attitudes to life, but in the fact that
some proportion of what the Gentile so
describes is interwoven in the fabric of
Jewish mentality and Jewish custom.
While a Jew considers in the highest
degree vulgar the spectacle of Gentile
parents slipping through the doors of a
furtive speak-easy with the money their
children need for boots and bread, the
Gentile parents consider this behavior as
eminently the right thing. In the same
way a Jewish woman on a trolley carry-
ing home three living fowls from the
market in preparation for the Saturday
dinner only realizes she is performing
her matronly duty, while at the same
moment her Gentile neighbors look
sourly upon her as upon a thoroughly
vulgar nuisance.

The explanation for anti-Semitism
which is most glibly offered by some
Gentile caught in flagrante delicto is, of
course, the Jew's worship of money and
his preposterous financial genius. The
meanness of the Jew belongs to the
music-hall order of intelligence, and does
not call here for respectful treatment.

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portionate and embarrassing quantity of
financial genius among the Jews. The
financial mind is a type precisely oppo-
site to its ancestral enemy, the plastic
mind. The one is devoted to intangible
things, the other to tangible. It is the
ideal of fitness as opposed to the ideal
of beauty. I am led to believe that the
whole of Jewish esoteric history may be
interpreted in the light of this conflict.
It may be argued that the fountain of
all ultimate anti-Semitism, mystical or
rational, was not the Crucifixion, not
any subsequently developed character of
the Jews, but that primeval victory of.
the anti-æsthetic mind which succeeded
in the veto of the plastic arts. After
so decisive a victory it cannot be won-
dered that the party of the iconoclasts
(who may perhaps have seen more ad-
vantageous uses for gold than the mere
creation of a calf) remained for so long
in the ascendant. It is typical that
when at last the Jews were to become
peculiarly associated with one of the
arts, it should be actually that art of
music, which in its abstractness and
ideality is the nearest of the arts to
mathematics, and indeed is the very
apotheosis of fitness. It is symptomatic
in the same way that in the further
realm of athletics we should be more dis-
tinguished in chess than in baseball, al-
though there are agreeable indications.
that the order is being reversed. When
this faculty for the manipulation of ab-
stractions, of which finance is the most

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frequent illustration, deteriorates from a faculty into a passion, from a passion into a disease, we are presented with that lust for gambling which is so usual a complaint against Jews.

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turning. Perhaps never before in Jewish history were young Jews so vitally concerned with the plastic arts, with the creation of new beauty in stone or paint. I have heard the suggestion made quite reverently that now, when the ancient danger of idolatry can no longer be feared, the addition of a studio to every synagogue might prove to the world our passion for the creation as well as the worship of beauty. Beauty much more than argument, said this theoretician, would effectively rout the forces of anti-Semitism. I would not care to subscribe to this theory. I do not believe there is any formula for the annulment of prejudice. I believe, however, despite all the present exacerbations of a post-war world, that civilized men are tending towards a generosity and clarity which would not have been thinkable in earlier epochs of human history. I am certain that the time will come (though it still is far ahead of us) when it will be deemed only a little more old-fashioned to be an anti-Semite than to be a cannibal.

Warden Lawes and Capital
Punishment

(Continued from page 251)

'OVERNOR SMITH'S plan for a sen

"Go

tencing commission is a great step toward that ideal. It would leave to the jury the labor of merely determining the defendant's guilt, and to the trial judge only the work of conducting the trial fairly and according to law. Then, by having a court made up of judges and physicians and psychiatrists and criminologists, we'd obtain uniformity of policy, which we haven't now with 150 different judges and a thousand different juries deciding what sentence a man should have.

"Eventually, I hope and believe, New York and all the other States which now provide for capital punishment will take a more enlightened view.

"The life sentence in those States providing for it is obtained and inflicted far oftener than the supporters of capital punishment will admit.

"Our murder rate would subside, I'd predict on the face of the statistics, if this State abolished the chair or even provided judges and juries with an option on capital punishment or life imprisonment.

"I have recommended for years that all defendants convicted of first degree murder should be sentenced to life imprisonment. My recommendation is that after the prisoner has served twenty years he shall be eligible for pardon or commutation, and that if he is given a commutation he may then begin to earn compensation and time off for good behavior.

"It should be specified, however, that no prisoner could be eligible for pardon or commutation until the twenty-year period was served, unless a majority of the Court of Appeals should rule that new evidence raises doubt of guilt or that certain facts warrant consideration of executive clemency.

"Most of the compensation a prisoner earned should be taken for the support of his dependents and the dependents of his victim, which would take a load from the taxpayers' shoulders.

"And if you can stand it—let me give you just one more statistic: Of 180 men paroled over a five-year period after serving minimum terms here for various degrees of homicide, only three were brought back for violation of parole. None of these had committed any serious offense. They were out again in a few months, and have never yet come

back.

“If that is not a remarkable record | John Scott Haldane

of reformation, I don't know what

"I may be wrong, but I have an idea that if it took a full day for a reporter to come to the prison from New York, and that if the expense were greater and the accommodations were scant and poor-in general, if we weren't so infernally close to the city-we'd never be bothered except when the news actually warranted it.

"The punishment of prisoners, particularly capital punishment, ought to be carried out with as much privacy as possible, I believe. It would be easier for us, better for the prisoners, and certainly better for society at large."

Yet he conceded that the publication of accounts of executions, even the photograph of Mrs. Ruth Snyder seated in the chair, probably excited a public revulsion against capital punishment.

Suddenly there was a flash of the man's rare anger, a revelation of the stubborn hardness underlying his likeable external softness.

"Don't get the idea," he warned, "that this means I'm going to permit any excesses of sensational journalism if I can help it.

"The paper that obtained and used that picture after I had clearly put all the newspaper witnesses on their honor not to do such a thing is on my black list, and it is going to stay there.

"I'll play fair with any who'll play fair with me. That's the policy of the administration of this prison, the policy in effect toward the inmates and the staff.

"That picture may have created a thousand converts for the abolition of capital punishment. But I am the agent of the State of New York, the warden of Sing Sing Prison. The Prison Commission gives me a great deal of responsibility and personal authority, and some of its members disagree with me on the subject of the death penalty. But neither the Commission nor my administration of the prison is going to permit any cheapening of the law as the law stands or any prostitution of justice as justice is now constituted."

On the Cause of Many Diseases

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