THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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And manv a man like the hero of
this story yields to the lure and
goes through with the bargain. I le
takes what he thinks is success and
parts Nvith his shadow. Yes, and
many a man lives to regret the bar-
gain, lives to realize that there is
something more valuable and mac
to be desired than money.
As Jews, we are the possessors of
a precious shadow for which the
world has always shown itself only
too willing to offer in exchange the
magic pouch. The shadow of the
Jew is his traditional faith. How
precious that shadow has been in
the eyes of the Jew is evidenced by
the sacrifices he has made to keep
it ! In Spain, up to the 15th cen-
tury, a great Jewish population
lived under the happiest of circum-
stances. They had contributed, as
Jews always have, to the national
effort and ambition that made the
Spain of that day mistress of the
world. They shared, too, in the
stream of culture and material well-
being that poured in upon their for-
tunate home-laud. Then that ter-
rible instrument of bigotry, the in-
quistion, presided over by the mon-
ster Torquemada, was set up in the
land. Its sole object was to prevail
upon the Jew to part with his
Shadow. It offered to the Jew. in
return for that shadow, a continu-
ance of his fortunate position, free-
dom from molestation, all the rights
that in Spain were enjoyed by its
most favored children, and what to
the home-loving Jew waS not the
least of the inducements, the privi-
lege of living peacefully on in the
land where his fathers had lived for
ages. All that for a shadow ! To
all who do not prize sacrifice for
conviction and moral heroism, the
Jews of Spain must indeed seem
Schlemiels for refusing to become
party to such a bargain. But the
historic fact remains that the Span-
ish Jew preferred to brave the hor-
rors of the inquisition and 300,000
men, women and children preferred
to wander out into a helpless exile
rather than part with the precious
shadow of their faith.
Today in kuSsia that tragic offer
is being repeated. Russian Jews
have only to abandon their religion,
they have only to enter into the
bosom of Russia's mother church
to be relieved of all their miseries.
But with a moral courage as fine as
the world has ever known, the Jew's
resolution to cling to his shadow is
unalterable in the face of trials
that have never had their parallel in
the history of mankind.
. Russian Jewry has proven itself
nobly superior to the temptation of
the Schlemiel. That cannot be said
of all the Jewries in the world.
Some of the jewries of the Old
World have not been proof to the
seductive gifts of the wily tempter.
Jews in certain countries of the Old
World. have come in large numbers
to prize the substance above the
shadow, the solid rewards above the
satisfactions of the ideal. In coun-
tries where they have been faced by
the unwritten law that to enter the
most exclusive social circles, to
vance to the most coveted positions,
to claim recognition in official fields,
the Jewish shadow must be sacri-
ficed, they have become party to the
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Successful Young Jewish Artist
Reuben L. Goldberg Earns $50,000 a Year.
The Chicago Israelite has the fol-
lowing to say concerning the cele-
brated young artist, r. Reuben I..
ioldberg:
How many youngsters of 33 do
you know who draw salaries of
more than $50,000 a year ?
There aren't many of them any-
where. Such as there are are not
ordinarily found in newspaper of-
fices. Ilut-
The salary of Reuben L. Gold-
berg, the Evening Mail's artist-hu-
morist, has just been raked to a
$50,000 minimum, with percentages
worth probably as much more. One
hundred thousand dollars a year !
And Goldberg won't be 33 until the
Fourth of July.
When Goldberg w,.s a boy to San
Francisco he wanted to be a news-
paper artist. His father, a substan-
tial, conservative business man, ad-
vised him to keep out of it.
"There is no money in the news-
paper business," said the elder
Goldberg. He knows better now.
To be sure, it has taken young
Mr. Goldberg nearly 12 years to
work up from an $8 a week job to
a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a
year, with commissions and things
on top of that which ought to be
worth another $50,000 annually.
He didn't start right out to earn a
railroad president's salary as soon
as he got through college. Outside
of fiction and the movies, things
don't happen that way. But every
cent 1\I r. Goldberg is paid he earns
and nobody grudges him a dollar of
it, least of all his employers, the
Evening Mail syndicate. In signing
a contract to pay him for the next
three years a little more than double
the salary he has been receiving for
the last three years, they merely
recognized the increased' value of
his daily picture, due to his in-
creased popularity with all sorts and
conditions of men and women.
It isn't always easy to analyze the
causes of popularity. In Goldberg's
case it is perhaps less difficult than
ordinarily. Ile is so intensely hu-
man, for one thing. For another,
he is so genuinely humorous. There
is in his work the touch of bur-
lesque that in itself is always funny,
but his pictures are very far from
being merely burlesque. Grotesque
and impossible as are the curious
caricatures of humanity which lie
draws, their actions are always gov-
erned by the same motives that
dominate all human action, and the
reader sees in them as in a mirror
of satire a reflection of the frailties,
the vanities and the foibles of the
entire race.
It is because Goldberg has this
power of making us see ourselves
as others see us that he is worth a
850,000 salary. Personally, being a
very modest and unspoiled young
man, he sometimes has doubts as to
whether he is earning his pay or not.
Not long ago, at a dinner of the
Society of Illustrators, he met
Charles Dana Gibson. The famous
painter of beautiful women ex-
pressed his admiration for the
newspaper artist's work.
"I will admit that perhaps II1V
pictures are funnier than yours,"
said Goldberg, "but I wish I could
draw like you can."
"Don't let anybody tell you you
can't draw," said Gibson. "I cer-
tainly can't draw any better than
you can, if as well. The best I can
do is to make pictures of people as
they really are. You can draw 'pic-
tures of people as they never were
and still have them human."
There is a popular theory that
great artists dash off their work on
the inspiration of the moment.
Goldberg's theory, is that perspira-
tion is more important than inspira-
tion. There isn't a truck driver or
bank clerk in New York who works
harder or longer than this R. L.
Goldberg.
WOMEN FIGHTERS.
men in a desperate struggle for
existence, but it is only when ac-
cident or unusual bravery is per-
formed by a woman soldier that
in other armies her identity is es-
tablished, for otherwise if her sex
is known she is promptly remov-
ed at the first opportunity from
the fighting line and given other
occupation.
Russia has already given recog-
nition of the bravery of one of
her Women fighters and it is said
that it is a noticeable fact that
the Russian women who have
been discovered in the lines arc
by no means those of the lower
classes, many are women of re-
finement and culture.
It is astonishing what a war
can achieve in arousing the wo-
men of a country, nor is it only
the peasant class who have come
forward, not only to cook and
nurse, but also to fight in the
trenches.
The Serbian women have stood
shoulder to shoulder with their
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