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The Truth About Nordics
The “Jewish Independent" of Cleveland contains a timely
editorial comment on the contrast which Congressman O’Connor of
New^-York recently drew between the so-called Nordic in the
United States and the foreigner. Says the Independent:
It was bound to come. Nordic ballyhooers in Congress who
have allowed racial intolerance to guide their attitude on the issue
of immigration regulation have come to a point where their at
tacks are not merely met with a defense of non-Nordic peoples, but
with counter-criticism of the race which they love to picture as
the exclusive possessors of all the virtues.
In the course of a House debate on immigration, Congressman
John L. O’Connor of New York, said recently:
“Let me state here, gentlemen, not in order to say anything
sensational but to bring the truth forcibly before this body: Take a
railroad train and go through the South, through the West, through
the North, and in the train look at what we call our own people,
who have not had the opportunities of the people of the big cities.
You will see American people of the Nordic races, you will see
people whose forefathers were here .‘100 years ago, but you will see
them in the lowest state of civilization. Is that the type to which
you refer when you speak of the ‘American blood’ in America?
Yes. you will see them in rags and tatters; you will see them un
kept, uncultured, uneducated and uncouth.
“Then I suggest you take an automobile and ride through the
so-called foreign sections of the big cities and see these foreign
people whom you hate so vehemently. Look at their children going
to school in droves, seeking every opportunity for education, eager
to acquire and to assimilate all the customs and habits of our
country. See them going through the grammar schools, the high
schools, to the colleges, from Harvard to Stanford, eager to become
a part of America and of its institutions.
The “Passion Play”
Quite a conflict has been waged in New York as to whether or
not the Freiburg Passion Play to be produced by Morris Gest and
David Belasco should be presented. Strange to say, there seemed
to be no hesitancy in the minds of the two men until Louis Marshall
raised very urgent and strenuous objections against its presenta
tion for two particular reasons. Fiist, the play might again arouse
prejudice against the Jews as the Passion Plays have so often done
and secondly, it might offend those principles that a majority of
Christians hold as sacred.
Evidently Mr. Marshall’s objections, even if they made little
impression upon the stubbornness of the two producers, were
persistent enough to demand action on the part of the district
attorney, who is trying to prove that the play cannot be licensed
regardless, because it violates one of the state laws which prohibits,
among other things, personification of the Diety on the stage. It
is sad but true that only such restrictions and action can persuade
the two theatrical producers to desist from what probably would
have been an extremely tragic presentation in more ways than
one, but let us rejoice that this procedure will no doubt sufficiently
warn them to abandon such an absurd venture which would have
been utterly detrimental to their own people.
\SK FOR FROM I I.C ATION
OF SPECIAL LAW ON
MINORITIES RIO MTS
Bucharest (.1. T. A.).—The promul
gation of a special law setting forth
the rights and privileges of the na
tional minorities in Greater Roumania
was demanded in a memorandum sub
mitted to Prime Minister Maniu by
the Social Democratic Deputies, Pis-
tiner, Fluerasch and Rediceanu.
The memorandum asks the govern
ment to take steps for the immediate
regulation of the minorites’ school
questions prior to the enactment of
the new law. In regard to the Jewish
population, the memorandum asks
that the government establish state
secondary schools as well a* elemen
tary schools, the granting o; subven
tions to the private schools already in
existence and the creation of a Jew
ish teachers’ seminary.
The disciplinary commission which
investigated the recent disturbances
m I.ipkani and Britscheni submitted
a report showing the guilt of two as
sistant prefects in the towns men
tioned. The matter was referred to
the Ministry of the Interior. News
papers demand that the officials he
tried and punished.
Ml SIC FESTIVAL TO ENCOUR
AGE JEWISH MUSIC CON
CLUDED IN LONDON
London (J. T. A.).—A three-day
music festival, arranged under the
auspices of the London “Jewish
Chronicle” to encourage the develop
ment of specific Jewish music was
concluded here today.
A contest for the best Jewish com
position was arranged in connection
with the festival. Four hundred con
testants, aged from six to sixty, par
ticipated. A prize of one hundred
guineas was offered for the best or
chestral composition. Sir Frederick
Cowen and Stanley Roper will be the
judges. The establishment of a Jew
ish musical society for the promotion
of Jewish music is being planned.
hint; BORIS VISITS ANCIENT
JEWISH CEMETERY IN
PRAGUE
Prague (J. T. A.).—The gatekeeper
of the ancient Jewish cemetery in
Prague pointed with pride today to
the signature of King Boris who
visited the cemetery yesterday.
The King inscribed his name in the
visitors’ book and showed great in
terest in the old tombstones.
Lot me make this assertion here, after duo consideration,
that I believe that the foreigners in this country• today on the
whole furnish bettor material for citizenship than many of the so-
called American types living in outlying sections of the country.”
Americans who deplore any and all such racial allusions and
comparisons will, in fairness, admit that the persistent attacks
directed by 100 per cent Nordics in Congress upon the stock of
Americans of non-Nordic origin, was bound to result in the very
statement which Congressman O’Connor has made.
Efforts of Nordic supremacy shriekers to bar the nation’s
doors to all but Nordic peoples, have been accompanied by a cam
paign whose course has been marked by so persistent a lily-whiten
ing of Nordic peoples and so constant a blackening of all others,
that many Americans are bound to call to mind the Nordic Ku
Klux terror-ridden regions of Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama, the
Nordic Ku Klux scandals in the official life of Indiana, the illiteracy,
moonshine and feud lawlessness of Nordic Kentucky and other
Nordic vagaries.
Nordics in Congress are responsible for these painful but
unavoidable remembrances.
They were bound to be.
JEW 1SH CALENDAR
Fast of Esther
Purim
Roeh Chodesh Nissan
First Day of Pessach
Eighth Day of Pessach
•Rosh Chodesh Iyar
Lag B'Omer
Roah Chodesh Sivan
Shavuoth
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.. Monday, March 26
. ... Tuesday, March 26
Thursday, April 11
Thursday, April 26
Thursday, May $
Saturday. May 11
Tuesday, May 28
Sunday. June 9
. Friday, June U
•Rosh Chodesh Tammui
hast of Tammui
Saturday, June 15
Tuesday. July 9
Thursday, July
Rosh Chodesh Ab
Tisho B'Ab
•Rosh Chodesh Elul
Wednesday, August T
Thursday, August 16
Friday. September, 6
Rosh Hashonah
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Vom Kippur
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Monday, October 7
Shemini Azreth
Saturday, October 19
Sunday, October 20
Saturday, October -.6
Simchas Torah
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First Day of Chanukah *’
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