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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-07-30
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

Center is being felt very strongly.
Yet there is nothing being done to
supply such an institution for the
Jewish community. The young folks
feel the need very much, but they
are powerless to do anything. The
leaders of the community are too far
removed from us, they do not know
what is actually needed. Some
think that the Talmud Torah should
serve as a Community Center, but
that building is far too small to
serve both purposes efficiently.
The home offering no attraction
with no Community Center to take
it's place, even in part, the Jewish
youth has to spend it's leisure time
on the street with it's vice and i'm
moral surroundings.
Immoral surroundings is the most
important Of the three causes re-
sponsible for the undermining of
the character and brings about event
ually the downfall of the child.
A few individuals interested in i'm
proving conditions on the North side
found, upon investigation, that the
section which had once been in
habited almost entirely by Jewish
families has been invaded by dis
orderly houses. Vice and immortality
are flourishing openly with no in
reference Rumors have it that
young Jewish girls are being housed
with negroes for immoral purposes.
How much truth there is to these
rumors you may judge for your
selves when you examine these facts:
One Jewish girl married negro, an
other is an unmarried mother of
negro baby. A physician told the
writer that Jewish girl was sent to
him from a negro house for a pre-
scription for alcohol. These are
cases known to us. How many more
did not come to light as yet?
Steps were taken by this same in
terested group to get the authorities
to clean up the disorderly houses in
the locality A conference was ar
ranged for with the Chief of Police
to meet committee. On this COM
mittee were three residents of the
North side and four representatives
of the Women's Cooperative ALI
ance, headed by it's secretary, Mrs.
Gilman. The condition was placed
before the chief and list of certain
specific houses, which were investi-
gated, was handed him. After
lengthy conference the group left his
office quite discouraged. The only
impression carried away was Mr..
Walkers lecture on the undesira-
bility of having any large settle
ments of particular nationality in
the city, and very automatically said
that if any section of the city did not
suit person all he had to do was
to move on.
The matter had been given wide
publicity in the daily papers, but
after day or two everything SIM
mered down and conditions remain
as they were.
Now the question is, what can be
done to provide cleaner and safer
L
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26

The main reinsurance regarding Wash
ington, srchitecturally speaking, is that its
molders OF the present day are striving
and are dissatisfied. They mock at the poor
examples and accept the good, enthusing
over few or mono That they will leave TO
future generations, when the plans of a
dream-oity in white marble and green for
est has como to fruition. PA. o.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Church Locations.

The Baltimore Federation of Churches
advises that as congregations change their
church locations they should seek to avoid
church congestion. In seeking new sites
they naturally give weight to street car
lines. But the chief factor is the nearness
of the supporting members.
This one factor has gradually taken the
churches from downtown to residence dis
tricts in all cities. Unlike business houses,
they do not gather in competing zones OF
congested traffic.
Strangely, perhaps, the effort is not to
. concentrate their magnetic force to draw
all the populace to a great church center,
but to be near their own select group who
will then have the least excuse, for non
attendance.
The business man counts the traffic OF
human beings that pass a certain block or
street section. He seeks location where
this number is greatest. A church seems
to adopt almost the opposite rule and seek
to go where it will be least disturbed.
IN restful environs the service is restful
and adds to that peace of mind which is
sometimes mistaken for spiritual assurance
Yet like business house it must go where
best assured of adequate support and where
that may possibly extend its service to a
dowtown mission.
Yet altogether this location of churches
is disturbing to heather, or semi-heathen
minds which contemplate the mission Of
Christianity. 1t sometimes causes them
to wonder if the two are one, or are inter
locking, or quite distinct.
They may wonder if the church is il any
sense for them or if their only recourse for
encouragement to better living is only
Christianity without any sect distinction.
Maybe this is one reason they remain nom
supporting members on the outside
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26

playing the part in the world which events
seem to demand, is deep and abiding dis
trust OF European Craftsmanship which is
held responsible for the wars with which
Europe has been afflicted. This distrust is
certainly not without its justification. and it
was the fervent hope of common men
everywhere that the frightful losses and
cruel suffering of the great war would
mean the end OF those vicious forces which
had brought this calamity upon the world.
That it did not we know. We. should
know that the war never has and never will
deliver the world from the poisonous thing
on which it feeds The same menace is
present today-less powerful perhaps than
formerly but by no.smeans impotent--and
the experience of the last few years has
taught us that isolation. does. not free ~us
from it. ~
1t is not question for us whether we
enter a league to fight this danger, or re-
main outside in safety There sis no OUT
side. and safety from the menace OF war
can be found by fighting that -rhenace. with
the only weapon which can ever be effec-
tive against it.
1t has been abundantly shown that
public opinion is the permanent and the
most effective force in international affairs.
Treaties have been made and arbitration
courts have been set up for the purpose OF
bringing dangerous issues between states
into the light Of public discussion in order
that the public opinion of the nations in
volved might have an opportunity to bring
about peaceful, settlement.
These, in the most important cases,
have failed, and that failure has been due
to the fact that this pressure could not be
applied carly enough, The time to-stop a
quarrel is at its beginning. 1t has been the
defect OF these previous international ar
rsngements that they have provided cura-
tive, but not preventive measures.
The league of nations, by providing an
opportunity for the discussion of interna-
tional problems which may develop into
quarrels, does what arbitration treaties do
not do, for it attacks the sources Of contro-
versy and uthizes more than ever before
the powerful force of world opinion.
No international conference has ever
received the world-wire publicity which
has been given this one> Never has there
been brought to bear on problems which
vex nations so great force of public opin-
ion. Never have the peoples of the world
held in their hands weapon OF such po-
tentialty for the destruction of the ancient
| enemy OF peace.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
By-G6Ope NepQM
Mrs. BrolDning Gaze
Thackeray a Shock

L do not, of course, attribute TO psyche
analysis. all the so-called sins of the modern
novel. Ours is franker age than ,the one
Mr.. Galsworthy describes as just preceding
US. Many old conventions are breaking up
Subjects once taboo are now part of the
most ordinary conversation When Thack-
cray was preparing to edit the CornhiI
Magazine, he asked Mrs. Browning for a
poem to adorn the first number, and she
sent him one called Lord Walters Wife"
beginning: --s
But why do you go?" said the lady
While both safe under the yew,
And her eyes were alive in their depth,
As the kraken beneath the sea-blue
Because | fear you" he answered.
Because you are far too fair,
And able to strsrglc my soul in mesh
Of your gold-colored hair"
morously a playful intrigue between the
Mrs Browning went on to develop hu-
married lady and her married adniirer, and
ended with an invitation from the lady that
the gentleman dine with her and Lord
Walter. Thackeray read the poem, was
properly shocked, and returned it to the
author, fearing, he said with thousand
apologies, the risque character of its sub
ject Whereupon the innocent Mrs Brown
ing, as her reply to Thackeray shows, was
deeply chagrined, and protested that "the
corruption of our society requires not
shuttle doors and windows, but light and
air" An incident like this OF sixty years
ago must seem strangely obsolete to read
ers who rely upon current fiction for their
ideas and culture. Women nowadays, If
the novels of 1920 speak true. are not much
concerned when they discover that their
lovers are married. The question that most
bothcrs them is whether they themselves
are in love On the answer mainly depends
whether they stay at home or fy-Wilbur
Cross, in the January Yale Review.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
The Chimney Swift.

A gay and spirited bird is the chimney
swift
He races through the sky at top speed
for the joy of it, and expresses that joy in
chatter light and shrill.
Like many other interesting things which
are familiar, the swift is taken much for
granted. Few townfolk give its fight a
second thought, or even first!
Rural folk who watch the swifts mount
so high in the air that they are out of sight
have belief that they spend the night on
the wing, and sleep while they f1y An older
belief is that when winter is at hand they
dive into ponds and hibernate in the mud
of the bottom until spring OF course,
these beliefs are incorrect
Swifts never alight on twigs As most
persons know, they nest in chimneys, build
ing their nests of twigs glued together with
saliva which hardens like varnish
Hatched naked and gaping, in a little
longer than two weeks they are able to fly
across State. They seem never to tire.
The bluebird stands for happiness. The
swift, screaming in headlong flight across
the sky, is an embodiment of the sheer Joy
of lifel
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Reveals Why Brit0ns
LiUe in Cold Houses

when the. Briton is cold" says. Arthur
Warren, in London Days" recently pub
lished by Little, Brown and Company, bos-
ton, "he goes out for walk and warns
his blood The theory is that artiheIsi
warmth is unhealthful; the truth is that u
is an expense to which. the Briton OBJECTS
and that he has not learned how to warm
his house" r....r. .-.f
The houses of Americans in London,
heated in. American fashion. are usually
popular gathering places, provided the most
is an ordinarily civil and likablc chap, MI
Warren further states, and he voices tne
belief that this is true because the briton
likes to be comfortable.
/ Americans have heard much about the
cold houses of England, and it is right
pleasing to find this curiosity satisfying DIT
in Mr.. Warren's book.
However, the quotation above, taken by
itself, does not give the correct impression
of Mr. Warren's work. "a Book OF RemN
nscences," he calls it, and It is that. But
it has many little observations about the
Briton tucked in here and there that are
enlightening. -,
In the main, the book deals with anec-
dotes and pen portraits OF such famous
characters as Moscheles, Browning, Mime
Patti, John Stuart Blackie, Lord Kelvin,
Tcnnyson, Whistler. Henry Drummond, Sir
Henry Irving, Gladstone, Henry M. Stan
ley, George Meredith, and Parnell.
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One of the most delightful of these chap
tiers is that on Whistler. Mr.. Warren, who
was for many years London correspondent
of the Boston Herald, knew this. finely.
tuned, transplanted American artist and
author of "The Gentle Art of Making
Enemies" very we'll. He dubbed HIM The
butterfly with the sting" and his sketch OF
Whistler, slim, clad in long, tight-htting
Prince Albert, high hat, monocle, yellow
gloves and shoes of the softest leather,
made as if for woman, makes one think
butterfly" very readily. As to the sting,
those who are familiar with The Gentle
Art" know how poignant that was!
The chapter on Parnell and that on Glad,
stone give some lights that may be helpful
to those who are deeply interested IN the
Irish question. The book is sincere, with
many pleasant humorous touches, and Mr:
Warren has written with sympathy and
with the interest that is possible, in such
a volume, only to one who has known well
the characters with, whom he deals.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Very Mad, Indeed.

The postohice departments of the new Eu-
ropean governments are driving the Ger
man stamp collectors insane. one Berlin
hospital having set aside special section
for philatelists who have gone mad trying
to keep their collections up to date in the
face Of a constant stream OF new issues
pouring in from the presses.
But then, our own Postofhce Department
is driving a lot of us Americans crazy.
.* Only it isn't from the same cause.!-
Cartoons Magazine. -.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
Sheds NeU Light
On Daisy Ashford
Miss Isabel Furbank Tells
How "Young Visiters" /"
Came Into Being
By FREDERICK w. GANZERT.

y The cordial reception given the dranlati
cation of "The Young Visiters"in this coun-
try has revived the controversy over the au-
s';horship OF the little volume which last year
set two continents talking. Once more the
critics are wondering just how much cred
ence may be placed in Sir Jarhes Barrie's
innocent predatory assurance that the book
is "the unaided effort in fiction OF an au-
thoress OF nine years"
y That some doubt exists should not oc-
casion surprise, for the very first thought
of the reader who takes up the tiny volume
for the first time is, But there is too much
genuine devitry, too much mischief in it,
for a child of nine to have originated
And still, there is the delicious naivete of
the juvenile mind which pervades the work,
the little folks own viewpoint which older
writers have striven tor, vt tailed. 1t is
reminiscent OF Alice in Wonderland"-bu
STILL there is a difference.
There was time when we might have
believed it hoax, but that time is past. SO
we must conclude that either Barrie touched
it up" or, failing that that Daisy Ashford
really wrote it. with the fat. pudgy fingers
OF gingham -frocked nine-ysar-
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Vouched for by British Authoress.
1t may be Of interest to the doubling
Thomases" who still remain that Miss lsa-
bel Furbaa1k an English writer, who is max
an intimate friend of Daisy Ashford, vouches
for the fact that Daisy Ashford wrote the
book, unaidcd by Sir James.
| suggested to Miss Furbank that il
might be good "idear' to tell the Ameri-
can public what she knows Of the author.
or at least enough to swing the scales in
favor OF the young miss's authorship OF the
book, and she consented.
Some time ago Miss Furbank wrote
Daisy Ashford at her new home in Norfolk
England, asking for additional details OF
her childhood and the background OF the
book. She received long letter in Daisy
Ashfords own breezy style.
Il don't know what details | can give
you, really" wrote Daisy Ashford (now
Mrs. Devlin). about myself. | expect that
you know that besides my two younger
brothers and sisters l had grown-up step
sisters and step-brothers. My mother hav-
ing been married before, naturally, as kid,
| took an enormous interest in all their
doings and the accounts Of the various
stops they had with their friends, and also
in the Young Visiters' who came to the
house.
Mother was awfully amusing and the
most original person in the world-father
awfully quiet and scholarly (it's the best
word can fnd), but with an awfully keen
sense Of humor.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
oGeM
QA6y

When at dawn she signs, and like infant to the
window
Turns grave eyes craving light, released from
dr@ms,
Beautiful she looks like white water lily
Bursting out of bud in havens OF the streams:
When from bed she rises clothed from neck to ankle
In her long nightgown sweet as boughs OF May,
Beautiful she looks like a tall garden lily,
Pure from the night and splendid for the day
Hither she comes; she comes to me; she fingers,
Dcepens her brown eyebrows, while IN new
surprise
High rise the lashes in wonder of stranger;
Yet am the light and living Of her eyes
Something friends have told her fills her heart TO
-. brimming 8
Nets her in her bushes, and wounds her, and
tames-
Sure of her haven o like dove ahghting,
Arms up, she dropped; our souls were IN our
names.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26

thing 1t went into the four hundredth edi-
ton and still continued to sell. Now it
makes a bid for Immortality with the crea-
tons Of Lewis Carroll and Charles Kingsley.
And what of Daisy Ashford? Miss Fur
bank says she remains the same. She has
married and is now Mrs. Devlin, and with
her husband is raising hogs in Norfolk,
England.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26

The extent of the former Kaiser's claims
for money indemnities from the German
government induces the belief thai he in
cluded all he expected to make il he had
stayed on the throne the rest of his life
Kansas City Star.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
SUNDAY, DECEMBER a6, 1910.

Evil perpetually tends to disappear
Spencer
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
On Bod or Bill!

Bud owned thousand-scre ranch:
Bill owned a forty" up the branch
Bud leased his land and so did Bill
The oil mon came with rig and drill
And drilled on Bud-of course
They drilled around for quite spell:
They got dry holes, but not a we'll
The rock hound" beat his furrowed brow;
"Whcre is that structure, anyhow?
II shows on Bud-of course
""yust north there seems TO be a break
Unless I've made a grave mistake.
NY levels show the anti-clinc
A-dippin' southwest from the line -
The lies on Bud-of course"
At any rate it wasn't there.
They brought in dry ones everywhere.
The field boss broke some rigid rules
And, loading up string OF tools,
He moved on Bili-of course
The rock hound" rosred. The office"
wired:
"Just one more bonehead and you're fred.
However, as you've moved the rig,
You'd better go ahead and dig
A hole on Bill-of course"
The well was drilled without hitch;
An amber stream flowed down the ditch.
Ii bubbled down the rock hounds" break
And formed a million-dollar lake
A lake on Bud-of course.
The rock hound" 'fessed up like a man;
Saws he: Il missed it by span.
I've seer some funny things like that,
But ile' is where you hnd II at.
The Jokes on me-of course"
Now Bud and Bill are in a suit
To see which one viii get the loot.
The well was drilled on Bill, they say.
The oils on Bud-there's hell TO pay.
Someone will lose-of course.
Will Ferrell in Kansas City Star.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26
From the Kansas. ulty ss.I.

NDER yonder bcech-tree single on the
greensward
~ Couched with her arms behind her golden
head, -. r..
Knees and tresses folded TO slip and ripple idly,
Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.
Had the heart slide arm beneath her.
Press her parting lips her waist gather slow,
Waking in amazement she could not but embrace me;
Then would she hold me and never let me go?
Shy as the squirrel and wayward the swallow
Swift as the swallow along the rivers light
Circletng the surface to his mirrored winglets
Flecter she seems in her stay than in her fight
Shy the squirrel that leaps among the pine tops,
Wayward as the swallow overhead at set of sun,
She whom ! love is hard TO catch and conquer.
Hard, but, %, the glory of the winning were
he ru0n1
The Washington herald., 1920-12-26

Whiting Williams. author OF Whats on
the Workers Mind" (Scribner's), has re-
laxed but little since his sensational book
came out The steel executive and labor
authority is as anxious to put his facts
before the people as the people arc to hear
them, and he is addressing large audiences
in the East and midwest continually.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
FIGHT FIRE ON SHIP.
Calno Nears Port With Flames Un-
der Control.

Calno Nears Port With Flames Un-
der Control.
NEW ORLEANS, December THE
American steamship Calno, bound
from Port Arthur. Tex, to Liverpool
with a cargo of cotton. last night re-
ported afire in the Gulf Of Mexico,
early today was approaching South
west Pass, at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi with the fire under control, ad-
vices to the maritime exchange said,
Tugs, rushed to the location OF
the Calno. when wireless calls for
help were received, stood by early to-
day and helped battle the fire. which.
1t was said. was in the cargo.
The vessel was 100 miles on South
west Pass when the cali WAS re.
ceived and making for the mepth OF
the river at q speek that, officeEfs6f the
Calno said, woWd bring her within
reach Of help before the fre gained
too great hs6dway.
Reports rs far received today did
not indicaka how serious the damage
promiae3 to be, or the sise, Of the
cargo. other then that she carried
cotton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
.LEADERSPUSH|NG
REPRESENTATION
Campaign Workers to Urge
Early Hearing by House
Judiciary Committee.

A conference Of officers and COM
mittee chairmen of the citizens
joint committee on District national
representation and of representatives
Trade. Chamber of Commerce. Fed
Grafton Of Citizens Associations,
Merchants and Manufacturers' Assoc
citation, Bar Association and the City
Club suffrage group was held last
night at the home of Chairman Theo-
dore w. Noyes. The representatives
of these organizations present were
Theodore w. Noyes. A. Leftwich Sim
clair. Robert N. Harper. Louis Often
berg. Fl. B. F. Macfarland. E. c. Bran
Brown. II. H. Classic, w. NICK. Clay
ton. George F. Bowerman Charles J.
Columbus. A. E. Seymour, Jesse c.
Suter, Frank j. Hogan, Paul e. Ilesh,
Roy L. Neuhauser. James T. Lloyd,
Milton L. Allies and Frank Sprigg
Perry.
Campaign Results Reported.
At the spring meeting of the con-
ference plans were adopted for a
al political conventions to bring about
the adoption of planks in the party
platforms favorable to national rep
resentation for the District. At last
nights meeting reports were pre-
sented by the advocates Of the Dis
y
Frank j. Hogan, who was delegate
to the republican convention at Chi
cago and secretary Of the resolutions
committee. reported. He told how
the resolutions committee Of the re-
publican convention at one time
16. but that after renewed discussion
and reconsideration it was. finally re-
jected by a vote of 27 to is. 1t was
believed that the Districts plea was
postponed rather than rejected, as
being not ripe for action as a plat
form plank. but with gratifying as
surance of future favorable consid-
GRAFTON. even from some now in op-
position to the Immediate adoption Of
the plank. The net result at Chicago,
1t was thought, was encouraging
rather than depressing.
Robert N. Harper interestingly re-
ported on the faithful work done by
representatives of the District at San
francisco In the effort to secure the
adoption of a national representation
plank by the democratic convention.
Report was also made that the print
publicity subcommittee had previous
to the conventions sent to each dele
gate and alternate of the two parties
materials bearing on the Districts
claim. While no immediate practical
result was obtained at Chicago and
San Francisco it was thought that the
missionary and education effect OF this
distribution was satisfactory
,CcAmiftee Hearing Desirea.
A full discussion ensued As to the
campaign for national representation
THIS winter and next spring with the
~ rfApect 70 COMMITTEES HEARINGS and
|Hiiasfonary work With individual cdff-
gresamen 1t WAS unanimp,lsly atreed
|'shAt heastnt bcfure tho aase Jtdt2