Digest of Public Opinion on Jewish Matters

[The purpose of the Digest is informative: Preference is given to papers not generally accessible to our readers. Quotation does not indicate approval.–Editor.]

The fact that the new organization, the “Supreme Kingdom,” created by the chief promoter of the Ku Klux Klan, E. Y. Clarke, for the purpose of fighting evolution, will admit Jews and Cotholies, is regarded by the Kansas City “Jewish Chronicle” of May 21 as “a proof of the decline of Klanism and Nordicism.”

“The very promoter of the Klan is forming an organization which admits Jews and Catholics,” the paper remarks. “It is hardly possible that these very Jews and Catholics who menaced the very foundations of the country have changed in such a short time. It must be that Clarke has discovered that they are not the danger he had imagined they were, but we rather incline to the belief that he has learned that the dupes and morons ### longer get a thrill out of being ant### Jewish and anti-Catholic, and refuse to pay for the Klan privilege any longer. He finds a new thrill for them in old time religion, concentrating the attack upon evolution. Now the Jews and Catholics may join with the holy crusaders to annihilate evolution.”

The “Supreme Kingdom” is termed a “new Ku Klux Klan” by the New York “Telegram” of May 25, which observes editorially:

“At the head of this new movement are the same men who made the Ku Klux Klan one of the most annoying nuisances which ever intruded in American politics, so the spread of the anti-science doctrine is certain. The movement and Attaman of the pogrom bands at whose hands tens of thousands of Jewish men. women and children were massacred in the Ukraine in 1918-1919, was fatally shot by Samuel Schwartzbard, a Russian Jew, i nthe Boulevard Saint Michel at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.

SAYS UNITED SYNAGOGUE WAS NOT REPRESENTED AT EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Sir:

In the account of the Zionist Conference on Education published recently in the “Bulletin,” it was stated that the United Synagogue of America was represented at the conterence.

This is an error and I would appreciate your printing the correction.

SAMUEL M. COHN, Executive Director. United Synagogue of America. New York, May 25, 1926.

Five hundred persons gathered at the Town Hall Tuesday night to honor Rev. Hirsch Masliansky on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Zionist Organization of America, of which he is a Vice Chairman. Among the speakers were Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Joseph Barondess. Messages were received from Louis Marshall, Louis Lipsky and Felix M. Warburg.