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Criticism of Daniel and Simon Guggenheim, copper magnates, the former of whom recently established the $500,000 School for Aeronautics and the latter the $3,000,000 Scholarship Foundation, for ignoring the distressful condition of the East European Jews and the reconstruction needs of Palestine, is voiced by the "Juedische Zeitung" of Breslau.
"Everywhere an effort is being made," the paper writes, "to create better and more dignified conditions of life for Jewry. For Palestine, for instance, there was raised through heroic exertions in the last five years the sum of 21/4 million pounds sterling. The amount given by the Guggenheims in the space of a few minutes equals in round figures one-fourth of this sum.
"The philanthropy of Jews is not always Jewish philanthropy. The proud desire of others is to give the best in their power to their own people. The pride of the Jew, however, is frequently gratified by giving to others for the expected privilege of being accepted in their society. So long as this phase of the development of Jewry in the 19th century has not disappeared Jewish philanthropists will be ready enough to place the science of aeronautics above the distress of their fellow-Jews."
98 AND 89
Immigration students in this country are better informed on "general-information" subjects than native Americans, according to the results obtained from a questionnaire submitted by the "New Republic" to 100 students in a large American university. Commenting on this, the New York "World" of April 10 observes:
"The best score, 98 per cent, was made by a student of Slavic descent; the next by an older Russian. The highest grade by a native American was 89. Possibly one reason why Europeans still beat us at many intellectual games is that, couched in a vast continent immeasurably rich, young Americans take life more easily. And possibly if the young collegians had made up a questionnaire to suit themselves they would have shown astonishing erudition about football records and the Charleston."
MR. FORD’S IDEAS
Henry Ford’s ideas about certain Christian churches, in connection with his observations on the question of Prohibition, have provoked the following comment from the New York "American" (Apr. 10):
"Mr. Ford seems to be quite as wrong about the character and convictions of members of many of the Christian churches as he was recently about the Jews.
"Mr. Ford is at his best when he is discussing mechanical problems, and at his worst when he is discussing human problems….."
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