PAGE TWO — AcIATRonlonsnai RON ICLE .. - ;.."'•aCks " . ..e....t..... , 2 k.: k1S*.i w, ea145-5, , For Gentlewomen 2 3 2 1 -- WOODWARD AV E. The Thanksgiving Linen Sale at Healy 's Beckons You to Come Wonderful reductions Is the outstanding feature of this timely event. Damask Cloths, Center Pieces, Napkins, etc., are presented in an endless array. Job's Dilemma Dramatized, Modernized By Elsie K. Sulzberger. Asproof that there is nothing new under the sun, Iant impelled to begin my article with this very proverb, grey-haired, yet virile, the truth of which is no more positive than its antit hesis, "Ilistory never repeats." Perhaps our mind, are not constituted forgrasping absolute truths and can only approach them by the use of half- truths, as exemplified in our two mot• toes. Certainly both apply to the ,ogue of the Book of Job at the pres- ent day. It is the same old story that runs like a scarlet threadthrough the Cabe' c of today's literature, yet, if not new,the methods of treatment are at least arresting and startlingly orig- inal. The modern spirit is too superb- ly' audacious to imitate, yet bold enough to take what itwill. And so the masters of fiction transcribe the ancient tale about a man in 1.1z. 'here are styles in art as in apparel, and at present the Bible is an accept- able source of inspiration for the novel and the stage. But why not an emphasis upon the Book of Ruth, so akin to modern sentiment, or the Book of Psalms, grandly remote from all that is modern, or thundering Hosea, or heroic Daniel? aVhat is there about the hoary tale of Job still to intrigue our imaginings and be- witch our authors' pens after full 2,000 years? "C'est la guerre." Of course. The Book of Job is elemental. And these times are elemental. Not so long since the nations of the earth "threw dust upon their heads towards heaven." 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LADIES' AID SOCIETY. • ---- At the regular monthly meeting of the Jewish Ladies Society. the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Mrs. Ben- jamin Meteors; Vice-President, Mrs. Morris Fine: Secretary, Mrs. Benj. Goldstein; Treasurer, Mrs. Julius Levin, Glendale 4283 RELIEVE MOSCOW JEWS First Large Shipment of American Sup. plies on Way to Soviet Russia. The first large shipment of relief supplies for the Jews of Soviet Rus- sia has been started from the Baltic port of Reval, Esthonia, for Moscow under a convoy furnished by the Rus- sian government. according to an- nouncement made yesterday by the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Fund for Jewish War Suf- ferers. The supplies, for the pur- chase of which $500.000 was appropri- ated by the committee, will he dis- tributed under the direction of the Moscow committee of Jews, with the co-operation of Dr. Frank Rosenblatt of New. York, now in Moscow as a Comm:ssioner of the committee. Elsie K. Suhberger. Associate Editor of "The Club Wo- man", The Federation Magazine. (Reprinted from "The Club Woman") JO( is the personification of our day., with its privations and tribulations, its questionings and far-Hung chal- lenges. For as Adam's temptation was the childhood of the race with its necessity of authority and obedi- ence, so Job's torment was the moral adolescence of humanity. In him man's conscience first became the battle- ground of Satan and the Lord, both enthusiastically contending for su- premacy and the prize. And in this, our troubled time, we find ourselves almost naturally reverting to Job, our prototype, seeking solutions even ab- lutions at the source. But, some may ask, did not Aeschy- 'us and Euripides, of another ancient world, also set forth the primordial struggle between gods and gods, be- tween gods and men? Why do not their dramas sting our moderns into rebuttal. too? Their tales are too too calm, too fatalistic. Jolt llone leaves room for titan's perplex- I ■ in the face of misfortune and his :raving for justice from the inexor- able, so that the hope called faith has raised a dunghill above Olympus. It is no other than the clever, the clamorous H. G. Wells who first at- tempts to answer in an up-to-date novel the questions of Job. For it must he acknowledged that the Book of Jul.. like all vital and immortal .1ranias, raises more doubts than ever it allays, miles, we side with the pacifist-port in that "there is more faith in honest doubt, believe nie, than in all your creeds." Btu in "''he Un- dying Fire" of Mr. 'Wells we have a rather affected naivite of imitation. aVIty must NH, Huss, the schoolmaster who is a magnet for calamity, hear so obe innsly the first name of Job? And hi- tormentor, be so unequivocally and Eliphaz? It is indelicate and psychologically crude A thought is not a nail to he thus hit upon the head. Or was al r. Wells quite con- , ciously' imitating some simple moral- ity play of the Dark Age such its Olt first of them. "'The Castle of Per- sever-ance?" The hero, or is it victim, of "The Undying Fire" is air. Huss. He is so unique a character, an hottest school- master with ideals, that Satan is roiled to center his ingenious machinations about him. Even before the very. first chapter of the book Mr. Huss has lost his only son in the war, is estranged front his former beloved wife (a mod- ern calamity unknown to the patient man whose wife ventured no farther than to hint that lie might "curse God and die"), and is now about to lose his position in the school. And as a late English variation of the plague of sores that covered Joh "from his foot to his crown." Mr. Buss is prey- 'Idly to be operated upon Inc a malig- nant growth. Vie are compelled to go through all the horrors of an anaesthetic with our hero, and are .non rewarded for the ordeal by be- holding the figure of Job himself in sack cloth and sorrow, surrounded he those very false friends who have he come our byword today. We are not even startled thus to confront them since the enchanted pen of Mr. \Veil• makes incongruities seem as plausible as they are picturesque. The Lord i• also in the picture, appearing in a sort of color scheme whose waves are, at the same time, musical. In this the effect of the dose of ether, or is it that as a theologian Mr. %Veils is still an excellent novelist? There are descrip- tions of deity ranging from the ridic- ulous to the sublime and back. At any rate, we are again given to understand that the end completely justifies the' means, for our poor Mr. Huss has all his goods restored intact front health to wealth, from the love of wife to the' life of son. On the whole, "The Undying Fire", is no net improvement on the Book of Job. Mr. Wells adds nothing to the Bible tale. But what has the old tale added to the philosophy of Mr. Wells? He seems to have returned like a' weary prodigal to the Jehovah of, man's simpler day. What of the con-1 cepts of his other hooks? Has he abandoned the deity of dual personal- ity ity he so often described, one the Creator of the Universe who turns a deaf ear as soon as his task is done. and one the Captain of Mankind who can give no actual aid in the mundane matters hut indulges in watchful wait- ing in man's behalf? Has hefor- saken this sentimental paganism? For in "The Undying Fire" he returns un- reservedly toJob's God. A far more convincing and sincere piece of artistry is St. Ervine's "John Ferguson." If there can be such a contradition as a stalwart cripple it is tlespatriarch. Those who really know Irish types and Ulster life say that there are John Fergusons in every countryside, Irish cousins of the stern, God-fearing, Bible-reading Scot. And inthe manner of modern Irish drama J Ferguson is beset by tragedy from startto finish, both internally and externally evolved. John Fergu- son's son turns murderer to avenge Iris sister's wrongs. And the broth•r's letter from America, that is to lift the mortgage on the old homestead and pay off the villain in cold cash arrives —but just too late. Sickness, poverty, disgrace and prison bars are the lot of this man and his family'. And the ills are all traceable to God relenting and Satan relentless. "Behold, all that he bath is in thy power," a Voice seems to have spoken. And, "Put forth thy hand and touch his bone and flesh"— the retort. Not that there is a direct allusion to all this in the play. Rather the author has made our own com- parison inevitable. And John Fergu- son, fearless invalid, weathers the storm of these events like an oak that sways but is not shattered. He reads many heartening passages out of his great book each night to a family turned skeptical with sorrow. ..and all of them seem versions of Job's thun- dering words, " \Vhatl Shall we re- ceive good and not receive evil?" The faith of this stricken giant does not need, nor does it receive a final justi- fication. His type of faith is not of time, but of eternity. Does lie need the pity that we so freely bestow? Throughout the acts, like some sob- bing minor in which the melody is borne, John Ferguson reads from the Bible: "Weeping endured' for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Let US turn to a still more Soliiitet• presentation of undying Job. In the novels of the Norwegian Bojer we need hope for no occasional relief from strain such as the character of "Chide" afforded, the piper in "John Ferguson," who was half clown, half Pan and wholly Irish, who concealed his purposes beneath a sylvan mask. John Ilojer has recently published a third novel, "The Power of a Lie," which completes a triology of Job- tinged tales. The two earlier books are "The Face of the World" and "The Great Hunger." In the "Power of a Lie" we have a rigid and repellent plot, a philosophy evolved under drab Norwegian skies, brooded on through dark days that are half-nights. Stich is the "Power of a Lie" that an innocent victim, ac- cused of forgery, is actually driven to that crime in a frenzy to prove his innocence. While his accuser, him- self a victim of circumstance and the stupidity of society, is feted by his toWnsin•n as a martyr vindicated, and ends by reveling in his self-righteous- ness, completely deluded by his ow s t and progressive mother. Now a (loc- would not? Even in the ordinal, lies. The actual event about whit: h tor, lie still harbors the desire to up- death of his beloved little sister, the story is built is that Knut Sorb y, lift mankind, now it a concrete form. Louise, he was solaced by the though; a wealthy farmer, has once signed a He is made the head of the local hos- that she lived on in her violin. note for his friend, Henry V. angen. pital. Alas') A tragic half-wit, 'tar But content is notfor the thought- But Wangen's business fails, Norby Holth, "who has become a prey to ful. Even as life smiled its broad, -t is involved, and succumbs tot he de- himself as to others," attempts to at Peer Holm, and his family pro, ception of denying the signature and place t e burden of his unprecedented h pered, and his great barns groat, d accusing %%angel' of having forged it. misfortunes upon the eager hack of with their store, the great hunger b, - To this he is unwillingly led by a dia - Mark. Harold attempts to rehabili- gan to gnaw with its eternal questin• bolic al set of easy circumstances and tate this man-wreck, and reinvest him From distant shores came the friends through fear of losing his wealth and with human dignity. of his youth, Klaus Brock and Fertli- his dignity, and through fear of his There is a fearful sort of humor in nand Holm. They were bidden toth,' wife. There are certain agencies this character of Ivan Holth, like the christening of Asta, his third child. through which we vainly hope for the "red laughter" of war, like the grim- Unconsciously they plant in the heart working out of justice. But the perfidy aces of madness bred in desolation of Holm the germ of discontent aed of Knut Norby overpowers them •all, and the dark. 'What new Satan, arm- yearning. Are they not the same even the sick son, Einar, who almost ed with a knowledge of pathology', has Bildadthe Shuhite and Zophar tla as dies with the heavy consciousness of attempted to torment a benefactor Naaniarthite who journeyed to Uz "to his father's guilt. And the strangest through the doings of such charge? Lenten and to comfort?" not of all, stranger than that aVangen Through his protection of Ivan Holt!' Comes a turn in the affairs of Peer goes to jail and his wife and children the good Dr. Mark is finally betrayed. Holm as if Satan had yet again ca- drift out into an inimical world false' Holth sets fire to the hospital, and joled the King of Hosts to reach forth branded, isthat Kra ut Nor by never ex- Mark flees in fear and despair. and smite. Down the ladder, rung by periences a moral revulsion. Through Darker and more lowering than a rung, Peer Holm descends. His great some inhuman process he comes to storms-cloud is the face of the world. engineering project proves a landlide regard himself as the innocent and in- But the passionate force of the telling that drags down his wealth, tom of jured. Ile is actually ennoble d of this story portends some purpose. his friends and of his wife's family. through his vice! .Again and again the author drops a Ilk invention is stolen, and witt NVIiere, then, in such a tale, do w u , plumb into bottomless human nature. his ability, his ambition, his faith. Thc draw an analogy to the Book of Job "Alan---do you know man?" %VII° children must be sent away as well. In the abstract principle alone. Tit c • shall say that Bojer does not? But Only Merle, his wife, is grudgingly power of evil is once more give' u now behold a miracle for Bojer and left him by a fate that seems power- full sway, and more happens that , the Northland. There is a hint, a less to part two lives so welded. Pov- Job's author ever dreamed of. In thi • h o pe, more sweet than certainty. that erty alone is not enough. It must be scuffle between good and evil no I Harold Mark may still be saved to tinged with charity to become unbear• only is virtue worsted and evil tri sanity. It is through the nurse, Alma. able. alerle is bent and broken. Can uniphant, but man's moral nature lose , a friend of his mother. This woman more befall a man? Then fate, like its balance. The evil act once per , with the gentle-nunlike name now a predatory vulture returning again to petrated, no power of earth or heaver , conies into his conscious life. She ha, his feast, swoops down once more can halt the prolific propagation o f stood beside him so long, but he has upon Peer Holm. For it has over- its consequences. not seemed to see her there. Now looked little Asta, now four years old, Here is food for thought, exotic she is playing Beethoven's Ninth Sym- toe solace of her parents, There is a terrible. But what of its moral, it phony in another room while Mark neighbor, a brazier, who is vicious. the light of the Anglo-Saxon tradi has thrown himself, despondent, on But he is not more vicious than his turns we inherit in our literature, these his bed to arise no more. But sweet great dog, whom he turns loose upon • based in turn on the stern righteous sounds permeate and the spirit re- Asia. IleSS of the Bible? How can we in sponds like a rainbow to the sun . Grief stuns. But comes a time when corporate into -our ethical code th e Bojer, the Norwegian, whose ink is Peer Holm rushes out into the night truth that th:. Norwegian so master mostly icelocked and whose moods to spend his agony unseen. Shall a fully expounds t' Perhaps the book i 22 are sullen as a frozen meadow, is no man go mad? Shall he submit like a a satire on the blindness of society . longer reserved or unsmiling. lie is craven with "Thy will be done?" Or-- Perhaps in the very repulsion of ou ✓ caught, transfigured in a brief but All at once he loses sight of himself senses at these gross miscarriages o I radiant spring. So Nurse Alma plays and so stumbles on the secret. In the symphony and her fingers heal the ecstasy he cries, "A temple, a temple Justice we are morally slit Says Hall Caine of the "Power of a while. By degrees the soul of Mark for the modern spirit of man, hungry Lie:" "That the right may be defeatef I is wooed from infinite wanderings to for el rruite '' And llow lie formulates a phil- in the battle of life and that the wrong the sphere that holds this woman and osophy that is all armor to inimical may triumph is a fact of tremendou • this melody. significance capable of treatment a Almost we can hear the echo of fate. to undeserved misfortune. It is great and helpful as the Book of Job.' • ancient words rolled from the hilltop man's responsibility to man. Is it ? "Mankind must arise and be better of one eon to the other: "I know that In Ilojer's "Face of the \Vorld" we Illy Redeemer livetli." than the blind powers that order it , are convinced that Satan has attempt- But it remains fur ''The Great Hun- ways. . . Man must create the ed once more "to move Him against g( r," another (kite masterpiece, to divine in heaven and earth, that alone a man to destroy him without cause." present the inoq startling of all mod- In his triumph over the dead °until', . of the universe." 'Hie man in the case is Harold Mark. ern Jobs. For the emphasis is not eti!o- 1 That is all there is to the tale of the a well-meaning dreamer and idealist. upon the trials of the hero, though "Great Hunger." But there is an epi a student of sociology and medicine. they are legion, but upon his chal- His woe! may welf be compared to lenge to the power behind events. logne like a mighty song. l'eer Hobo the raid of the Sabians upon the oxen There is nothing to puzzle a phil- goes out in the daybreak and sows iris and the falling of the Chaldeans upon osopher about Job himself. His faith own barley in the murderer's field the camels, and the smiting of the cor- is unswerving and he is glorified "that God :night exist." Is he a mad- ners of the house in which feasted therein. Job is like a statue of chilled man? Then Merle, too, is mad, for she the sons of the Job. The opening of strength. But what of a fate that goes with him "to take her share in the story finds Harold Mark married seemed so uselessly to harass the the creating of God." this new' Job finds his newer God to the girl. Thora, who is as vivid as man ? Does a purposeful parent eve her name, as lovely and as pagan. She torment his child to see how long love with this apostrophe: "So marvelous is an unconscious hedonist living in the and faith endure? Is God in destiny art thou, 0 spirit of man! So god- like in thy very nature! Thou (lost joy of each hour while her student- to cruel? husband is continually tortneuted with At first Peer Holm, hero of "The reap death and in return thou sowest vague longings to help humanity. The Great Hunger," thinks that God is and the dream of everlasting life. In re- ugly, unfriendly face of the world must be in the march of circumstance. venge for thy evil fate thou dost fill gives him its first blind stare when So he was taught in childhood by fos- the universe with an all-loving God." Thora leaves him. He is involved ter-parents and the church; so he was through his exalted ideas of the com- given to understand by later theolog• LINERS GO TO PALESTINE. mon people in dishonest politics. They ical studies. 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