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95°/ ( of all Jewish People of Denver read the (C Denver Jewish News.’ Mr. Advertiser , Have You a message for them?
Denver Jewish News
Voi. vm.
Immigration Bill Drafted
KESSMAN SIEHEL TO CON
'{ WITH JEWISH I.EAIIEKS
. \l<l)l.N(i SITt'.VnON.
limnigrationisls Prepare Separate
II Reducing Annual Quota to 100
r C«*nl. Monllil) Quota to Ten Per
nil, anil Providing for Carrying of
'iffy Per Cenl of Immigrants on
inerican Ships*
(J. C. I*. Service)
;\’n siting! on — Further infornfatlon
Joined by your Correspondent coil*
•ruing what transpired at the Exe
at ive meeting of the Immigration
oininittee regarding the new immigra
tion rest riel ion aiming to reduce; the
quota to two per rent reveals the fact
that the chairman and other propon
ents of the idea have changed their
intentions of submitting it in the
form of an amendment to the Ship
Subsidy ltill. iKH-attse they four that
opposition of liberal immigrat ionists
t«» the bill ori that ground would im
perial tlie entire bill, which the ad
ministration is very anxious to rush
through. Instead, they have decided
■ a the audacious plan of introducing
an entirely separate bill which is now
a I reiuly before the lin migration com
mittee known as the "Percentage Im
migration Hill."
Besides tin* reduction feature tin*
bill carries tin* half and half plan of
% transporting immigrants on American
ships and the reduction of monthly
quota from twenty t«» ten per cent.
Asked if there Is real danger in the
situation, friends of immigration point
ed t«i the fact that if the antUimmi
gralionists were not in earnest they
would not in this hot weather have
gone to the trouble of preparing an ,
elaborate new bill with the reduction
proviso as its main feature after Much |
recent passage of extension act.
Congressman Siegel stated ho In-j
tends to lie in Xow York the latter
pan of the week to confer regarding
the situation with Jewish leaders. 11.- ,
said friends would he much hampered j
in light if they would not have tin* j
immediate support from Jews thruout |
tin* country.
JEWISH SABBATH REORGANIZED
IN UPPER SILESIA.
(J. It. Svrvirc)
Warsaw—A speelal paragraph «»f
eomern to tin* .1 ewlsh eonitnunity has
Ik'oii Iho1ik1«m1 in tin* Treaty recently
negotiated between Cermnny nntl Pol
and regarding T'pper Silesia. Ib»th
(ioveriillionlji pledge to bold no elec
tions on tin* Jewish Sabbath. and Jews
are not to snfTer by loss for refusing
t< appear in Court on the Sabbath.
The Governments further undertake
to respect the Sabbath in all rases ex
cepting military requirements.
KING'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
POSTPONED BECAUSE OF SHEVUOTH.
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jerusalem Hccnnse flu* (Jovcrninent
had decided to postpone the celebra
tion iii I'll lest i in* of Kins CJeorge's
I irthday to June to permit the
Jews to take part in the exercises, the
Arahi" Cluh lodged a vigorous protest
declaring the iwstponenient shows the
extent of the Zionist power.
HEDJAZ KING AIDS ARAB DELEGATION
(J. C. H. Service)
1/Mldon Kinil Hussein of Hodja*
h:is emitributed two thousand pounds
to tin* maintenance of t In* Palestine
Anil> Delegation abroad. Tlio Hodjuz
King, who is tin* father of Ktnir Folsul,
i« not formally associated with the
aims of the Arab delegation, and his
contribution towards their expense is
understood to be an expression of
bis sympathy and interest in the strug
gle of certain Arab leaders against the
T’.ritisli (Joveinment's Zionist policy.
TO TRY COLONIZATION IN
BRAZIL.
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Warsaw Tin* Jewish Colonization
Association has offered to oolonizo in
nnnsil fifteen families of Jewish ref
ugees from the T’kraltio. the Jewish
I'migrntlon Association has been in
formed.
'file settlers will he provided with
fifty hectares nf woodland, each, a
house and the - necessary implements
and equipment. If tlie experiment,
which is to he conducted at one of
(lie ••Tea” colonies in ltraz.il proves
successful more families will be in
vited to settle.
THINK HISTORY PROFESSOR
RESPONSIBLE FOR HARVARD
ANTI-JEW “DRIVE.”
Animosity Against Imw Family H f *-
eause of Alleged lulhunrc of Jus
tiro ISniudcis. Judge Mark anil
Professor Frankfurter.
(J. C. n. Service)
Poston--Professor Huger It. Merri
-111:111 is held to lie responsible for the
move in tin* Harvard faenlty !«• limit
the number of Jewish students, it is
learned on good authority. Professor
Merriman. who is teaching history, has
long been known, it is said for his
hostility to Jews,
That the majority of the faculty do
not share Professor Merrimiui's ani
mus is shown by the attitude of such
a teacher as Professor Lyons. head of
the Semitic Department, who is also
Honorary President of the Harvard
Menorah Society. It is believed that
Professor Lyons was instrumental in
cheeking the movement started by Pro
fessor Merriman.
The discord at Harvard is said to
be traciallile to the animosity ot mem
bers of the faculty against flic faculty
oft Law. which it is alleged, is in
tluemssi by such alumni as Justice
iSrandeis. Judge Mack and Professor
Frankfurter. Reactionary professors
assert that the la\v faculty is unduly
impressed by the views of these and
other "Jewish liberals.’*
Prejudice against the Jew is not
confined to Cambridge alone univers
ity men declare. Cornell and Yale not
being free of the anti-semitic germ.
Some speak even of ,an organized con
spirney against Jewish students at
many great American) universities as
"y reverberating echo of Fordism.”
FAMINE STRICKEN MOB PLUNDERS FOOD TRANSPORT.
(J. C. B. Service)
Itiga—A food transport consigned by
the American Itcticf Administration
to tint Volga region was sebced. and
its contents plundered by a famine
stricken moli. at Tsnritskin. advic-es
from there state.
CONTRACTS SIGNED FOR $700,000.
NEWARK YM AND YWHA BUILDING.
The contracts fur the work of con
struction of tin* now building of tho
Voting Men's mid Young Womon’s Ho.
hrow Association of Newark. N. •!.
wore fipprovod and signed at n moot
ing of the Board of Trustees hold on
Wednesday evening. May .‘list. The
plans call for a total expenditure of
over $700.000.. which sum includes the
cost of the lot. the construction of
the building, and the equipment. Work
will begin on Monday. June sth. and
will be finished in 12 months.
EXCEUTIVES OF JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS, Y. M. H. A'S.
Y. \\\ H. A.’s. educational alliances
Hebrew Institutes, ami kimlml or-,
i ganizntions. to the number of seventy-
live, ami from every part of the I’nited
States, will participate in tin* fourth
annual conference of the National As-
J soe hit ion of Jewish Community Cen
ter Sccrctarion, to lie held 1n the
I Hotel Hilt more. Providence, lb I
June 18th to 21st inclusive. One of
ilie lending features of the program
is an address'to lie delivered at a pub
lic meeting which will lie held on
Tuesday evening, the 20th instant by
Justice Irving Lehman of* the New
York Supreme Court, ami president
of the Jewish Welfare Hoard.
The National Association of Jewish
Community Center Secretaries aims to
develop a scientific body of informa
tion for Jewish center workers. Every |
person doing Jewish community cen
ter work in an executive capacity is j
eligible to membership. Philip !«. Sc
man. encral Director of the Jewish
People’s Institute, of Chicago, is presi
dent.
Some of the subjects that; will lie
presented at this conference are: The
Jewish Center Idea and Program by j
Philip L. Seman : tlie program of the
i Jewish Welfare Hoard by Harry L. j
i Clueksman: citizenship activities in
the Jewish Center (speaker to be an
i nounced) : Professional Status of
Jewish Center Workers, by Dr. Julius
Drachsler. New York: Principled and
i procedure of Jewish Community Con
ter Campaigns by Michael' A. St a
i 1 ritsky.
These and other questions relevant
to the work of the Jewish Community
j Center and.similar institutions will be
the subject of discussion by all who
i will participate in the conference.
OPINIONS
Personal * Local - National * International
Is Mrs. McPherson a Faker
Or Is She Inspired
Greatest Wonder of World To
day Is That There Are No
Wonders. Man Today Is Great
er Than the Gods of the
Ancients
«HIS is the first time a
newspaper has attempted
an analysis of the phe-
T
nomena of the spirit world and
faith healing which are closely j
related and spring from the,
same source. The great think
ers of' the past time and again
complained of “the veil thru
which I might not see.”
They all felt the existence of
some force that influenced their
work. They were moved as was
Jacob, struggling with the God
head, to demand an explanation
of the mysteries hidden behind
the mist which the human mind
is now slowly penetrating.
Goethe expressed their atti-j
tude when he declared there are j
things between heaven and earth'
of which we mortals have little
conception.
The artist who had projected
his mind into the past and had
put upon his canvas some histor
ical scene wondered -how he had
correctly depleted something, of
which he had no knowledge. He
marveled at the power which
enabled him to see where others
where blind. And he attributed
I it to help from the spirit world.
! He felt, and rightly, that he was
1 inspired. Every genius is in
spired. It is the same inspira
tion tho it may work in different
ways.
This ability to grasp some
thing out of the empty air where
others finu nothing but at
mosphere, gave rise to much
speculation, out of which belief
in the immortality of the soul
and a spirit world have most
stubbornly persisted.
Modern agnosticism denies any
existence after death and treats
the world from a standpoint of
matter from which nothing can
be lost. As the agnostic figures it
there is a constant change of life
with an immortality which ap
plies only to the aggregate—not j
to the individual.
Now comes Mrs. Aimee Sem
ple McPherson to our city and
stirs the populace with her won
der healing. The whole com
munity is divided into two
camps: those who believe she
is inspired and those who con
sider her a common faker. Some
of the more charitable of the un
believers may substitute an "i”
for an "e” and call her a fakir.
The- dictionary assures us
“fakir” should not be confused 1
with “faker,” and defines a|
| “fakir” as “a member of any!
sect or fraternity of the Moham
medans taking a vow of poverty,
or an itinerant WONffER
j WORKER Oh’ OTHER RELIG
IONS.”
We have records of wonder
workers even before the time of
[Christ. Their accomplishments
often were so apparent and mar
velous and the results attained
were so authentic that even the
greatest skeptic could not doubt
that he was dealing with an un
explained force. The fate of
these wonder workers of ages
past always was tragic, which
I might be taken as proof that the
Wednesday, Ju:
By Victor Neuhaus
, I world would not accept the
I human exercise of mysterious
powers which it could not under
stand.
If Mrs. McPherson had lived
500 years afro she would have
been branded a witch and burned
at the stake. Later, 1 she proba
bly would have been declared a
1 saint and her memory would
have been worshipped by those
who believed they had been bene
fitted by her. From martyrdom
she would have ascended to im
mortality.
) The “Wonder Woman,’’ if
1 asked today, what is her power,
probably would tell you she does
not know. We can safely make
this assertion, tho we have never
met Mrs. McPherson, because we
believe in her honesty. If she did
know, s,he would have told the
world a long time ago and she
would not have waited for some
one to ask the question.
Mrs. McPherson can't explain
her power any more than the
electrician can tell what electric
ity is. or how sound is trans
ferred by radio around the world |
‘ without visible means of connec
. tion. There is a close connec
tion between this mysterious in
vention of radio communication
and the power exerted by Mrs.
McPherson.
We have promised our readers
we would try to explain this
' force and, as we are dealing with
a strange phenomenon which is
baffling even our greatest scien
tists, it will be necessary to dis
cuss some matters which may
seem irrelevant but really are
important, so the reader may
form his own conclusion.
When, several months ago,
Conan Doyle startled the world
with the assertion that he be
lieved in manifestations of the
j spirit world we were inclined to
| scoff. Now comes one of the
' foremost astronomers of the
1 world—Camillo Flammarion, the
French scientist—and tells of an
agreement he made with a friend
whereby the first who died was
;to give a sign from the spirit
world by moving a chandelier in
his home. The fulfillment of'this
promise might be considered
I within the realms of accident as
]a piece of the chandelier really
i broke at the instant, or just
after, the death of the astrono
mer's friend.
We do not believe a man has
to be a scientist to develop a be
lief in the correctness of such
marvelous manifestations. If
the human voice can be trans-j
mitted thru space, o>;er moun
tains and across oceans, why
cannot thoughts be projected
into space and RECEIVED. If
j thoughts can be transmitted, the
! thoughts of the dying or of the
! dead may travel on thru space.
' Suppose it takes three seconds to
transmit a word by radio to
Europe and a man speaks into a
radio phone as he dies, lie will
have been dead three seconds be
; fore his last word is heard in the
' receiver at the European station.
Until the perfection of radio,
only thru the wildest stretch of
i imagination could one conceive
of speaking into the air and be
ing heard thousands of miles
away. All that was needed was
the perfection of apparatus for
transmitting and for receiving.
Who knows if thoughts are not \
'cast into the air? Who can say |
those thoughts cannot be picked |
ic 21, 1922
| out of the air once the proper
; machine is devised?
These marvelous inventions
for the transmission of sound and
sight—the telegraph, the tele
phone and the camera—are
builded after principles existing
in our own bodies. The camera
is not as delicate as the human
eye, but it works upon the same
principle, even to reflecting the
picture upside down. The tele
phone is a reproduction of the
human ear. The operator of a
radio-set has to tune, in his in
strument to the wave lengths of
the broadcasting station which
he wishes to hear and he knows
that unless he strikes the correct
degree he will not be able to
understand. ft
THE SCOFFER TODAY E}k]
PECTS TO UNDERSTaHo
THE PHENOMENON OFMRS.
McPherson without
MAKING AN EFFORT TO
TUNE IN TO HER WAVE
LENGTH. He marvels at her
success, but stubbornly insists
that as he hears nothing there is j,
nothing to hear. And he mal es
'this assertion in spite of the
testimony of others who have
J turned in av 1 who say they heard.
Parents wonder why their i
childr\ui do not understand them, j
They make no allowance t \ lis
parityf in ages nor for the' fact
that the thought instrument of'
the cbila is attuned to a different
wave from that of the adult/
Harmony will never be
lished until they learn to use the
instrument nature has put at
their disposal.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE
MYSTIFYING ABOUT THE I
ART OF FAITH HEALINGj
THAN THERE IS ABOUT 1
THE SUCCESSFUL OPERA-'
TION OF THE RADIO IN
STRUMENT MADE AND OP
ERATED BY A SCHOOL BOY.
Mrs. McPherson plays uncon
sciously upon the nervous sys
tems of her hearers. This nerv
ous system is the antennae of the
human wireless. It receives the
message and relays it to those
parts of the human machine
which require stimulus. And
this stimulus, delivered by nerve
radio, will remove such obstruc
tions as may have prevented the
proper functioning of these or
gans.
It may be argued that all
fakirs are alike in that none of
them take any money direct
from the people whom they pro
fess to heal. The reason is obvi
ous. They do not refuse to ask
money because they think it is
contaminated but because they
know taking money would weak
en their influence with the
public and lower them to a mer
cenary basis. They realize the
public would figure they were
working for money, even as you
and I.
But it isn’t the faith healers
alone who become powerless
when they get mercenary. Poor
artists have lost their ability
when they fell heir to riches.
Writers have been known who
could only be productive under
certain conditions. A peculiar
idiosyncrasy may be the mark
of certain ability. Much talent
is dwarfted by educators, foolish |
wives and ignorant parents who
are always attempting to erase
all manifestations that are not
j commonplace.
If even a reasonable doubt
(Continued on page 5)
PRESIDENT OBREGON OFFERS
GREAT STRETCH OF LAND FOR
COLONIZATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES.
] Cull Text of President Obregon’s
| ter.
3 (Jewlull Telegraphic Aeonry)
| C*lii«*tiK<> — -Tin* Mexican Government
is prepared to throw o|m*ii tin* gates
! of Mexico to musses of East European
j .lews, as forecast bv the Jewish Tele
-1 graphic Agency in previous despatches.
I Tin* offer to permit the Immigration
I of .lews into Mexico is contained in
1 a letter of May 10th addressed to
rani W. Uothcnliertr. a lawyer, of
liCM> South Sawyer avenue, who con
ducted tin/ negotiations with tin* Mex
ican authorities.
The letter of President Obregon
from the National Palace Mexico City,
i reads:
••in reference to our conversation
* relative to the emigration of Russia:)
Jews to the Republic of Mexico. I am
I leased to iplvise that tin* fiovern
mciit which I take honor in presiding
j over would he glad to see tlmt| end
i gration: hut I deem it udvisahle to
state that if the emigrants want to
acqttir** any real estate in the Republic
i of Mexico, they must naturalise them
f selves as Mexican citizens. since our
1 statutes establish that foreigners shall
j not acquire properties within a, zone
j of 100 parallel to the borders, and ”«0
| kilometers from the seaside.
"In the country there tire several
! million hectares of land appropriate
' for colonization purposes, a great part
•<f which is susceptible of adaptation
tor agriculture and irrigation. You
may be sure that the emigrants to
'which I have been referring by sutv j
1 mitting themselves as already stated |
by me. to what is provided by the
Constitution for the acquisition of
property will enjoy the guarantees, sc-1
entity and protection which are grant-1
ed to all citizens by the republic of
1 Mexico.
: ‘ “1 ’have already taken ffp this uiti£ t
ter with Senator Sehleimcr of Ari- !
,/.ona. hi the Interview that T Imd the I
pleasure of having with him in this
capital, and who will la* able to give I
l you many more details titan it Is pos
* slide *o convey in a letter
HADASSAH NEWS ITEM.
An American nurse. Miss Sitta j
Sehrajcenheim. saihsl for Palestine on
May 2«th to Join tin* Hndassnh Medi-1
cat organization there. Miss Sflirn
genhcim is lx>itnr srnt l»y Hndassnh. •
tin* Women's Zionist organization in
America. tit tin* request of I»r. Itub
inow. tin* ilir<*4*tnr of tin* Medical T’nit
in Palestine. ami Miss Henrietta Sz'ohl.
tin* assistant dim-tor.
As tin* contract* of tin* American
personnel engaged by tin* I’nit expire.
It is esential to replace them by other
American* trained according to the
sclent I tl<* standards in onr institution*.
Therefore. Miss Schrngcnhoinr has
been sent to replace one of the nurses
who will shortly return to America.
WHEN A GOVERNOR MEETS A
RABBI.
"This is mi time to approach me on
this subject." sjihl (invcriior Miller to
('luiphiin Kut/. of Sing Siim Prison ns
tin* hit (or approached liim when tin*
(Jovernor was coniine out of the I Inly
Trinity Church. Brooklyn. to grant a
reprieve to Julius Rosen wasser. who
was to go to the electric chair at
Sine Sine on Shevuotli.
it is true that (lie Rabbi failed to
observe the amenities of funeral serv
ices in accostbig the (Jovernor nt stifh
a solemn nionieirt. Rut mieht not the
(Jovernor have remembered that Chap
lain Katz was not pleadine for him- i
self. Ho was sueeestine to the Chief
Executive of the State that it would !
be eraeious to save a Jew from death
on a holiday.
When a (Jovernor meets a Rabbi,
the (Jovernor might be expected to be
as courteous as he would be to a cleri
cal of another persuasion. But then,
governors don'll always do what they
may be expected to do.
THE PRICE OF ADOPTION.
! To admitted I•* these shored 7-
'urnlil A min Itosi nzweig became by
; .'.'{option. Anita Itivori I>e Copet. lmv-
I in" Ihmmi adopted by Miss Juliet Pe
i opot. This child immigrant had
I.<'*'ii detained nt Kills Island for scv
i i'n] works while officials considered i
her deportation. Then along mine,
.Miss Pe Copet who decided to take
ill I*- Amin in and give her a homo. ;
There was nothing i<i tin* report to
iudioate Miss lie Copet’s religion.!
ojin he gnessi*d. i
No. 25
Address by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
THE JEWISH CONGRESS IS A
SOLEMN TO THE JEWS
OK AMERICA.
(Continued from Inst w«*ek.»
Hut we nre loth indeed to do with
out the eounsel nml oomradesliip of
.lews, wise. valiant, devoted—the
Murks, the Murshnlls. the Rosemvjiios
who hnve greatly served tlieir prop l '*
in the past and may confidently he
r*-l!«*d upon finally to serve in the
future. We venture to remind them
they and we are American Jews amt
that the ancient Jewish mandate and
the new American covenant alike call
upon American Israel to Is- true to
the spirit and substance of dem«r-ii. v.
which cunnot I’m* unless representation
of the people Is* broad based ami truly
democratic.
The American Jewish Congress is
content to do without those who are •
iess than Jews or Who deem other
Jews as less than themselves. ltut
most earnestly it summons to eoii*i*c|
r.nd to comradeship those Jew* who
are faithful and Consecrated and yet
hnve failed up to, tJrfs time to <*e
that in this land of all lauds it is
the hottnden duty of Jews to order
their affairs ia truly democratic fash
ion. yes remember that* gratitude for
the benefits conferred by small and
>elf-sells-tori bodies in the past are not
hionnso'iant with that unquenchable
tleinnerntie resolution which makes of
all Jewish | people partners in the sclf
respeeting business of eollectlve ait
lonnniy and imlopendonee.
The Jewish js-ople have trusted
these too much. Will they not trust
the Jewish people a little? No service
l>y them to Im* conferred is compar
l’hie to the service they are now
privileged to render through free from
nil |M>sslhility of erroneous connota
tion. ca*i render service to the Jews.
Imf is the part of the demagogue, pure
and simple to imitate that the Con
gress ran or will nelllove miracles.
Immeasurable and even mimeiilous
hurt may in* done in an hour, but tin*
laborious years alone achieve the tin
miraelulotts goods.
The A liter lean Jewish Congress will
nelileve and can achieve any more for
Israel at home and abroad than is
made possible bv the effort and the
generosity, the wisdom n*id the sacri
fices of statesmanship, moves a people
to serve Itself No miracle like tin*
miracle wrought by a people's self
reverence and self-help.
The generosity of Nathan Straus,
though illimitable, mid ihe devotion
of Itcrnrird -Richards, though unwear
irble. will little avail the Congress un
less It brings home to all the Jew
ish people that the Ideal of democracy
cannot Im* met hv electioneering de
vice* and machinery, and that it asks
a maximum of reasoning and even
sacrificial co-operation by all the peo
pie in the working out of Israel's
problems.
Patience, and patience and patience
arc needed, and more than patience.
Patience in hope must Im* matched by
energy in action. Whether we ran al
ways succeed in gaining just bn* foi*
Israel, who will say? Hut we know
that in the united and determined
ipiest of justice to ourselves and by
all men to themselves in their deal
ings with us. we purge our souls of
the poison of self-contempt, which like
a sepsis follows 111x»ii some grievous
wounds.
This Congress means that the Amer
ican Jew. as becomes Jew and Amer
ican. is resolved to act in truly demo
cratic fashion in the matter of guid
ing his own affairs. Answering those
who sneer at democracy, we Insist
with all humanity that a people which
has in some part known for many
.(cuturic* the resjMmsihility of denio
rtalie and autonomous life, is not to
be written down a mob. because it pre
fers the hard and thorny way of self
illrcction to the primrose path of ac
ceptance of favors from within or
without Israel.
Whether the Congress Is to In* will
depend not upon the unanimous pas
sage of resolutions today, but upon
the resolutions on the morrow of the
individual Jew. This peeling is «i
solemn pledge to our brother Jew* ami
to the American people Will we strive
earnestly, unitedly, liolily. to redeem
that pledge? We cannot full our
brother Jews: we must not disappoint
our fellow-Ainerieans and the honor of
American Israel is in our keeping.
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