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tation for honesty, his pride of pawnbrokers. Nor, among its love
shrewdness, and his musical taste. incidents, do I want suddenly to come
Now suddenly the appearance of Mr. upon the statistical tables of Jewish
Ford in a brand new role has changed philanthropies, the number of our
my peaceful parent. Changing him orphan asylums, hospitals, or soldiers
it has likewise changed the many shot in the Great War. I don't want
other Jews whom I know and used to visit a theater and have Mr. Sam
By LOUIS WEITZENKORN.
to love. For instance, there is a fine, Shipman tell me that only Haym Sa-
(In The' Nation.)
scholarly old gentleman in Brooklyn lomon and his coterie of Jewish
Lately I have been made aware of whose taste until recently was impec- friends fought the American Revolu-
my Jewishness. The matter has been cable. A few days ago he wrote to tion when I know, from things I have
brought to my attention through such the Saturday Evening Post and or- read and heard, that George Wash-
innumerable incidents that I am decd a hum red copies of a very bad ipgton had something to do with it
forced to write this, not as a protest story by Viola Brothers Shore, which and, perhaps to a lesser extent, a few
against Mr. Henry Ford, but as a went to prove that the Jew was a others along the Atlantic coast. The
pea to him. I want to be saved from Jew and that the Dutch have again longer I live the more thoroughly my
the Jews. captured Holland. My father was reason tells me that the Jewish race
It took Americans one hundred and given this story to, read. He, too, is about as good as any other race,
forty-odd years to discover their 100 Puffed out with prole of race and neither better nor worse, and with
per cent Americanism, and I remem- Passed the story on to . me with the about the same characteristics.
ber that in the process of doing it w e adjuration that I confine myself to
You see, I can't forget t h e recent
tthat r eJpeolrry ts arc .tTer and
f
often apologized profusely to friends proving
had war. I was carried away in that
of German extraction the while we
war. I had thrills sent up and down
clouted their heads as a general captured Holland.
1 arse told also, and it is again Mr. my spine by hundreds of brass bands.
measure of our patriotism. One of
I stood up in theaters when the Star
the best inciters to class-conscious- Ford's fault, that we Jews are God's Spangled Banner was played, and I
ness, it seems, is a powerful wallop chosen people. There is Moses and donned a uniform and went to France
on the chin. I have been content, Christ and Heinrich Heine and Jacob with the Tanks. All in all, American
hitherto, to go along, vaguely feel- Schiff—to give but four examples. nationalism got me and made me
ing that I was a Jew as I often vague- I am told to think of a nation from pretty uncomfortable—taking in the
ly felt that I was lefthanded. There whose bowels such heroes sprung. life of the camps, the troopships, and
have been times, of course, when I Think what the Jew has done for in France. Now, through Mr. Ford,
was rather embarrassed by my left- civilization! Look at the great finan- my Jewishness is being aroused along
handedness. In school it fell little ciers, the great doctors, the great with the Jewishness of millions of
short of crime to write with my left artists! There is no race on earth others, and I am afraid, if it de-
hand, and there is a lurking instinct but the Jewish which has lived an velops, that some member of my race
yet among people which attributes epic! For thousands of years it has
genius, insanity and criminal ten-, maintained its entity, its customs un- around the musical studios of Tin
dencies to citizens who lean toward changed. It has survived all cats- Pan Alley will compose a Jewish na-
tional anthem, some garment cutter
the left. No one knows how thank- clysms And so my father produce a flag, some Jewish financier
ful I am not to be redheaded as well. and my Jewish friends are donning
Imagine being lefthanded, redheaded, their frock costa and striped pants a war, and then I'll have to go out
with serious regularity and are going and get shot or something.
and Jewish!
,
t,o.
For when it is all said and done,
But what I am getting at in this 1. owe of Jerusalem," exhorting me
essay is Mr. Ford's undoing of all the I to subscribe to Jewish periodicals, to a man must be proud. I'm not proud
of
anything I haven't done by my
freedom which I had achieved since I the synagogue, reading Zangwill's
visit such plays as Vs elcome, Stran- own volition or creative power. That
departing from my childhood days in
ger"
and
"The
Unwritten
Chapter,"
is,
I'm not proud of my Jewishness,
the synagogue. I had gotten to a and—as the Jews always have in mo-
point among a large acquaintance ments of persecution—are coming to- my lefthandedness, nor my long
racial
nose. These things happened
and friendship among liberal and gether to re-establish themselves and
radical non-Jews where I forgot that prove once more that the melting pot to me, and it is entirely up to the
Creator
to be proud of this work.
I was a Jew. They would invite me won't melt unless the fires beneath it
to their homes, to theaters and to are tended by human beings who At any rate lie did it while I—I
haven't
done
much except raise a few
clubs, and never for a moment allow know how to cook.
radishes in New Jersey, write a few
me to se that I was not of the ordi-
magazine
stories,
and, with some
I didn't want to get serious in writ-
nary human race. I never had a
help, produced two youngsters of my
single host or hostess, since growing ing this, but I resent, on the one own. I'm rather proud of those rad-
up, who took me for one of the El- hand, my Gentile friends idealizing
ishes and the children, and I hope,
ders of Zion, and while my nose is me, and on the other my Jewish rela- as time goes on, that New Jersey
extraordinarily long I have even had tives and friends making me nation- won't suddenly start some nampaign
girls of other race or faith kiss me alistic. When I read a magazine I to make my boys go to war for a
without shuddering and even without don't want to plop into a fiction story cranberry crop or 4 per cent beer or
which tells me my race never pro-
ordinary bumping.
Jersey climate.
And now all these friends are duced anything but Spinozas when I
And I wonder if the youngsters
apologizing to me. I have learned know from experience the nationality
from them, as they fly to defend me of certain ticket speculators and will be proud of me?
from Mr. Ford, that my race is the
remarkablest on earth. I have had
a dozen tell me that in my deep
brown eyes is the smoldering depth
of ages, that look of wisdom and suf-
fering which only a Jew has. I am
told by them that I am born with a
heritage of countless civilized gene-
rations behind me. And no longer
do I get the laughing benefit of hear-
ing a good Jewish story for fear of
my taking offense. In a word I find
myself, so far as these old friends
go, a suddenly pedestaled saint (by
inheritance!) belonging to a race of
marvelous antiquity and ten million
virtues. I am afraid to sin . . . .
And then there is my father,
whose Jewishness was like American-
ism before the war. It was there, of
course, but not rampageous. He took
his religion as I took my lefthanded-
ness—dressed himself in a frock
coat two or three times a year—dur-
ing Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashonah
—and went to the synagogue. Ile,
too, mingled with his Gentile negh-
bors, living a rather ordinary, con-
tented existence, proud of any num-
ber of middle-class cirtues, his repu-
A Jew Among
The Fords
NEW YORK.—Travelers on Fifth of this kind are now studied in the
avenue buses and pedestrians have dispensary under the direction of
watched with interest the daily pro- hospital men, and when transferred
gress of building operations at the to the hospital do not require dupli-
corner of Fifth avenue and 105th cation of the study already made in
street—from deep excavations to respect to them. Unnecessary ex-
skeleton framework, rising gradually pense and loss of time are thereby
to a brick and mortar form an,, ac- avoided, and a system is introduced
quiring at last the trimness of hos- conducive both to the interest of the
pital buildings. They have seen the patients and the doctors.
"Mt. Sinai medical and research
most recent steps in the evolution of
one of New York's notable Jewish workers have made many important
philanthropic achievements—the ex- contributions to science and their
ternal evidence of the development latest discovery is in the study of
of Mt. Sinai Hospital as a haven for that peculiar disease, technically
the unfortunate poor, a home for termed epidemic encephalitis, but
medical and nursing education, a more commonly known as 'sleeping
center for research and an example sickness.! While it is claimed that
of Jewish philanthropy in its widest this disease was encountered several
generations ago, it was new to the
sense.
The directors of Mt. Sinai Hospital present generation. Some of the first
have long dreamed of offering the cases of epidemic encephalitis in this
community the greatest hospital in country were studied in Mount Sinai
the world. Their latest report to the Hospital.
Studying "Sleeping Sickness."
Federation for the Support of Jewish
"In March, 1910, Dr. Leo Loewe
Philanthropic Societies, of which Mt.
Sinai is a member, indicates that the and Dr. Samuel Hirshfield, both
dream is becoming a reality—in size members of the interne staff, and Dr.
and achievement. A new children's Israel Strauss, associated neurologist
hospital, a private pavilion and an to the hospital, performed their first
auditorium, representing a building experiments. For the past two years,
outlay of $4,000,000, will be opened Dr. Loewe and Dr. Strauss have con-
within a few months—and the old tinued these investigations. By re-
"Jews' Hospital" of 1852 will have sorting to special methods, based on
extended itself over eight city blocks the work of Dr. Noguchi of the
and will offer unequaled opportum- Rockefeller Institute, a filtrable or-
ganism, a very minute germ, was ob-
ties for medical and social service.
tained from mucous discharges from
An Ambitious Program.
"In January, 1913," said George the nose and throat, from the brain,
Blumenthal, president of the hospital, and from the spinal fluid. Animals
"I submitted to our board a program inoculated with this germ showed
to construct a children's pavilion of the symptoms of the disease as seen
100 beds, a building for 100 adult in human beings, and also developed
ward beds, a children's dispensary, in the brain and spinal cord the same
a new pathological building, a super-. pathological changes as are present
intendent's dwelling, a dormitory for in man. The disease was passed from
240 servants, and to make consider- animal to animal by further inocu-
able changes in the nursing and lation.
„ It was demonstrated that the
service quarters, to increase the ca-
pacity of the hospital to about 700 entry of the microbe to the brain
beds, to complete the work by 1918, is through the nose and throat, and
and to do this with an outlay of $1,- it has been possible to establish the
000,000. The advent of the World diagnosis in doubtful cases by inocu-
War delayed the inauguration of the lotion into animals of material ob-
program and it was not until 1915 tained from the throat or the spinal
that the construction of the patho- canal. These tests have been of con-
logical building, the dormitory and siderable service in doubtful cases.
the children's dispensary was begun. From the frequency with which this
In January, 1916, the 1913 plan was germ is encountered in both man and
modified to comprise the erection of in the experimental animals it would
a new private pavilion for 130 pa- appear to be the sole specific cause
tiento in place of the previously con- of this disease. The results reported
templated new ward building. The by Dr. Strauss and Dr. Loewe have
estimated cost at that time was been fully confirmed by investigtaors
placed at $1,800,000, to which was in America and in Italy, and have
to be added $350,000 paid for newly been confirmed in part by workers in
acquired property, bringing the total England and at the Pasteur Institute
estimated cost to $2,150,000. in Englan•and at the Pasteur Insti-
"During all these years, from 1912 tute in France.
„ A fact which contributes and
to 1920, we did a great deal of flew-
ing as to the cost of the work we which will continue to contribute
bad set out to do and we figured. markedly to the growing cost of sat-
with the assistance of those best isfactory hospital service is the ever-
qualified to help us in this task. The increasing part which procedures
cost of the buildings such as we are which are quite apart from bedside
erecting rose from 35 to 40 cents care—such as X-ray examinations,
a cubic foot in 1913 to somewhat , laboratory tests and the like—play
over $1 in 1920. This fundamental in the modern practice of medicine.
change in conditions explainsv
wh - From 1910 to 1920 the number of
the total cost of our new construe- examinations made in the X-ray de-
tion will be somewhat in excess of partment increased from 1,724 to
$4,000,000 instead of $2,300,000 pre- 10,777, and the total cost of operat-
viOusly considered sufficient for the ing this department from $3,370 to
purpose. $20,119."
Plenty of Sunlight.
The old building, necessarily
erected in close proximity to the
surgical pavilion and to the original
children's pavilion, contains a num-
ber of rooms which are deficient in
sun exposure, a fault which cannot
be charged against a single patient's
room in the new building. In plan-
ning the new building, and in de-
termining its relation to the sur-
rounding buildings, care was taken to
give ample exposure to every room.
While only half of the rooms in the
new building face the park, the other
half, with a southeasterly exposure,
overlook low buildings and a wide
court beyond, and have an exposure
which for so-called 'inside' rooms is
uneampled
in the City of New ork,
x
and these rooms are fully equal to
and on account of their more quiet
location, perhaps even preferable to
so-called 'outside' rooms. An addi-
tional feature of note is the provi- : „
sion of private balconies (in addi
tion to verandas and roof space in
tended for general use) for more h
than 60 rooms. These are only
few of the many features in %chic
the new private pavilion represents
a distinct advance over anything that
has been done heretofore in the line
of private hose ital building in Neill
T. I. Tod, dealer for the National prospects" to step out in fron of
York City. This new building w
their stores for a moment to see what
be a lasting memorial to the memory Cash Register Company, in the the salesman has to offer.
of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Guggenheim, Tampa, Fla., district, has always been
With this equipment Mr. Toil
to the generosity of whose sons its a faithful believer in thorough quickly travels from store to store
construction is due.
and town to town, ready on a mo-
demonstrations
to
accompany
his
"The new Children's Hospital with
sales talks to prospective buyers. ment's notice to display and orate
the accessory wards in the upper Consequently he is thoroughly equip- any type of cash register or credit
stories of the children's dispensary
file in which the merchant may be
to demonstrate.
will accommodate fully 120 children, ped
Mr. Tod bought a standard Dodge interested. It would be utter folly
as compared with 72 in the building Brothers screen side business car to ask this salesman to abandon his
now in use. Like the private pa- from the Ferman Motor Car Com- present equipment and go back to
vilion its facilities for open air treat- pany, of Tampa, and by means of a any of the old methods he formerly
ment, entirely lacking in the old few inexpensive fixtures fitted it out employed.
building, are an important feature in a may that scarcely ever fails to
Another N. C. R. man who has
and are represented by two spacious get interest, which, as all salesmen found Dodge Brothers cars par-
verandas on every floor in addition know is the first requisite of success ticularly well adapted for service of
to a roof arranged for patients' use. in salesmanship. The appearance of this kind is E. J. Peiser of Oakland,
We received from the executors of the car itself, with its folding and Cal. Mr. l'eiser has equipped his
the estate of the late Henry L.
in sliding devices used in displaying Dodge Brothers roadster with an
maxi-
stein $125,000, this being the maxi- cash registers, credit files, etc., is in arrangement similar to that employ-
mum amount authorized under his itself enough to induce the most ed by Mr. Tod, and finds it highly
will making the total contributiono chronic cases of "deferred action satisfactory.
I t his
Mr. Einstein for this memona o
children $250,000.
ditorium.
u
For the A
"From the requests for the use of
the auditorium which are hat
already
there
KLIN
coming in, it would appeart
a
real
need
for
such
a
building.
Wag
crtorium building
The cost of the Au
having been underestimated original
IY, it gave Mrs. Blumenthal and my-
self pleasure to old $50,000 to our
previous gift fib $150,000 for this
purpose.
"While building proess
con-
correspond-
inued through 1920, a gr
mg advance was made in the medical -
work of the hospital. An outstand
ing feature was the reorganization of
the medical and neurological depart- NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY A FRANKLIN
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group of physicians almost entirely
Th iis
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n
arrangement was disadvantageous
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'Hospital cases requiring period
TERMS IF DESIRED
of observation preparatory to more
intensive treatment in bed, had either
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and then referred to the hospital fort i
treatment, thus undergoing a change
.n physicians, or to be admitted to ,
the hospital for preliminary study.I ,
thus excluding cases in more urgent
need of actual bed treatment. Cases'
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MADE IN PALESTINE
BIBLE IS PRINTED
IN 538 LANGUAGES
LONDON. — A report from the
Hague states that the Jewish Na-
tional Fund has Just purchased a
strip of 60,000 dunan of land in the
fruitful Valley of Jezreel, from the
Arab, Effendi Sursak.
LONDON.—At the annual meet-
ing of the Bible Society it was re-
ported that the Holy Scriptures,
printed in 538 languages, had been
distributed during the year 1920.
During the same year 8,655,791 vol-
umes were issued.
ANIKY'S WORK SCREENED
DANZIG.—Ansky's famous work,
the Dibuk, is to be filmed and will
shortly be shown in Polish motion
picture theaters, according to reports
from Warsaw.
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