(J. T. A. Mall Bervice)
The Jews are absolutely loyal to the state, declared the Jewish senator, Horia Carp, speaking in the Senate on the address of the Regency Council.
Quoting figures, Senator Carp showed there was no truth in the accusation that the Jews own the largest number of licences for the sale of alcohol.
The Metropolitan Pimen interrupted Senator Carp to remark that in Moldavia most of the spirit shops were owned by Jews, Senator Carp, he complained, had forgotten when he had enumerated the services which the Jews had rendered to Roumania during the War, those other Jews who had betrayed Roumania to her enemies.
Senator Carp replied that it was unfair because of the faults of a few individual Jews to condemn the whole Jewish people. The same thing had happened in all sections of the Roumanian people.
Chief Rabbi Niemirover, the official representative of the Jewish Community in the Senate, speaking on the address, said:
“First of all, I want to express our deepest feeling of loyalty to the dynasty, Not alone in the first session after the death of King Ferdinand, but always, we praise the first King of United Roumania. We declare to the Regency Council that we shall as a united body assist the work of consolidation of the country begun and continued by the Government. The consolidation of the Roumanian State should be the ideal pursued by all in both intereal and foreign policy. We rejoice that the statesmen who conduct the foreign policy of Roumania stand for the ideal of world peace in conjunction with the League of Nations.
“The consolidation of the country is primarily a question of internal policy. It cannot be achieved without the spiritual unification of the people by means of the schools. I trust that there will be no curtailment of the rights of the schools of the Jewish communities and that their right to issue certificates will be recogmized. First place should, of course, be given to Roumanian culture, which should be the special concern of the State, but the moral power of the State grows in accodance with the development of the culture of the peoples who live in the country and are its citizens. The development of Hebrew culture in the Jewish schools will only serve the Roumanian fatherland to form the moral character of a considerable section of its citizens.”
The New York State conference of the United Jewish Campaign will be held Dec. 4 in Syracuse, according to Bernard B. Given, chairman. Louis Marshall and David Brown will be among the speakers.
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