The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1917, Page 6

. STAR—THURSDAY, THE SEATTLE “Untom St. STAR 1907 Seventh Ave. N. HR OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUK OF NEWSPAPERS < " Assocation (Kditor’s Note — This tx the yohlefly from Russia and Amer _eenawn Howe Service of the Valles Prem, Ames — fourth of a series of articles on The chief executive power hap) ered at Seattio. Wash, Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter derusaiom and the Holy Land to be vested In the Ilifaverein in by the famous Hebrew editor, Bertin “out of city, 400 per month; § montha $1.15; ¢ momtha $260; Herman Bernstein, His articles The executive committee had come year, $3.50 hy capier, city, 20e a month. pdclitianina " 4 " 7 oat mo ‘ aan whe —r _ give the reader a clear w » | to no conclusion as to whether Ger Published Dally b: roncatttn Op. Fesne ute Ge Private!) tanding of the importance of |man or Hebrew should be the lan- 0 SI. LAY the allies’ victory in Palestine.) | uae of instruction, The question | wan definitely raised on Oct. 26, | 1913, when three advocates of the | Hebrew revival resigned from the committee, owing to their inability to endorse the program of technical battle of this war waa| {struction in German, The news of the reason for the seceanion of the three members like wildfire in Palestine. BY HERMAN BERNSTEIN Editor of the American Hebrew (Copyright, 1917, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association) OR ALL FOREVER ‘The first was not fought on Belgian front; not) in Alsace Lorraine, but in Palestine. It was @ bloodieas battle, but it | #Pread On Loose Rails . nie registered the first defeat for Ger | Sv¥erywhere, in large centers, like " The railroad situation grows more critical every hour, | many in It# campaign to Teutonixe a ye a ae Eederye —- 4 i " . i the world. Seemingly {t was merely | jewish colonies, and the climax threatened seems to be due to two failures—| { Content for supremacy between two |Meetngs were held to _protent failure of financial support of the many weak lines and fail-|ianguages—German or Hobrow in | againat the proceedings of the com i . ‘ | Palestine, and those who fought the | mittee, From Haifa « resolution ure in the courage or power of authorized management fleht foe Bebrew were not aware ot| Was seat to the comubittes in Bertin, It is evident that there is no financial remedy in the tho imperial ambitions that led to orn “~~ we the inhabitants of : : 1 eonflict “alestina, are of opinion that both raising of rates thru permission of the interstate commerce on s the Jews of the world, a. oe commission. Raised rates, raised cost of living, raised | who looked on and marveled at the from 4 national and from a practical ‘ | devotion of th joniats of the Hol Wages of the employes, and then another raise of rates! [S\oi%) A meager scam |einie 00 Rath Gag eileen etre tn Palestine today; for the Hebrew . nv bet tuth « German fi the tongue alone can unite the various ) ‘round and ‘round, to ultimately fall exhausted, a dead |) ),"ianeuae understand. that in| failure. | thin fight was involved the great Students Protest “ It points straight at government ownership, at least | Paring for over 40 years In Jerumiem the pupils of the In (eerman nical schools, boys near enough to iment providing funds for necessary new equipment, fixing] yng op German Jewry wan the | annood to understand what was rates and costs of operation and allowing such profits AS | Hilfeverein der Deutschen Judes. ideas and demands, written in He : brew, to the directors of the schools. Jeationa! institutions in Palestine. |rhe following demands were made: | The Pilfeverein is not a Zoniat body, ° King County Road Bills | erm Jewn Unter "the tnfunnes | pnt ubfosa's coneecioe wise - ag Aaa jonist suggestion and of the at-\4ia harm to bow ¢ press The grand jury, it is reported, has under investigation | josphere of Jewish life in Paloatine, | eyent ce <acnusus Game 0 Jewiah roads. | time, to cultivate a thoroly Palestine must have a Hebrew char 3 . ; | type of education in its Palestine | acter, For this reason all subjects Padded accounts of various kinds are said to have been | schools, which should allow boys and| which have up to the present been Therefore the Hilfeverein early The directors either ignored , ‘ hi a thy c permitted to get away with a cheaper grade of construction Jy ia ee Toate in the| these demands or refused to than the county paid them for. | comply with them, end the beye The fraud is not only against the county, but against | yh ut ‘pradually « change came. The directors—chief among whom was! The teachers of the Hllfsverein Dr, Paul Nathan, since decorated by | *chools handed in « memorial mak- point of view, only a sehool in which Hebrew ts the chief language ean a y “ c ‘| Land, their children, and the dew ' It is a clear-cut circle, in which our railroad economics go teachers who preferred starvation to elements of Judaiam in Palestine.” | plan for which Germany had been : . ‘ 4 Hilfeverein’s Secondary and Teoh | government ownership of the weaker lines, with govern- | ‘The chief representative in Palos happening, sent a statement of their 7 hich hi tabliahed ous edu. i fi t. w as established numerous | “GQ) The German language shall |but @ philanthropic association Of he freed from ite connection with . sae ‘, af | alleged irregularities in the construction of King county | the Hllfsverein was Induced, for |) =i) ‘The Jewish school system tn t Fy 2 io devel coord: to Hebi @ frequent affair. But more serious than that is the charge | Firs ‘© (evel BCom vO ai eenee. tereht tn German mast new be that contractors failed to live up to specifications and were ‘ is, making it the children's sndihee tana. bd Jaffa and Jerusalem left the honest contractors, who are deprived of their chance at certain contracts since they have to overbid those who do»), \aisor-were slowly undermining !2K demands similar to those made ~ not live up to specifications and therefore can | the position of Hebrew, introducing | "7 the boys intend to P |Gorthan an the language of instrue| TR® teachers fared no betier than make lower bids. | tion, and gtving what the later Jew | the puptle i probe! ish settlers had come to Palestine to| Dr. Nathan refused to see their een the é lavold—a non-Jewish view of life and|@*puties, but, in speaking to a few, | trend of thought he declared he was not in aympathy | The first criticiems of the new| With the demands As they had no Shall We Stake Railroads?’ tendency of the Hilfaverein date | hopes of recetving a satinfactory re- At last the interstate commerce commission has got! from August, 1912, when a general Ply. & letter signed by 18 teachers - . | meeting of t ube from all parts of | 7" gent to Dr. Nathan They de ‘clear and exact view of the transportation problem, and Pyjgtine. was held. That resting sired to know within four days i we adopted the following resolution whether their demands had been me matter is of high importance to every man, woman |sdcpied the following resolution: | | Nowa. ‘and handed in. their resi ‘and child in the country, for railroading is our greatest | duty of every member of the Teach | nations in the event of this not being '. ers’ amsoctation to fight against any | the case, They offered, pati te to : Attempt to teach secular subjects in| tay on for two months in jer to The commission frankly states that there is no remedy |, janguage other than Hebrew.” | «ive the directors time to replace Dissatiafaction with the Hilf» | them. in rate regulation. The only remedy is commandeering by pene Presenter r the government, or huge government loans to the railroads! jong before the open breach oc. | Not only were the resignations ac & i-pooling laws to permit th Is | curred, caused by the opening of the|cepted, but those teachers who had ‘nd suspension of the anti-pooling a Io FOS | eercical school as Staite, tobe thelotpnel (he petition ware ordered 8 themselves to organize and operate all the lines of the coun-| jpucieus of a Jewish technical uni.|give up their work immoediatety, try. And it is no time to temporize, says the commission. | versity. aii me ann, Ae. cag, angen * Do the people favor staking the railroads? | Money for this institution had/did not hasten to abandon thelr setlictheais come from all parts of the world,|classrooma were forcibly evicted by HELP HALIFAX. | — "AD right! Let's begin next August. * THE WAR in Warren naturally makes him a fighter " o- dapaeeiaaeiettneence A New York man has just bought a ploture 7x12 inches, paying $200, 000 for it. Op account of the war, . E. D. K's." COLYUM ‘The under dog is always the most TUESDAY 1S meatless day, Wednesday wheatless, and every GAY | wilting to st 4 argue the ques- fs Red Cross day. Join the Hed Cross today. thon. BAST AFRICA is cleared of Germans. The kaiser loves a nice| “Bittle farm of 384,000 square miles. “WE SHALL lift the ban,” says Chief Warren e lift anything from a piano up. He's husky enoug! . A Tacoma man says knitting In a |cure for nervousness, Everybody in EE jour family knits and no matter NINETY-FOUR MILLIONS for navy aeronautics and a billion ana| where we gO we see someone knit thirty-two millions for army aviation! Hear it, kaiser? | ting, but the more we see of ft the —_— — more nervous we become. UNITED STATES is the only country Pleasure use. The other countries are at war. now producing autos for) . Ran Johnson haa suggested that |ball players be exempted, but we |haven't heard anybody suggest that | the golf players be exempted. ABOUT income tax. EIGHT Oh, keep still times as many married as unmarried men pay giris! We're not knocking Cupid. COMMERCIAL ECONOMY BOARDS are going in for saving a full Yard of cloth from every man’s suit. All right! We'll stand hitched until we see which yard they're reaching for, anyway | A government official has warned —_—_—_—_—_— Seattle restaurant keepers that they as Wilson meseage| must save food. Evidently he hasn't “LA FOLLETTE sat like a graven image” Was read. Bully! And since Bob has gotten into the graven image|been eating in them recently business, let him study that Sphinx in Egypt! Nobody has got it to| see Open its mouth in centuri Mrs. De Saulles should go Into the movies. Having been acquitted in a “OH, I'M still two inches a Matthews, when the height of the “He's only in the kindergarten class to be a kindergarten teacher? r.” laughingly stated Dr. M. A.| murder trial, ahe is well equipped chief was compared with his own. | Roane Wonder if the doctor = m Doe Garfield wanta people to save ore daylight In order to save coal. ‘The Pittsburg Street Car company is advertising for women to act as conductors, Fare to the fair see A member of the bench says judges “may” work thru the hol days. When he says they “may” work we take it that he means there in no law againat it But think of the precedent against itt these facts Every statement made in our CHRISTMAS GIFT HINTS ° A miniature window blind roller to roll up @ flowing beard at night would go immense with an old gent An old carpet sweeper with a lit tle varnishing and a curved plece of gas pipe for a handle in quite handy as a back brush for the bath An 014 bicycle pump polished up and the person's initials neatly en graved on it, wouldn't go half bad as a fountain pen ink filler, With a little remodeling an old 9 canine collar could be made into a eee e H. C. Ia—'That's no excuse! Mort. gage the old home and buy an auto- mobile; then cnortgage the car and VEGETABLE COMPOUND buy gasoline, Perfectly simple and vimply perfect when you come to think of it eee That noise like a Tibetan wild dog chasing a yellow-billed cuckoo is only LYDIA C.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. a motor car owner chortling with joy over the receipt of his last month’ till for repairs. Verily, none is so happy as hel War Savers Are Life Savers—Thrift Stamps Help You Save ‘Germany Gets First Blow of War in Holy Land | _ When It Fails to Foist its Language on Hebrews DEC. 13, 1917. PAGE 6 — Parents can help by keeping @ home clean and well ventilated, By | teaching children to sleep with wit | dows open, to eat proper food, to ob serve the Inwe of health. Also bial keeping wail children away trom ia” ; fected persona. Children can do their “bit” bil keeping clean, by not putting thing in thelr mouths, exoept foo by staying as much as possible Check Plagme Any one and every one can help fight tuberoulonts Vhynicians can help by teaching prevention of the Ainease and ins that the | Hilfaverein, |in best in Hebrew tradition they may use the aplende tative of the ed by the German consul « past to create #till greater mplendorn | | sehoolohiidren, from the |for the future, | ing that t the fresh air and sunshine | kindergartens up to the highest Most valignt aid in the struggle | patients be exam Workers can do their part by fi grades, promptly boycotted ali against German in Palestine was ined regularly, | minting on the working place bein schools of the HMilfaveretn. given by the German Zionists, and Teachers can|thoroly ventilated, by avoiding 4 | ‘The International Zionist organiay |the struggle iteelf is @ landmark in| help by instructing pupils of the na | dampnens and darkness, by avoldin tion provided for an adequate school the development of the Jewish nf ture of the disease and its preven-| overwork. nyntem, truly Hebrew tn spirit and | Uonal idea. tion and cure, by teaching the chil Pivery one can help by taking character, In these schools there is oan |dren simple rules of health, by or-| of his own health, by stopping ind! but one atm, to give to boys and| Tomorrow Mr. Bernstein will tell | ganizing modern health crusader | criminate spitting and by joining kirls a wound education, to bring |About the actual fighting In the Holy | leagues and by keeping the claan.|the Red Crow national fight again them up in the knowledge of all that | Land. ‘room well ventilated. the white plague. 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