The Denver Jewish news., 1922-01-11
THE DENVER JEWISH NEWS
Committee Discusses
New Relative Bill
(Contin,ntion.)

measure in favor of its OWN solution
tho quota scheme and the House a.
Il result of the joint conference that
relative bill will. il appears. pcrmil
Of the entry of II much larger mum
her of aliens than at present possib!,
under the quota provisions The un'
ON the other hand. another Jewish
member of Congress. Isaac Sicgcl Of
Now York. only Jewish Republican
member of the Immigration committee
iS less hopeful He fears the possibili-
ty Of the same course of events rs
when the present law was enacted.
He points TO the fact that the origin
nj Legislative proposal then brought M
by the committee in the House wns
also a "relativc" bill. hut when tn,
mistallablc desire of Congress no mat
ter how unjustiiied the attitude may
he. is to lessen. and lessen decidedly
the quantity of aliens entering this
country. Therefore, when the enc
mics of Immigration finally realize
quito fully that immigration will bene-
fit by II relative" law. Mr.. Sicccl
thinks they will rctract and for want
Of something more suitable rccnact the
I resent hard measure.
II remains to he seen who is right.
in mind Johnson himself and anti
immigrationists in both Houses of Con.
gress will find great difficulty in over
coming tho force of Chairman John
sons own unsparing and dclibcrat"
confession of the failure of the pres
cnt law. As the only other altcrna-
tive to n relative" law. Cong. .ress
would have to restrict entry to n Ger
tain number. which would he hope
lessly unjust. or cut on immigration
altogether. which is inconceivable.
And if we are going to have rel
ative" law. the Jews of this country
will follow with the greatest interest
the efforts which will he made to
bring in other relatives and to extend
inc VI 'llH " Wv
elarants as well rs citizens. Certain
~ the two foremost Jewish champions
Of liberal migration-Sabhath and
Sicscl (thc former veteran member
of Congress for over II years. as
well as every other Jewish member
of Congress. will work most vigorous
/, for such extension of the benefits.
What is going to be done in the way
cf cooperation by the Hebrew lmmi-
grant and Shcltering Aid Society. the
American Jewish committee. ana
kindred organization Interested in i'm
migration of Jews remains to be seen.
At the present time, n hesitancy ap-
'ears to exist ON the part of Jewish
leaders in respect to making too much
of Jewish display ON account OF
the undoubtcd concentration of an
tagonism in certain Congressional cir
cles against the admission of Jews. IL
/, fcarc.l 10y some that if the Jews
come forward with II too conspicuous
championship of more liberal immigra-
tion. it will only aggrnvate the pres
cnt abnormal emphasis ON Jewish i'm
migration.
4 similar attitude of conservatism
npplics to the question of Jewish dc
fence to the considerable anti-Icwish
testimony which characterized this
weeks hearings before the lmmigra-
tion committee and to which l have
referred as Il feature of the current
Developments. 1t apcars certain AT
least that the testimony of the COM
mittec has been given close attention
by the Jewish organizations respon-
sible for taxing up defence. and that
the leaders of these organizations are
faithfully endeavoring to decide upon
&, course of action when may prove
most beneficial.
Anti-Jewish Testimony at Congress
siOnal Hearings.
And now to turn to the anti-Jcwish
testimony at the Hearings. TINS was
involved i'm the statements before the
committee of Kenneth l.. Roberts. of
the staff of the Saturday Evening
Post. who wrote n number of articles
in that magazine in March, April and
May, unfavorable to immigration the
oral testimony of a certain Carl
l.ruhm. styling himself president OF
the international Press Association.
which was described by himself as
Icing an international advertising
agency established in 1905. Che is a
Swede. as he says. who came to this
country i'm 1909 and certain moving
pictures of the handling of Immigrants
in Danzig and scenes on the East Side