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Chew Chase.

Miss Corinne Gibbon and Miss Ro-
gers Gibbon Of Charlotte. N. c.: Mrs
Henry c. Moore of Chicago. ILL.,. and
Mrs. Pownley Watson of Duluth,
Minn., who have been house guests
of Mrs. William r. Myers, have re-
! turned to their homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Pace, who
| have been visiting friends at An
napolis. Md, have returned to their
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Brace. the lat
ter formerly Miss Reeves Harris,
sailed Tuesday from New York for
Paris. where they will spend several
months. later making tour Of the
| Mrs. Percy w. Page of Boston. Mass,
| is visiting friends for two weeks.
Judge and Mrs. Alexander r. Null
| lowny will take possession of their
new house on Rosemary street and
i of next month.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Myers of York
| Springs, Pa. who were guests of their
son and daughter-in-law, Assistant
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
and Mrs. Paul Forrest Myers, have
returned to their home.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton E. Taylor have
! given up their house here and have
moved to Baltimore, Md. They will
go to Ocean City. Md, for the sum-
| mer.
| Mrs. Warren Brush was hostess to
the members of her bridge club Fri
! day afternoon at her home.
] Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Gilbert and
tea on the lawn of Mr.. and Mrs.
George c. Minnigerode on June 5. the
! proceeds from which will be turned
over to the Walter Reed Hospital:
Misses Alice and Katherine Dem
ing. Helen Barclay. Helen and Vir-
ginia Minnigerode and Caroline Jack
son.
/ Col. and Mrs. Edward F. Geddings
have purchased and taken possession
of the Mickkelson house on Raymond
| street.
4 Mrs. Hugh NJ. Southgate was host
J ess to the members of her bridge
4 club Tuesday at a luncheon at the
| Brooke Tea House.
4 Mrs. Alfred Bryan Leet will enter
/ tain the members OF her bridge club
F., at cards and tea at her home tomor-
/ their son Bonni have moved into their
| new house on Hesk eth street
X Mr.. John Lane, who spent ten days
at Chattanooga. Tenn, has returned
II to his home.
II Maj and Mrs. F. T. Brown, who
rented the Wilkinson house. will TAX e
II possession of it on Tuesday.
" Mrs. II. c. Wilkinson and son will
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yesterday for their home in Houston,
Tex.
Mrs. Charles Clark has returned to
her home after visiting relatives in
Augusta. Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Barber have sold
their house on West Kirke street and
have taken an apartment in Chevy
Chase. D. c.. while building another
parents. Among his friends present
were Abdigal Parker. Dorothy Mil
dred Nicholson. Agnes Devereux. Ger
trude Classic. Alice Demming, Kath-
crime Demming. Green Clay Goodloe
jr.: trieste Devereux. Todd Caffery
Classic, Jesse Frank Nicholson and
J. T. Imrie.
Mrs. Jones Fuller Of Durham. n. c..
who has been the house guest of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Pace, has re-
home.
Mrs. Ernest D. Hathaway will en-
tertan the Chevy Chase Luncheon
Club for the week end at her farm
at Leonardtown. Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pendleton Beall are
expected next week for visit with
their parents. Col. and Mrs. Fielder
NJ. NJ. Beall of Brookville road
Henry Haywood Classic. jr, son ot
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Haywood Classic
celebrated his birthday anniversar,
by having a party at the home of hi.
turned to her home.
Mrs. William r. Myers was hostes.
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Ex-Soldiers Recruited for Farms.

NEW YORK. May "a working
arrangement with the colonization
department of the state of Nebraska a
is being effected by the Knights oi
Columbus here. by which former serv-
ice men are to be put in contact with
farmer employers. it was announced
today Fifty former soldiers ano
sailors already have been recruited
by the X. of c. employment bureau
for work on Nebraska farms at s6,
a month with board.
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leave Tuesday for Lake Maranacook,
Me-. where they will spend the sum
mer.
Mr. LaSalle Spier Of New York city
is visiting his father. Mr.. George w.
Spier.
Mr.. George c. Minnigerode, who
spent a month in the west, has re-
turned to Chevy Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F.. Barclay have
taken possession of their newly COM
pleted house on oxford street
The following young girls of Chevy
Chase will give an allday bazaar and
row afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bartlett Whipple, who
spent two months in Chevy Chase. left
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her bridge club.
Mrs. Lester Hill and children will
leave Tuesday for their home in Prov
idence, r. l., where she will spend the
summer, being joined later by Maj
Hill
Mrs Robert Preston Shealey was
hostess Thursday to the Col. John
Donaldson Chapter of the d. A. r.,
when election Of officers for the year
were held
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France May Requisition Sugar.

PARIS. May .26.-The reauisition of
the stocks of sugar now in France is
being considered by o. Thoumyre, un-
dersecretary for food. Such a meas
ure IL taken, would be on account of
| the reduction in world production of
sugar and in view of the necessity of
| a assuring sufficient amounts of the
commodity for the nations consump-
ton.
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We making this have advance
on TUESDAY MORNING-worthy OF prompt consideration.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-10-01
SACRAMENTAL WINE

for ritual purposes be obtained from Mr. M. Resnck
at the Hebrew Institute.
CALL LAMAR 6S72
Domestic and Palestine Imported.
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THE HISTORIC MONKEY
Chapter of Jewish Prosecutions in
the Eighteenth Century
By Prof. Gotthard Deutsch.
Copyright, 1920, by I. ]. P. b.


delssohn before he married, had to
buy three hundred thalers worth of
china monkeys. This again is not true.
In order to understand the incident
of the monkey found in the possession
of his great-grandson, we have to un.
derstand Frederick IFS economic poll
cy in general and his attitude toward
the Jews. King Frederick, like his ia
Their (the latter mentally much infer
ior to his sony was strong protec-
zionist. He believed that it was the
duty of the sovereign to encourage
manufacturing in order to prevent the
buying of luxuries in foreign coun-
tries. With all his dislikes of the Jews
which he expressed any number of
times in very strong words, once say
ing, 81 have no use for this rabble
(Kroppzeug,) or another time, ut
would be much better if we had more
human beings and fewer Jews" the
king had clear appreciation of the
commercial genius of the Jews. He
therefore often granted exceptional
privileges to individual Jews who
would engage in the manufacture of
silk, velvet and wooden goods, which
in his days were mostly imported.
Such a privilege must not be under
stood in the sense that they were
placed above their Christian fellow
citizens or even on the same level with
them. The special favor mostly con-
sisted in their right to leave their
privilege to one or two or more sons,
or very exceptionally also to the rec
ognition by the courts of their bust.
ness records oh their sworn testimony
in the courts in the same way as that
of Christian merchants.
Another attempt to utilize the gen.
ius of the Jews in business was a law
promulgated in 1859, which compelled
every Jew who demanded some privil-
ege to buy china from the royal man.
ufactory. This order again requires
some comment. The king, as a pro-
tectionist, felt that the money which
was spent by rich people in buying
such luxuries as china should be kept
in the country. As no one would invest
the necessary capital to establish such
a mandatory, the king whose treas
ury in those days was Identical with
that of the state, founded such fac
tory at his own expense. The business
proved failure for various reasons.
First Of all, bureaucrats are no bust
ness men, and then, an article like
china demands reputation which can
only be acquired in the course Of time.
So it did not take long before it be-
came evident that the china manufac-
tory did not pay. The king was not
willing to give it up, but he could not
afford to carry the loss year after
year. He therefore ordered that every
Jew who wanted a personal privilege
had to buy some china from the royal
mandatory and export it.
We must not forget that in those
days everything that a Jew wanted
was a privilege" The most import
ant one was that Of marriage. A Jew
who had once received 'Schutzbrief''
for himself could only keep his chill
dren in his home until they were mar
ried. II they established q household
for themselves they had to acquire a
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Prussia, named Dirichlet, who left as
part of his estate a china monkey
which was once the property of his
great grandfather, Moses Mendels-
n-Bartholdy, and granddaughter Of
the philosopher who did so much for
the promotion of secular education
among the German Jews. Rebecca
Mendelssohn married a professor of
mathematics, Gustav Dirichlet, who
in spite of his French sounding name
was a German. The family Of Moses
Mendelssohn has completely died out
in Judaism, and although there are
quite number of descendants of the
philosopher living, they have for three
or four generations ceased to be Jews.
We are, however, not concerned
with this fact, although in the case
of Rebecca it may be added as highly
instructive that when she read Ber-
thold Auerbach's novel "Dichter und
Kaufmann," she wrote to her brother
that after having learned something
of Jewish life she could fully under
stand her fathers bitter hatred Of
everything Jewish. 1t might also be in
place to review the history of the
family to some extent. Moses Men,
delssohn (1729-17S6) had left six
children, three sons and three daugh-
ters. The two older sons, Joseph OTTO
184S) and Abraham 1776-1S35), form
ed the banking firm of Mendelssohn
& Company, still existing in Berlin.
Joseph remained Jew, while Abra-
ham seems to have been converted to
Christianity. At any rate he was not
buried in a Jewish cemetery, and his
four children, two sons and two
daughters, were baptized in infancy.
Abraham's daughter, Rebecca, was
born in 1911 and died in 1858. The
old professor who just died was prob
ably one Of her sons.
But we wish to speak Of that china
monkey. 1t is remarkable how people
are given to turning history into leg
end. When was working as editor for
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which he took in granting him a
"Schutzbrief," the patent by which
a Jew was permitted to live in the
Prussian state, and one little sotry
tells us again that Frederick called
Mendelssohn to his castle and lectur-
ed him for his presumption in criti-
Ching the kings Poetry. None Of these
stories is true. We are pretty certain
that Mendelssohn never spoke to the
king personally.
The other legend to which we just
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The Governors Old Suit.

In March, 1919, Calvin Coolidge.
Governor of ssachusetts, bought a
suit OF clothes. He is wearing that
suit today and since then he has
bought no new garments. This is not
because he is "tightwad' or indif
ferent to his personal appearance. He
held to that suit because of the very
high prices prevailing in the clothing
market. both ready made and custom
made suits. There is no ostentation
about his economy, and the fact has
only just now become public through
n statement made by him in address
ing a national meeting of life under
writer's. Perhaps he was limiting at a
departure in the insurance field-to
insure owners of clothing against un-
due wear and excessive prices.
There are many thousands Of men
in the United States in Gov. Cooiidge's
class today, who are wearing their old
clothes because they cannot afford to
buy new ones. Some of them are
wearing them because they resent be-
ing taxed excessive sums and are hold
ing to their old wardrobes in a spirit
OF protest. But these movements have
not had any appreciable effect upon
the market. In some lines clothing
has fallen in price. but not because
men have been wearing their old gar
ments. There is still an underlined
and large margin Of profits or u series
Of profits between the wool on the
sleeps back and the clothes on the
mans back.
Department Of Justice figures are
occasionally given to reassure the
clothing buyers that relief is at hand.
Those who patronize the tailor shops
and pay for style" and finish will
find no confirmation.
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Uncle Sans Board Rates.

1t il stated that the rents commits.
sion may inquire into the recently an
nounced change of rates at the gov.
eminent hotels in this city. Complaint
has been made OF the upward revision
Of the schedule ard Uncle Sans rent
board may ask Uncle Sans boarding
house manager why the change was
ordered and II it cannot be revoked
The explanation has been given that
the rates had to go up because the
salaries OF the hotel staff had been
raised. This presents a peculiar spec
tacle. The occupants Of these hotels
are government employees. Their pay
has not been changed for the better.
but the other government employees
who run the hotels have been given
promotions. which the guests" must
pay.
Under this arrangement there is no
fixed limit to the rate OF promotion for
the hotel staff and the corresponding
rate of price-boosting for the guests. -
II the rents commission undertakes
this inquiry it may learn upon what
theory OF government pay-scale fixing
it is possible for one set OF employees
to be assessed to meet the needs Of
another set Of employees. Incidentally
it may, perhaps. determine whether
the hotels" are economically man.
aged. This fact bears directly upon
the question of the reasonableness of
the rates charged for rooms and board.
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Still Z Chance for the Cadets.

Announcement that the decision to
change the High School Cadet uniform
is not final and may be changed is
good news to all who regard the cadet
organization with affection. While it
would doubtless be hardship on the
lads and their parents to have to pay
a higher price than last year-and
that was a burdensome rate-for the
uniforms, it would be a serious handi.
cap on the organisation to be clothed
in q makeshift and unsoldierly combi-
nation. Much better than the pro-
posed khaki shirt, blue trousers and
cap would be an all-khaki sarb, with a
hat to match. If economy ID the OBJ
ject, a uniform similar to that worn
by the regular soldiers would achieve
it. Nothing quite like blue
khaki-shirted and blue-capped cadet
has ever heretofore been seen in
Washington. Perhaps the novelty
would be momentarily interesting, but
hardly conducive to that spirit within
the ranks that the school.soldier should
have and that the High School Cadets
have always possessed. Washington
is proud Of this organization, now in
its thirty-ninth year. and it does not
relish the prospect Of seeing it in a
combination suit suggestive Of a
marching club" ut Inauguration time.
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Rate BY Mail-Payable In Advance.
Blue Sky in Politics.

The politicians may not be raising as
large campaign funds as charged. but
some of them are making large esti-
mates OF November majorities. There
is no law against this, however.
Speaking the other day of the situa.
ton in Texas, a leading democrat Of
that state predicted that Gov. Cox
would win there by q majority any
where from half a million up. He
pointed to the large democratic vote
in the state before the women were
enfranchised, and claimed nearly the
whole Of the new vote for the demo-
cratic ticket.
This is met by Alexander P. Moore
Of Pittsburgh, formerly bull mooseS,
but now a republican again, and n
leader in his state. He "sees" the
Texan, and goes him several hundred
thousand better. He places the Hard
ing majority in Pennsylvania at a
round million. Some ma jority. nearly
anybody will say. Mr.. Moore prob
ably arrives at his figures after the
Texans fashion. The keystone state
has always thrown enormous repub-
lican ma orities-Theodore Roosevelt a
in 1904 was about half a million-and
Mr.. Moore annexes nearly all OF the
new votes. He probably feels justified
in this, as Mrs. Moore-Miss Lillian
Russell-is stumping for the repub-
lican ticket,
Our large ma jorities began in 1896.
when Mr. Bryan essayed to convert
the country to free silver. A great
many democrats in the middle and In
the eastern states rejected his appeal
and went over to the republicans.
These accessions gave the republicans
great advantages; and they were re.
Elected in the returns Of the next three
presidential contests.
But the majorities growing out Of
Organism are small by comparison
with many Of the claims made this
year. This Texas democrat and this
Pennsylvania republican are showing
the way.
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Start Redistribution

Assurance has been given by Chair.
man Good Of the House appropriations
committee that he will do everything
in his power to aid in bringing the re-
classification legislation before Con.
gress lat the very earliest possible
date" Every consideration of econ.
omy demands early action on the re.
classification project. The inquiry into
the status OF the clerks, their relative
duties and pay. and their groupment
for efficient service cost a large sum
Of money. 1t was an extensive inves.
tisation entered into by the United
States government for the purpose of
determining proper basis of organi.
cation. When undertaken it was as.
sumed that it was but the first step
in q reform that would be promptly
established. The report was submitted
to Congress in ample season at the
last session to lead to an enactment.
but nothing was done. The session
that will open in December will be
short. closing on the 4th Of March.
The utmost protnptness in speed will
be necessary to put this matter
through the legislative process before
that time.
The government will save money by
adopting proper Reconsideration plan.
1t will lose money by delaying while
all angles Of the project are consid.
cred and different proposals are dis.
cussed. The way to get this system
established is to adopt a basic law
and start it going. If it is not equita.
BILE to the employees or workable from
the governments point OF view it can
be changed, amendment being much
more easy than initial enactment.
A lesson should be learned in this
matter from the history. Of the retire.
ment legislation, which Jagged for
over quarter Of a, century because
Of differences OF opinion on detail
That law il now on the statute books
and is working. II it does not work
well it can be changed. Probably il
will be changed from time to time. The
hope is that there will be no such de.
lay in the matter OF reclassification,
but that Z start will Be made early
and the system tested out in practice.
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Mr.. xcAdoo on the Stump.

Former Secretary McAdoo II sched.
uled tor stumping tour which viii
take him across the continent, 1t will
end st San Francisco.
He has covered the territory before.
In the liberty loan drives he was much
in action ~ q speaker. In fact, he
tried his voice before large audiences
then for the hrst time. He had great
success. The leans were oversub-
scribed. and he was Congratulated on
his part in the business.
Although educated for the bar. and
now in practice again, Mr.. McAdoo
has achieved distinction outside OF his
profession. Before entering politics in
1912 he had been q prominent figure
in the financial and business world
Of New York; and when he became .
member Of Mr.. Wilson's cabinet he
brought to his Post = large experience
in financial ana business matters.
1t 10 a. q financial ana business au.
thority, therefore, rather than ~ a
politician, that Mr.. McAdoo will ask
for votes for the democratic ticket.
He viii recommend it from that point
Of view. OF political stumpers the
democracy has an abundance, but not
another stumper OF Mr.. McAdoo's
consequence outside Of politics.
Whether the republicans will assign
q speaker to trail the former financial
adviser of the administration IL ques.
ton. Very likely they viii. As hi.
appeal win be to voters not reached
ordinarily by stumpers the opposition
may consider it advisable to appeal to
voters Of the same class through one
Of their number Of Mr.. McAdoo's class
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and there set OF in circumstances to
leave no trace Of the source.

and there set OF in circumstances tc
leave no trace Of the source.
The purpose Of these conspirators-
discarding for the moment the acct.
dent theory in this particular case
is to spread terror, to cause the people
of the country to doubt the stability
and the capacity Of their government.
The mere destruction Of life and prop
erty does not in itself do that. But
repeated failure on the part OF the gov
these things does shake confidence.
This is not to say that continued in
effectiveness of investigation and pur-
suit is in itself failure Of govern
ment But the effect on the public
mind is nevertheless bad. 1t is de-
moraliZing thus to present the specta-
Gle of consistent inability to check
those who are plotting against the
public security.
AS to the accident theory. all the
circumstances tend to weaken it. Two
factors. in effect. establish that the ex.
plosion was criminal-the place and
the hour. Stray loads OF high explo.
sives designed for honest purposes
do not go wandering around through
the financial district at noon looking
for point of delivery. 1t is possible
that this particular wagonload went
off prematurely. The suggestion has
been made that the driver mistook the
object and halted his deathtrap too
soon in its course up Wall street
toward Trinity Church.
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The Accident" Theory.

After . week OF investigation with.
out results OF moment, the probers of
the New York bomb explosion have
reverted to the accident" theory on
the strength OF statements alleged to
have been made by four men to the
effect that ten minutes after the blast
they talked to q man who told them
that his wagon had been blown UP
while he was telephoning to his en-
ployer for an address to which he had
been ordered to take some building
materials. This Clue is being fol-
lowed up. There may be some truth
in it. But the public has been def
nitely led to believe that the explo-
sion was a crime, that II was caused
by bomb or great mass of high ex-
plosive material carted into Wall
street for the purpose Of destruction.
Apparently no progress whatever has
been made toward identifying the
source Of this explosive. whether it
was detonated Intentionally or acct
dentally. Either the New York laws
and their enforcement are extremely
lax in the matter Of making and hand
ling violently high explosives or the
municipal and federal means Of check
ing up on powder manufacture for
criminal purposes are futile. The
fact remains that. whether accident OF
crime. this explosion demonstrates tia,
it is possible for quantities Of thit
deadly material TO be made and taken
into the heart of the business distric,