11-IE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE PAGE EIGHT • PREJUDICE AND HOW TO MEET IT ARE YOU FLAT-FOOTED? BUILD WITH BRICK (Continued From Pure 7.) lance. There is of course the danger of making mountains out of mole hills, of elevating a matter of purely local significance to national import- ance by too much publicity. It is un- necessary to use a sledge-hammer to kill a roach . . . And, thirdly, we must retain—and this is very important—our ancient spirit of pride, which comes from an intimate acquaintance with the spirit and history of our people. We most curry no favor, we must not worm and eel and maneuver ourselves into places where we are not wanted; we must tnaintain, and more especially must we inculcate, in the souls of our children that precious sense of Jewish dignity; we must inspire our- selves and our young ones with the thought that no people on God's earth has the heritage, the precious as well as • great many reputable physicians, will gladly testify as to legacy and culture. the civilization. the ancestry, the records of seers and the wonderful results derived from these scientifically constructed martyrs and heroes that Israel has. shoes. \Ve most convince ourselves fully and vividly, and more especially must we convince our children. of the thought that two-thirds of mankind are wor- shiping our God and reading our liter- ature. You must have your young Sole Owners and Distributors men and women. your sons and your daughters, realize with a sense of in- finite pride, that their people had pro- duced a culture that was rich and ripe and noble when the English and the Germans and the French were half-naked barbarians. So that when 0001=10=01=10=01=110130==000 your boy goes to college he will not go shamefacedly, and the fine, stal- PHONE MAIN 1664 ESTABLISHED 1896 wart manhood of him will not he dragged through the mire of self-de- basement for the sake of a certain preferment in some one fraternity or 0 0 another. When I visit universities and I 0 meet these fine, young Jewish boys, that somehow are lost—miserably un- happy because they know not their DEALER IN own people and are not received or welcomed by others, I know the fault is not therms but that of their parents. So many of us, unfortunately, have lost our spirit of Jewish pride and O dignity. I read a little while ago a mani- festo that was issued by the Jewish RETAIL AND WHOLESALE deputies in the parliament of Poland. Poland has discovered a new way of destroying the Jews in Poland. The majority of the three million Jews 0 in Poland are orthodox—observant 01:1011=0=01===01=0=20=0 Jews—and the Sabbath is their day of rest; and from time immemorial their places of business have been closed on the Sabbath and open on the Sunday, and the religious life of Poland did not stiffer in consequence of it. Now that Poland has become a republic, free Poland has. suddenly received a religious revival and has decided that keeping the places of business open on Sunday is destruc- tive of public morals, and so a law was passed that the Jew must keep his place of business closed on a Sun- day; which means that the Jew must keep his place of business closed two days a week, which means economic ruin for him. These Jewish deputies issued a statement to their co-religionists of Poland narrating in detail what had transpired in parliament—that not one of the Poles had the courage to stand tip to defend Jewish rights; and they conclude their manifesto, which is bound to become historic in Jewish annals, with this immortal phrase—"They can break us but they can't bend Now, that is what I call a spirit of Jewish pride—they can break us, but they can't bend the spirit that is ours. In this land of ours I know on Jewish social organizations and social Flat, Tired and Aching Feet have a Direct Bearing Upon Your Mental Attitude—a Condition Entirely Uncalled For John S. Haggerty Hack's Arch Corrective Shoes Give immediate relief to the most serious cases of foot suffering. Thousands of men and women who were helped with Manufacturers of Stock and Commo Building Brick Hack's Arch Corrective Shoes HACKS SHOE CO. 1815 Dime Savings Bank Building HON. SIMON WOLF Washington, D. 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SIMON WOLF. clubs, the great majority of whose members are Temple members, who, for the sake of five or ten per cent or atheistic Jews who may belong to them, have not enough of religious pride or racial pride to abstain from the ordinary amusements of daily life on the high holy days of the Jewish calendar. These social organ- izations are wide open when millions of their fellow-Jews are performing their devotions, fasting and praying to their Father who is in Heaven, And these same broad-minded, tol- erant, emancipated Jews, who can afford publicly to degrade the holy days of the Jew, would be the first to howl if their Jewish neighbot would venture to clean his sidewalk on a Sunday! Unfortunately, there is a miserable lack of pride, of dig- nity in us, the descendants of the prophets and the Maccabees. And then conies discipline—loyalty to our faith, loyalty to the fine prac- tices and beautiful observances itif our people, and knowledge of the lite, of the literature, of the history of our people, in order that we may know the reason for our continuous ex- istence as a separate and distinct people. I am frequently asked why I insist upon keeping Hebrew classes in my school here. Is it not a dead language. I very frequently answer, "Hebrew is dead to those who do not know It." I frequently say that the value of a Hebrew educatto• cannot be translated in terms of dol- lars and cents. But man does not live by bread alone. A language is the soul of a people, a language is the reflex of the people's life. And I want the Jewish boy and girl to feel that contact with the eternal soul of his people; I want him to get a bit of the Shechina, of the holy spirit of his people, through the language of his people. I want him to go into life armored, protected against the slings and the arrows of hate and prejudice. I do not want him to be thin-skinned so that he will come back to you broken hearted and mis- erable; I want him to go out with his mind filled with the glories of his people and his soul thrilled with the wonderful promises of his people. And, finally, faith! Faith, my friends, in the ultimate triutnph of our cause, faith in the ultimate ac- knowledgment which we shall re- ceive from the world, faith that our ideals will ultimately receive univer- sal sanction—faith in ourselves, in our cause, in our missions, in our life, in our ideals, in our institu- tions—faith in the nobility of Jewsh life, faith in the dignity of Jewish life, faith in the worth-whileness of Jewish life. And, also, faith in this, which to my mind is the all-important creed of Jewish life—that we are an eternal people. Nothing can destroy us. All our enemies of antiquity could not break us. The hosts of Edom and l'hilistia, of Moab and Aram, swirled around us and over us, but receded broken and discomfited. We are an eternal people! Thus path it been declared by the pro- phets and seers of old, and thus bath it been established throughout all the revolving cycles of time. Bab- ylon and the wrath of God. Assyria, and the warriors of Memphis, and Thebes and the flying hosts of the Scythians, and the greaved and armored hoplites of the Greeks, and i the iron legions of the Romans were hurled in mighty cohorts against us. I They triumphed for a moment and i in their triumph perished. We are an eternal people. The Cross and the Crescent could not pre- vail against 114. The fury of intol- erance, the violence of fanaticism, the studied cruelties of fifteen cen- ouries—the rack and the stake and 'the yellow badge, the Crusades and the mobs and the massacres could not bring us low. For we are an eternal people. Many of us shall fall by the wayside, and many of us shall perish for want of faith; some of us may grow cold, and many shall chase after some will-o-the-wisp and be lost to us, but a remnant shall at- ways remain—tlie seed of a new resurrection. We are an eternal peo- ple! When the first light broke upon struggling mankind we were there, and when the last night shall fall on a dying world in the ultimate cycle. of time, we shall be there. We were nomads and slaves and conquerors and princes and outcasts and vaga- bonds and kings! We are humble servants of the great Godl We are an eternal people. "For thus saith the Lord, who created thee, 0 Jacob and the God who fashioned thee, 0 Israel, fear not, for I am with thee. I have called thee by name. Thou art mine. When thou shalt pass through the waters I shall be with BUILD WITH BRICK E. B. Gallagher & Co. thee. And the rivers shall not over- flow thee. 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