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Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Grateful Backus Hospital Patient.

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 MT. Editor: Having lived more than S2 12 years and having enjoyed a great deal more than my share of good health, never having to call a nurse and for the last thirty years not having been kept in the house 8 day for sickness. was a good bit prejudiced against hospitals. But being suddenly stricken with a trou- ble that called for immediate attention, it was a specialist or trip to Hartford. I talked with my physician and we de- cided the Baczus hospital and I was i'm mediately taken there, and after three weeks treatment I am sure I can say the best homes, the best boarding houses. the best hotels, even with a trained nurse cannot give the care, at- tention and comfort you receive at the Backus hospital and from now on I can not say too much in it's praise.
 JOHN T. CLARK.
 Norwich, Aug 8, 1922.
 The Lusitania lies in 2s5 feet of wa ter off the coast of Ireland.
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Tn. Bowl and the Necklace.

In a certain Balkan mate that he refrains from naming, Lord Frederic
 Hamilton in his book,l Days Be.cre Yesterday" the inhabitants are conhrfn- ed souvenir hunters. During a dinner party at the British legation in that nameless state one of the ladies was wearing a fine necklace of pearls, which a native of the state admired immense ly and begged for permission to examine
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Donald has fraternity brother whose young wife had to take their delicate baby to the country and Don used to bring him frequently, He said the 'tpool. birdr had no Aunt Ethel of fiis own and it was only decent to share me with him. I never saw such hollow person as that chap He had his plate heaped three times regularly at every meal he took here. I'm afraid he was econorniz-
 ing, at cheap cafes in order to keep his little wife adn baby in the country. Hut they didn't all come the same nights as rule. However, one evening after I had been making watermelon
 pickles all day, seven came and they nearly every bit That was the time that two of my neighbors dropped in. I was awfdlly glad to see them and it was sweet Of them to run in to tell me about everything up in the country" "Ethel, who were they? You don't l mean to say 1t was my husband and
 '"Yes, you see they missed you and the girls so terribly after they came 1 home from their vacation with you" .fWeii, I hope that another summer yoou'il either go away or exercise lit- tie self-preservation."
 '$oh, It's all over now, and I don't have I to think of next summer yet, but I do believe shall not Keep open house again i in that way. I think it's too-there's
 my phone!
 .oh, is that you, Grant? Yes, indeed, certainly. Come right up to dinner: wen have something or other, and I'll be delighted to. meet your friend" 1 well, Ethel Wynne, you are hope less
 But that was Grant. He has an old ] college friend here and Cissie. that's Grant wife, you know, is awfully tired after doing Europe in sixty days Grant l says he couldn't ask her to get up a dinner tonight and he hates to take his l friend to his club or to hotel. I'll run 1 around to the delicatessen and buy g l boiled chicken. I can cream 1t with mushrooms and"
 And f'll bring you the dessert I made especially for my men. They can eat
 crackers and cheese"
 ''oh, you mustn't! well, 1t will be a tremendous help! Thank you | thousand times she replied, putting on her hat and running out of her apartment, leav- ing her neighbor to close the door.-Ex. change.
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Membefi of . Philadelphia union who struck n violation of wage agreement arc quoted Aa Aaislng what "a contracts amounts to wAeh a man can get more monsv, Sounds alte- gether too much like 6 weli-Fenembered remark concerning Aerap of paper.
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thracite iields to follow. Tn an address at Chicago last week Postmaster-Gen- eral Work called attention to a basic evil in coal mining, which adds dollars to the cost of coal to the consumer. This is the fact that there are about twice as many coal miners in the United States as are needed to get out the na- tion's supply of fuel. There are also many more operating mines than the country needs. The consequence is that the miners ordinarily work only about half the time. Through an extremely powerful union they demand a living wage for half-tir1e employment.
 'iThe sabotage of time by the idle under pay said Dr. work, and of property intrutted to them, must be added to the cost price of any product" !" And the price Is paid By the consumers. And the coisufners in most instances are themselves wage earners who work steadily through the year to earn liv- ing. large percentage of the striking mine workers are not needed in the coal mining industry on any terms. There are industries where this surplus labor that now win neither mine coal nor let anybody else do 50 might be employed at good wages the year around. Thus the rest of the miners might have steady employment mining coal.
 It is impossible to see why the people and the industries of this country should pay for coal prices suficient to keep miners in idltness half the year and give a profit to the owners of thousands of producing mines for whose product un- der properly arranged economic condi- tions there would be no sale in cornpeti- tion with mines where production costs are less Even this is By no means the whole story. Coal mining can be done largely by machinery at only fraction of the cost of hand labor. The miners union forbids the use of such machinery.
 Here is far-reaching sabotage that makes coal dear and hard to get. Nc settlement of the coal strike that does not bring with 1t B searching investiga tion of this evil by competent fedora commission will hold out any reasonable prospect of leading to . fair reduction in the excessive cost Of fuel.
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Red Cross to visit southern Serbia, and his acuteness of intellect, force of will and capacity for adaptation to the work in hand enabled him to execute his mis- sion for the relief of war sufferers in a manner highly efficient.
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Motorists report bsinE chased Ey | pack of wolves in New Jersey. weE, the old Jersey lightning could always be depended upon to produce startling results
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Lloyd Georgcs book on the war may not be the last word but it will be lasting contribution Sn the Subject.
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Anybody who calls out 'tBaa, Raa, Black Sheep" on the floor of ehe United States senate just now had better sse that he has | clear path to the nearest exit
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Safety first is stiil an excellent rule in the vacation season. and in many dif- ferent lines of vacation activities.
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The man on the corner says: No mat ter which side of the tariff a fellow gets on he feels himself slipping.
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Murder in California Is getting 50 ex- pensive, through many trials of the &C., cused, that 1t may soen be regarded as a luxury.
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When 1t comes tS breaking promises, our notion is that the brides promise to obey isn't broken any oftener than some Of the gro6n's promises
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early to begin with the children. Even baby will react to smiles and frowns, and good cheerful talk breeds kind, thoughtful deeds.
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While the no-more-war slogan sounds inviting, 1t may be just as we'll to re- member that preparedness cannot be abandoned yet.
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Although the senate recently ended the longest legislative day in history, the quality of the legislative Krist seems no finer than usual.
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coAL srnrKE sErTnEnrrNr.

It is hopeful news that there are. pros- ,eots this week for a settlement of the frike in the bituminous coal fields with '----acts for d settlement in the an-
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Every knock is a boost seems to have applied to Wilson's letters about Sena- tor Reed of Missouri.
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It has been suggested that hands across the sea may fill the American coal scuttle.
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The old expression, That's the limit" has acquired a new meaning, re- ferring to the three-rnlie limit beyond which the splrituous possihnitisa are unlimited,
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Marilynn and Jack are tied up but Mathilde and Max are still running at large.
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EpIToRIAL NOTES.

The war must be over. A sale of swivel chairs is announced at Washing ton
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Maybe what Voliva means about the world being flat is that it is fiat on it's back
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Norwich. Wednesday. Aug. 9. 1sss.
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

class who were least promising during
college days have become the most
useful and distinguished after gradu-
alton. Once a university begins to
select it's students on any ground but
that of scholarship it is undermining
it's own position as an institution OF
learning. It's function is to educate
for the future, not to judge the in
dividual's past; to develop BRAIN
power, not to give it's students a
social rating. The very fact that Har-
ward is considering a Jewish "prob-
lem" and taking steps that seem to
look toward measures of exclusion
will be reason enough for scores Of
lesser colleges more or less avowedly
to put up the bars.
No, there is no safe test to winnow
out the ''best" of any group except
scholarship. If Harvard wishes to
limit it's total number of students like
Amherst or Vassar and to make en-
trance the price of high scholarship
it is entitled to do SO. But if it
applies any other test and discrin-
mates against any group it ceases
to be a public service institution de-
serving of aid and support from the
state. 1t should then be taxed like
any private money-making correspon-
dence school or institute of stenog-
raphy. If Harvard closes it's doors
upon any race Massachusetts, ought
to establish peoples university like
those in Illinois, Wisconsin, California,
and other western states and keep it's
doors open to all. There is not too
much university education as Presi-
dent Hopkins suggests but far too
little. Indeed, the time may yet come
when the right to university edu-
cation will be assumed as the privi-
lege of every competent child who
passes through the secondary schools,
and necessary insurance of true
and capable democracy.
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06

with click. Then her heels set up
a rhythm: Tick-a-tick, tack-a-tack,
tack-tack; while the musicians an
swer chink- -chink, chink-a-chink,
chink-chink! Many soon join her and
they all dance till the more spirited
ones dance the shoes off their feet.
The bride is now taken to the home
provided by the groom. He is found
waiting for her at the door, where he
hands her his hat and coat as sign
that she is to be queen of all his
realms. At the same time he places
his hand on the door-post, signifying
that he is to be king, however. And
the wedding ceremony is at an end,
the couple to live happily for ever
after.
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06
HARVARD WANTS YOUR
PEDIGREE

Harvard's latest move will no
doubt create surprise in the mind
of the foreigner, especially the one
roming from autocratic, imperial
istlc monarchies to democratic
America, where every man is de-
clared to be equal by no less an
authority than the Constitution of
the United States. But to the
student of American psychology,
to one familiar with the true state
of affairs in the United States,
it has long been apparent, that
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amiable that they begin to hug trees
and telephone poles. And they come
to the brides parents and, recalling
the strength of the hosts spirits at
other occasions of joy and sorrow, end
up with the pious blessing: "Dai Bog
twoi dom pelnay's khalturi vasselli'
God grant thy home ever be full of
weddings and funerals.
Soon some joyous female swings a
graceful arm above her head, grabs
a fist full Of her skirts, and with a
forward toss of the head, trips off
to the music of Yiddishe Kazatzki.
She whirls and she twirls; she capers
and she bounds. Suddenly she leaps
in the air, spins round and round like
a top, and comes down to the floor
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06
Million Dollar Building For Advance
ment of Judaism Society

New York.-(J. C. B.)-A ten-story
building to cost 100000 is planned
by the Society for the Advancement
of Judaism. It will be erected on the
site of the present quarters, No. Al
West seth street. Papers of incorpo-
ration were filed yesterday.
The society is dedicated to the in
depreciation and advancement to
Israel's Torah, "to the restoration of
Israel's ancient land and the estab-
lishment of universal freedom, justice
and peace"
DR.. Mordecai M. Kaplan is the
spiritual leader.
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06
Rosenbluth Cannot Get Hearing

New York.-(J. C. B.)-Notwith-
standing several attempts made to get
the government to call Capt. Robert
Rosenbluth in the Federal Grand
Jury inquiry into the shooting of
Major Alexander Cronkhite, he has
not been called, Jonah j. Goldstein,
counsel for Capt. Rosenbluth, charged
in statement made public yesterday.
Capt. Rosenbluth has offered to waive
immunity, Mr.. Goldstein declared.
"Rosenbluth has been seeking an
open inquiry" said Mr.. Goldstein
"They are holding a grand jury hear
ing behind closed doors, before a
grand jury without jurisdiction in the
subject matter, and Rosenbluth is
barred. It is like giving Hamlet
without Hamlet"
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06

ward really have been developing such
tendencies the way they should be met
is by greater undergraduate self
government, by the formation, let us
suggest, of special committee of the
steadier Jewish Undergraduates
Harvard always has eschewed any
such democratic procedure by the
private aid of group of Jewish
graduates, not by any plan to discrinn-
mate. For race discrimination, no
matter what the excuse or the form,
is treason to democracy and to the
American ideal.
Again, we hear it said that Har-
ward is too large anyway, is over
crowded now SO that the Individual
student of today cannot get the per-
sonal PROFESSIONAL attention his father
received twenty-five years ago. To
this we reply that Harvard is not
as large as California, or Columbia,
or Illinois, yet no one AYERS that the
students there are suffering in their
studies from over-crowding. True,
President Hopkins of Dartmouth de-
clares that "too many men are going
to college" and calls for an "aristoc-
racy of brains made up of men in
tellectually alert and intellectually
eager" But, bless his innocent soul,
if Harvard college were to rule out
the boys who go there because their
fathers went, or because it is the
fashionable thing to do, or because
they want a good time in clubs or
athletics, and restricted it's classes to
the intellectually alert and intel
lectually eager" there would be a
Jewish invasion of Harvard because
there are proportionately more in
tellectually alert and eager Jewish
boys looking for education than there
are Gentiles. We have heard South
fact that in rural communities there
is greater thirst for education among
Negroes than whites. This ought to
be the case among lately oppressed
groups striving for educational and
economic equality. The Phi Beta
Kappa is worried to death lest it be
feminized by the superior scholarship
of women students who were but so
recently received into our colleges.
AS for picking the "best" Jews as
our correspondent suggests what
means "best"? The sons of rich and
prosperous Jewish bankers and dry
goods store owners, who have travelled
aboard and learned good manners ?
The parents of some of the best Jew
ish men we know came over in the
steerage and still smack of the ghetto
Prof. Michael Pupin is today one OF
our great scientists, one of our "best
minds" Yet his father and mother
could neither read nor write. True
he is not Jew; but we could parallel
his case with many similar Jewish
one. No one can tell what may lurk
under a rude and unattractive ex.
terror. Was not the great Josiah
Royce of Harvard one of the ugliest
of men? Every college graduate
knows that certain members of his
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06

From within the charmed circle of
Harvard authority friend writes us:
I don't think Harvard is wrong
about the race question. 1t is unfor-
tunate that anything has to be done,
but it really is necessary; and am
glad that Harvard is being open about
It and not resorting to subterfuges.
No one objects to the best Jews COM
ing but the others make much trouble
especially in the library. | don't wish
to imply that the Gentiles are all
saints by no means. Some OF our
best Hebrews like Mr.. K think it is a
problem and must be met. l suppose
when you read this you will say: HE
is all wrong about this" so the best
of friends will disagree again on a
vital question.
Yes, we do disagree at every point
with our friendly correspondent. We
deny that the problem of the Jew at
Harvard requires the college to act
it is only few years since the Har-
ward wiseacres were sure that their
beloved college was going to be
swamped by Irish Catholic boys
now that Boston had become Cath
olic city ruled by the archbishop.
We are aware, of course, that there
are disagreeable Jews at Harvard,
products of race in transition, just
as there were aggressive Irish Cath
olic boys at Cambridge who repre-
sented passing phase in their
evolution within the melting-pot, and
as there are still disagreeable boys OF
old New England stock. But we recall
John Morley's writing that men are
prone to forget that the inquiry what
to do in a given state OF facts in
wolves the consideration whether to
do anything. If Americans have one
vice it is their tendency to rush to
legislature to pass laws, usually USE
less, in every temporary emergency.
A university which is 287 years old
does not need ia legislate tomorrow
against conditions which may prove
transient and which certainly will be
gravely affected by the limitation of
immigration.
But if the situation were hundred
per cent worse at Harvard we should
still protest against this discrimina-
tion, against the miserable pettifog-
ging enrolment QUESTIONABLE just
handed out to entering students, which
includes such questions as where a
candidates father was born, who he
is, and if his father has ever changed
his name. The duty of university
which receives special favors from the
state is to open it's academic doors to
all applicants who are intellectually
qualified, regardless of race, creed, or
color. If any group so admitted really
shows group tendency to bad habits
or to dishonesty or to cheating and
pilfering las is charged, on doubtful
evidence, against the Jews at Har-
ward in much of the whispering that
is going on today-then it is the uni
versity's duty to reach the individual
offenders by the exercise of its police
power, just as Harvard always has
done. If the Jewish students at Har-
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06
October 6, 1922

lildI lIiuSli NooiSSo oPAAAS "
ocracy is peacefully reposing in
the Archives, or wherever the
Constitution may happen to be
reposing. American social life is
so carefully divided into classes
and each class is SO carefully
marked off by an invisible bar
rier of snobbery, from the one
Immediately beneath it, that it
would make the hide-bound con-
vention-ridden European feel like
democrat. Therefore, we are
not surprised to find that a great
American University is more par
ticular about your pedigree than
about your scholarship, and that
the son of the Wilma Gaon, let us
say, would have less chance of
entering the sacred precincts of
Harvard, than for the rich man of
Jesus parable to enter heaven.
And so complete is to be the
autocratic rule of social snobbery
at the Boston seat of learning,
that those who direct the fate
of who is and who is not to enter
the University, will not even be
taken in by notwithstanding
names. "What was your name
before you changed it to Urqu-
hart?" asks the inexorable
Judge. "Chachamovitch," pipes
the thirsty seeker after knowl-
edge. "Off with his head" says
the Judge. "He's not fit to enter
our noble House of Learning.
He'll probably be spending all his
time studying and acquiring
knowledge, instead of kicking a
ball around the campus" The
thirsty seeker is led out. He's
advised to open sweat-shop or
set up a push-cart somewhere,
amongst his own kind" But no
college degree for him.
Perhaps if these cranks on
pedigree went back far enough
they might find out that the can
QlQdte IOI entrance TO Ine OnlVeI-
sity was a direct descendant from
one of the early "Christians," that
his pedigree was such as to make
a Pilgrim Father ancestor seem
like a piker. But no. No such
delving into the past. The
"Chachamovitch" knocks them
cold. The candidate is damned
on the strength of it. He was
doomed, 'ere yet he was born,
when his father or grandfather
took to himself a high-sounding
Russian name.
Are we to wonder at these Gen.
tile snobs? Second generation
American Jews would be just as
ready to damn poor "Chachamo-
WITCH" For when we hear Jews
boasting about their one hundred
per cent Americanism, we know
that they are anxious not to be
confounded with the Chachamo-
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-06
"What Was Your Fathers
Name?"

(Reprinted by Special Arrangement with The Nation)
The Yale expositor., 1922-09-28
OPERATORS and
MINERS To meet
CONFERENCE CALLED TO DEVISE
NEW WAY FOR WAGE
BARGAINING.
TRY TO AVOID ANOTHER STRIKE
Negotiate New Wage Scale Before
Expiration of Present Agree
ment, April I, 1928.

Cleveland, O.-An invitation to all
bituminous operators of the United
States to meet here October 2 with
representatives of the United Mine
Workers of America to devise an en-
tirely new machinery Of wage bar
gaining to replace that Of the central
competitive field which broke down
prior to the recent national coal
strike has been sent out from here.
The main object of the conference, it
was explained, is to prevent another
coal strike next April l. The confer
ence also initiated an investigation of
the industry concurrently with that
carried on by the fact finding commits
sion to be named by President Har-
ding.
The call was signed by John L.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America. and Thomas X.
Maher. Cleveland coal operator under
last month, which subsequently re-
suited in the almost complete ending
Of the soft coal strike Maher was
chairman Of this conference.
The invitation went to operators
associations and to important opera
tors known to have signed the Cleve-
land agreement.
1T should be made plain Maher
said, that all operators who signed
the Cleveland agreement, or the sup
Elementary contracts based on this
agreement are expected and cordially
invited to attend. Notification through
the press shall constitute notices of
the meeting whether or not the op-
orators or associations receive the in
vitations through the mail"
Several hundred operators are ex-
pected, Maher stated, from the soft
coal fields in Ohio, Indiana, Western
Pennsylvania. Iowa Kansas, Missouri
and other trans-Mississippi states and
part Of central Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
The agreement signed here last
month by bituminous operators and
unions provided that a meeting be
called on October to arrange for
negotiating wage scales in the indus
try prior to the expiration Of the pres
ent agreeent April /, 1928