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Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21

Carpenter, pastor. in his review stated that the past year has been the most sue cessful in the history of the church dur ing recent years; church receipts have shown a decided increase and the number of new members taken in reached 40 dur ing 1920. The report of church receipts and new members taken in covering the past four years is as follows: 1917- home expense SS,659.S7, benevolence s619.65,. total s4,279.54. new members 2 1918-home expense $5,OS9.Gf, benevo- lence $90S.04, total s5. .992.05, new mem- bers IT; 1919-hone expense $4,0S6.66, benevolence s1,2S2.71, total s5,369.S7,
 new members g; 1920-home expense $6, ,195.2S, benevolence $3,32S.22, total
 $9,523.50, new members 40.
 It was voted thoroughly to renovate
 and nodernize the present church build ing and build on an addition for the use 1 of the church school.
 The election of officers resulted as fol- | lows: Committee of Cunningham fund to
 replace Henry Fryer, removed from
Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21

Euruaah BznstEz. WII1MAHtis oAesv. a cAmReh stE0~G Te1spAe@s les. wAaa e 1sa A<tsrSSted 1n fornafng RHaaxy club tn this city met Thursday nnor st the Soda shop, reports of var+ ous ecnrnittee were read It was nec- szAry that dfteen nRrses oe secured be- fore the wfnExnt1c Rotary cluD could arply for a charter from the nattonal haaaquarters at Chicago. and mora than the number hooded have already joined. Ave addftt1uzi names being placed on; de The rooms cozrnittee reported ,prgress being nnadA The bylaws com uittee B to report xt the meeting to be { held Wednesday noon. January 2sth-, Inc club win be instituted January a. 1sz1
 The rsf@sndsz eSEazntttee of Wfm- mantle charrber of commerce has called . meeting to be held tonight, January x1H. zt vhch time the subject Of tara- ton will be talked over. This meeting resulted from a notice received from the national chamber, asking that taxation oe discussed by the local chamber
 William H. Kingsley and daughter of
Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21

Webster, Mrs. R. I. Branch, Mrs. Will liam S. Cane. Mrs. Homer Harrington, Mrs. Edward J.. Tryon, Miss Catherine Johnston, Allyn Rose and Clifton Daw- am
Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21

E New Britain.-The Hardware City Loan corporation, controlling 39 cten- ment houses, accommodating more than IF families, has announced that owing to: the industrial depression a nat cut of s per month in rents will be effective Feb i
Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21
Doctors Recommend rf
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Physicians and eye specialists pr.- scribe Bon-0pto as safe home ruus~d~ in the treatment of eye truubles mud fs strengthen eyesight- Sold uA.rw0-v refund guarsntse by ehazSEBAaa
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17
RATHER INTERESTING
AND JEWISH.

Henry Abrams, of indianapolis,
a lawyer and member of the
Indiana Legislature, introduced a
bill making it obligatory for any
person of full age and financially
able, to support his or her par
ents who have grown too old to
work and support themselves, or
who are unable to work because
of some physical or mental inca
pacity. This bill was passed by
the legislature, signed by the
Governor and is now law in In
diana. This to Our knowledge is
the first legislation of the kind
ever passed in this country and
is in harmony with the traditions
of the Jewish home where chill
dren invariably assist in the sup
port of their aged parents, but
without the necessity of the gov
ernmental interference. They do
it as matter of course. 1t is IN
teresting to note that it was a.
Jew who introduced the BILL
Jewish Criterion.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17

bond of union with the Jews OF
the diaspora as we'll as those of
the Jewish homeland. That is
true Zionism, and no other Zion
ism is desirable. We are con-
WINGED that American Zionism, as
represented by such leaders as
Brandeis, Mack and Wise, is pur-
suing the right course.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17
EDl TOR lAL
ANTI-SEMITISM AND
ZIONISM.

can honest confession is good
for the SOUL" is a current saying.
We hope that the confession of
Prof. Albert Einstein, the famous
author of the Theory of Relativ-
ity," under the heading what
Awakened My Jewish Consci-
ence," which appeared in our last
issue has done the savant all the
good possible, thus helping and
cheering him on his return trip
to Europe.
His confession is one with
which we have become familiar,
since many similar ones have
come from other quarters, espe-
cially from Germany and Austria.
Einstein, like FIerzl and Nordau
themselves, and countless others
of that type, had his Jewish
consciousness awakened within
him by nti-Semitism, and there
upon he, too, became a Zionist.
Speaking of his pre-Zionist peri
cd of life, he says:
"In general, I was hardly con-
scious of my Jewish origin, be-
cause I was not made conscious
of it by Others" In other words,
the intellectual class of German
Jewry had become so completely
Germanized, or assimilated, that
there was not trace of jewish
ness left in their souls. This, in
our opinion, is precisely what
brought on the recrudescence of
Jew hatred in Germany, in its
ugliest anti-Semitic manifesto
tions. German Chauvinism and
Junkerdom would not brook the
prospective absorption of the
Jewish race in its midst. 1t would
not assimilate this so-called for
eign element. Had the Jews OF
Germany, especially the rich and
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

of New York, and was one of a
number Of essays on the same
subject, written by members of
this years confirmation classes OF
the different communities of the
land. The American Hebrew had
offered four prizes for the best
four essays submitted to it, and
that of Corinne McKelvey won
the first prize.
Now the interesting fact about
it is that, as the name indicates,
Miss McKelvey is not of Jewish
parentage, at least, not on her
fathers side. Her mother is a
Jewess, but, as she herself states
in a note accompanying her essay,
she was not allowed to become a
member of any church until she
had learned something about both
the Jewish religion and the Chris
tan, and was old enough to fully
understand the meaning of relig-
ion. Having studied both, and
being free to choose, she chose
Judaism. Her essay shows her
sincerity and her deep convic-
tons.
This should be a sufficient an
swer to some of our people who
think their Jewishness is a mis-
fortune, for which they are not
even responsible, for they were
born with it. What honest Jew,
if he were given his choice, even
as Miss McKelvey was, would not
choose Judaism, in its liberal in
depreciation at any rate, the Juda-
ism of Israels prophets?
It also shows us that if modern
liberal Jews were to set out on
campaign of PROSECUTING among
those of other faiths, they could
gain more converts than does any
other religious body, old or new.
Some day we shall perhaps deem
it part of our duty to ourselves
and to our fellow citizens, to EN-
gage in such propaganda. Miss
McKelvey's essay is eloquent tes-
timony to the power of our faith.
S. N. D.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17
THE INFLUENCE OF JUDA
ISM ON A GENTLE
MIND.

In another column the reader
will find an essay written by one
Corinne McKelvey on the sub
iect, "What Confirmation Means
to Me-" The essay originally ap-
peared in the American Hebrew
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SuIIuAS W e1lIIOIlS llSIll, SOlllIluSA
to maintain their religious separ-
ateness as their fathers had done
throughout the centuries, the
German Chauvinists would have
no peg to hang their nationalistic
anti-Semitism on.
But this only by the way. Elm
stein reused to Jewish conscious
ness by anti-Semitism becomes a
Zionist. He concludes that Jews
everywhere must maintain their
national separateness. Einstein,
like many others of his type, can
not be religiously Jewish. That
is. out of the question. If they
are to remain Jewish at all it must
be nationally so. And so he
would have all Jews of all lands,
especially Zionists, consider
themselves separate nation.
This is very poor advice. If
his theory of RELATIVELY is no
sounder than his theory of jewish
ness in the diaspora, we are sorry
for RELATIVELY. We need not point
out that as far as America is
concerned the idea of cultivatlng
Jewish nationalism here is absurd
and mischievous, even if before
coming to America we constl-
tuted a separate race or nation
atty. This is the great melting
pot of the nations. All nationali-
ties merge and fuse here, and the
result of the fusion is the new
American nation. But just as the
Irishman retains his Catholicism,
and the Scotchman his Presby-
terianism, and the Scandinavian
his Lutheranism, SO does the Jew
retain his Judaism. That is our
right and privilege, and that is as
far as we can go. Our Zionism
can mean only sympathy with
and support of Jewish national
ism in it's own homeland-Pales-
tine. Nowhere else can Jews be
a separate nationality, unless they
have a territory of their own,
where they can cultivate and
maintain unhindered the distinc-
tive elements of national life
the Hebraic or Judaic language,
literature, schools, etc. That is
not the case either in America
or any west or central European
country.
Even in Germany or Austria or
Hungary, therefore, in spite of
their present virulent anti-Semit-
ism, Jews cannot maintain them
selves as a separate nationality,
for that would only give anti
Semitism it's justification. On
the other hand, Jews should main
tain their religious separatism
most zealously for conscientious
and practical reasons. They can
not honestly be Christians, al
though many of them have actu-
a1lv nerDetrated that fraud upon
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17
JEWISH HUMOR.

JEWISH HUMOR.
From the very beginning of our
recorded history to this day the
Jews sense of humor, especially
in critical moments, in times of
excitement, or even great afflic-
ton or tribulation, has always
stood him in good stead. 1t has
often turned the laugh on his
prosecutor; it has dulled the sting
of disappointment; it has poured
some balm into his wound. We
do not mean to say that this is
peculiarly Jewish characteristic;
it is rather a commonly human
trait, and we Jews have our full
share of it.
After the ninth plague, Phar-
aoh in savage wrath turns upon
Moses: "Of with thee," he
growls; "do not dare see my face
again; thou wilt do it at thy
peril" Every WE'LL" calmly re-
plies Moses, II shall not see thy
face again" 1t would not be nee
essary, thought Moses. And it
was not.
We could go on filling many
pages with anecdotes and liter
airy quotations to substantiate our
thesis. But we shall conhne our
selves to reference to the most
recent illustration of it. 1t hap
pened during the recent Zionist
convention in Cleveland, and at
one of it's most heated sessions.
Feeling ran strong against Judge
Mack. Yet DR.. Stephen S. Wise
was making an eloquent speech
nominating the Judge for the
craftsmanship of the convention.
In the midst of his speech he was
interrupted by Judge Bernard A:
Rosenblatt, police magistrate OF
New York. II will be heard"
DR.. Wise Numbered. "This is not
police court" "And this is not
a free synagog," Judge Rosenblatt
shouted back. The mirth that
followed must have allayed some
of the excitement.
There must have been many
other such displays of wit during
the trying hours of that agitated
gathering. In fact, the atmos-
phere seems to have been sur
charged with it. 1t became in
fictitious. Our own genial friend,
Alex Kanter, otherwise so mat
ter-of-fact, and always pursuing
an even tenor of life, was carried
away by the general POPULARITY
and perpetrated some practical
jokes, if reports are true. SO cas-
lily is the Jew swayed by his sense
of humor.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-06-17

The Austrian Tourists Club
has decided not to admit new
Jewish members.
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JEWISH CALENDAR.
568l-1921.
Rosh Chodesh Adar................... ..Wed. Feb.
Rosh Chodesh Friday, Mar. IL
Purim Thursday, Mar. "a
Rosh Chodesh Nissan Apr.
Pesach, First Saturday, April %
Pesach, Seventh Friday. April 20
Rosh Chodesh Tuesday. June z
H0uaDuOLu JUNE IL
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz. Friday. Aug.
Rosh Chodesh Ab.................Sunday, Aug. IA
Rosh Chodesh Ellul... Sunday, Sept.
Rosh Hashonoh----....-..----.M Monday, October 3
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
Debate on Tariff.

On Thursday the tariff measure brought in
and the day spent in speech making the Demo-
Gratis making vigorous although futile fight against
the measure knowing that it scheduled for
age on the following day. ....-r..
With an expectation exceeding many times the
importation, the Democrats charged that tariff
agricultural products could possibly help the farm
but that instead il would in the pockets
of the big interests. .- .-.--
The Democrats had not yet made their committee
assignments up Friday morning and the organiza-
ton OF committees where the important work of Con
gress is done, has consequently been temporarily de-
Iayed ..,a ... o..
During the FIRST four days nearly 1000 public and
private bills and resolutions introduced great
many Of these hang-overs from the previous
Congress which not reached, prior to adjourn
melt Others introduced absolutely subject matter
Among the measures rentroduced were the army
and navy appropriation bills, which met with pocket
veto at the heands Of former President Wilson.
The packer regulation bill, which passed the SEN
ate last session but was held back in the House. was
reinroduced The national budget bill which was We
toed by President Wilson last june also was reintro-
duced and has been placed onthe Republican program
for quick action this session The soldier bonus BILL
which passed the House and failed in the Senate dur
ing the early part OF was reintroduced by Chair
man Fordney 81 the Ways and Means Committee
BY far the largest number of bills introduced so
Ear provide for the erection of public buildings and the
distribution Of captured German cannon throughout
the districts Of the various members OF Congress
No omnibus public buildings bill has gone through
Congress for several years was stopped during the
war in order to concentrate war work. Last year.
because of the condition of the Federal Treasury, the
measure was not reported from committee after an
agreement said to have been made by the leaders that
If the members would consent to forego buildings
bdI that two would be given this year in districts
where only one was contemplated before.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17

are Fifteen so to make places for the members
of the Senate, Republicans of oldtme party
fight was waged, which continued for several days.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, minority leader in the
absence of Senator Underwood of Alabama, charged
violation of precedence and unairness. Senators Will
iams Harrison Swanson and others of his Democratic
colleagues asserted that appeal to the majortys
of fairness expected to produce results but
intended merely protest for the records Sen
ator McCumber and other Republicans pointed out the
fact that according the representation of fftynine
Republicans and thrty-seven Democrats would entitle
the majority to ten members to six the committees
asked.
Bills providing for reclassifcation and government
changes in the interest of efficiency introduced by
Senators Thomas Sterling of South Dakota, Reed
Smoot and others, while many bills of District of Co.
lumbia interest were presented providing for
$1,000 survey, looking to the establishment of park
way linking the dozen old civil forts in
and around Washington another providing for the pur
chase erection of residence for the Vice President
which proposes curb the carrying of firearms by
criminals another for the construction of the Lincoln
and Lee bridge the Potomac between Washing
ton and Arlington, for the merger OF the
lines and several pertaining the widening of streets
other matters.
A bill by Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas pro-
poses the reestablshment of the $3.50 basis of fiscal
relations between the Federal and District govern
ments.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
WEEK IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE
Republicans in Control.

WyITH a majority so overwhelming that the
Nv possibility Of successful opposition to their
policies 10 almost ineonceivable, the. Republic
ans in the House opened the Sixtyseyenth Congress
in complete control.
During the previous week. the Committee on Com
mittees worked three days in lining up committee
signments and in perfecng the organization Its
concentrations were ratified the opening day and
the organization completed without hitch -
The steering committee was increased from FIVE to
seven and Representatives Sydney Anderson, of Min
nesota. and John l. Nolau of California named to fill
the two additional places Anderson was chosen
recognition of the Progressive element in the party
and Nolan was picked a labor man.
vacancy on the steering committee, caused by
the decination of Representative Wnsiow, of Massa-
chusetts, to be reelected filed by the appoint
ment Of Frank L. Greene, of Vermont
The Democrats elected Claude Kitchinas minority
leader and approved the suggestion of Kitchin that
Representative Finis Garrett of Tennessee, should
Sub" for him during his absence. Kitchin picked
Representative William A. Oldfeld, of Arkansas. as
Democratic whip and John c, Box, of Texas as junior
whip. These chosen for their irreconcilable
attitude in opposition to the emergency tariff.
At caucus on "Wednesday. the Democrats voted
virtually unanimously oppose with all their power
the emergency tariff BILL which reported from the
Ways and Means Committee that day.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17

nlCTURESQUE, scenes marked the Colombian
treaty debate (which occupied three days in the
Senate last week, with forensic heavy weights
of the Republican and Democratic parties in action.
The fight over whether this country should indemnify
the Ishmian nation the extent of $2soooooo for its
loss of Panama drawing to close Friday evening
with galleries crowded
Senator Lodge Republican leader and Senator
Knox who was Secretary OF State in the Roosevelt and
Taft Cabinets defended the treaty and President Hard
ings plea for its ratification moral obligation and
matter of Justice Senator Pomerene, Of Ohio,
Democrat contended that reparaton to the
country that disrupted by acquisition OF the
canal rights and in the sight of God and the world
evade plain responsibility. He read
papers tending to show that the revolution
which resulted in PanamaS secession from Colombia
was fomented through American activities.
, On the other hand, Senators Borah Johnson, Lem
root and Kellogg Republicans, and Watson, OF Geor-
gia, Democrat, declared payment to Colombia OF
SIS 900 would be admission of guilt, that the
revolution was not of American making. and that
Colombia merely blackmaling Uncle Sam, the end
of which nefarious practice would not be the sooo
600 payment. Senator Watson charged the Mpubli-
cans with changing front, insulting the memory OF
Roosevelt who chiefly responsible for the nego-
tiaons and with playing into the hands Of the Stand
ard Oil interests who were, seeking concessions on the
isthmus
Senator Curtis, of Kansas is said to have informed
President Harding that the treaty would be ratified by
the twohirds required with at least four votes
to spare
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
Pass Tariff Measure.

THE emergency tariff bill was adopted Friday
after two days of vigorous partisan debate
which characterized by defections from
both sides Five Texas DEMOCRATS lined up in favor
of the bill and spoke for it. but John Garner, recog-
nzed leader Of the Texas delegation was back on the
Democratic reservation, after having voted for the
tariff bill when it before the House last March
The Democratic deSerters were offset by an equal
number of Republicans. mostly from the New England
section, who voted against the bill
The House adjourned until Monday because
Of the failure Of the Democrats complete their
mittee assignments Without the Democrats, the
committees unable to organige and therefore
could put no business before the House
The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
is expected to bring in immigration shortly
after convening Monday.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
HAYWOOD Case Decided.

DEFUSAL Of the United States Supreme Court to
review the of William D. Haywood and
- seventy-6vc other member of the l. w. w. sem
fenced to long prison for obsructng the
cution of the war, the defendants must serve
their sentences unless pardoned.
In the suit of Oklahoma for jurisdiction val
liable Red River oil lands valued in scores of millions
of dollars the south bank OF the river fixed as the
boundary line, thus upholding the contention OF the
State of Oklahoma against that Of the State of Texas
In four separate it decided by the Su-
preme Court that municipality may not enforce Com
fscatory" public utility rates, even when maximum
is set by franchise contract provisions. Although
the agency having authority to deal with
the subject may fix and enforce reasonable rates to be
paid public utility corporations" said the court that
power does not include the right fix rates which
SO low as to be tonhscaory of the property Of such
cotpota,fon." Power COMPANIES in Iowa and Texas
were the iitigants and bcneheiaries
The decisions were among number handed down
last Monday.
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
Senate Works With Vim.

* old the Senate had practically disposed OF the
- Colombian treaty, the immediate demand for
action on the international question: and the conhrma
tons Of President Hardings many appontees
On the second day Tuesday s73, bills were intro
duced, and more than zoo introduced on Wednes-
day the second batch including the Knox resolution,
providing for separate peace with Germany, based
practically on the Versailles treaty terms, but without
the covenant Of nations
The message Of President Harding, delivered be-
fore the Senate and House in joint session Tuesday
afternoon, struck harmonious chord in the Senate
who're the program, 1t virtually enunciated we'll
under way in reference 10 tax tariff and other
domestic as well as foreign subjects. . : ''i.'
V9is WHEN the Democrats attacked the Republican eff
forts enlarge the major committees, of which there
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
Farm Aid Discussed.

The farming industry is the only not adc
quatcly represented in Washington Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace told delegates 70 the convention OF
the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington
last week He advocated that the agricutdrsts make
plans to bring their needs before Congress through
the federation men stationed in the Capital
The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
Parties Split on Treaty.
Photo BY Underwood and Underwood.

scenes marked the Colombian
treaty debate (which occupied three days in th'