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Unemployment is still with us. Misery and wan� stalk, about' " like grim reapers, scythe in hand.. The charitable agencies are unable- * to meet the increased demands being .made on them in the face of a decreased "ration" budget.
Much of the present unrest and petty crime wave sweeping the country with increasing velocity, is directly due to the effects of continued unemployment and poverty/ It is at times such as these that there should be an increase on the part of the well-to-do in' charitable bequests and, if necessary, a decrease of their expensive style of living.
Hungry men out of work with starving families at home readily form mobs. Mobs are subject to the hysteria of mob psychology. They are amenable and susceptible to radicalism in its worst forms. In spite of the financial depression it is not the part of wisdom to council nor to practice parsimony in charity during unrest.
The best possible instrument that the people of the community can make in times like these is to give charity to relieve distress. It is the only form of social insurance that will save the situation. Private and even public charity is, in crises such as we are passing through, inadequate to meet the demands. It must be supplemented by the inauguration of a policy of public works, such as road building, etc., undertaken by the Municipalities, Provinces and Federal Government, at public expense.
Charity at best pauperizes the recipient and breaks down his resistance and sense of responsibility. Work sustains and encourages self-respect. Public works should be undertaken in order to give thousands of unemployed employment even if it takes the borrowing capacities of the nation. The present need is to be regarded as of equal urgency as that which was felt in the days of the war. Then we did not question; we borrowed and borrowed without limiL We saddled ourselves with a staggering war debt. The war expenditures for a single day would suffice to underwrite enough public work that would give the unemployed employment for many years. We must change our mental attitude to the demands of charity. We must learn to give and give even if it hurts. We must give until such a point is reached that further giving would deprive our own families of the necessaries of life.
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NEW ENGLAND JEWS TO RAISE $1,100,000 FOR RELIEF
Boston (J. T. A.)�200 delegates from 62 cities in Maine, New. Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, at a conference held here, pledged themselves to raise $1,100,000 for relief work. The conference was addressed by Louis Marshall, Julius Rosenwald, Colonel Herbert Lehman, Jacob Billikopf, Dr. Boris Bogen, Dr. Frank Rosenblatt and others. The total to be collected in the United States is $14,000,000.
David A. Brown, Chairman of the American Jewish Relief Committee, said :
"In accepting the responsibility of the National Chairmanship of the $14,000,000 appeal, I did so with the solemn pledge of two hundred or more of America's representative Jews ringing in my ears Since then I have received hundreds of letters from every section of the United States and Canada, all of them breathing a spirit of co-operation.
"The responsibility of saving and helping Europe's suffering Jews is not the responsibility of any one group of men and women, but the duty of every Jew worthy of the name. By giving freely of our means and more freely of ourselves, we can secure $14,000,000, the irreducible minimum needed to render the necessary service to our fellow-
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ELLIS ISLAND'S GATES TO CLOSE ON IMMIGRATION SOON
New York (J. C. B.)�The gates of the United States have already been closed by the terms of the new 3 per cent, immigration law to the following countries and territorial provinces until the end of the present fiscal year, June 30, 1922: Poland, Spain, Portugal, Palestine, New Zealand, Greece, Jugo-Slavia, Syria, Turkey and Africa.
Italy has little more than 5,000 left on its allotment. Czechoslovakia has but 3,500. Belgium can send but 290 more. France has a balance of only 2,437.
With an allotment of more than 68,000, Germany has still a balance of 60,213 to come. Great Britain ha* a credit of 52,743 out of a ye?Lrly allotment of more than 77,000, Russia has a .credit of. 21,104, but Russians cannot come here because of the failure of this Government to recognize their passports, m / { ^ r-'.^ ^
; "I believe,"1 said my Doctor categorically, "that -the only, hope for the Je* liea, ivC c^p^t�, assimilation, for as you1 say, so long as there is a single Jew left, there will be Anti-Semitism." ' >
We were silent for a little while, watching the smoke from our cigarette curl up to the stars, and then he anded, as though in afterthought, "But I believe that there never will be complete, assimilation. The Jew has resisted it throughout his entire history as no other people has ever' resisted it; he seems fated to remain a racial entity."
There 'flashed'. through my mind then a quick chiaroscuro of the Jew's history jfn his many wanderings; the vicissituaes of his existence * in every climate, his obstinate resistance to the eroding influences of other people's traditions and institutions, his multifarious activities and his kaleidoscopic interest, And suddenly as I contemplated the vision 'of the Jew's history, the explanation seemed perfectly clear.
"Doctor," I ventured, "we cannot judge whether the Jew will ever be completely assimilated with the criteria of his visible and tangible history for the reason that the moulding of ethnographic groups proceeds at such a slow pace that the continuum of the Jew's history as a Jew, which at the outside could be considered not much more than six thousand years, is incommensurable with the continuum of the history of the human race as such, a matter of millions of years. We cannot judge of assimilation because we a priori basis of judgment, and the present is as incomplete in its date as any isolated phenomenon would be without a previous connecting causation. * So simple a chemical reaction as the rusting of iron takes time. All the conditions for the completion of the reaction may be present, yet if we were to take only one second out of the days and days that it would take for the complete reaction to be carried out, and used that as the basis of our investigation of the rusting of our iron, the results which would appear negative despite the finest and most delicate technique in the inquiry, would be negative relatively only. In our cosmic laboratory, where ethnologic groups have become crystallized through the laws of heredity and the inertia of organic evolution, the interaction, of elements so remotely distant as the Jew and - the European Aryan must of necessity -be judged only, through the perspective of time^time measured not in the brief span of human years, but in the reaction time required for the operation of natural laws."
"An interesting simile, and undoubtedly logical," commented my friend the Doctor. , "What a peculiar element the Jew must be in your cosmic chemistry, though! Always Jthe same yet always changing . ." .", and his sentence trailed off with the smoke of his "cigarette. But that had been precisely the thought toWard which I had been tending. Gradually that first flashing new-conception became definite, it became more aod more impelling as I thought. Lured by the chatoyaace of the idea I purwett it ibpougfc th<
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"I'vecompleted^erfji^'^tib^* thoroughly enain*ocedJ^iv ^he';id^a^ had suddenly comefcqr;m&^^��fij$l understand the ^tion/pf' tltig my cosmic chemistry!';;t:haA^'JI thesis, a oompKM-isoa;'Jfctet^.^)J[ what we know of the hUtqr^;^^^)^ of his tendencies. t>f hia /p/ hiB soul, which will ali^n and hia inertia/his dyramicjin^ii^i with hia static continuum' aa an^St^y^ logic entity! "The Jew is ra<ftM.�*fM5^sB^'^ the ethnologic chemical elen^tnt^C spoke of other races, being��."a^t^ta^^^i in the short spaa of thfe histo'r^ know. A simple reaction In-/'c^^>j�f chemistry, to be sure. Fut'th^;J^^^f4 combined, and yet remained, stUl^^eir,^^. immutable despite his jn:tita'tk>iti�_r'' /3^&vg>^ Jew has gone among ^he -peb'^e-"^Vl^r' the world, and lite" the denient radfu^^ in our mundane chemistry, ae kfa S^^r^ off particles of hm^U,;-^;h^^^^^i^ foundly affected the peoples with TOMlfey i� he has come in contact, and-'-yat ^S^fe has remained foreyer4 Jew. vThe'^^^^
elements have changed; :,they-jlfcfjf^l?. entered into reactions, but the reac*1^"^"^ ^ have changexjl their, nature. But^xo�^/i^"^ Jew, like the, element radium, had�rqpJ5^^<*'? formed to none of the laws of chemla^y.V He has put an entirely new interpreta^x - ??< tion on the laws of matter and-energy^yj^
"And like the - element radiu A, o^5jv^ series of particles may give <ribe "t^."^.^^ whole new series of reactionSj the^^^vV^ product of which may neverN beJ^irtdf^v^v
in the snort span of human/livw1/ yet the mother element may 'remain -/vrfJ ostensibly unchanged in all its reac*ioiyf,;>-,^; the Jew has come �withjuS'-influeobis^AW^ many countries, changed the aspect^ ^I^.V^ their hktory, profoundly affecte^%^^^^|^ material world around him, and y^^i^\ forever retained hia identity as a �lWi*Q*yji.. added the doctor, who was 'begiiml^JV^ to se� the simile Which was now 4fefc&*f�i /it'
itself definitely, like some prin^J^r^.^.' protozoan gathering his pie^opb^^^p. "into one central -protoplMml6'ii^mrit^|FV-' ^ "As for instance in Spaitt,'';! addfic^.< "Or here in our own America wwifW his influence is felt on every side."
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the chiaroscuro pf the? Jew*a flashed before us . . t six tbo years aa an ethnologic entjty. ytk-mffLe. a Jewl The same Jew with k� higaijr tuned aesthetic nature, his n^usicf.hifi love, tils searching thought, hi* epodud "ShemaYtaroelt" onhialipa, in Amerki -c& in Palestine, mutable yet immutable, forever ^changing, forever conforming to new cc^dhions, modifying hixnseif/ ; adapting his needs, his interest*, bot^ bearing always the heritage of the J*�^: some traces of the mother efemenX. v dreamed of it there, sittinf betkk other, and tix vii�on gar* t� To be a p^9i