The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-05-14


words OF welcome. Mr.. Solomon has
been invited to Birmingham by the
president of Grand Lodge No. 7 to be
the orator at the services that will be
held Friday evening.
Following the addresses, the open
ing business session was held. The
report of the finance committees and
other committees were made, showing
the relief work being done, the hos
pitfalls and other institutions being
maintained.
Evening Session.
The evening session opened with
The message of the president, A. Leo
Ob?rdcrfer, giving in detail the re-
port Of the work which had been &C.
complished during the year and OBJ.
servations and recommendations of
the chief executive.
ne report gave the number Of new
men bers taken in during the year in
district No. z and the number of new
lodges. 1t touched on the relief work
in the Corpus Christi food of 1919,
and the war sufferers loan fund which
was raised to relieve the stricken peo-
pie of the war-torn countries. He
paid tribute to the effective work Of
the Birmingham lodges, who during
the year took in total of 1877 new
members.
when we last met the war was
scarcely over" said Mr.. Oberdorfer.
Quickly we have passed into the Pc
riod of reconstruction. We find our
selves in a changed world. The great
efforts put forth during that crisis
have been followed by reaction. New
concepts of life are being put for
ward. Government, society, religion,
yea, civilization, is being challenged.
Radicalism is abroad in the world.
The anarchist, the communist, the
bolshevist are seeking to undermine
our social system.
America is set like adamant
against these radicals. Woe to the
group which is charged by public
o'inion of our country with being in
oculated with this dangerous virus.
Many are apt to class all radicals as
foreigners, and the unthinking and
biased are wont to conceive of all Jews
as foreigners, and hence as radicals.
To complicate this situation it is re-
grettable that one born Of Jewish pa
rents was prominently connected with
the great political and social tragedy
Of Russia, and that in this country
among the undesirables who were de-
ported were some Jews.
"Th" Jews in America are conserva-
tito. law-abiding. We are not radi-
Gals, are not communists or So
cialists, but on the contrary we fear
and dread their doctrine and philos-
ophy. We know that socialism has
49, been and never will be workable;
that II lacks the incentive for person.
al effort and sacrifice and initiative;
49, it is not adaptable to a people
Of unequal mental, physical and moral
capacity: that its vices are greater
than the faults charged against our
present social order; that our present
system. which has brought mankind
from HE primitive state to his pres
ent-day civilization, with the hum
blest citizen having at his service ad-
vdntages, luxuries and conveniences,
social and personal, that ancient kings
could not command, should not be
liohtlv discarded and a new, imprac-
teal fad adopted.
Against Radic"'s.
"By evolution, steady and sure.
with the people prepared by education
for each ste,. and not BY precipitate
revolution, can mankind hope 10 make
elective progress.
"The Jews Of America are against
the radicals. the bolshevists, the CON-
munists and the socialists. We real.
ize the great blessings enjoyed in
America under our great representa-.
tive democracy. We realize that the
basis Of our government Is our writ
ten constitution with its provisions
guaranteeing the rieht to private
nroperty and the RIGHT Of contract.
The socialists. the communists, the
anarchists and the bolshevists DENY
these Great principles Of the constitu-