The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-23
A GIGANTIC PROBLEM

BY HERBERT A. WHITE,
Berlin Correspondent Of The United
Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 22.-Unless Ger
many absorbs it's Jews, the Jews
are certainly going to absorb Ger
many, according to DR.. George Lo-
mer, himself Gentle and an emf
nent medical authority, in a re-
markable book on the racial ques-
ton which he will publish in few
days.
The doctor discusses first the
educational situation. In Berlin,
he shows by official statistics, one
ninth of the Roman Catholic chill
dren, one-seventh Of the Protestants
and two-thirds of the Jews receive
high school training. Throughout
Germany, he continues, though but
little more than / per cent of the
total population is Jewish, yet 20
per cent of the children in the
country's high grade schools are
Jews. Among Roman Catholics 10
per 10000, among Professionals, 20
per 10000 and among Jews 100 per
10000 receive university educations.
CITY FILLED WITH JEWS.
More than half the doctors and
lawyers in Berlin are Jews, the au-
thor says, and the proportion Is
about the same in the other large
German cities. Jews also predomi-
nate as university professors, teach
ers, newspaper men, artists and
architects. Moreover, the doctor
asserts, they are foremost in fl
nance, commerce and manufacture
ing
DR.. Lomer attributes the progress
the race is making to the Jewish
custom of promoting Hebrew inter
ests above all others. The Jews, he
remarks, are cosmopolitan in other
respects, but they have a strong IA
cial feeling which induces them to
befriend a Jew first and others az
terward.
WANTS MIXED MARRIAGES.
The doctor admits his admiration
for the race, but he says the growth
of it's influence alarms him. AS a
Tueton he regards its predominant
power as dangerous to Germanic
ideals. He recommends the alb
sorption of the Jews, therefore, by
inter-marriage. Young Germans, he
says, should marry Jewish girls
and young Jews must by captured
by German girls as husbands. Jews
and German combined, he pre-
diets, will breed a new and magni-
iicent race, fit to control the
worlds destinies.
This is the whole aim and object
of DR.. Lomers book--to promote a
fusion of the two races for the
benefit of Germany. Failing this,
the doctor declares, the Jews will
eclipse the Germans in Germany
and run the kaiser's dominions.
Among themselves, stirred to in
terest by the recently concluded
Zionist congress at Hamburg, the
Jews are doing considerable talking
concerning the possibilities of a
great naturalization movement by
their race. 1t must be confessed
that, in Germany at least, the Jews
themselves do not seem very enthu-
siastic.
Palestine, 1t Is conceded, will do
eXcellently as a refuge for Jews
fleeing from Russian or Turkish
persecution, but for the Jew settled
and prosperous in Germany, France
or England, to give up all his in
terests and associations to settle in
q new country, it Is pointed out,
would involve almost superhuman
self-sacrifice.
POWER AMONG POWERS.
The Zionists themselves, too, are
divided among themselves. One
group is for asking the Young
Turks help in the gradual upbuild-
ing of a Jewish state in Palestine.
The other, headed by Max Nordau,
is for waiting until all the world S
Jews have become powerful enough
to settle there at once, making the
country, from the first, a power
among the powers.
PAY no heed to the Young
Turks" Nordau says. "They are
not Turkey-only just one party. In
all probability, despite western
ideas of liberalism, they are preju-
diced against US as Abdul Hamid
himself.
"In any case, we do not want Of
fetal relations with any country or
party yet. Wait until we can make
the great move altogether. Then
we can get any terms we like.
The fate OF Zionism lies in Eu-
rope and America, where the
ground is now being prepared for
our final settlement in Palestine"
PRosPERING RAPIDLY.
Those opposed to Nordau point
to the progress already made as an
argument in support of the grad
ual development" programs. The
Small number of Jews already III
Palestine, they say, have accom-
plished wonders. With q capital oil
100000 they have set up agricul
tural, Industrial and educational
enterprises.
One of these, the Anglo-Palestine
company, has declared a dividend