Dodge county district court.. ;: • ' The action was started in the Platte county, district court were the synod secured a temporary injunction restraining the state "from preventing the teaching of the German language and the hearing for a permanent order came up this morning in the Dodge county court with Judge F. W. Button on the bench. The state sought to show-that a court of equity was not the proper place for a hearing and was overruled on its demurer that there was no cause for action so that the case stands just were it did before. . ,-..-...
DENTAL STUDENT IS GIVEN JEWISH BURIAL Ann Arbor. - Louis Rosenberg, 22 years old, a senior dental student of Pretoria, South Africa, -died here on July 8 and was buried in the Machphelah Cemetery, Detroit, on July 13, Rabbi Harry Z. Gordon officiating. The deceased was given a Jewish burial at the request of- Dean Effinger of the Literary College, who got in touch with Nathaniel Gbldstick of Detroit and asked him to arrange matters for such burial. Mr. Rosenberg spent two years at the. Capetown University and was at the University of Michigan the past year. He was sick"24 hours.
Jews Repulse Polish Soldiers. Warsaw. (J. T. Agency.) A body of Polish soldiers sent to Tchenstiachava to restore order after an attack there on Jews waiting at the railroad station, themselves participated in attacks upon the Jewish inhabitants of the town, and desisted ^only when the Jewisiiyouth of the vicinity organized and drove them from the streets and houses which they had already begun to pillage. -•'•,.
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Faith Needed as Preached by Hebrews By VICE-PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE. F I WERE PREACHING A SERMON to my fellow Americans I should take for my subject some text from the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, for therein lies the explanation of our past accomplishments and our future expectations. Whether you touch the mountain peaks of- our history or examine the foundations from which they have been- raised, you will find everywhere they have been the result of faith. Whatever builds up and incrases that faith increases the breadth of our civilization. Whatever tears down and destroys that faith turns us back toward barbarism. No one could •watch the developments on earth of the" past seven years without realizing- that the margin of safety is not so broad as it had before appeared. There is apparemrto all of us a greater need of that eternal vigilance which they tell us is the price of liberty. There is always a place for fair discussion, but destructive criticism- alone and the spirit which animates it produces no progress. It is time to turn our eyes not to the weakness of our institutions bat , to their strength. The Pilgrims of 1620 did not appear to be a very remarkable body of people but their pastor, John Robinson, had faith in them. That faith has given to him a place in history, while those who scoffed have been long since forgotten. The ragged band who gathered around Washington in that terrible winter at Valley Forge had very little of the appearance of a conquering
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army, yet Washington had faith in them which has made him the foremost American. There were times when both forces in the field and the public sentiment of the country looked like anything but a strong support of President Lincoln, but his abiding faith saved North and South alike and reunited the nation for the great work that lay before i t Tt is time to turn our attention from those who criticize and destroy to those who have confidence, and build. There is little advantage in dwelling upon the imperfections of our government and its administrators or our social order and its management. It is lime to look not at our disadvantages but our advantages. It is time for that courage and confidence which has been the • characteristic of Americans. It is time for- the exemplification of that abiding faith which, has wrought the wonders of our civilization, which amid changes changes not, and out of weakness is made strong. It is time to renew our faith in the homely things of life, in thrift and industry and in the virtues which, have always centered around the American fireside. The true civic center of our municipalities will be found not in some towering edifice, with stately approaches, nor in broad ' avenues flanked by magnificent mansions, but around the family altar of the American home, the source of that strength which has marked our national character, where above all else is cherished a faith in the tilings not seen.
Gives Two Million to Poland tames Czarisf Spargo Sees Peril in Poland Rothschild French Institute. Paris. (J. T. Agency.) Lord EdPresent Policy mund Rothschild yesterday announced Calls oa Senators to Procure Information on Lithuania Boundary Dispute. Passage by the United States Senate of a resolution asking the State Department for information concerning the boundary dispute between Poland and Lithuania is urged . by John Spargo in letters to. Senators •Henry <Jabot Lodge-of Massachusetts and Frank B. Brandegee of Connecticut, made public recently. Mr. Spargo writes that he considers the situation fraught with peril, and says he believes the passage of the resolution suggested will not violate proprieties, and by indicating the interest of the United States will prevent a precipitate decision in favor of Poland at the League of Nations meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Spargo expresses that no one in the Senate has brought up the matter* and believes that the Government of this country is vitally interested in the dispute, notwithstanding it is not a member of the League of Nations and has not recognized "Mthuania. Without going into the arguments, Mr. Spargo, who says he has for years sympathized with the Polish aspirations for independence, says he can see no justice in the claims of Poland, particularly for the City of Viljia, which he considers as historically associated with Lithuania, both'as to its culture and economic life. ' Another matter which should receive immediate attention, he adds, is the neutral zone established by the League, which he charges the Poles : have violated. ~ "According to most trustworthy information which has come to me," Mr. Spargo continues, "the Poles have deliberately and systematically violated this neutrality, behaving much as they did in Upper Silesia. Indeed, according to my information, the situation is rapidly becoming critical. Altogether there is a most dangerous situation to be faced. "I assume that it is quite likely that the League of Nations will decide in favor of Poland. This it will probably do not because of any conviction of the righteousness of the Polish claim but rather because of a desire to. reach some sort of a settlement. •'•••_' t • "I take it that the central principle of American foreign policy is the speedy and, if possible, permanent pacification of Europe. Anything which tends to prolong the turmoil, and especially compromise settlement? wfiich hold the possibilities ofv further wars in the near future, must ol necessity be discountenanced by the •United States. As : one of the principal great powers of the world we have a legitimate interest and duect concern in the matter."
"JOINT" CONVENES SANITATION .-•.-.- Joins Hartman Staff CONFERENCE. Ben M. Tatle has. joined the Warsaw. (J., T. Agency.) T)T* Smith of America; and^Drs. Plotz and staff of the office furniture"'departFreund have left here for Cracow ment of the Hartman Furniture where they will participate in a con- Company. ference .on-samtationwork>5sMch the Mr. Tatle was formerly associated Joint Bistributioii Committfcs -' has*
an additional 6gift of two million _ -,. ,. . ~ . , , . ,., ___ , , , . Jews Mragglmg m \ a m for Givic francs to the French Academy of „=_»_*_ ._ . *_ •*Rights Assured by New Science. Several weeks ago he grave Natioas. four million francs for the establishment of a new institute for the New York. (J. C. B.) The 'Nastudy of the exact sciences. His latfolj tion" of this est donation goes for the improve-!. ., week ... comments , _ in i . . ,, T , •-, „ ,f , ,;lows on the position of Jews Europe especially in viesr of recent ment of the London Gollege attached | T , . „ . . . developments in certain of the Eastto the Academy. E u r o p e a n •-•countries.
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Advocate Contributing "Flow® Money" to Charity in Name of Deceased Person.
A nation-wide movement to indue* Jewish men and women to refrais from sending flowers to houses oi mourning but instead to contribute the "flower money" to some charitj in the name of the person who dies is gaining much popularity. In Omaha, following the death os J. H. Green, well known merchant Jewish Women Outraged Before many such contributions were received by the Jewish Welfare Fede •* Being Murdered. ration. The same was time followinj The White Russian rebels are re- the death of Emil Rothschild, graft sponsible for the massacre of a isum- man. Hardly a week passes that sev. ber of Jews. At Shatzki six Jews eral such contributions are not re•were Miled. At Omelna two Jews ceived. Following the receipt of th« were drowned. At Starigora, nineteen contribution, an embossed card u persons, mainly Jews, were executed. mailed advising the family of th«. At Minsk, forty-one persons, nearly deceased that the contribution to all Jews, were killed. At MohilefT a charity in the name of the decetised hundred and eighty Jews were killed, has been recorded and the name oi and Witebsk fifty-seven Jews, includ- the donor is given. ing Dr. Eisenstadt, were murdered. In regard to the tribuU About three hundred Jews lost their fund, Jacob Billikopf, the well knowc lives at Starfbuchow,. Orsha, Osipo- social worker, recently said: vitch, Ihumen, Tatarza, Bobruisk, Has ai^one attempted to estimate Borisoff Luban and Smolevitchi. how much is spent annually for flowThe Jewish teacher Mr. Anton Mar- ers •which go to houses of mourning, cus was murdered by an officer and Surely, the sum total must amoun! thrown into the Danube. His fiancee into high figures. The floral, 'expresattempted to revenge his death by sions of sympathy are placed wpos shooting the officer but was seized the bier and the grave and rernaie and dishonored. She is now insane. their until they wither and decay, A group of anti-Semites also attacked Only for 0. few fleeting hours do the? Jews in the streets and molested Jew-' give of their fragrance and then thcsy isn guests at hotels some of whom! die. Could not the money which p«rtbey flogged. i chased them have been expended m s Near Lingoin, a company of officers better sad more fitting and soldiers met a Jewish -wedding ..Could procession The soldiers attacked the "Just consider for a moment precession, Sogged all the men, and could be done with the hundreds oi outraged all the women. In addition, thousands which are expended a* they alsc robbed all present. nually for flora! expressions of symA few thousand soldiers of General pathy alone. The money conld be Wrangfel's fermer Crimean Force utilized to help muci;-neede(J hoswere brought to Tunis. The govern- pitals, orphanages, sanatoria and ment squealed to the factory ovmers neighborhood centers in our overt© Cud places for them. In many crowded metropolitan areas. In othei factories the Jews were dismissed and words, these large sums, which anex-soldicrs were put in their places. nually fade away with the perfume of billions of dying- roses, lilies-ofthe-valley, narcissus and carnations grouped about the caskets of deceased loved ones, could be utilized to mend thousands of broken lives and thus II establish real, vital monuments to the A commission of the Hebrew Shel- dead. Deceased relatives in the next tering and Immigrant Aid Society of world would be happier if they knew* America left for Mexico. The Com- that the equivalent of their funeral mission is composed of Judge Leon flower bill has been used to help some Sanders, chairman, and Abraham Her- poor little cripple or some forlorn man, members of the board of direct- mother. ors of the society, and Louis S. GottIn an address delivered in Chicago lieb, the society's Washington repre- some years ago, Mr. Julius Rosenwald sentative. said: Grief C01r.es to All. The decision to send a commission "Every one of us must face the was arrived at in view of the fact that time when grief and sorrow touch many# immigrants who have gone to the welisprings of our tenderest Mexico were illegally entering t\.\ sympathy, when death robs us of United States. These have been arthe comfort and companionship of restad and were in danger 6f being those near and dear to us. Dursent back to Europe or might be shot ing such sad hours for others we while crossing the border. The Detry to console the bereaved. Our partment of Labor suggested that the attentions usually take the form Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant that custom has established— Aid Society of America send such a commission. j floral tributes. Mr. John L. Bernstein, the presi"But this custom indulged in dent, states that for some weeks past so lavishly has resulted in an exnegotiations had been conducted with travagent waste of money. the Mexican government and that Thousands of dollars spent for Judge Sanders had had a conference funeral flowers should be diverted with the Mexican ambassador in to a more beneficial purpose." Washington who said that his govRecently, upon the death of his ernment would look with favor upon mother—a .remarkable woman—Mr. prospective immigrants. The Commission will remain, in Rosenwald announced that no flowers MP/SJCO as long as will be necessary would be accepted at the funeral. He and its chief purpose will be to put added, however, that those who an end to the illegal entry of im- wished to do something in his mother's memory make contributions to migrants into fee United States. charity. As a result of this suggestion, thousands of dollars were donated to charity by persons all over ths B'NAI B'RITH LODGE country.
Jews Still Victims
"The situation of the Jews in Europe continues deplorable and should not be permitted to fade from i the consciousness of civilized men. More. than 400 children enjoyed j They are struggling in vais for the themselves at the first annual picnic j civic rights assured them by constitugiven by the City Talmud Torah tions or treaties in Roumania, EsthoThursday, at Krug park. The child-1 ma, and Latvia, and the Ukraine is ren met early Thursday morning at still the scene of frequent though the Talmud Torah school. Each of sporadic massacres. The area of antithe children was supplied with a [Semitic infection, furthermore, is large horn, which they used to good constantly spreading. The press esadvantage in the line of march from tablished by the Russian emigres with the school building to Cuming street, propaganda centres in Sophia, Conwhere they, boarded our special cars. stantinople, Belgrade, and actual poThe afternoon was spent in play- j grom organs—for the first time in ing games, and watching special history—in Berlir., London, and even swimming exhibitions. The following Yokohoma ,are seeking malignantly pupils received prizes in the various to saddle all the troubles of the races and contests that were held: world upon the Jewish people. Ralph Finkenstein, Freida Weiner, "The Republic of Poland is, in this Sam Weiss, Rose Mendel, Louis Mos- matter, in the lead and is rapidly besier, Lina Delrotie, Sadie Wolk, Sam coming a substitute for Czarist RusFerer, Sarah Weiner, Bessie Haspel, sia. The Jewish disabilities inherited Paul Steinberg, Sam Jorinsky. from the Russian regime are not reThe following committee were in voked. The Tribuna of Warsaw charge of the pupils: John Feldman, •frankly admits the pogrom propaganchairman, Mrs. P. Sher, chairman, da of the Polish priests, whose atwoman's committee; Mrs. A Romm, titude is exemplified by a certain Mrs. B .A. Simon, Mrs. S. Neveloff, Father Lutoslavsky's pronouncement Mrs. H. Levy, Mrs. A. Weiss, Dr. P. that 'only genuine anti-Semites are Sher, N. S. Jaff e, J. Gordon, Henry properly qualified to deal with the Monsky, B. A. Simon and the teach-! Jews in the name of the Polish peoers of the respective classes of the pie.' Thus anti-Jewish excesses are of daily occurrence and bear with an Talmud Torah. especial and tragic force upon the Jewish Deputies Protest Against Jews in the German communities of Posen accustomed -for many years to New Excesses. . Warsaw. (J. T. Agency.) Another full civic rights and unquestioned soattack on Jewish train passengers is cial standing. On Sunday, June 19, reported from Oschweizen, East Gali- street demonstrations took place in cia. Deputy Greenbauni and the other the cities of the province for the purJewish Seim Deputies have forwarded pose of preventing Poles, on punishto the1 Ministry of Interior an ex- ment of death, from dealing with haustive report on the many recent Jews or Germans. In Bromberg the attacks on Jews who travel on Polish Jews, many of whom have lived in trains. It appears that these attacks the city for generations, were threatare part of the economic war upon ened with expulsion within three days Jewish interests and are calculated to and the police with difficulty premake it impossible for Jewish mer- vented the destruction of the local chants to travel from place to place synagogue. To anyone familiar with conditions in that part of the world in pursuit of their affairs. such occurrences in the city of Bromberg will bring home, as few other JEWISH SHIPS CARRY IMMIGRANTS TO things can, the inhuman recklessness HAS NEW DEPARTMENT PALESTINE of the territorial shuffling and Constantinople. (J. T. Agency.) gambling of Versailles—which some The Independent Order of B*nai A Jewish merchant of this city by the Americans still insist we should ap- B'rith has secured the services of name of Mazza, has purchased sixteen prove." Elkan C. Voorsanger to take charge English steamships and has placed of its recently organized War Orthem on the Mediterranean Sea to RABBI ARRESTED FOR phans Bureau, Mr. Voorsanger will CROSSING FRONTIER carry Jewish immigrants from MediWarsaw. (J. T. Agency.) Rabbi also manage the Order's National terranean ports to Jaffa and Haifa. The first of these steamers, renamed Aaronson of Kiev who fled from Lyceum Bureau, which will supply "Zion" left Alexandria today with Ukrainia and crossed the Polish fron- lecturers to lodges and Jewish tier subsequent to the issuance of the organizations generally, and, in coseveral hundred immigrants. ; Polish government order, closing the operation with, the Anti-Defamation POLAND TO HAVE SPECIAL JEW- frontiers to refugees, was arrested League, will establish courses of ISH DEPARTMENT. and is about to be returned, desp;te lectures on Jewish subjects in Warsaw. (J.'T. Agency.) The Pol- the assurance that was given by the schools and colleges. He will also ish Cabinet has announced its decision Governor of Litsk District that he cooperate with Mr. Sidney G. Kusto create, shortly, a special depart> would be -permitted -to enter tise worm, .the* Director of Americanist* tjoa, in exteadiag the scoops ment for Jewish affairs whicH .'will be country, beeagge
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Interrenes for Jews In Hungary, Warsaw. J* T. Agency.) Representatives of the American Joint Distribution Committee here yesterday apprpached the Polish Foreig^Minister with » view of preventing the internment of Polish-Jewish refugees now in Hungary, and requested taa government to furnish individual car* tificates of origin for the refugees m that they might be able to return to their homes in Poland. The Hungarian authorities - have announced that unless .the refugees, many. «fc then* homeless, and dependent? immediately, xeiaoved from
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