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Criticism of a Jewish organization of New York whose president expressed his willingness to endorse the alien registration bill if declarants would be allowed to bring their wives and children here, is voiced by S. Dingol in the “Day” of Jan. 13.
Mr. Dingol warns against any compromise on the part of the friends of the immigrants in the question of immigration and alien registration.
“Just now,” he emphasizes, “there is a danger that in the haste and eagerness to carry through the ‘good’ bills (Congressman Perlman’s and Senator Copeland and Wadsworth’s) we may overlook the danger of the other two bills (Congressman Aswell and Holaday’s) and agree to undesirable compromises with the fathers of the alien registration and deportation proposals.
“One Jewish organization of New York has already made such a false move. Its president wrote to Congressman Johnson that he has no objections against voluntary registration of immigrants if immigrants who are declarants will be allowed to bring their wives and children here.
“This was an ill-considered and dangerous step. The interests of seven million immigrants cannot be sold for the privilege of bringing here the wives and children of several thousand declarants.”
Mr. Dingol also calls attention to the fact that whereas the alien registration bill is fought by all liberal-minded people in America the immigrants will have little support in their fight for the bills looking to a humanization of the immigration laws and he suggests as one way of more effective action that instead of several separate pro-immigrant bills in the Senate and House of Representatives their sponsors should get together on one bill in the Senate and one in the House.
“Our Republican and Democratic Congressmen,” Mr. Dingol urges, “must not use the immigration question to make capital out of it for their party politics.”
CONTENDS COLLEGES DISCRIMINATE AGAINST JEWISH STUDENTS
The impression prevalent among many that the unpopularity of the Jewish students in the American colleges dates from 1920, with the World War psychology, the Ford propaganda and the Klan activities, is not correct, according to Nathaniel Zalowitz who writes on the subject in the “Forward.”
“Twenty years ago,” Mr. Zalowitz informs us, “Dr. Nathaniel Shaler, Professor of Geology in Harvard University and Dean of Lawrence Scientific School, published ‘The Neighbor,’ which contained a remarkable 60-page chapter, ‘The Hebrew Problem.’ At least half of that chapter was devoted to a discussion of the unpopularity of the Jewish student in Harvard.
“What interests me in Prof. Shaler’s statement is not his alleged reasons for the unpopularity of Jewish college students but the astounding fact that as long ago as the beginning of the present century the Jewish student was made to feel out of place in Harvard.”
At the annual meeting of the board of the American Jewish Association for the Blind. Thursday night, the Building Committee announced tentative plans for the erection of a Jewish Orthodox home for blind men. The committee met Friday at the office of Alderman Louis J. Wroaker, President of the association, to confer on a site. K. N. Shaffer was installed as treasurer.
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