(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A new organization, the “Lunfoi Society,” which is expected, will become national in its membership, was farmed here as a result of the nation-wide interest which centered in Port Huron throughout the preparation for the dedication of a flag staff donated to the Methodist church by Louis Goldman of this city.
Rev. Russell H. Bready, pastor of First Methodist Episcopal church, announced that the new society was to be formed along similar lines to the famous Hamilton-Jefferson club.
“The Hamilton-Jefferson club admits Catholics and Protestants,” Rev. Bready said. “We will go one step further and invite the Jew to join.
“We wish to inaugurate a triple fellowship founded on the famous words, liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable, the name Lunfoi to be coined from the first initials of these words.”
The Kiwanis club will erect a bronze tablet at the foot of the flag staff to relate the act of religious tolerance which took place there.
A Presbyterian minister, a Roman Catholic priest and two rabbis broke bread together Thursday night at the head of a dinner table to which each of seventy Jews prominent in Chicago brought “my best Christian friend,” an Associated Press despatch from Chicago stated.
“To you, my coreligionists,” Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of the Anshe Mayrev Synagogue, where the dinner was held, said, “I say America needs all three of us,” and the Rev. Ralph Davis of the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church responded with a prediction that ‘one of these days we are going to quit thinking in the terms of medievalism.
“We are going to tolerate each other because we profoundly respect each other’s convictions and inheritance,” he said, “not because we believe lightly in tolerance but because we believe tremendously in essentials.
“Nor shall I, who am proud to stand here in fellowship with you, dilute my convictions in order to be a good fellow with you for an hour,” he said, remarking that a hundred years ago such a gathering would have been impossible anywhere in the world.
“I preach to you intolerance of intolerance, be it social, religious, industrial or racial,” said the Rev. Father Joseph Reiner, S. J., dean of Loyola University.
“Most of all I preach intolerance of ignorance,” he declared in holding that “our tolerance of ignorance is the source of our intolerance of each other.”
CONGRESSMAN CELLER WILL INTRODUCE BILL TO REPEAL NATIONAL ORIGINS SCHEME
Announcement that he will introduce a bill to repeal the national origin plan of immigration which is to go into effect July 1, 1827, was made by Congressman Emanuel Celler.
“Very few people know that a radical re-arrangement of Immigration quotas will be made, beginning July 1, 1927, provided the President issues a proclamation therefor, on or before April 1, 1927,” Congressman Celler stated.
“These quotas will be based upon ancestry or national origin. Under the present law, the annual quota of any nationality is 2 per cent of the number of foreign born individuals of such nationality resident in the United States, as determined by the census of 1890.
“This National Origin basis for quotas was tacked on the Senate Immigration Bill as an amendment, and later enacted by the House, and duly signed by the President.
“After July 1, 1927, immigration from Europe cannot exceed one hundred and fifty thousand. By Section XI of the Immigration Act of 1924, this total of one hundred and fifty thousand is divided amongst the countries of Europe according to the so-called National Origin Theory. The quota based on national origin, is ascertained by determining the number of inhabitants in the United States in 1920 having English, German, French, or other ancestry. The Secretaries of State, Commerce and Labor must prepare the figures upon which the President must issue his Proclamation of Quotas, on or before April 1, 1927. Under tentative schedules, the bulk of the immigration goes to Great Britain. Her quota is increased from 34,000 to 85,000, but the following unusual reductions are noted:
Irist Free State, present quota 28,567, proposed 8,330; Germany, present quota 51,227, proposed 20,028; Norway, present quota 6,453, proposed 2,053; Poland, present quota 9,561, proposed 3,072.
“Already, all over the country, loud protests are heard from people of German, Irish, and Norwegian ancestry and rightly do they inveigh against this provision.
“I have no quarrel with England. I have great respect for her traditions, her form of government, and her people, but there is no good reason why the most of our immigration should come from England, at the expense of Ireland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The Immigration Act of 924 has caused enough deviltry, with its discriminations against the peoples of Southern and Eastern Europe. But now the bar sinister is to be placed upon the German, the Irish and the Norwegian. These people have contributed too much to our wealth and welfare to receive such treatment.
“I shall offer an amendment, revoking all of the provisions of Section XI of the Act and thereby repeal immigration based upon the National Origin Theory,” Congressman Celler declared.
HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION EXERCISES HELD
Joint graduation exercises of the Hebrew High School and the Florence Marshall Memorial Schools of the Bronx, Harlem and Brownsville, at which 164 pupils received diplomas, were held yesterday afternoon at the Stuyvesant High School. These schools are branches of the Bureau of Jewish Education, which is affiliated with the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
Louis Marshall, in the principal address, praised the work of the Bureau of Jewish Education and urged Jewish parents to send their children to Hebrew schools and Talmud Torahs so that they might become better American citizens and better Jews. Other speakers were Joseph Bragin, principal of the Hebrew High School; Bernard Semel of the Jewish Education Association and Solomon Lowenstein, executive and Solomon Lowenstein, executive director of the Federation.
Ludwig Vogelstein distributed diplomas and Mrs. I. B. Bergson awarded the prizes. Valedictory addresses were made by Jessie Goldstein of the Florence Marshall Memorial School in Brownsville and by Samuel Schwartz and Gertrude Reich of the Hebrew High School. Dr. S. Benderly, director of the Bureau of Jewish Education, presided.
Dr. Benderly explained that the Hebrew High School, in which are registered about 750 students, is the largest institution of its kind in the world. According to figures prepared by Dr. Bender, its students constitute more than half of all the Jewish high school boys and girls attending a Hebrew high school course in the United States. These students take a four-year Hebrew high school course at the same time that they attend the public high schools for their secular education. They make a thorough study of the Bible, post-biblical literature, such as the Mlshnah, Talmud and Midrash, medieval and modern Jewish laterature and Jewish history, music and ethics. These studies are pursued in the Hebrew language, which the students can speak and write fluently. Dr. Benderly estimated that 90 per cent of all the Hebrew schools and Talmud Torahs in the city send their graduates to the Hebrew High School.
RABBI ISAAC S. MOSES DIES
Rabbi Isaac S. Moses, seventy-nine, for seventeen years rabbi of the Central Synagogue, 55th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City, and later its Rabbi Emeritus, died in the Manhattan Square Hotel, of heart disease, on Friday.
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