The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-23
M E N, w O M E N
 A N D T H IN C $

you need not be ashamed, as the Wolu
 has not yet gotton into some of the
 dictionaries.
 It's the latest thing in international
 politics to set out the newest form of
 government. The AgeHeraid re-
 gently carried on the front page the
 story of how England under the League
 of Nations was given the mandatory over Palestine.
 Heinz may have his "59" varieties of .t eatables, but when it comes to mixed
 governing, England pushes the late
 pickle king a mighty close race, for
 believe the last article on the question
 which I read in a heavy British quar- terly credited the mother country with having 29 ways of handling her chill
 dren.
 But this was before the war, and I am sure that with England's propen- sity to grab any island ocean, conti- nent or what not on slight provocation /, that out of the upturn of the many na- tions lying unprotected that she |
 habit of hers. So much so that she
 is credited with having become an em- /. pire through a fit .of absent-minded- ness, which is an euphemism for what among persons is called kleptomania. England however. has proven her
 right as a colonizer under many diffi- culties, for she has been able to bring 1 within the bounds of stable govern
 ment even the most hopeless and di- verse races, and I think a good brief
 can be made out on the thesis that it's
 usually benefit for the dependent pees pies to come under her watchcare. She has been able to even civilize cannibals. |
 ] I said that the mandate is the latest
 thing in the political world. Hereto | fore, when a country was victorious in
 war over another nation it was sub- 1 dued, annexed or treated as a depen-
 dency under the guise> of a protector | ate. But those three favorite forms l have been put into the political dis
 card by the pastmasters of diplomacy
 of the twentieth century, who in order
 to allow the self-determination of the
 smaller nations cause them to be the ! wards of one of the great powers. l Out of the game of draw which is ! camouflaged under the League of Ma | tions, England drew the oversight over
 seems that even if one doubts the workings of a personal God. which I do
 not, there is good reason for any stu
 dent of history to subscribe to the dic-
 tum of Matthew Arnold that there is
 a stream tendency which is making for
 ri righteousness"
 l Does it not seem passing strange | that after an exile of nearly 2,000 years, and when the dispersion of the | Jewish people was carried out with such unspeakable horrors as to make those who call themselves Christians I glad to blot from their memory the awful persecution which broke in the first century and sporadically was car ried out every now and then until Jeru- salem the Holy City of the Jews had l been razed to the ground time and again. that at last they are to have 1t
 for themselves once more
 The Zionist movement appealed to my imagination when it was only an academic question, and now that it is in the range of practical politics and in the state of becoming an accepted fact by Jew and gentle alike, it makes still powerful appeal. A few years back I had the pleasure of spending a delightful afternoon in company with a distinguished Zionist woman, whose l name for the moment I do not recall.
 but she sold zionism to me. I learn | that at last she is back in Palestine, happy over the fact that her dreams for her people are in the process Of
 realization.
 l I have always had an interest in
 Jews, for in my early childhood we had for neighbors a Jewish family and 1 there was an intimacy between the
 children as well as the grown-ups. Say what you please, if you want a good neighbor. get next door tp Jew. Pos sibly the fact that in my home town of l EuIdula iTOn my DOynOou up was
 closely associated socially and in a
 business way with Jews has made me l like and appreciate them. The Jews
 as a whole in Eufaula were high-class citizens.
 | This fact in conjunction with my in- terest in the Zionist movement ac- counts for my presence at the meeting
 held at the Tutwiler on Sunday after noon to hear Jacon de Haas, who for
 the past 29 years has given his time to
 the project of making Palestine a self supporting state under the direction of the Jewish people. I was anxious to meet and to hear a man who had given the best years of his life to real
 ize a dream of his young manhood for
 his race.
 1 had the pleasure of greeting num-
 Der of Birminghams Representative Jewish citizens. pr. Norris Newfield and Rabbi Jacon Mendelsohn were on,
 hand as other religious leaders. My friend, Monte Ullman, was in the chair.
 and in brief but felicitous Introduc- tion presented MT. De Haas. the speaker l of the afternoon. He is medium -sized
 man, pleasant faced, an agreeable man
 ner both in public and in private. He has the look and the speech of 8
 scholar and the suavity of-a man of the world.
 1 l have never listened to 2 more !, thrilling recital than was his~of how haA lo