Life — May 28, 1925 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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VOL, 85. “While there is Life there’s Ho Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY $98 Madison Avenue, New York Cuartes Dana Ginson, President R. E, Sueawoop, Editor F, D. Casey, Art Editor HE papers said that Dean Inge went home — second- class. If so, it was partly, no doubt, out of regard for econ- omy, but possibly also to be less expcsed to the society of the people who travel first class. Either of these reasons for go- ing second-class is sufficient, but he was not rated second-class while he hore. Not at all. We have not had an imported entertainer in this coun- try so distinctly first-class for some time. Will Rogers suits a good many people, and possibly if Dr. Inge kept at it week in and week out he would find it hard to better Rogers's record as a public speaker; but performing here for three weeks, exposing a mind sensitive to new impressions and with a notable gift for disclosing them, Dr. Inge, while he stayed with us, was un- doubtedly the best entertainment offered. Hylan is not in his class at all as a talker, There are minds, of course, that pasture happily in the baseball columns. but for any one who wants to read something and get a reaction from it, the almost daily remarks of Dr. Inge were a godsend. Gloomy Dean? Nonsense! The man is a humorist. Moreover, besides that, he is a journalist, making copy almost daily for the newspapers and good copy at that. Bishop Manning could not believe, so he said, that the Dean (dis- paraging the Zionists) told the reporters that the Jews should rebuild the Temple of Solomon here in New York where they have the largest number of Jews “and plenty of Gentiles to fleece.” It was quite incredible to Bishop Man- ning, who regards this world just now with the eyes of a Bishop and a raiser was Craim Maxweit, Vice-President Lancnoane Grason, Secretary and Treasurer of funds, that the Dean could have said anything so saucy as that about the Jews. “I cannot believe—" he said, “I do not believe that Dean Inge used those words as they were quoted.” Perhaps not, but probably he did. No- body but Dr. Manning seems to doubt it, and Dr, Manning's doubt, to tell the truth, seems a bit political; the doubt of a man who deprecates the inexpedi- ent. Dr. Manning does not want any body to joke about the Jews just at present while he is trying to raise fifteen million dollars. That is a proper attitude for him, but really for Dr. Inge'to jolt the Jews while Dr. Man- ning passes the hat may prove to be a useful division of labor. The Jews m™ come across just to flout Dean Inge. Undoubtedly there are a lot of Jews in New York and they have acquired and accumulated a lot of money, but do they flecce the Gentiles? Do they create wealth or merely divert to them- alth that is made by other doubt some Jews fleece some » but there are plenty of Gentiles who do the same. One ob- serves that when the Jews get firmly established in any line of business, as department stores or theatres, they are able presently to crowd out most of their Gentile competitors. But compe- tition is the life of trade, and probably Jews do contribute their full share to make New York rich, It is quite won- derful, considering how busy they are, and how industrious and in certain ways how able, and how much detached from the rest of the population—it is quite wonderful that they inspire so little fear, so little anxiety. Financially the Jews have arrived. Socially they have not arrived so much yet. The sign of social arrival is not to care what people say about you When Dean Inge remarked about the Jews as he did, Louis Marshall, Sam Untermyer and various others ex- pressed deep indignation. If they had arrived in all respects as definitely as they have in some respects, they would only have grinned, as Bishop Potter might perhaps have done if he had still been with us. The real merit of Dr. Inge’s observa- tions here was not that they were very wise or no’ but that he spoke his mind. The author of “Outspoken Essays” does not seem to feel the need of hiding his opinions. When he talks about the Catholics, as he did the other day in the Spectator, he spits out the Catholic gag and speaks as candidly as John Jay Chapman, When such countless influences are at work as now to suppress free discussion, a three weeks’ course of Inge was good for us, albeit it must have left Dr. Man- ning with a thankful heart that the Dean of St. Paul’s was not the Dean of St. John HE Jews and Palestine are notable just now in international politics Palestine is one of the places that forecasters watch. They want to know what is really going to happen there The t and West meet there. The British are in power and in charge of government. The Jews are spending money there, colonizing and developing remarkably the agriculture of the coun- try, which has languished ever since the time the Romans knocked it out. To Bible students acquainted with the vari- ous prophecies these proceedings are highly interesting. To international politicians also they are interesting be- cause this large infusion of Jews into Palestine and this British protection of them is very unacceptable to the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally, who have been established as proprietors of Palestine for about 1,500 years. There are a good many Arabs and a very for- midable number of Mohammedans, and though they have not got an efficient industrial system, nor mass production, nor good artillery plants, nor imposing flects of airplanes, still, get enough of them on the move and they are capable i ng a disturbance in the world, comicbooks.com