THE JEWISH CHRONICLE '37 Ell111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 2 A Happy New Year, Gerty (Continued from Page 20) Western Rosin & Tur- pentine Co. 1182 Palmer Ave., East Wholesalers; also Jobbers Pure Gum Spirits Turpentine, Rosin and Other Pine Tree Products; Denatured Al- cohol and Linseed Oil. Prompt Deliv- eries. Phones Lincoln 39, Ridge 3926 Dave was hurrying, puffing, panting down the street. He fairly blazed in his very new and very brown suit. A collar gleamed and glistened beneath a freshly shaven chin. A new felt hat with much style and more color sat rakishly on the back of his head. He was happy, he was jubliant. In one hand he carried his Seder and the other, extended, helra little flat box. It was open and some- thing within it twinkled and sparkled in the fading sunlight. "A happy New Year, Gerty," he called out. There was no answer. Hurt to the quick but with an ardor nothing could dampen, he rushed forward, hands out- stretched, eyes shining. "Happy New Year, Callohle meine," he repeated and gently touched her shoul- der. Gerty did not stir. He leaned for- ward—his cry of anguish mingled and was drowned in the conglomeration of holiday greetings. Gerty's head had fallen a little to one side against the red brick of the butcher shop. Her eyes were tightly closed as if to shut out some dread horror ; one cal- loused, nicotine-stained little hand pressed against a heart that had ceased to ache, and the other clutched a news- paper with stiffening fingers that had clawed a rent through "Private Harry Kroner." "A happy New Year Callohle ;wine," Dave sobbed brokenly, "a happy New Year !" TURKS ARE FEEDING EXPA- TRIATED JEWS. Amsterdam.—Djemal Pasha, com- mander of the Turkish forces in Syria, has given German newspaper men his version of the removal of the inhabi- tants of the Jaffa district. He says that 40,000 of these people have been sent temporarily inland, mainly to Haifa and Nazareth. Among them are 5,000 Jews who in the last few years emigrated to Jaffa. "This small Jewish settlement, about which so much fuss is made," says Djemal, "is administered by a self-elected commission and main- tained by the Ottoman government, which spends 7,000 pounds Turkish (about $30,800) on it monthly. Those who hacv taken up agriculture re- ceive additional advantages." Djemal is unable to say how long the expatriation will last; it depends, he says, on military developments. Cadillac 2324 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII flat-footed, disqualified and now doubly precious Louie. She waved the season's greetings. Gerty waved a thin little hand in response, then pressed it to her side. She smiled a mirthless little smile. 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"It's enough for a girl she should work one year, two years ; but there's got to be an end to it l sometimes, don't it? What more will you want if you marry me? A good husband you'll have, a tine home in the high-tone neighborhood you'll get. Work you won't have to. A piece of gedempfte brust and a plate of soup is enough for me. Gerty," he pleaded huskily, "you pa, 0/oz/ /it/silo/mu, said it should be a shidach, your Fetter, your Tante want it, and I-1 want it too." But Gerty was not listening. "I am `somewhere on the Eastern Front,'" his last letter had said, "fighting side by side with my newly freed brothers. Life here is tense and strenuous, hardships great ; but the consciousness of the noble cause I am serving gives me courage and spirit, and the thought of my own brave little girl at home gives me strength I never knew I possessed." Dave was gaining courage. "Next week," he went on, "is Rosh Ilashonah and I'm going to bring you a nice 7'avo, a good one," with a sly wink and a breathless chuckle, "a half- caret one." Gerty looked at him as if conscious of his presence for the first tune, disengaged her hand, and smiling wanly answered, "Sure, Dave, only wait a little while." If puzzled a hit at the inadequacy of the remark, Dave attrib- uted it to peculiar feminisms of which he boasted no knowledge, and went home satisfied. Erez' lonitoz , was a very busy time for Gerty. There were the New Year's cards to he addressed and mailed, the floors and children to be scrubbed, the curtains taken down, stretched on Mrs. Stein's stretcher and hung again, Jennie's dress to be made over for Bessie and Bessie's for Minnie. And at last, when every- thing was done, the candles lit and the table set for Kiddish, Gerty, very weary and warm, seated herself on the bench, covered for the occasion with clean white newspapers. For some indefinable reason Gerty felt calmer and happier than she had for weeks. The quiet, ceaseless process of holiday-garbed countrymen, armed with their prayer books and Taiasim, Syna- gogue-bound, imbued her soul with the spirit of Rosh Hashmlah and seemed to ease her heart of the dull pain that of late had so often annoyed her. The dawn of the New Year. A New Year with new hopes and new dreams. There was to be a special prayer in all the Syna- gogues, a prayer for a warless world, a world at peace, where "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks ; where na- tion shall not lift up sword against na- tion ;" a prayer "that the world may for- ever be redeemed from the rule of un- scrupulous might." Gerty leaned back against the wall the better to observe the holiday crowd, a sad but hopeful people. Then, suddenly, her eye alighted on a headline of the page spread out at her side. Surely there was something strangely familiar about it. 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