A merica 'apish Periodical Cotter • CLIFTON AI/VIVI • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO PAGE SEVEN 111E DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE ■F.■:■:f Minna Burnstein's Husband eflggFARiVIMEHORM:FEMa÷os'F 11811•11.1 111•11011•11111 I 'gt" "t rirMErfri ute"t"I the very g arrival oi " the immigrant. wel l:mile at the Ile should be threshold of hi, new hone. :S synipa• thetic interest should be taken in him from the ern' moment the •Iiip docks. A STORY It should he continued alter lie ha , !.. Rose Shuls:nger. landed, for some rears to come, unul We By .: lie has become a citizen. The fact N thousands ki- t; i„ It bite-faced young woman gently tha there are Innitheds n( from Samuel B or „,,t e immigrant,. some of whom have •• of touched his coat sleeve and he mount- 1 , tood the casket. And. tinflow- efl the stairs to his room and closed been- here from tit.. 10 thirty year , , t h e have not become citizens, 3 . 1 e red in o lay Minna. Outside, and who (woe Et! rain, in Iliad abandon, bower, the trees By Ill o'clock the next morning the show s how little interest lye hair in the park, heal a relentless requiem I their welfare and at the sank Bornstein home - on the hill" was taken on the window panes and sodded the time in our own Welfare. • with "'m ks . w i t h earth—the earth to which they would I with critics, friendly and unfriendly. • I believe that Americanization work return Nlinna on the morrow. Alone upstairs sat the little old to be done properly and effectively, • And there, on the table, lay her man, the crumpled note crushed be- to and to bring the desired results. last request to her husband. tween Iris lingers, Ins white collar should be undertaken by the govern- ■ In the semi-gloom of the vast room hanging over the oak dresser, its Men!. Foch immigrant should be the with its cosily statuary and Is stiff white tie ends quivering in the breeze object of sympathetic interest to some hE orniture, it -boor like some living bit through the With' French window,. Ivermilental agency,dealing spec i i i .- In the below stairs parlor Rabbi of personality of the withered old That iinini- ally with this problem. lady who forever now slept serene— Pearlson was making ready; ill the grant should be guided, directed and LT4' alley way stood a van of flowers ready practically led to learn America and Rid if Samuel so willed it. • For, written across the paper, in to start for a distant hospital. Little American way,. Ile should be taught Manufacturers recess' of the the language, assisted in finding a the scrawly code of other days were children, in their "little Retailers —Wholesalers lines that seemed to shout their mes- early morning, played on the lawn of suitable occupation, and his heart ■ 212-214 Michigan Avenue sage to the most remote corners of the neighborhood school; flowers in should gradually be filled with a love the earth; that pierced the brain of the park nodded their giddily colored for America. I am sure he will re- Samuel Bornstein like a million pois- heads and somewhere, far across the spond to the right treatment and that oned-dipped dart , , that seemed to cast city, sat Bud and knew that his the effort will be worth it. I realize how difficult the job is, and how slow spring from the core of the casket mother no longer saw the sun, Tremblingly, Samuel Bornstein the process [mist necessarily be. It and with unflinching hand to draw crossed the room :old drew from the is, nevertheless. the only way, if we aside the curtain that veiled the years 504 FREE PRESS BLDG. before the coming of the brown stone pocket of his every day coat a Want to do the work and do it well. General Real Estate, Insurance, match. Tremblingly he scratched it The trouble and expense will be am- front and the monogrammed limou- Choke Homes, Two-Flats, In- sine; that revealed Minna, the young- from force of habit on the immaculate ply repaid by the love, loyalty and vestments and Store Property er, as she appeared before the slender broadcloth of his funeral trousers, devotion of the Munigrant to the PHONE CHERRY 1195. ill him. shaft near which they would stand on donned for now; one of his own. Flick- country, which is the morrow mounted it, silent guard eringly it burned and tremblingly h Instead of the present irresponsible. threw it from him, jammed down his haphazard chaotic system of assimi- th, halcyon recalled over her; that AT YOUR SERVICE! hat upon his head and shambled, lik e lating the foreigner, which lets him days before Isaac became Bud and the distant universities threw their a guilty spirit, down his back stairs. drift away from governmental and Mrs. Isaac "Bud" Bornstein was American institutional influence when laurel , and their mannerisms over line the two children of Samuel and Nilo- hanging out the clothes On a the immigrant is most susceptible to 206-210 GRISWOLq ST. na Bornstein. stretched far across the attractive such influence, and which tries to r back yard of her Brooklyn home when gain his confidence anti interest per- Of death, Samuel had thought often r haps years after he has been here. wi and not bitterly. I If life, he had known her father-in-law whom she had neve CALL NORTHWAY 186 joy and sorrow.. t) the morrow, h e before seen joined her. The sun fell would have a scientific process of on her blond head and blue eyes; American assimilation, which would Was certain. lighted the gold cross that hung sus- turn out thousands of good. loyal for- His prayer book in his hand, each pended from her firm, white throat. eign-born citizens, hiehly conscious of Friday night and each Saturday morn- Frankly startled she gazed at the their civic ditties. ing, he had repaired to the Schul his young-old snail before her, his straw generosity had made possible; each hat contrasting vividly with the win Sunday morning in the Sunday ter of his Sunday broadcloth and his OPTOMETRISTS School rooms he had stood his hands Eye. Examined and buried in the curls of some neighbor's husband .1 - quick?" lie in- Glawea Fitted child, his eyes on the window erected quired, and wonderingly she pointed 245 GRISWOLD ST. t o the memory of his own young !din- the tray to the kitchen, attractive in Telephone Main 453 no; his thought in across-the-city its spotless simplicity. Brooklyn. Twenty minutes later the trio dry- Serene a, the surface of Samuel eyed mounted the back stairs of the Bornstein mansion and twenty-five Bornstein, past president of all of the Jewish societies, contributor to all minutes later they rode together to the charities, friend to rich and poor, the quiet cemetery where with the appeared, despair, as black, in his in- chant of the familiar Yiddish "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" the earth re- ner being reigned supreme. of recent years, it is true, the hurt ceived again all that was mortal of inna Bornstein, was less poignant than in the crushing Slowly, the procession wended its first days when the blow, with dy- namic force. shattered. Yet it was way through the near-dried streets: 1 the sun, gloriou s, after the day before ever gnawingly present. shower, rose higher in the heavens; On just such a day as this it had children released from the school descended, painting blacker the thett romp scampered over the pavements; glaringly new interior of the big here and there a timid crocus broke house, tying into midnight cords the from its verdant bondage to give tear- forehead of Samuel; driving the ful salute to the newer slay. affrighted Minna, the younger, and Still, Samuel Bornsteins fingers did Minna, the older, behind the locked not relax their hold on the stained .Announcing to My Friends door , of the young girl's pink and piece of paper in his outer pocket. white bedroom, from which, scarcely that I ant opening Arrived home he mounted the stairs a week later, they had borne her for- and once again closed behind hint his ever. door. Below stairs his son and the How the elements sympathized with daughter of an alien race bowed their the core of man. It would seem heads. as one, in Sorrow. everything did save man's very own. From the wall safe of his bed room For there, stared at him the soul Samuel Bornstein removed a yellowed Under the Supervision of roll of paper and taking from his of Minna. Rabbi J. I.Prin Not of death, as it mounted near— closet pen and ink lie wrote steadily and tirmly for several seconds on fhe serene over the wife of his heart did Samuel Bornstein give attention now, sheets opened before him. Ringing in his mind. Not of the little old lady for his old man servant he talked to gone fdrever from his side did he him for a moment, replaced the yel- Between Warren and Theodore think —not of the days when her lowed roll within the wall safe and cheeks had been roseate, instead of laid the crumpled note against his withered, her head golden, instead of heart. Higher rose the sun in the heavens silver, her smile piquant instead of plaintive. He pondered not now of and crept into the old man's room. the money at his command, the power The spotless dimity curtains rustled his name represented, not even did lie in their places and caressed the por- a think of the line of motors that on traits of a handsome young man, the morrow would characteristically silver haired old lady and a flower wend their way to the quiet ceme- faced girl, on the dresser. Below stairs a young woman quiet• tery's huge gates—nor yet of the last shovel of soil that would enclose for- ly removed the gold cross from her firm, white throat and placed it in ever the sod that had been his wife. her husband's hands. Only his thoughts encircled her But• upstairs the tender May note. breezes met no response from the se- Ile could not comply with her last rene faced sleeper in his wife's old request to him. He would not com- chair. ply. It was more than the soul of a Jewish father, a Jewish husband, no- torious for his generosity—could grant. It would be more than his physical, spiritual and mental strength would allow. He would never live, if (Cooritinued Prom Page 1) DETROIn EXCLUSIVE HATTER he did it; Minna, she had written 49 ePATIOT AVE. he succeeds he feels that he ow, it could never net if he did not do it. COR, LIBRARY AVE. if he fails he Over and over and over again the to his own efforts. Where, however, freshly crystallized thought—he could curses his luck. never live if he did it—Minna could does the government play a part in never rest if he did not do it—per- his life? What has the government of the country done for the immi- sisted. grant? How can the government ex- This, then. was the result of his pect anything from the immigrant day's reflection—of the hours he had when it has done practically nothing spent alone, at his request, not with for him. In fact, it is surprising that the body of his wife but with the notwithstanding governmental neglect spirit that had sent her last note to of the immigrants, most of them him. should have turned out to be good What she asked was impossible. and loyal Americans, as they indeed The matter must be dismissed at once are. and for all time to come from his From the immigrants' standpoint, mind. the problem of Americanization does lie refused to think of the hours, not exist. He becomes Americanized gone forever, when he knelt at the more or less in due course of time— old invalid chair in which Minna had it all depending upon the conditions lain paralyzed for ten years—the ten and circumstances of the life into years since the coming of the blow. which chance or necessity have lie refused to let his mind dwell on thrown him . In fact his first encoun- the going away forever of the little ter with officialdom makes him do his old lady which had made "her hour" utmost to keep out of its way and 6480-1110 for years he remains foreign to any Wed.. M4 54 the most glorious in the twenty-four; New Tear*. Eva Set, OW. 4 of the levee she held every Friday official influence. lees Hipper There. Gel. Baena', Meet Day) The American standpoint is very night and Saturday morning when tlevvoth (Lest D•y--SbewIel There. Oct. I4 lifetime friends after Schul came to simple—every immigrant ought to be- At pet, Oct. IT see "old lady Sirs. Bornstein." when come an American, and do his utmost elmoket• Torah Roerh4Aedvech (lbeeven Yrt, Oet. 54 the children, from her palsied hands, to become one in the shortest possi- /se. Nev. ti Reeeb-(11e4eeeb Klelev took the cookies she never forgot to ble time. There can be no quarrel IFtest et Dedlentlee1.. (' Wee.. Dee. IT order made from her iniMitable with this attitude except that it can- Reevh-Cle4veeb l'ebeIl..Mem., Dee. 32 recipe. not be realized by a mere wish. Some 6180-1520 real, earnest and well planned work Thieve, Asa. 1 Minna had gone. He was nearly Feet et TvIrelb II gone. Life had given him joys and is necessary to realize this wish, and eerk-C beeeeek There., Feb. II so far we have not done it. 'Ac have Reeelt-Cbe4wei Adisr• sorrows. He had met them bravely. Perim (FeerI et Esther) . Thays.. Mae. 4 not even understood the problem in 2 Ile was content—until this afterblow. Pleseb-rbedeeelt we HA . ApelI 11 Why had Minna reserved it for him? its true aspects. It is true that Peesever (PewevIll 81 1 , AprII In Had she harbored long feeling against have many voluntary and other reenever (Eliblb DSO AprII Reeee-Chelvenela agencies who have tried to do Ameri- Teem, Nei I 1 him? Lee ► *Owner canization work. Sometimes they • • • Rewhalwnleeela Sivas—T•ee, Noy IA have had sonic degree of success. a ► eeeeth ICeellnentles Vey) Ile would not grant her request. Ikea., Vey N more often, however, their work has Darkness pulled down her veil and Hweb-Clenleeell T ■ meni• woli.Jurop IS night descended. Still he sat alone been a complete failure. Rye.. July 4 A Governmental Problem. het of Tfeinw•s and unmoved. The matter was closed; PTI. .h•ty Rneell-Cledeee ■ AS Americanization work should be Jots It The issue decided forever. He would rare ef welt., _NI. Aug. 14 burn her note with the morrow. A done by the government and govern- Furs! "Meet Friedbe rg Wear Diamonds" At Marks' you will find the most complete and finest selec- tion of furs and fur coats in Detroit— you will find .„.4 it pays to buy of the --ieJ Makers. a a .1, ate aya 01. as T ski t . 10. H. & B. MARKS Maloney-Campbell Realty Co., Inc. • ■ III AGREE BROS. 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