Americo 'apish Periodical Coder CLIFTON Anna • CINCINNATI 10, OHIO PAGE NINF THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE THE STRIKE OF THE FASTERS BY MAXIM. Real Influence of Judaism as a Re' ligion l'pon the Jew of Today?" Rabbi M. S. I.azaron, "How Has Im- migration Affected the Religious Sit- nation?" Rabbi M. Lefkovitz, "What is the Influence of the Snagogue on the Jew of Today?" Rabbi Louis Grossman, "Does Sunday School Make for a Religious Consciousness?" Rabbi Charles S. Levi, "'What is the Situation in Orthodox Jewry Today in America?" Rabbi Martin Zielotika, "Social Service and Religion.," Rabbi Samuel Koch, "The Problem of the l'nsynagoguedi' Rabbi G. Deutsch, -nu. Jew in Economic Life, with Special Reference to Poland," Rabbi Solomon Foster. "The Aim of Re- ligious Education in Our Schools. Rabbi Henry Etielson delivered the Conference sermon. The place of the next conference will be determined at a meeting of Mc Executive body in the call, On the morning after Ro,h Hasha- bery, pure and simple. You are an nah, Zalman Velvet Adder, the leader old pious Jewess and go twice a of the communal fasters, rose early day to synagogue; you ought to be the morning to resume his daily ashamed of yourself." "Shame yourself!" the old lady said. work,. namely, that of fasting both for Milken and for other,. Zalman "For your piety and your justice I Velvet's business in life is that of fast- don't give 0 cent because you deceive ing for other people on the occasion the people. \\lien you fast for on e of the yahrzeit. For fasting and pray- yo u eat (or five and when you fast ing for the souls of the departed he for five you don't stop eating all day. receives the royal fee of $1.50 per day. Maybe you think 1 don't know it? You better take care. 1 tell you you Zalman Velvet, or as he calls him self, Reb Zalman Velvet, has been for are going to pay $1.25 every week for the last fifty years a resident of Ness your room, and if you don't want to York, yet he has never seen Broad- do it, you can clear out right away way. He speaks English just as flu- for I can get an honest boarder any ently as on the day he arrived in this day for such a nice and beautiful country. Nevertheless, he is very room. You must not forget that the clever. He knows every Jewish man room in itself is worth twenty-live and woman in Brownsville; he knows cents a week more than other rooms when they have yahrzeit and knows because using it one can spare light. all the particulars of their family In the daytime there is plenty sun- lives. When lie has reason to believe light and in the evening there is light that one Or the other of his friends is from the electric street lamps. Why already so Americanized as not to should you have it for nothing? Be- fast on the occasion of the death of sides, people say that you are a mil- his parents, he approaches this friend lionaire :that you have $500 in cash. with the view of securing the job for If I had $500 in cash I would marry news- WARSAW—The anti Si himself. That is to say, he would off my two daughters and still be a paper. "Dwa Groselie," lo., come for- take to fasting and praying for the millionaire. Si) you surely can pay $1 ward with the project Mat the Jews salvation of the soul of the deceased, a month more on the room." .hold he limited to ,spat ate cars Ott Rd, Zalman Velvet was a clever if the fee of $1.50 was paid in advance. c trains. II proposes further that Sometimes it happens that Reb Zal- and shrewd business man and recog- --pecial ticket oflices and station en- man has to last for tire and some- nized at mice that there was nothing tmuces be established for them. times ten people the same day. It to do with his landlady; that de- This proposal was made in a also happens that he is sometimes termined to exact the pound of flesh. "i irndly" spirit a, a solution—so it caught eating on the day he is to fast. instead of continuing to argue with alleged—to the problem which, ac- When such a tragedy occurs, he finds her, he just simply said, "If you, a cording to it, must result from the a quick excuse. "It is the other matt's pious and hottest Jewish woman of government order to bar all unclean fast I have violated, for you I am .event y- five, deem it just to exact persons front traveling on the trains. from me money without reason, you fasting," he says. If this order is strictly applied. jests Lately, Reb Zalman Velvet has should have it. But I will give them Mi. journal. "the whole Jewish na- taken to reorganizing his trade: The a lesson." By them, of course, he meant his tional minority" will not be allowed number of his clients, above and be- to travel on the railroad. Therefore, his neath the earth, has increased to such ClistmiterS. Upon returning to the best thing to do is to establish an extent that he cannot carry on room. Itch Zalman Velvet said to Mul Jim Crow cars for the Jews. his business single-handed. Now in len, "If my landlady can increase the order to run its business. he engages relit without any reason, can make me friends of his, who would be fasting pay 25 per cent more for the room at any event, and pays them 75 cents. though I don't eat the bricks nor the thus making a net profit of 75 cents for walls nor the ceiling, and though I O more than I have .e the MM use himself on each transaction. Rel. Zal- man firmly believes in the 50-50 pol- up till now, I don't see why. I should fast all my life for the same money. icy in business. Within a very short time,Reb Zalman Velvel has succeed- Just because the food prices have gone up I should pay more for my ed in organizing his business to such an extent that he is now practically room? All right, 1 have to do it. But because the food prices have gone up the head of the fasting trust. Instead of going from house to house himself I will have to charge more for my to solicit personal orders for fasting, fasting. In times like these when he now sends his lieutenants and everything is so expensive—bread, agents to take these orders. For each meat, milk and even tedium, I cannoi order he pays a commission of ten to afford to fast any more for $1.50 a fifteen cents. After receiving these day and they'll have to par me more orders, he distributes them among his as I have to pay more. But if they don't agree to it, what I am going friends. to do? I cannot possibly fast for the In this manner he has conducted same money. 1.,f they don't agree to his business for the last two years and it then I strike! No more. fasting un- has been prosperous and happy. til they pay the full price. The full Sometimes he thinks of enlarging his V a day. Why, every loafer lousiness by including all the districts price is gets $2 a day for his work; why of the city in the circle of his trans- should I get less, and fasting is, of actions, but for reason known only course, a nobler profession than brick- to himself he postpones embarking laying, or wall painting." Reb Zalman upon the new enterprise. It may be Velvet left the room with the decision because he is too old and hasn't got to eventually organize a strike if the the strength to go into a large busi- clients refused to pay hint standar., ness, or it may be that he is waiting fees. Two weeks later the entire for the war to end, when new people community was startled by the new:. would be coming from the other side that Reb Zalman Velvel Adder, the of the Atlantic, who in all probability head of the fasting trust, haul not only would ask him to do the holy work; himself stopped working, but had in- every newcomer would certainly be duced his fellow workers to do like- deploring the death of a son. Should wise. and that the fast strike was in this happen, he would not have to pay full swing. How the strike ended 1 any commission or brokerage. am unable to say. Reb Zalman Velvet ioilows his daily work industriously and systematically. In spite of his flourishing business. however, he continues to live the same simple life as in days gone by. Being a widower and not having to (Continued From Page 7.) care for any children or relatives, he lives in a room on the fourth floor Israel, and above all for the sake of which he climbs twice daily without the practical help to Palestinian any feeling of fatigue and even con- Jews, some plan for the union of tinues to prepare his own meals. Jewish forces may be devised. Everything goes on quietly and Palestine Not Homeland. smoothly, Rd) Zalman has no trou- In the present circumstances we bles and no tzorres. Even when he performs his duty, tie never feels any declare that while nothing Jewish is hunger before sunset and when he alien to our Jewish hearts, and while feels especially earnest, he asks him- we are ready to help in the work of self why people give him money since r ebuilding Palestine for sonic Jews, fasting means nothing to him. He not we re-emphasize the view of Jewish only lives on fasting, but has made life for which our conference stands: large sums of money on it There is That Israel is not a nation. but a a rumor among his friends that he is religious community; that Palestine a millionait lie has five hun- is not the homeland for the Jewish re—tha cash. Ile himself people, but that the whole world dred dollars in hoped that this paradise-like life ought to be its home. would last forever, but he was wrong. In conclusion, we congratulate the One day, the day following Rosh President once more and hope that lloshonah, which is a fast day, he was he fine service which his last year's surprised by a notification from his administration gave to American landlady that from that day on he Judaism will stimulate us all to earn- would have to pay $1.25 a week for est endeavor for the blessing of his room instead of $1 which he had Israel, and our fellow. men and for HOUSE OF WILTON RUGS July Clearance Sale Starts Tuesday, July 13th ABSOLUTE CLEARANCE ON OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF HIGH GRADE RUGS, CARPETS, LINOLEUMS, ETC. Reductions of 10 to 25% from Regular Prices POLISH ANTI-SEMITIC PAPER ADVOCATES JIM CROW CARS FOR JEWS SOCIAL JUSTICE PRO- GRAM FOR C. C. A. R. 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He could not terest in the social problems of the figure out why he should pay more day, and to be governed by the ethics just because prices of coal and food on Which its faith is founded. had gone up• lie therefore called on "Our place is on the firing line," his landlady, a charmer of seventy- Ile said, "and not on the parade five who spoke in the language of ground- Ours is the religion of the hell, and took up the matter with her. prophets. that religion which is the A lively discussion ensued at once. application to private and even more "You would have to pay more even to public life of those principles of in ordinary times," his landlady told justice, truth, equity, peace and him. "Being a faster you make brotherliness which a just and holy money, but don't spend it. If you God requires of his worshipers, and can't enjoy your money yourself, let which no beauty of ritual. no cere- other people do so." monial piety can be a substitute. Rev. Zalman Velvel, however, being "In proclaiming this message did alive to his task, said: "My fasting not the prophets speak terms rather and my eating is my private busi- than generalities against any pr all ness. It has nothing to do with you. forms of oppression? Did they not I am a pious Jew and a just Jew, I meet the vital issues without evasion, can't tolerate your injustice in raising speaking front the compulsion of the rent 25 per cent without any rea- authority of their ethical judgments, son." even though they knew they were "Without any reason!" the old not economic experts? And when charmer began to shout. "You old they inveigled against the false faster, you old eater! Hasn't every- prophets did they not have most thing gone up in price—bread, treat often in mind comfortable and com- and milk? Even for a sheitel I now placent leaders of public opinion. have to pay more than I used to and some, even pillars of congregations, of course we have to pay more for who were either unwilling or unable rent than I did a year ago. I have to see anything radically wrong with to pay more, so you have to pay more conditions and who, in the name of and that settles it." religion and ethics, denounced as Whereupon Reb Zalman Velvel anarchstic and atheistic any real at- said: "1 don't cat here at all Even tempts to apply religion and ethics if prices of food have gone up, what to the social order?" has that to do with rent? The bricks Splendid reports were presented by of the house are the same and the Rabbi I.ouis XVolsey, of Cleveland, on sunlight which I use is just as cheap "Survey of Religious Conditions," as it was. Can you therefore give one Rabbi William Fineschriber on "De- any good reason why I should pay I Religion:" in 1 more for my rent? 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