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Volume V — No. 7
SWORDS ARE DRAWN BY POLICE ON MOB IN SERIES OF RIOTS
Jewish   Students   Barred^ From
Attendance at Universities
and High Schools.
RIOTERS CALL POLICE
CHIEF SLAVE OF JEWS
BUDAPEST (J. T. A.)—A scries of anti-Semitic disturbances continuing for several days occurred here, during which the police found it necessary to use drawn swords for the first time in years in combating the mobs.
The disturbances started March 15, when adherents of the ,Awakening Magyars, celebrating an anniversary of the Hungarian revolution of 1818, in¬ vaded the oflicc of the liberal paper Aaest, which has maintained a friendly attitude toward the Jews. Seven stu¬ dents were wounded when the police drove into the mob with swords.
The following day, Jewish students attending the Pressburg University were beaten up. The rioting stopped only after the arrival of the police. On March 17 the anti-Jewish students marched into the buildings of the news¬ papers Ssoasal and Anap singing anti- Jewish songs. Police again interfered, the students countering with eries that Chief of Police Bartha was "the slave of the Jews." The police then were ordei;ed to- charge into the crowd and several students were wounded.
Student Seriously Hurt
¦ .The University of Pressburg was picketed by anti-Jewish students and Jewish students man-handled. One Jew¬ ish student is in a serious condition at a hospital as a result. The authorities are having great difficulty in suppressing the disturbances owing to the attacks by a number of anti-Jewish leaders who are counted in the government party. ^ Pending, investigation by the govern- tneiit into the disorders of the past few days, starting with clashes between 'riotous students and the police, in which other factors now are becoming in¬ volved, all Jewish ^students have been
JERUSALEM OFFICIAL
ATTACKS ZIONISM
DETROfT (J. T. A.)-Charl6s Xsh- bec, the British architect who is' .serving as civil adviser to the city planning di¬ vision of the Jerusalcitl'municipality, de¬ clared in a sensational address before the students of the University of Michi¬ gan that the Jews were seeking to drive the Arabs out of Palestine and dom¬ inate tlic country. The present Zioni.st policy contradicts Wilson's fourteen points, he stated. Ashben charged also that the Balfour Declaration was "un¬ just".
Mr. Ashbce is regarded as a close friend of Governor Storrs of Jerusalem and his visit to Ann Arbor so soon after the Governor's visit at the home of Henry Ford is held by Jews here to be significant.
Jewish Immigrants Prosper in Mexico,
B'nai B'rith Reports
6^ Who Planned to Cross the Border Into U. S. Now Con¬ tented There.
B'NAI B'RITH RESULTS
MOST GRATIFYING
CHICAGO (J. T. A.)—Large num¬ bers of Jews who entered Mexico with intention of crossing into the States from there are now prospering in Mex¬ ico and entirely content to remain there. A report to this effect has been received by the'Independent! Order B'nai B'rith from Rabbi Martin Zielonka ¦ of El Paso, who conducted an investigation for the' order.
Want to Get JMIarried
In the last two years more than 800 of these Jewish immigrants have landed in Mexico, Rabbi Zielonka hears. "The only problem seems to be that all the young men want to get married, and from all conversations with them they want wives of their own nationality," writes Ed.. Saunders of El Paso, who has met the young men. ,
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What Has BeemueiW'Malting Pot?
By RABBI ABB-ft-iifylt-Va.^
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Some few days ago I rc-rcad Isr.-iol Zangwill's 'The Melting Pot,' and I am frank to acknowledge that this mas¬ terpiece, vvhich when it first .'ippcared in the days before the war, seemed'so real and true, now, on re-reading ic, seemed nliiiost grotesque. And I rather think that the author himsclfi were he to re- rend his work, would experience a sim¬ ilar reaction.
A few days ago, T read an article by Israel Zangwill, hi which he <.ays; "America, instead of holding fast tn fhe faith nnd spiritual vision of her found¬ ers, is hardening into a nationalism, .Ml the narrower for her physical breadth, add is falling back,for the solution of her problems upon the barbarous old methods, whose futility has already been proved to Europe."
When the immigration law was passed by an overwhelming vote in Congress, I suspected that there was sornething wrong with the theory of the 'meltiiig pot.' It was not the principle of re¬ strictive immigration that 'worried me. I Can readily understand that immigra¬ tion at times may be 'restricted as an economic expedient; but a new princi¬ ple was introduced into this law, Im¬ migrants were to be admitted not on the basis of .fitness or intelligence or char¬ acter, but on the basis of a percentage scheme, according to the number of na¬ tionals resident in this land in 1010, ,
Here was clearly a racial test which, with the .one exception in the case of Asiatics, had never been applied in' this country. That was ominous. Do you recall .what these champions of restric¬ tion said three years ago?, 'America is overcrowded and Europe is threatening to flood this land with hordes of im¬ poverished immigrants from the war- ridden centers of Europe. If wc do not shut our gates in time the American na¬ tion will be submerged in a tidal in¬ undation of the rifF-raff and the scum of Europe." . And "everybody became hysterically frightened.   ,
I never knew how sparsely settled this land of ours, is. and how perfectly ab
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iU)',ab''"'i thi.s inunigration restriction ik t^ih'jjhi\'i during tlie past two years X"RJ4(lv, n-nc skilled and unskilled la- li'J'^'T)'^ •»•('!.our slinri-s than arrived here. liui^a§'-.t]u 'past year some loO.OO/) ini- ,l|i!}f;4(!!i'i .Vume .iiid some 11:1.001) left, '4i5^.f*"11S-."loO,0!IO who came the nia- ifir,iV-:V,fVi; V)»oiiicii and children, ;itul of tiiOi»i»'\v!i(» left the inajority were men, 'fey-Wn'.v.'ho clisf th'j ditches and work i^ J^jk-'iaitics, who build  the  railroads
itnttjV^^,'"^'.'"''?''^V'''>"" who do the hard vJ.ifl^i&Tiie w-ork to which the native '4^i,ij«vi(:ati is no longer accustomed. So tJtiiJi^'i^Vt year there was .-ictually a sliort- .-(^{c^^fW •,tliirly JhoHS,ind laborers—a net Uvsijr-.During the past three months, the i(i)i^r. that came fell far below the ti&tfl^'pennifted to come. I suppose be- {p»>^jC;"i>fy'lo'iiB Wall Street will give the v/4fi{^^*'to, these restrictionists to "lay low''y because Wall Street, will soon ijecd more men to work in tiie steel mill's'"'and in the mines, and you will .BoWi'hc'ar the old cry again: "Welcome (0 t^'f; immigrant I" "fhe choice of the \Vot%„nrc coming to us bringing their lirEjnV,',;afi'd their brawn! . . . and all (liai^^ift/of thing.
V-r-riad'a' little worried about the melt- itig"'|^Ot' theory when the immigration !aw',',,Va:S passed, but I am startled—we sli ''t^Sre—when this same ¦ percentage ISiw,?th'is same racial test, was invoked lir'iifar different situation. When our Hniv^.ytics began to serve the spirit qf "(Md'JJcjV England instead of the spirit 9f' JiQW America, when thcy began to apiiljV','as tests for admission, not schol- ar.shjp '|0r character, but race and antc- eedq^lf.'and social qualifications, then I icnov^T-that thp melting pot thec-yvh^d, .ifoiialSIl awry.
' Jt.isT'yather futile'to go into the whys and.tbfe' wherefores' of this new phenoin- cnohsVnd.to dwell ¦ upon the pros and tons^jci'f.'the issue.    Granted   from
REJUVENATION METHOD OF JEWISH PHYSICIANS
NEW YORK (J. C B.)—The popu¬ larisation of the motliod of "rejuvena¬ tion" or the "retardation of the senile processes" originated by the Jewish sur- '?coii and biologist Eugcn Stcinach of Vienna is only a (jiiestion of time, both here and abroad, according to the New York limes.
This opinion i.s c.^prcsscd in a report in the 'limes felling of a Stcinach operi- lion pcrfornicd on Colonel IC. II. R. Green, millionaire son of Hetty'Green. The 'limes declares that the operatioii. pcrfornu'd sonit; time ago on Haroh'- McCorniick of Chicago wns also one of these operations and nol a glandular trans))lantafion as had been rumored.
SPIRITED DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON ZIONISM
Lord Grey Attacks and Devon¬ shire Champions Palestine ' Policy. '
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$3,500,000 and One and Half Year Effort Required
To Set Russian Jewry on Its Feet According to a Cable Just Re¬ ceived from Dr. Bogen.
RESPONSE TO PLEA RESTS WITH JEWS OF AMERICA
NEW   YORK—A   minimum  of   $3,- .500,000 and another year and a half of effort  will  be  required to  set  Russian Jewry on its feet, accordir-* to a cable just received by the Joint jJistribution Committee, from Dr.  Boris  F  ''''"gen, its   representative   in   that   c which he summarizes what I been don there with the ir tributed  by  the  Jews  of  j indicates the prospects for
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The following is the te> gen's cable:
"Moscow—I feel that t '?cn months' work of. the . bution Committee by sav of   adults   and   children through starvation and'epi
duce tne puiitis >.i.iii«.,.i .hhq mi, i.>tii;3- titie budget and the recent elections there was carried in the House of Lords, following a spirited controversy in which Lords Grey, Islington and Syden¬ ham attacked and the Duke of Devon¬ shire, Colonial - Secretary, defended, the British policy in Palestine.
Lord Grey's 'Version
Lord Grey, supporting Islington's mo¬ tion, declared the honor of Britain de¬ manded the publications of the papers in order to make the situation clear to- the world. Grey said that while he wa,s not antipathetic to Zionism, he deemed it necessary for England to Steer clear of all commitments in the East, includ¬ ing Palestine, where, he said, it was necessary to use force in order to main¬ tain the British rule.
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began, and Premier Bethlen went to Castle Gocollo to confer with Admiral Horthy, the regent, on the situation. The latest students' demonstration, in which street rowdies also became involved, resulted in a fatal encounter when a clerk who was attacked by university students shot and killed one of his assailants.
Population Terrorised
The peaceful population has been ter¬ rorized by the nightly patrob of stu¬ dents for the past week, the people for the most part refraining from going out oh the street, fearing insult and even bodily harm.
Meanwhile the steel workers from the plants, which recently began a lockout, have begun demonstrating and they clashed with the police outside the edi¬ torial offices of the Socialist newspaper Nepssava. The police charged with .drawn swords and a number of workers were seriously injured and taken to hospitals.
The situation has been aggravated by the continuous fall of the crown, which has declined 50 per cent in value since .March 1.
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VIENNA.—It is reported in Budapest that the leaders of the opposition have informed Prime Minister Count Bethlen that the students are preparing for re¬ bellion. Bethlen threatens to proclaim martial law if necessary.
"A definite program was adopted. The immigrant must leave the border and re¬ turn to the more .jKjpulous interior and there try to cam a living, since he could not cross into the United States for two years. The enforcement of this or¬ der was the cause of many letters to the Yiddish and general press detailing suf¬ fering and starvation. Since the prob¬ lem was one of permanent welfare of the immigrants, the B'nai B'rith re¬ mained firm, almost heartless in its en¬ forcement, and as a result comparatively few remained on the border, the others receiving transportation and cash^ for return to the interior.
The results have been most gratify¬ ing, continues Rabbi Zielonka. "Com¬ paratively few are now seeking admis¬ sion to the U. S. The majority of the men turn to peddling merchandise and are doing exceptionally well. Their re¬ lations with the Mexican merchants, too, leaves little to be desired.
"The work of the B'nai B'rith should convince the most scepticah that Mexico offers opportunity to immigrants willing to work, to suffer some privation and to settle in a strange environment. The opportunities are especially good for those whose relatives can give them a suilicient fund to start their business."
continent. We spent a day and a night —twenty-four hours—traveling in a straight line through one state I and for miles and' miles one scarcely saw a hu¬ man habitation. One begins to realize the immensity of this land and how eas¬ ily and in what comfort it can be made
bawgrorind of the pale and the ghetto and'poverty; granted that it would be helpful if less Jews followed academic careers and so crowdtd less the profes¬ sions—granted all these things, the startling fact still remains that Amer- (Conclftded on page 4.)
JEWISH STATE ONE
OF TWO GREATEST WAR ACHIEVEMENTS
eminent,   with   funds   supplied  by J. D. C.    .
the
HALF TRILLION
RUBLES FOR MATZOS
MOSCOW (J. T. A.)—A fund of a half a trillion rubles has been col¬ lected . by the Jewish Religious Soviet with urhich to buy Matzos for the poor. This sum, it is estimated will buy more Matzos than all the Russian bakeries, with their present comparatively limited facilities can bake.
ROYALTY AT
RABBI'S FUNERAL
BUCHAREST (J.. C. B.)-The Royal Family was represented at the funeral of Chief Rabbi Dr. Back of Bucharest on March 1. Among those present was M. Manu, the Minister for Religious Affairs, and many representa¬ tives of public bodies.
Rabbi Back was 77 years old. He was decorated by the King with the Cross of the Knights of Coreanus Romanei and was a Commander of the Order  "Steanua  Romanei",
NEW YORK, March 30 (Jewish Correspondence Bureau).—'When the history of the war comes to be impar¬ tially written the greatest results will be the establishment of the national Jewish homeland and the creation of the League of Nations. This opinion is ex¬ pressed in 'a statement issued by Lord Robert Cecil, the British statesman who is now in this country.
"The Jews, like all other peoples, must- expect opposition," continues Lord Ce¬ cil. "Pas not Great Britain enemies? Why worry? The Jews who have lived for 2,000 years in strange lands, must expect that somebne-.will attack them, but they shoiuld be proud of • the fact that they haive good friends, who will always be with them.
"My attitude towards the Jewish question is well ktiown. All know I am an adherent of the Balfour declaration, and I am little concerned with what the enemies of Zionism and the Jews have to say. It were better for the Jews to listen to their friends, to think more of the great historic opportunity which is theirs, rather than to listen to the Bca- verbrooks and others. It is most absurd to say that Zionism is dying. Zionism is synonymous vwith Judaism, and the Jewish people have had sufficient experi¬ ence to know that the opposition of its enemies serves only to strengthen it."
Negotiations are still pending vvith the J. D. C, according to Miss Seligsburg, president of the Hadassah. The "Joint" has not definitely decided the question of future subsidies to the Hadassah, Miss Seligsburg said.
A conference of the representatives of the various organizations concerned is now in prpgress, it is learned from .Morris Rothenberg of the Zionist Ad¬ ministrative Committee.
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WOUNDED IN POGROM
N. Y. WORLD COMMENTS ON ALUANCE OF FORD AND HEARST
NEW YORK (J. C. B.)—The New. York IVorld comments editorially on the story recently emanating from Washington blit first carried by the J. T. A., predicting that Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst are planning a coalition.of their political forces for the 1024 campaign.
"The theory back of Washington re¬ ports," says the IVorld, "is that after Mr. Ford has been qliminated by the Democratic National convention, Mr, Hearst already being eliminated,. they will inst|ncttyely turn towards a third party.
"Just as present," says the IVorld, "Mr. Ford seeins to be exploiting the Ku Klux theory of perfect American¬ ism, while Mr. Hearst leans heavily to¬ wards the hyphenated vote when it can be organized and made useful, but the gap can be bridged by any competent political engineer.
"The coalition," the World declares, would be of great help in clarifying the political issue of 1024. Everybody who was discontented and did not know what he wanted would have a pleasant politi¬ cal home," it concludes.
HADASSAH MAY BE FORCED TO CLOSE HOSPITALS
VIENNA (J. T. A.).—Forty-five are reported wounded in the anti-Semitic disturbances which have been going on rhe past several days in Roumania.   '.   ]
The anti-Semites first besieged a Jewish theatre in Bucharest where '.American Jevvish actors were perform¬ ing and brutally assaulted Jewish the¬ atre goers and passersby. According to reports the government has finally de¬ cided to take steps to end the riots, fear¬ ing the unsavory impression the disor¬ ders will create outside of Roumania. (In view of the brevity of the above Bucharest cablegram despite the se¬ riousness of the disturbances described, the J. T. A. is of the opinion that re¬ ports are being censored by the Rouma¬ nian government. The seriousness of '.the situation is confirmed by the cable gram from Vienna).
Distribution Coiuu	
establishment of friendly relations be¬ tween the Jews and the non-Jews. It has also gained the appreciation of the govemment by the fair 'and unpreju¬ diced manner in which it has conducted its affairs. Last year 1,000,000 people in the Ukraine and White Russia were helped through the Joint Distribution Committee. Of these, 843,000 were fed in 2,712 kitchens, 08,000 children were fed in 1,08.5 institutions. Our appro¬ priation of $375,000 for special Jewish work aided 50,000 and through the spe¬ cial appropriation for feeding by the Y. M. H. A. in conjunction with the Y. M'. C. A. provided food for 10,000 students. "Furthermore, medical supplies and food were placed at the disposal of 411 hospitals, 213 dispensaries and 208 other health institutions serving 50,000 pa- ricnts ' daily.. ' It provided clothing to 70,000 persons. Our work included also '^jt'.ie equipment of ruined institutions and special relief work was done with the assistance of such legalized organiza¬ tions as the 'Idgezkom,' the 'ORT,' the
clares the fight in the House pf Lords imperils the cause of Zionism. It, charges that a number of British troops recently sent to Bagdad died on the journey owin.g to the long marches and bad roads. Much space is also given in the E.vpress to the survey of Pales¬ tine issued by United States Department of Commerce, prepared by Consul Southard. Qiarging that the views ex¬ pressed by Southard are too optimistic, it states that even this report expresses doubt as to the country's agricultural and industrial resources. The West¬ minster Gazette also devotes much space to the debate, featuring the attack by Lord Grey. The Daily Mail reports the debate under the heading "The Pales¬ tine Danger".
JERUSALEM (J. T. A.)—A serious financial stringency is facing the Ha¬ dassah, with the curtailment of many of the activities of the organization looming unless some way is found of covering the accumulating deficit.
The Hadassah may be forced to close all of its hospitals with the exception of the Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem, The crisis is the result of the discon¬ tinuance by the Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee of its subsidies. The Keren Hayesod, too, is not supplying enough to rehabilitate its crippled finances. The sanitation work of the hospitals is now being performed by the Palestinian gov-
AMERICAN WOMEN, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, NEED KLAN PROTECTION
CLEVELAND, O.  (J, T. A.)—For-
NAMES DELEGATES
TO WORLD MEETING
JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY RESPONSIBLE FOR 125 BOOKS
;>|EW YORK (J. C. B.)—The Coun¬ cil of Jewish Women has named four delegates to the World Confe'rence of Jewish Women's Organizations to be held in Vienna May Gth to llth.
En route there, the delegates will visit the principal port cities of Europe and .study employment and housing condi¬ tions affecting detained emigrants and refugees.
The delegates are Mrs. Alexander Kohut of New York, Mrs. Nathaniel E. Harris, Bradford, Pa., Estelle M. Stern¬ berger, and OeciHa Razovsky, New York.
PHILADELPHIA (J. T. A.)—The Jewish Publication Society has issued 125 books during its existence, attaining a total of 1,300,000 copies, Simon Mil¬ ler, president of the Society, declared at the thirty-fifth annual meeting held Sunday. The Society will issue next fall a selection of the first poems of Solomon Ion Gabriol. The text was edited by Professor Israel Davidson and translated into English by Israel Zang will.
"Jews must produce a literature that will educate Jews to know themselves
Jews," Mr.  Miller declared in his ad¬ dress.
The following were elected officers: President, Simon Miller, Philadelphia; First Vice-President, Adolph S, Ochs; Second Vice-President, Horace Stern; Treasurer, Henry Fernberger; Secre¬ tary, George Dobsavage, and Dr, B. Halper, Editor,
The Socipty has issued the "The Feet of the Messenger," a volume of travels through Palestine by the Jewish poet Yehoash (Solomon Bloomgarden). The English version is the work of Isaac
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