The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-04-03
WIN
EINSTEIN, FAMOUS
RELATIVELY ADEPT
Scientist Yields Gracefully
in Steamer Hylan Cabin,
Despite Berlin Prayer.
JEW FLAG ON CITY BOAT
Four Big Zionists Land at
Shutdown at Battery and
Parade East Side.
JEW FLAG ON CITY BOAT
GREETED BY THOUSANDS
Missioners From Europe Here
to Attend Meeting for Re-
claiming Palestine.

Before leaving Berlin Prof. Albert
Einstein voiced prayer that he should
not be interviewed in America, for ito
answer reporters questions is like
being undressed in public" But yester-
day afternoon he stepped obediently
into the cabin of the police boat John
F. Hylan, ferrying him from Hoboken
to the Battery, to answer all the ques-
tons that a cropping lot Of newspaper
men-and newspaper woman-could
think of. And, honestly, any one could
tell from his chuckling and his willing
ness to stay until the worst was over
that he enjoyed it.
Thus the originator of the theory
OF relatively, which several persons
profess to understand and few un-
doubtedly do, although Mrs. Einstein.
who is with her husband, says it's
rather dim TO her, surrendered, as
they all do to great American ira
dition. Incidentally, he made captive
his interviewers at the same time.
Whoever spread the idea over here
that Prof. Einstein is merely a think
ing machine and as cold as one of the
burned out worlds that occasionally
engage his attention, is all wrong.
He comes here as one of the Zionist
commission, whose purpose Is to interest
American Jews in the restoration OF
Palestine and to tell them how 1t may
be done His special interest Is in the
establishment OF university In Jeru-
salem. The head of the delegation Is Dr.
Chain Weizmann, formerly professor OF
chemistry in the University OF Man
chester, now president of the World
Zionist Organization. The two other. are
NJ Ussischkin and NJ. Ben Zion Mosse-
sohn. head of the Jewish high school at
Jaffe.
Welcomed mt the Battery.
These four, whose arrival has been
feverishly awaited by a multitude OF
Americans. arrived on the. Rotterdam.
The ship was held at Quarantine until
p. NJ. while Storage passengers were
examined. Then II moved to its pier In
Hoboken but, II being the Jewish Sab
bath. the Zonists could not debark until
shutdown. So the sun. tangerine in a
smoky sky, had just slipped out Of sight
when the visitors were transferred TO the
police boat John F. Hylan.
On this boat a large committee of
welcomers, representing many Jewish
organizations and the city OF New York
as well, enveloped the travellers. At
the jackstaff waved a white, blue
barred flag with the six pointed star
OF David in the middle. 1t was GER
tainly the first time the Zionist flag
had been flown on any craft of public
ownership In this harbor. At the Bat
terry thousands OF men and women and
a company OF Jewish legionaires who
fought under Ailenby in Palestine
waited until dusk to salute with great
shouting the preachers OF the new Pal
estine.
Then there was a parade uptown, the
principal street OF the chosen route pc
ing Second avenue. up which the fifty
automobiles struggled through exultantly
cheering crowds that drained the whoie
East Side. And so 10 the Commodore
Hotel, where the Zionist missioners VIII
stay until April 6, when they viii speak
at a mass meeting In the Sixty-ninth
Regiment Arrnory. after which they VIII
start on tour of American cities. Prof.
Einstein said he thought he would give
a lecture at Princeton. as that, he said,
was the first university to invite him
TO do SO.
Aboard the Rotterdam Prof. Einstein
shook the hands OF reporters from New
Jersey but said no word. His comely
wife went SO far as to say: He has
told me the theory a great many times
but II is all dim 20 me-"