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Show ZIONISTS AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS a little saxuen. But part of hli philosophy phil-osophy dues express Oie man that presents pre-sents himself to the eye. "The aim of civilization ehoald be to augment to the fullest the value of the individual," he said, "to give him the opportunity for fullest development and absolute sovereignty over himself and his destiny, to make him Independent Indepen-dent of anyone elpe. But modern civilization civil-ization pofs a tremendous dilemma. In order to enjoy its benefits man must combine into organization. He must coordinate his life and effort with millions rf othera in a thousand different dif-ferent directions. Without organisation organisa-tion he cannot earn his bread, have his milk delivered, or repel criminals and invaders, who are organized. He must belong to an organization called a "village or a Vlty: to another called 'country': to still others that embrace his industrial, religious, social and family life the family itself Is essentially essen-tially an organization, a natural and effective ofie. And all these organizations organiza-tions require more or less that he subordinate part of his Individuality until he is thoroughly enmeshed In it. How to keep organization acting for him Instead of oppressing him? A ter-rifle ter-rifle problem, and civilization today makes the answer more and more dlf-finult. dlf-finult. "At present It seems to e that organization or-ganization Is less a release for the Individual In-dividual than a sort of springboard for prepotent and selfish individuals. These strong men lay their hands on organization and reap the benefits of It. Take political democracy, for In stance. , Formerly the prepotent Individual Indi-vidual aaid, 'By divine right I am king and order you to giva me your obedience, obedi-ence, voor substance, your lives on the battlefield!' And the masses, sheep, obeyed. With sheep the king could be a wolf In his own guise, and tear and bite and devour If he pleased. Then this civilization made progres. Men heican to doubt the 'divine right. They began to organize resistance against the tyrant. 1'olltlcal 'democracy' became be-came the fashion. The 'divine right' king lost his head. Were the people thereupon aet free? No, Indeed. Along come other prepotnt Individuals and put on a llttl camouflage. The people must rule!' each of these Individuals 1 and the danger Is that England mar either take Palestine for Itself or give It over to the Arabs. The Jews bar one or two possible remedies. On UJ to immigrate to Palestine in vast num. bare. Thai other la to appeal to the league; of nations. And the outcome of either or both Is on the las af the soda." "Do yon consider any particular race) or nation in the lead of civilization H I asked. "No. Spiritual development la to be found hi horizontal strata, rather than Inside national boundary lines. The) East often expreaaea It self aa superior to the materialism of the Western peoples. peo-ples. But there la eeneuailty and tns luxury of the sa traps In the orient aa characteristically aa there are Yogi with a bird's wings and speed. Is tie content ? Not for a moment. He now sees that compared to the apeed at which light travela he, man, only crawla. Will he attain still greater speed? I don't know. What I do know, : however. Is that while his speed 1 achievementa grow In arithmetical pro-, pro-, greasion, his craze for more will leap by geometrical progression. 1 "Or conaider knowledge. Arrirat his questions were simple, his appetite for i knowledKe modest: almost any answer ; f was sufficient. Whence came birds? From eggs. Good! Then he had to know who hatched the first bird. For a time he was satisfied with the answer an-swer that tlod created It bv a mandate. man-date. But little by little knowledge increased in-creased and by leaps and bounds his curiosty waxed. How did God come I declare. "Fellow cltlzena, let us organize or-ganize the "People Must Rule party!' I an a friend of the people. Follow me. Klect me premier or president and you. the people, will rule.' "Again the sheep follow. On the political po-litical field. In the Industrial field, en the battlefield they follow like sheep. The political boss, the labor leader, the pteuilei does today and baa the power that the king. wolf had In former for-mer daya. If It weren't for that. If it weren't for the machination of a few Individuals, we would not have had that great product of our 'civilization,' the great war, with Its millions of victims, vic-tims, poor people! Hanherib couldn't have arranged such a holocaust so arbitrarily. ar-bitrarily. "America and Rngland pride them- BY MAX NORDAU, (The Great Author Autsnan Jaw Loading Zionist. On an Interview PAHIrf, Feb. 5. If Job or .-loni-a wer altve today and trying out amainsl man s lot and civilization, what would lie be like and where nnd how would Fie live? ACT 'Tifiifw 1. Tiw tuei'p flights of stain in a tenement in Hue Hennor, on tlj. outskirts of Montmarlre, to see Max Nocdau. it seemed to me that fhene questions I w;is kinsr myself - were about to bo answered. For here in one of their rare ami kind, who. too, ha been inveighing mightly against his d.iy and gem-ration, only, instead of crying out In a market place in Jerusalem although, as one of the founders of Zionism, he has done niurh toward restoring Jerusalem to th Jews -he has written his diatribe with a len and in ferman characters so fine that I had to take a magnifying Klaus to make out the letters; iiml his book. "Conventional lAtu of Our Civilization" .and "IeKeneration," have spoken in a score and more of languages, in Tokio and Leondon, .Stockholm and New Tork. And now that he has r oundd his three-score years and ten. h H writ -ins the laHt chapter of his life's message mes-sage In The Escape of Civilization." Although the house of Hababtirg ha no love for Dr. Max Nordau's writings, writ-ings, the war had exited him aa an Austrian from his beloved Paris to Spain. When he returned t Pari the housing crisis crowded his eiKht rooms of household effect into this modest five-room flat on the top floor of a 'walk-up' tenement. Lr. Kordau la a shortish, square man in a well-worn tweed auit, youthful In color like himself. A dazzingly white .reared, vigorously parted, hi den his throat and mounts to an upstanding fringe on hla pink bald top head. His long. Intelligent none and the bright lips of a ere scent-shaped month look racial. The pinkneas of hla skin, the hhining hazel eyes, and the vigor of his manner and speech his English has the trace of accent of foreignism 1 .f the man who la at home with half a dozen languages take no notice of seventy odd years. With his. capable, square-fingered hands on his thighs, aa he swings from argument to argument, argu-ment, he also sways a little uncon-ciuusly, uncon-ciuusly, aa the Talmud student does; and however pessimistic his message, there la a slight smile of enjoyment on his lips thai comes from a mind richly working and at a case magnificently mag-nificently marshaled. ana jarsjunin of uixloabted piety. And there are Kanta, Bplnoxae, Newton and Ed t son living aa sparely in the Occident and thinking a loftily aa the Yogis; and there are profiteer our neighbor here who lire fa a swinish materialism a do the aatraps of the orient; perhaps with less an." Then you don't aee among the dif fere nt nations any moral suivaaoer There wi 1 1 not be until morals mean the same things for r-'Wis mm they do for individuals,- be replied, "A. man steal a gold watch and he is put into prison. A nation steals a gold field. Who Is there to put It Into prison unless the league of nation lives? In the one case the world calls Is theft; In the other conquest. In thw one case ownership decides the marii-tty marii-tty of the act; in the other only power. Might makes right. And all the nation na-tion are tarred with the same brush. If the smaller nations do not have as great catalogues of Imperialistic crime to their records as the big one, it is only because they are small. That It la so not because the people of any . nation are any more Immoral than as individuals. It is partly because the wolves In democratic garb who rule I them are wolves and clever as disguising; disguis-ing; and partly because tho people themselves have Dot yet adopted a single sin-gle standard for nations as well as for individuals.' seive on being democracies. Well. I consider that perhaps America Is the freest country In the world. But there, too, we have the political boss In power. Consider the choosing of a candidate as president of the United States of the recent election. How a t on Ished the people of the United States must have been to find one morning that It has been their overwhelming over-whelming desire that Benator Harding should be their candidate as president on the Republican ticket; that Governor Gover-nor Cox should be the people's Democratic Demo-cratic nominee! I don't suppose one American out of a thousand, out of 10,000, knew who Benator Harding was or what he would do as president. But a few Individuals In private session In a hotel room knew that they wanted Benator Harding to be president In the t'nlted Btate for the people are beginning be-ginning to realize a little the workings of the political boss than In England, where the people are divided between those who obey the labor leaders and those who obey the older master, the squire, the owning class. Then In the! United States this group of individuals get Into power, give about 2000 of their lieutenants places of influence, and tr four years the people of America have the analogue of the kaiser or the czar.' I asked him If he thought we were entering today on some new era of development. de-velopment. "That Is the eternal delusion of man," he said, "that hla particular day Is particularly important. There have been great wars In the past. There will be great wars In the future, unless" He paused. "Unless the league of nation na-tion should prove to be the germ of i into being? (Of course, the first mar I who asked that question was proper!) stoned. But his breed did not die. Soor j there were too many of him to atone j So answer had to be found. Borne an-j an-j Fwered the question of the origin o1 the bird by talking about matter and , Its ways. But of what does matter consist? con-sist? of molecules. And molecules? Ol J atoms. Atom of electrons. Mectroni ( are center of power. And what i". ; power? "Ah, one fool can ak more questions In one minute than wiae men can answer in a year! This la the modern atoning by the pious. But now I it in not the pious but the questioners question-ers who dominate the age. "And so It will go on. And what Is , true of the growth of his desire for j knowledge and peed holds good of all , hi other desires. For every achieve-I achieve-I men i man gains his ambition multiplies. mul-tiplies. The nearer he geta to a goal he one aimed at. the further away i appears a new one." "Isn't that rather splendid?" I asked. "Yes. if you enjoy chasing after a mirage. he replied. "That seems to, me a figure of speech." I objected. "Why not say traveling, exploration? Changing one destination need not mean failure." "Perpetual changing does." he said. The principal tendency of life and desire de-sire la satisfaction, arrival. The principal prin-cipal process of life Is change. Desires De-sires so simple that their attainment is simple Is the heart of wisdom. Con-ider Con-ider from what different source comes arreement on this: The Bible says bked are the poor In spirit. Voltaire, archathelst. says the ripest wisdom Is to cultivate a garden and grow cab-! cab-! bagee. Tolstoyan philosophy advise you to renounce, to beware of ambition, ambi-tion, to live simply. Folklore tells you of the king who looked for the ahlrt of I "Which way lies salvation ? I asked. "In stimulating the healthy tend en- . clea of the age," he said. "One of them ! ia the return to the soil. The United Btates census for If 20 shows that in the last ten years something some-thing like one-third of the farm population popu-lation in America ha drifted to the) . big cities," I said. "Make your own comment." he said grimly. "Another healthy current is the increase of popular education tending tend-ing toward a general leveling upward. Then there is some hope in the growing grow-ing realization that economic and othttr freedom lie in the administration of all goods on earth In the interest of ail peoplea' "There are currents, then, making for salvation?" I said, surprising him in the role of optimist He realized that his enthusiasm had carried him a little beyond his position. He caught himself with a Jerk. Trickles. I should kavo said. Trickle through a great swamp! "And what can man do about It?1 "Man can only go on with his ! vaunted civilization,' he concluded ironically. "Meanwhile J should like to take out citizenship papers la the dog tribe. But if they knew as they wouldn't admit man In their midst!" From the World-Wide News Hi ih. lac, Boston, Mass, I something new and great. That Is the only significant hope I see today, and It Is thus far a faint one. America, through President Wilson, was largely responsible for that hope. But America Amer-ica seems to have repudiated that hope. Whether that Is fatal " He shrugged expressively. "Do you see In Palestine- today a new era beginning for ths Jewish race V I asked. "1 aee a most critical time at the 1 present moment for the whole Zionist enterprise," he said. "Three years sgo. when England and France promised -the Jew a national home In Palestine. , a bright prospect opened. If st that time the self-appointed guardians of ths Jewish people had asked clear and specific question as to what Englsnd 1 and France meant exactly- by their ' promise that prospect would have ' flowered. As It la it threatens to dis- si pate into nothing. The anti-Semites 1 are making every effort to make the - Balfour declaration mean less and less, 1 tne happiest man and when he found him. he saw that there was no shirt: for the man was poor, hence happy. Thta concensus of opinion means something- "Man In a tired mood, T suggested "Why Is that any more valid than the mood of Columbus about to set sail for India?" "Well, I suppose It la a matter of ! taste." he admitted. Therefore not to be argued. But And he proceeded to argue the joy of it shone in his eyes all over creation, cre-ation, aggressively defending the un-aggreesiv un-aggreesiv attitude toward life. If, as pragmaflst often hold, a man's philosophy phil-osophy Is the product of hla temperament, tempera-ment, here was an apparent refutation in Dr. Nordau. Life would have a difficult dif-ficult task keeping this man humble and confined to raieing cabbage la1 shat do you say In your books?" 1 ssked him. , That the fruits of our civilization are discontent and pessimism." he said. "What Malthus aaid of the food supply in the future I believe of mans desire. de-sire. While man's desires Increase by multiplication, his means of satisfying them scarcely grow by addition.. Take Speed of travel, for Instance. At first man was content with walking. Then he noticed that animals travel faster than he did. So. a.thougn ' be would have liked to go as fast as a deer, - he had to content himself with a horse. For a time he thrilled at his new speed- But that did not last He envied en-vied the speed of the ulrd. Hteam came, and he harnessed It and thought he achieved wonder at sxty mil' an hour. -But no sooner was he accustomed, to, that than he. began to strain for. a ' bird's apeed. All right, h fUcs now. I |