The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
MEN, WOrrEN
 AND THINGS

cry of the Old Testament prophet which comes ringing down the ages. and thou sands of years after we are touched with the homesicl1 cry of the Jews in captivity.
 we hanged our harps upon the will lows in the midst thereof For they that carried us away captive required of us song, and they that wasted us re- of the songs of Zion. But the poet prophet well asks. How shall we sing the Lords song in strange land?"
 And from that day to this Israel has not wearied of avowing in poem and prayer his love for the Holy Land, and therefore it was no mere outburst of patriotic sentiment which caused the singer of the Jews of old to cry out in get thee, o Jerusalem. let my right hand forget her cunning If do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy"
 The Jew has been wanderer not from choice, for among no race is there a centuries they have been driven here and there; but I am not going to set out the shameful story of the infamous edcts which have dogged their steps through history. or attempt to picture the prosecutions which fell to their lot even in the memory of us all.
 I can only hope to give a faint idea of how the Jew, amongst all the victims the race has been the football of the militarists in the lands in which they have lived They volunteered or were pressed into the armies of all the war ring nations, and time after time it was blood against blood, and this was par ticularly true in lands like Poland, where several powers had a hold on the people. There is no need for me to pay tribute to the loyalty of the American Jew.
 It's hard for us in the United States to understand just the fiery tests to which the Jews in central and southeast ern Europe have been put. A mere un- vanished tale of their woes would make a Dantesque picture of unpaintable hor- TOTS Death in all of it's hideous forms, old men killed, mothers dishonored. daughters ravished, children slaughtered Their property copfiscated, their homes burned, their livestock appropriated, their lands narrowed.
 Sometimes I think the ones who were killed were the fortunate ones, for they were spared the sight of loved to the cry of the little ones for food. They themselves spared the hardships of biting winter or the summers sun. But more than this they were not called upon to make the weary marches into other lands under the lash and eases, truly death was robbed of some of it's stings.
 It $ frequently d SlTuSSlG lO VOIuH- tarily give up ones home country and live among strange people. The major ity of folks like to travel, but even in the midst of picturesque lands and great cities times come when there is a longing to be back among familiar scenes. There is no place like home is not the mere poetic fancy of poet, but is a sentiment rooted deep in the heart of mankind. and in none more so than in the Jew, and this in spite of the fact that they are to be found everywhere.
 The heart of the civilized world was stirred at the revelations made some years back by Kennan, the American who visited Siberia and told of the aw- full plight of the political exnes; but the weary marches of the Russian pris- oners, in spite of the hardships and bru- tality of the guards, were as nothing to the deportations of the helpless peoples in the area between the Baltic and the some of the flights from the lips of eye-witnesses and with my own eyes have seen thrown on the screen pictures which I will never be able to forget
 Isaiah, one of the great men of the ancient days. spake truly when he said. "The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed. and that he should not die in the pit" Goldsmith, in poetic fervor visioned:
 "The pensive exile. bending with his
 woe
 To stop too fearful. and too faint to
 go.''
 And Macaulay. the brilliant English historian, in writing of Clarendon, acutely remarked that His long exile had made him a stranger in the ceun- try of his birth
 Now, the Jewish war relief appropri- ation of s5.eoo.o9o is going to make it possible for many of the scattered Jews to re-establish themselves not only in their native lands, but in their own homes. In many places building asso- citation will be formed with funds sub scribed in this campaign together with local <capital wherever possible to be raised from which loans will be made to persons to repair their homes. The Shortage of houses and building mate