Editorials

To bring succor to the victims of this outrageous German Judenfiend is the first duty of every Jew. Fired by the recognition of the needs of their German Jewish brethren, American Jews have launched a multitude of appeals for aid. In the past, whenever Jews were the victims of a tragedy of major magnitude, all their brethren #nited as one to render aid. American Jewry was united in the years before the war and was united a few years after the war, and under the aegis of the American Joint Distribution Committee, collected more than 80 million dollars for the relief of our war stricken brethren abroad.

There can be no division when the cry of our brothers is ringing in our ears. This is not time for airing differences between the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress. To attain their aims and ideals, they both have a place in American Jewry, but for the purpose of relief, they both must give way to a joint united body, in order to render the greatest good. Otherwise, those who will suffer most will be the Jews still within Germany and those stranded ones who are already out of Germany.

This is no time to continue social snobbishness that might have existed among American Jews, between those who have originated from some countries and those whose ancestors came from other countries; nor is it the time for those who consider themselves snubbed to voice their grievances. We have no place for intolerance and prejudices of a part of American Jewry against another part, even though this might have been in the past a contributory cause that has made a united leadership impossible. Now we must unite as one and help our pleading German brethren, irrespective of what country they originally came form.

WAKE UP, MR. MCFADDEN

“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,” orate the boy orators and every one within hearing applauds the noble sentiment, because we all, theoretically, like to have truth rise again. But there is another sentiment, not embodied in copy-book maxims, to the effect that you can deny a libel and disprove a libel to the last comma, but you cannot kill it. Do you remember the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? The latest person of consequence who was taken in by the Protocols was Henry (“History Is Bunk”) Ford, during that period of fever when he dedicated— if that’s the word — himself to the cause of anti-Semitism. But Mr. Ford learned better and recanted.

Now Representative McFadden, demagogue of demagogues, on the floor of the House early last week, delivered a ranting speech against Jewish international money-changers, indicating not only that he had read, but believed in, the fantastic forgery by which it was attempted to persuade the credulous that the Jews of the world are knit together in a conspiracy to overthrow the Parliaments of the world, destroy the Christian churches and gather the financial and political power of the world into Jewish hands.

Briefly, this is the story of the Protocols. In 1905 there appeared in Russia a book by an anti-Semite named Sergius Nilus, under the title of “The Great in the Small, the Anti-Christ as an Immediate Political Possibility.” A first edition, under a slightly different title, had appeared in 1901. In 1907 a third edition appeared, under the title “Charges Against the Enemies of the Human Race,” the twelfth chapter of which contained “Protocols of a Meeting of the So-Called ‘Elders of Zion’,” which meeting the author alleges, occurred simultaneously with the first Zionist Congress at Basle in 1897.

Anti-Semites of all nations have fed upon these so-called Protocols until their chops slavered with the froth of hate. They were translated into German, of course, and many other tongues, and they were the inspiration of the Czarist Black Hundreds.

The London Times first exposed the nature of the forgery, in a series of articles by its Constantinople correspondent, in August 1921. Therein it was shown that the Protocols were originally published in 1864, anonymously, as an attack against Napoleon III and had nothing to do with Jews, Judaism, the Zionist Congress— which was not then even a thought in the mind of Herzl.

The London Times’ disproof of the Protocols has been repeated time and again, but maybe a Pennsylvania Republican-Democrat-Prohibitionist feels no compulsion to keep up with either the times or The Times, of any nation. Please wake up, Mr. McFadden: Queen Anne is dead!

JAMES LOEB, THE MANY-SIDED

There are Jews who belong to Jewry, whose lives and whose labors become chapters of, and footnotes to, the story of the Jewish community in their land, whose justification consists in militant identification, with their racial group; and there are Jews who belong to the world of humanity, Jews who, without evasion or escape, express themselves by losing themselves in a cultural enterprise, or scientific research, that has no root in race. Between these two types of Jews there are innumerable subtle differentiations. It is only the fanatic anti-Semite who refuses to acknowledge these differentiations, and melodramatically visualizes the Jewish banker and the Jewish communist, the Jewish capitalist and the Jewish labor leader locked in a conspiracy against the non-Jewish world.

James Loeb, the retired banker, son of the founder of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., who died eight days ago on his estate near Oberammergau at the age of sixty-five was a Jew. But he was, primarily, a humanist, one who brought

######his interest, his means and his culture to the service of the Greek and Roman classics. There are, scattered throughout the broad expanse of this sometimes smiling and sometimes mournful earth, thousands of scholars and students who do not know a Jew from an Aryan but who know the Loeb Classical Library. It is a contribution to humane culture in which race and nationality are ignored, if not transcended.

The Loeb Classical Library originated in one of those cultural dreams into which only wealth can breathe reality. Started in 1912, it was intended to make available to the scholar and to the student the wealth of Greek and Latin thought and expression of twenty-five centuries, in reprint of the original and in translation. On the left hand page the scholar found the Greek, or Latin, text; on the right hand page, the English translation. By 1925 there had been translated, and published, 160 volumes, and in that year the University of Cambridge conferred on Mr. Loeb the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa.

In recognition of his interest in classical scholarship he was made a trustee of the American School of Archaeology of Athens, and was also a member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institute, the Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaft. His personal contribution to culture, as a scholar exclusively rather than as a contributor of means, was in the form of various translations of critical works from the French on Euripides, Aristophanes and of ” Alexandrian Poetry under the First Three Ptolemies,” by Auguste Couat.