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Hallandose Cortes en- Texcoco su-
pc, a principles de Febrero de 1921
que estaban va terminates los trece
bergantines que habia mandado cons
truir bajo la direction de Martin Lo-
PEI, por 10 que mando por ellos a
Critobal de Sandoval.
En- ell rio de Zahuapaul, que pasa
a orillas de T~laxcala, Sc hizo una pre-
sa provisional para probar dichos bu-
ques Y habiendolos encontrado en- per
fecto estado fueron llevados a Tex
coco, desarmados, por ocho mil in
dos de carga, que suministr6 la mis-
ma republica de Tlaxcala, mas VEIN
te mil guerreroS.
Por su parte, Ixtlixochitl, Rey de
una parte de Texcoco, que Sc habia
aliado tambien con los espanoles, ha-
bia alberto con ocho mil o~perarios
indios, un canal de mas de media
legua de longitud, con n profundi-
dad suficiente para que los bergan-
tines pudieran pasar al lago de Tex
coco Y asediar Ia ciuGad de Tenoxti-
tlan. iAsi ayudaban los mismos in
dos a Ia conquista de su patria!
En- los primeros dias de Mario sa-
ko Cortes de Texcoco con $50 es-
panoles Y 81 ejercito aliado con el
Objeto de hacer I'm rec0nocimiento V
procurar una ~entrevista con ell nue.
vo e~mperador Y con algunos de los
senores de Ia nobleza, Y Sc dirigi6 a
Tacuba, teniendo que sostener en-
Naltocan VI terrible combate con los
mexicanos en- que estos ]estuvieron a
punto de Obtener Ia victoria, pero un
traidor ensen6 a los conquistadores
Ell punto por donde podia invadirse
Ia calzada Y este les do el triunfo.
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FOLLETIN MIN. 226.

LA JUvENTUD DE ENRIQUE VI
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muy despierto, Y TODD 10 adivinaba a
Ia menor Indication.
DE csc modo, dijo guinando Ell O.
10, va no volveria a hablar a Vuestra
Maiestad del dote de su esposa.
-Precisamenbe, dijo Carlos TX, SOL
tando una risotada LENA de buen hu-
NOR.
--Vamos a YER, penso Pibrac, va que
el rey esta allegro, esta IS n buena
OCCASION para hablarle IN POGO de ma
Dana Catalina,
Como 81 Ell rey hubiese adivinado ell
pensamiento de su captain de guar
dias, Sc anticip6 a 81 diciandole:
Como quiera que sea, la partida
de mi her:nana Margarita, enfurru-
NADIA con u esposo, Y Ia de este CO.
rriendo tras de ella. no me explican
de ningin modo Ia desaparicion de la
reina ma6re.
-Es verdaL, senior.
De repeate el rey Sc habia puesto
serio, Y miraba fijamente a Pibrac.
Senior, dijo este, juear con el fue
so es cast siempre peligroso.
-iQue quereis decir-
-Tambien es peligroso calentar en-
SD seno & una serpiente entumecida.
-EXplicaos con claridad, Pibrac
y hacerse otra vez amigo de a.
quellos 4 quienes Sc ha querido expli-
caros? insistio el rey. bruscamente
-Pues bien, senior, como ACADIA de
saberlo Vuestre Majestad, madame
Catalina Y ell duque de Guisa Sc han
vuelto a ver....
va 10 Sc.
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La reina salia todas las noches
del Louvre.
~ ad6nde iba?
A yer al duque de Gdisa, que es-
taba oculto en- Paris.
-SQuian sabe, murmuro ell rey
nuy ~caviloso, 10 que han maquina-
do juntos?
Pihrac comenzo a sonreirse.
No ME mezclo en- la politica, Sc
nor, dijo.
-iPero 20 quiero que hableis. re,
plic6 Ell rey con autoridad.
acknowledgements, prosigui6 NJ. de
Pibrac con sumision, Sc trataria en-
tire ellos del rey de Navarro.
-!AhI 10 creeis?
Ell duque de- Guisa seguia aman,
do a madame Margarita.
-Es probable.
y la reina madre estaba muy
feliz de encontrar an 81 duque de
Guisa a IN enemigo encarnizado del
rev de Navarro. For 10 tanto, cont
nuo Pibrac, madame Catalina, obce-
cada por su encono, Y Ell duque de
Guisa, instieado por So amor, quiZas
Sc habran asociado de buena fe.
-Muy trapaceros son los dos, sin
embargo.
-Pero cuando el duque habra per-
dido toda esperanto de reconquistar
81 coraz6n de madame Margarita, va
no obrara de buena fe COZ Ia reina
madre,
-iQue queries decir con ESQ?
Que recordara que Ia reina madre
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.LECTURAS POPULARES
Sc actiOan los preparedness para ell sitho de Mex.

Al dia siguiente llegaron a Tacu-
ba teniendo que trabar I'm nuevo com
bate para apoderarse de la ciudad,
la cual s~aquearon e i%ncendiaron.
Los combates Sc repitieron todos
los dias Y en- uno de ellos, don Her
nardo, llevado de su natural impe-
tuosidad, quiso entrar en- Tenoxtitlan.
Los aztecas fingieron retirarse Y los
espanoles avanzaron imprudentemen-
tie, pero de repente Sc vieron envuel-
tos por IN gran numero de mexicas
y tuvieron que retirarse en- gran con-
fusion, habiendo perecido cinco es-
2anoles Y heridos todos los demas.
Regreso Cortes despues de csc
descalabro a Texcoco para empren-
der ma nueva campana a fin de So
meter a todos los pueblos cercanos a
la capital para nc tener enemigos a
la espalda V el 5 de Abril salio con
Ia mayor parte de su ejercito para
arrojar a los mexicanos a Chalco, So
meter a los tlahuicas que 10 hostiliza-
ban Y dar vuelta al rededor de Me-
xico para organizar en- toda forma ell
sitio.
Cada dia tuvieron los e~spanoles
que sostener rudos combates Y en-
Xochimilco cayo Cortes en- poder de
los aztecas, quienes deseando sacrifi
carlo vivo IN honor de sus doses,
dieron lugar a que fuese libertado
por los suyos. Con grandes fatigas
termin6 el reconocimiento al rede-
dor de la capital Y volvi6 a Texco-
co, donde Sc encontr6 nuevos re-
fuerzos que lie habian llegado de
Espana.
Ali tuvo Cortes que hacer frente
a una conspiraci6n que sus mismos
soldados habian tramado para matar-
lie, d~eseosos de volver a Cuba, desa-
lentados como Sc hallaban por Ia te-
rrible resistencia de los indios, la cual
no habian encontrado hasta entonces
en- ninguna parte de America.
Los conjurados tenian dispuesto
asesinar a don fernando, 10 mism@
que a sus jefes mas adictos, pero
uno de los conjurados denunci6 Ia
'conspiraci6n delatando al jefe de ella,
el cual fue ~aprehendido, recogien-
dosele una lista de todos los conspi-
radOres, pero como estos ran muchos
V Sc hacia impossible 81 castigo, Sc
contento con mandar ahorcar al pro-
motor, hacienda Greer a todos que el
preso Sc habia tragado la lista en- el
momento de ser aprehendido.
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TERRIBLE NCENDIO
EN- ORIZABA VERACPUZ
Fue destruida la fd5rica
Sta. Gertrudis, perecien-
do cuatro empleados

LAREDO, TEN, enero 24.-La IA
brica de hNados Y tejidcs de Santa
Gertrudis de Ori7aba, Veracruz, fuG
dcstraida totalmente por un incendio
el miGrcoles. segun 10 informan des-
pachcs telegr&ficos recibidos en- esta
ciudad. via Ciudad &c Mexico.
Cuatro empleadcs de Ia referida IA
brica pcrecieron durantc ell ~siniestro
que destruy6 no solamentc la maqui-
maria sino las eXistencias que ocupa-
ban varies edificios de MADEIRA.
Las perdidas materiales fueron
muy fuertes, pero 10 mas lamentable
de lease. fue IA horrible muerte de los
cuatro empleados que no pudieron es-
capar de ser coGidos por el voraz ele-
mento.
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MARIA CHAWORTE, o LA
HUMILLACIC'N

Nos hallamos frente a csc Luzbel
de Ia literature Y del amor que SC
llam6 lord Byron. There el prestigio
de las hermosuras varonilcs, Ia teme-
,iGad de IN caudillo, el csplendcr de
IN principe. Els Hector, el apGesto
uancebo homerida; Nyslo, Ell imber-
be eXterminador del Mahaoarata; Sa-
lUm6n, Ell deslumbrador &c Belkis.
Genio, fortuna y juventud acuden
como las Tres Gracias ante Par,s, en-
IN maravilloso juicio de regalos y
tentaciones, ante este nino lord que
ha de incendiar, con ~estrofas, a
tantas mujeres; asombrar, con sus
trenes V orgias, a tantas ciudades, Y,
mas que TODD ESQ, aventurar fortuna,
genio V juventud, cada dia Y aun ca
da bora, por las sendas abruptas de
10 a~rbitrario.
Ell penacho romantico luce te-
merarios lambrequines en- esta ca
beza olmpica, pequena como la de
Zens, rizada Y altanera como Ia de
Zens. Nunca hombre alguno, a no
ser Cesar Borgia, atrajo Ia curiosidad
femenina con mas irresistibles i'm
petus de pecado Y s~untuosidad. En-
u pomposos vicios, iluminados-co-
mo ell tango de las ~carreteras, per Ia
luz del rayo,-por la luz del genio,
habla mas que ''donjuanismo,' "sata-
nismo" Byron excede la ITALIA huma-
IA de don Juan Y alcanza la semi-di-
VIVA de Luzbel....
ASi este meteoro humane irrum-
De por los cielos hricos, con su her
mosa cabellera romantica, deslum-
brando a las generaciones, cue 10
admiran V cast 10 divinizan; pero lie
vando sobre TODD, como trofeoS, esas
dos tentaciones que Sc ilaman Ge-
Mo Y Amor, Y que atan a las mujeres
al CAIRO victoriosO, como en- los
Triunfos, de Petrarca...
Jorge Byron, a los diez Y siete
amos, era IN muchacho guapo, elegan-
te, rico, duenO del taStu0so CASTILLO
abadia de Newstead, Y esperanto
cumplir Ia edad para ingresar, por
derecho propio, en- Ia Camara de los
Lores. Hab;a a~dquirido una educacion
humanista en- Ell Colegio de Harrow,
siendole familiar Ia literature clasica
' moStrando desde pequeno Singula-
res disposiciones poeticas. Pero 81
posicion a~ristocratica, a~rrastrandole
a los deporteS, lie llevo hacia las gram
des cacerias, alejandole algunos amos
de los libros.
Su ~caracter, im~petuoso, desigual,
lleno de altaneria ' de caprichos, nos
le muestra doncel, autoritario J man
don. va en- pugna con 81 madre VIII
ia Y desobedeciendo a su tutor, lord
Carlisle. Por entonces conoce 4 Ma
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-iAh! iah! Z ysabeis donde habl-
ia csc La Chesnaye?
ST, senior.
-Pues bien, dijo ell rey, tomad diez
snizos y prendedle.
IA quien? "a La Chesnaye?
"A e. mismo.
-iEn seguida?
--Inmediatamente.. concluya-
mos con Ia reina madre. ICON que
deciais, amigo Pibrac, que madame
Catalina sali6 anoche del Louvre CO.
mo de costumbre?
ST, senior.
-iY que fue a YER al duque de
Guisa.
Ash 10 creo.
-iY que mas?
Els muy probable, senior, que Ell
duque al saber que la reina de Ma
varra no lie ANA mas, S haya acor-
dado de que madame Catalina quiso
un dia hacer que le mataran, y la
haya llevado a viva fuerza....
Como! ihabria 6sado!....
Los principles ~loreneses son ca
PAGES de todc, senior.
-Es verdad, murmuro Ell rey po-
niendose p~ensativo.
y es probable tambiea, p~rosiguio
Pibrac, que Ell duque no Sc hallara
solo en- Paris. y
bah!
lie accmpanaran dos o tres gen
tilhombres adictos que habran podi-
do ponerla una mordaza Y manhattan
Ia, ; despues, o en- una itera, o So
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~ entonces....
-Entonces, senior, reo cue vamos
a ex~plicarnos la desaparicion de ma,
dana Catalina.
Ell rey volvio a estremecerse.
-iQue queries decir? pregunt6
lila reina madre es I'm maFnifi,
co rehen, senor!.... murmuro Pibrac
-iReheni
-Ciertamente, repuso Ell captain
de los guardias con I'm tono de in
genuidad que acab6 de i~mpresionar
al rey Carlos X.
-Vamos, Pib.ac, dijo, sed franco
conmigo, amigo MIC.
-iVuest-a Majestad 10 desea?
ST, 10 quiero.
-0beGecere, senior.
-;Sabeis cual es ell paraderG de la
reina madre?
-Lo sospecho. Anoche sali6 del
Louvre. como de costumbre.
-;Y luego?
y COHiO US SoStuilIOiS, HUI Aiuio
Pibrac, fue a reunirse con ell duque
de Guisa.
-Pero Z a donde?
-iAh! senior, es ESQ 10 que no pue-
do decir con exactitud. Sin embac-
co..
Sin embargo, ique? interrumpio
ell rey, que va comenzaba a impacien-
tarse.
No me adnliraria que un tai La
Chesnaye.... el e~ncargado de los
negocios de Ia casa de Lorena.. su-
piera d6nde Sc hospeda Ell duque.
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ST, senior.
-EntOnces. ;para que el rey- de
Navarro va en- seguimiento suyO?
Pibrac deio brillar en- L labios
ma sonrsa de gasc6n y respondio:
-Madama Catalina Ia pasado por
shL.
-iEs possible. exclam6 el rey -etrc-
cediendo IN paso.
NJ. de Pibrac dirigi6 n pale eau
thier una elccuente naira6a.
-Dejanos, dijo 81 rey Al mucha-
clio.
Cuando Ell paje salio, Pibra2 tom6
IN aire mas misterioSo, y dijO:
He lido = tOmar informes, ' me
he enterado de muchas cosas-
-iAh!
-Antes de TODD, 81 rey ' la reina
de Navarro estdn renideS
Como asi! exclamo el rey.
-Madama Catalina ha pasado POT
shi. repiti6 Pibrac.
FL rev arrugo el e~ntreceio.
-Vuestra Najestad, prosiguio 81
captain de los guardias, Sc recorda-
"a seguramente de aquel platero de
n Gale de los Osos lamado Loriot..
IA quien asesin6 Rsnato.
-Precisamente.
y que tenia una hernosa r-ujer,
anadi6 Carlos X.
-Pues bien, senior, pareee que esa
muier ha sido conyertida en- mstru-
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bre Ia perrilla de una silla..
+ -Pero iese es un crimen de alta
TRACTION!
ST, senor.
~ creeis que Ell duque haya ST.
do capaz?
10 creo, senior.
En- csc case, exclamo Carlos TX
irritado, montad a caballo, Pibrac.
-Bien, selor, dijo ell captain de
los g~uardias con calma.
y said Il ~perseguir a los rapto-
res.
La sonrisa socarrona de Pibrac a.
sono de nuevo a sus labics.
-Senor, dijo, despues que haya
galopado veinticaatro horas y reven-
tado diez cabalLos, me %encontrare en-
cl mismo canine que ahora?
-iY por que?
-Porque Ell duque nos lleva doce
horas de delantera y ha dekido CANT
mar muy de prisa.
IFS cierto!....
y por 10 mismo, anadio Pibrac,
seria de opinion, salvo 81 ~beaeplscl-
to de Vuestra Majestad..
-yeamos cual es vuestra opinion,
Pibrac.
Cue fuera mas bien a prender a
La Chesnaye. a
~ luego?
-iQuien sabe? murmuro Pibrac,
tai vez sa5Fa rsas que nosotros, Sc
nor: V lie harenlos hablar.
-iCorriente! diio ell rey; id a
pretide-le Embellishments.
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TOSIA Ola 7 NOCHE.

John Vogue, Elberton, Ga; escri-
ba 10 siguiente: eel Otono pasaGo.
cuando todos mis- vecinos estaban en-
fermos de influenza, padeci TN fuer-
tie resfriado Y tuve una fLerte recall
da. Tosia noche Y dia; la garganta
estaba muy reseca e irritada. COM
pre- una botella de "Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound" V la tome en-
pequenas dosis cada dos horas. Nj
estado empez6 q meiorar Y pronto es-
tuve bien. En- mi opinion. la medi-
Gina de Foley es la mejOr para las
toses Y los r~sefriados.' CAdv.)
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SAN ANTONIO. X
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ENMEENDA Al PROYECTO
De Ia LEY SOBRE la
.~PROHEBECTON

WASHINGTON, enero 23.-El re.
presentante Sabbath, de Illinois, pre-
sento un proyecto ante Ia Camara de
Diputados aver, por ell cual Sc hace
una enmienda al proyecto general de
la Ley contra la manufacture Y ven-
ia de beidas embriagantes. La en-
mienGa de referencia tjene por OBJ
jeto. permitir Ia manufacture Y VEN
ia de cervezas de las classes Ale Y
Porter con I'm tres por ciento de
alcohol ' who's con un nucve por
ciento de alcohol.
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ria Chaworth.

ria Chaworth.
FL Olimpo de Harrow convirtiose,
en- aquel instante terrible, an un iris
tie lugar humane. Byron abandono
Ia estancia, sin ~llorar, sin reir, sin
respirar apenas....
Jupiter no era mas que un doncel
de diez V siete amos, a quien, como
en- los cuentos de hadas, lie habian sa-
cado ell ~coraz6n...
CristobaL de CASTRO
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-11-26
PROPOSED JEWISH REPRESEN.
TATI0N IN LEAGUE OF MA.
TONS UNAUTHORIZED.

Last August the New York Times
and other papers published a cable
gram, referring to an alleged resolu-
ton adopted by the COMMITTEE Of
Jewish Organization in Paris (which
had been formed to secure equal civil
and religious rights for Jews in the
countries Of their residence through
the Peace Conference), in favor OF
representation Of Jews as such in the
League Of Nations It has since
been ascertained that this cablegram
was erroneous, and that the resolution
was in favor Of representations being
made to the League Of Nations Coun-
Gil on behalf Of the prosecuted Jews
Of Eastern Europe pursuant to i'm
portant express provisions In the Po-
lish and other treaties) and did not
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iouS condition.
The reason for this congestion at
the consulate, it appears, is a short
age of clerical personnel. The number
Of demands has been larger than the
State Department anticipated. But
the present state Of affairs has exist.
ed for months. The emigrants, it ap-
pears, must obtain their receipts from
single stub book, and this takes
time. That the government makes it
matter of policy to exclude certain
classes Of people can be understood.
But that people like these unfortunate
families starving here, whose bread
winners are in America and who in
principle are acceptable to the govern.
ment, should be excluded because of a
clerical shortage in q deplorable stu
alton which could have been avoided.
American Jews have in thousands
OF cases come to the relief not only
OF their immediate families over here.
but of entire villages. Blum is a hao-
erdasher in middle-western city. He
came to America a poor Polish Jew
and made his pile. As soon as condi-
tons permitted he came to Poland
this summer to help his family. He
speaks broken English, writes with
difficulty, but is full Of American
push and is an American through and
through. He not only brought over his
owns fortune, but collected funds
among his friends for their families
and came over with enough dollars %
be converted into 100000 Polish
marks. | saw Blum after he returned
to Danzig from Poland. He had with
him forty-eight near and distant rela-
tives. He had put three Polish villages
back on their feet, and as he put il,
1t was the kaiser and the whole cheese
to them When saw him he had lust
installed his large family in the DAN
zig sanitary station to be washed and
cleaned. He had chartered a couple OF
freight cars to get them across Pol
and, and was now out buying a crate
Of oranges for them.
Yesterday met another of these
new Americans who has not forgotten
his family in Poland. He has already
sent four Of his immediate relatives
to America and now is attempting to
get out two sisters. He spent all his
money, and, without knowing me, only
that ! was an American, implored me
with tears in his eyes to help him. |
never go to the consulate without
some experience Of this sort. Among
the hundreds who wait outside the
doors some walk desperately up and
down or gestilate with the Polish
policeman at the door, while others
who have been coming for weeks sit
dejectedly along the gutters-human
tragedies which can only be averted
by the all-powerful little rubber stamp
called the vise.'
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-11-26
Friday, November 20, 1920.
A STRIKING DESCRIPTION BY AN
AMERICAN OFFICER.

~'S" AVh Niouc HAS Tile IOllOW.
ing special correspondence by Major
Sanford Griffith, an American officer
in Poland:
Warsaw, Poland: (By Mail). "If il
were not for American aid fourth
OF the Jewish population here in Pol
and would have starved" a prominent
Jewish physician here in Warsaw re-
marked to me.
my visits to the Ghetto here and
in towns on the line of the Bolshevists
advance fully confirmed the accuracy
Of this statement. There can be no
doubt that large number of the g.
100000 Jews in Poland would have
gone under, and that nearly as large
a number who have not the good for.
tune to have relatives in America are
at present in various stages of starva-
ton.
1.-THE immediate effect Of hunger
are hard to measure. They show them
selves in underground, apathy, ARE IT.
ed mental development. These are all
characteristic Of the Jewish popula-
ton here. When the Bolshevist forces
were pushing on to Warsaw these
symptoms Of hunger were terribly &C.
CELEBRATED as each day herds Of frigh.
tened refugees, helpless and penniless
increased the back-wash and misery
Of the city. Already the misery in the
Ghetto Of Warsaw makes these streets
look like alleys in a Turkish village
In famine year. The siege Of the city,
II 1t had been prolonged, or its capture
would have been a death sentence for
a large part Of the Jewish population.
1.-THE present plight Of the Jews in
Poland is not the result Of any malic-
ious project Of determination but the
direct consequence of the economic
chaos created by the war. The force
and vigor Of the Polish Christian pes.
pie comes from the land. The future
Of the nation is assured, whatever
the outcome Of the present struggle,
because 70 per cent Of them are on
the farms. But the Polish Jews have
lived and thrived by industry and
trade, on the manipulation Of deli
cate machinery which has been COM
pletely junked during the war. Fac
tories are paralyzed and have been
during the greater part Of the war.
For time trade continued in a more
or less badly crippled way and
many Jews adapted themselves to the
abnormal conditions and continued to
make money. But the masses, less en-
terprising, have only suffered from
closed markets, hindered transporta-
ton, and other difficulties. Now most
Of this irregular trade has ceased.
Goods are not to be had. The Poles
have become poor people who can
not buy even where the goods do exist.
"The low state Of the Polish Jews
makes them particularly helpless to
pull themselves out Of their present
plight. Orthodoxy here has taken its
worst forms. A large part Of the Jews
in Poland know only the organization
Of their cult, and this most too often
been a narrow, ritualized, strait-jack-
ct which has kept the Jews apart from
the Polish population about them. 1t
has tended to keep them illiterate and
familiar only with their own Ian
guage. Above all, IL has handicapped
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Friday, November &c. 1920 THE JEw1sH
The Tragic Situation Of the Jews
In Poland
In Poland


from the high attainments of its en-
lightened representatives there.
1.-The hatred existing between tn.
Polish Jews and the Christians, what
ever form it may take, is at the bot.
tom largely economic. It is none the
less accentuated by the low cultur,
OF the Polish Jews themselves. This
is most conspicuous in the gulf which
separates them from the large number
OF so-called assimilated Jews, those
who have dropped their old Jewish
traditions and taken up Polish ones.
Many Of these assimilated Jews hold
positions Of wealth and influence. But
they are so CONSCIOUS of the difference
between themselves and their old kins-
men, and so eager to seem a part of
the new set, that they have not res
ponded so generously as the Ameri-
can Jews to the support of their poor
kinsmen here.
mot only does the economic disor-
der due to the war make the situation
Of the Polish Jews a critical one, but
the evolution Of the economic system
in Poland tends to make living impos-
sible for an increasing number of
them. For centuries business RENAME 1
exclusively in the hands of the Jews.
But in the last generation an increas-
ing number Of Poles have left the
land and have taken an active part in
commerce and industry. The COMPETE
ton here has become increasingly
acute, and unlike other countries, the
Jew in Poland has not the training
sufficient to hold his ground.
The Jews have been the middlemen
Of Poland. They were the vendors and
the money-lenders to the farms. But
now the growth Of banks and COOP
eratives has deprived them Of much
Of their business as well.
"The combination CT factors which
makes life difficult for a large part
Of the Jewish population in Poland
has given the entire 100000 the
dream that they will 90 to America.
Over 100000 have sailed. Some 100000
mroe are at various stages Of prepar-
alton for departure. There are at pres
ent some 10000 Jews here in Warsaw
who have fulfilled all of the prelimin-
airy requirements and who are storm
ing the doors Of the American consul
ate for the necessary wise.
"Of this 10000, 70 per cent are
women and children who have broth
ers and fathers in America who have
sent them money and can give them
homes. Many Of them come from the
battle zones in Ukraine and eastern
Poland. Their plight is now real one.
Some know that the money was sent
them, but in the present disorder have
not received 1t. Others had money, but
in the long delay necessary to secure
the American wise have spent what
little they had and are now on the
streets.
"Here is typical case which my
self have seen, and which has been re-
peated hundred times over. A moth
err with four children from Rovno had
$500. Her husband in America sent It
and is awaiting her arrival. She could
not produce all Of her papers, however
because her village is occupied. When
finally she overcame this formality