Golden Book Entry Pawtucket, R. I. Builders of Zion ..... $50.00
Sub-charters have been issued to the following societies since Jan. 1, 1907: Pawtucket, R. I., Builders of Zion, and Jacksonville, Fla., Dr. Herzl Society.
For The National Fund The "Daughter of Zion," of Burlington, Vt., gave a grab-bag party on Sunday, Marth 10, for the benefit of the Jewish National Fund. The entertainment of the evening was provided by the "Buds of Zion," a junior branch.
CORRESPONDENCE
ON PREJUDICE. To THE MACCABAEAN: I note with surprise an article in your current issue on "Prejudice at Columbia." I say with some "surprise" advisedly, inasmuch as THE MACCABAEAN is a Zionist organ, and as such, I would expect it to take the stand that the Jew's lot is that of mere sufferance among the Gentiles, and hence prejudice is a natural consequence and nothing to be commented upon or wondered at.
In my capacity as a business man, employer of labor, seeker after employment, association with men professing to be followers of different sorts of liberal "isms," I have yet to find the thoroughly unbiased man who will treat the Jew as a man of equal standing with the Gentile.
Take any of the big daily papers and look over their "Help" columns, and you will find such legends as "No Jews need apply," "Gentile American only," etc.
In our own town of "Culture-beans," in order to screen the anti-Semitism, they are somewhat more "polished" in their expression, such as "Catholic only." "Protestant only," or designating the location where Jews do not live.
In business —unless the Jew can compete with the Gentile manufacturer, or control some specialty, the preference will always be given the Gentile.
In my present capacity as a commercial traveler. I find, that if I should happen to be waiting for the buyer, and another man should come later, and if he happens to be other than of Semitic feature, it is a hundred to one that he gets the first interview in preference to me, and that generally means the sale also. I have even known of men, whose anti-Semitism feeling is such that no business acumen and common courtesy will restrain them from making remarks as to my race just as soon as my back is turned.
There is, and always will be, antagonism to the Jew so long as he will be a wandering outcast, whether here or in cursed Russia or (Continued on Page 166.)