The Denver Jewish news., 1921-02-02

false. This was especially true, as
they had occasionally stopped the pub.
location Of actual facts. A Jewish
newspaper which published state
ment about the execution OF thirty
five innocent Jews at Pinsk on April
5, 1919, was suppressed. At present
there is no single newspaper in war
saw which does not color its news.
Many of the Jewish leaders have said
that IL it were not for the Press there
would be little real anti-Semitism. The
continual spreading of false stories
stirs up the people against them. The
Zionist organization showed me DOCK
of clippings over two hundred pages
long. which was filled with false news
paper stories about murdered anu
mutilnted Polish soldiers. hints at
ritual murder, attacks OH Polish sirls,
hiding of food. and secret aid to the
BOlsheviks and Germans. A number
of these stories have been reprinted in
the newspapers of Western Europe
The situation i'll Poland and the at
litlide of the Polish Government to-
wards the Jews is best characterized
by Mr.. GoOdhart in the concluding
paragraph of his book:
AT Z 80 we drove down to the sta
ton to take the train for Paris. The
Vicc-Minister of Foreign Affairs
Count ZoltOwski. and other members
of the Polish Government were there
to see us off DR.. Grunbaum. Mr..
Farbstein and DR.. Gottlieb. the leaders
of the Zionists, were also at the sta |
ton. As our train slowly drew away |
from the platform they were stand
ing in one group. while at little DIS
lance theSPOles were standing in an
other. 1t seemed to me emblematic |
of the conditions existing at present
in Poland. All that evening l Kept
wondering whether it was possible that
| these two groups would ever join i'll
to one"
When I was in Warsaw l had the
| good fortune to receive an invitation
| from Mr.. Leibush Davidson to he his
guest. I stopped at his home for
/ number of weeks Mr.. Davidson Is an
officer of the Warsaw Kehillah ana
his son is a Major in the Polish army
He pointed with pride to the portrait
of his father. the celebrated savant'
| Rabbi Davidson, who wore on his
breast an insignia of the days of the
| Polish insurrectiOn of 1851. TINS
I banner belonged to the Jewish batal-
] :.,, ms RlISsi:inS
| in that memorable civil war. Rabbi
! Davidson and the late Rev. Dr. NJ
| Jastrow of Philadelphia Gather OF
| Prof. NJ. Jastrow Jr., of Pennsylvania
| University We're the leading spirits
| in the revolutionary movement. They
! were Polish patriots par excellence.
| The two groups Joined hands The Jew
and gentle were one then, and could
] he one now The Jews love PolaIr!
| and they have the kindest feeling to-.
wards the common people.
! As long as the Polish government
continues the present policy there ~
| no hope of having these two groups
Join into one A change of heart
\ among the leaders of Polish political
thought will produce a change of re-
| lations among the two groups, ana
| melt all the various natiOnalitics VIII"
| live in Poland into one political unit
When Mr.. GOodhart says that "All
| the evening l kept wondering whether
! il was possible that these two groups
would ever join into one" he had in
mind the present attitude of the Polish
government. Mr.. GOodhart knows that
under more humane and liberal re-
rimc the Jews would become even n
greater asset to a. free and greater
Poland than they are now.
Mr.. GOo4!hart has unintcntionaiiy
contributed by far the best material
for the clucidation of the Jewish qucs- |
ton in Poland. He put all the min
ority races of Europe under great obh-
cations to him for having focused the
attention of the world upon the source
of their woe and misfortune.
All the publications of Lucicn Woh'
Louis Marshall. DR.. Krauskopf and OF
the Authorization League good
and true and useful as they are-cah- |
not in the nature of things carry with
them the Influence of the simple and |
matter of fact recital of events and OBJ
servation of the true Christian gentle
man. Arthur l.. Goodhart.
In conclusion. l will say of Mr..
Goodhart. "Kishmo ken hi" for as