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(Copyright, 1921. By Chas. II. Joseph.)
The American Rabbinate 11•• surely lost some interesting material
when Al Jolson, Houdini and some other celebr•ted stage lights who,
though sons of, or related otherwise to, Rabbis, decided not to follow
in their footsteps. And now I have just discovered another one. Ilia
name is Kahne and he is probably known to vaudeville disciples. He
has what is known as the "Kahne quintuple mental stunt," which
consists of reading • newspaper, writing upside down and backward
arty what he is reading, listening to requests from the audience
as to the population of any cities in the United St•tes and Canada,
• nswering these requests and adding a column of figures upside down
and backward all at the same time. After this trifling mental relax,-
ti, n he goes to his room and applies cold towels to his head. He says
that "I must have inherited it (the ability to concentrate) from my
father, who was ■ Rabbi. He spoke 16 languages and had • mar-
velous brain."
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But if we have lost all these phenomenons there is just a chance
o f getting • recruit from an entirely unexpected quarter. The writer
of "Personalities" in the Jewish press reports this:
"Samuel Rzechewsky, the wnoder boy who has •one 1,192
chess games out of a total of 1,500 since his arrival 11 months
ago (and he lost those eight games because he was sleepy and
wanted to go to bed), is now studying at the Rabbi Isaac El-
chanan Seminary in New York. After being 10 days at the
seminary the boy (only 9 years old) astonished Rabbi Bernard
Revel, the president of the seminary, and the faculty. He was
given six pages of the Talmud to study, which is a four weeks'
job for bright boys of 10 or 18. Samuel knew those six pages
by heart in four days. His teacher began the study of the Bible
with him, beginning with Jeremiah. In an hour the boy quoted
entire sentences after hearing them but once. He was put in a
class with boys of 17 and had to be taken away and given
special tuition because the class could not key up with him.
English he mastered after IS lessons lasting just one hour each.
But Sammy doesn't know whether or tiot he will be a rabbi, but
he 'wants to know all that a rabbi knows.' All this shows that
Samuel hasn't a 'single track' mind."
This "Thought" 1. somewhat foreign to the "column," but ins..
much as it affects so many of my feminine readers who are employed
in stores, offices, etc., it may prove of interest. The educational di-
rector of • large department store, commenting on the assertion made
by an official of the Industrial Relations Court of Kansas that a
"working girl" should dress on $87.50 a year, replies that $396 should
be the minimum and here is her schedule: Shoes, three pairs, $24;
two d one wool, one slat, $60; two gingham dresses, $10; two
lawn petticoats, $5; four bloomers, $10; four hats, $30; one wool
skirt, $6.50; one suit, $35; three pairs gloves, $3.75; four waists, $16;
neckwear, $7.50; four knit underwear, $4; six pairs hosiery, $6; cor.
sets or girdles (two), $6; one doyen handkerchiefs, $1.44; three night.
gowns, $3; corset covers or combinations, $10; four brassieres, $4;
one pair rubbers, 80 cents; one pair overshoes, $4.95; hair nets, shields,
band lotions, powders, etc., $13.68; every other year • coat for $50;
umbrella for $1; one bathrobe, $5; bedroom slippers, $1; best dress,
$30; sweater, $8, and handbag, $5. There you are, girls. If you want
to know where to buy the right apparel at these prices, consult the list
of advertisers in this paper.
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I was astonished to read that Lord Swaythling had been denied ad.
mission to the exclusive Richmond Golf Club in England. I had been
so imp d with the "open door" policy of the aristocrats of Eng-
land, and knew that there was so much intermarrying between the
wealthy Jews and non-Jewish nobility that I never dreamed that • man
of the standing of Swaythling would be denied admission anywhere.
Despite this, I am still of the opinion that the Jews of England have
by far a higher social standing in relation to society as a whole than
the Jews in this country. In fact, aside from • handful of Jews of
the type fo Otto Kahn, whose Jewish affiliations are slight and whose
Judaism is quite diluted, no Jew is accepted in the exclusive non.
Jewish clubs or homes in New York. Occasionally some Jew or Jewess
who is • social climber is "used" for some purpose, and then allowed
to "climb" only as far as the window, where they may look in but not
get in. What fools vanity makes of us.
Every once in • while it is desirable to resurrect some statement
of founders of our government to bring home to the bigots that we
still have with as the idem of those great Americans who understood
the meaning of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
Consider this brief statement of Thomas Jefferson: "Thomas Jeffer-
son presents to Mr. Marx (Joseph Misr: of Richmond, written 1820)
his compliments and thanks for the transactions of the Paris Sanhedrn,
which he shall read with great interest and with the regret he has ever
felt at seeing • sect, the parent and basis of all those of Christendom,
singled out by all of them for persecution and oppression with prove
they have profited nothing from the benevolent doctrines of him whom
they profess to make the model of their principles and practices."
If men like Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln should return to
life and see what • t ty has been made of the principles of Ameri.
canism by those fanatics who scarcely know the meaning of the word
"American," they would be grieved and shocked. To p t the sell-
ing of soft drinks on Sunday, the opening of drug stores on that day,
the suppression of Sunday newspapers, the insistence on Bible readings
in the public schools, the inserting of the name of Jesus in the constitu.
lion of the United States, the closing of the ports of the country against
the persecuted men, women and children of Europe; these are some
of the things that our "latter day mints" do in the name of the Ameri-
canism of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
While on the subject of Christian fanatics, I cannot refrain from
commenting on the authentic announcement made by the head of the
Russian religious (7) group known as the Doukhobours that the chil-
dren of the colony at Vancouver, British Columbia, under 10 years of
age, together with the aged and the infirm, should be drowned as a
protest against exorbitant taxation. When they have rid themselves
of these encumbrances the rest of this group of lunatics should then
become wanderers preaching the coming of Christ. Now, dear reader,
you can begin to understand how men and women could believe in
witches and how without the slightest compunction they could burn
their fellow beings at the stake. It doesn't take long to turn men
and women into beasts. If you want to know more about all this, study
crowd•psychology.
I am more than willing to pass this very interesting bit of informa-
tion along to all my readers who may have some member of the
family suffering from the same affliction as Edgar Allen Poe's wife.
Samuel Oppenheim of New York is responsible for having brought
this to the notice of the readers of the American Hebrew of New York
wh o might be troubled with a poi. ,unary complaint and obtain the
relief that Mrs. Poe did through the use of what he termed in his let-
ter, written in 1842, as "Jew's beer."
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This beer, or mead, as it is called among the Jews, "contains, as is
well known, hops and honey, being used durnig Passover week." The
extract from Poe's letter is as follows: "My dear little wife grew
ninch better from the very first day after taking the Jew's beer. It
seemed to have the most instantaneous and miraculous effect. She
had been dreadfully weakened, as you know, by night perspirations,
but the very night on which she first took the beer she missed her
usual one, and had them no more until an accident occurred by which
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we got out of beer and could not replenish our stock for three
In this interval the perspiration returned and her cough, h had
almost d, came back. Upon procuring the beer again, however,
she grew better at once and became in • short time quite strong and
well."
In Russia the Reds have exactly the tame difficulty in enforcing
their Communist decrees as do prohibition officers in enforcing the
Eighteenth Amendment in the United States of America. Sir Paul
Dukes, the former British secret service chief, said that when the
Reds closed up shops and prohibited private trading, the shop keepers
put up their shutters and then assembled their easily-carried merchan-
dise, squatted down in • big open enclosure and resumed trading as if
nothing had happened. Thousands of smell traders have developed
this unique open air market place and though raids are frequent the
merchants are back on the job within • few hours after e•ch raid.
The result is that the Communists have given up as • hopeless task
the eliminating of private trading and private property and they are
all "doing business as nand."
kind words, dear
.;.Thenk you, thank you and thank you again for the
Reverend Samuel W. Wass, pastor of the Community Church of
Federal, Pa. The Rev. Wass, in response to an
• invitation of • local
Zionist paper, contributes a "tribute" to the Jews. This follower of
Jesus the Jew, "in my younger life, in • way, despised the Jew."
This he of course attributes to the fact that "conditions existing in
Whitechapel, London, England, as I saw things, was practically all I
knew of the Hebrew race." Later on he say that "it was not, how.
ever, until my enlistment that I redly found the good traits of the
Jew; why to him they owe the very salvation of their soul.. With-
out him they would probably burn forever end • dm in hell. One
would imagine that in these circumstances they would have • kindly
feeling for the brethren of such ■ Savior. But no, not • bit of it.
This one Jew they take to their hearts, and the others they repudiate
and refuse to admit that a single one of them is worth while.
Just when all of us had firmly annexed Senator Schemer, the bril-
liant leader of the Italian group at the Washington conference, as •
member of the House of Israel, we are compelled to hurriedly beck
track upon learning that instead of being • Jew he is reputed to be a
Gentile. And while it's quite • long leap, I always thought that Flo
Ziegfeld was a Jew but William A. Brady says he isn't--and I am sure
Ise knows awe. oim. oat it than I do.
TO SHOW PALESTINE
MOVIES JUNE 11-12
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Dr. Baer Epstein to Addresa
Local Audience for Jewish
National Fund.
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PREPARATIONS MADE FOR
FLOWER DAY COLLECTION
The Jewish National Fund Com-
mittee of Detroit is making elaborate
preparations for the presentation, for
the first time in this part of the coun-
try, of the Palestinian movie, show-
ing the extent of Jewish accomplish-
ments in Palestine, the life of the
Chalutzim there and the numerous
places of interest in the Holy Land
McAlister Hall, Forest and Cass
avenue, has been rented for Sunday
afternoon and evening, June 11, and
Monday evening, June 12. It is plan-
ned by the local committee to show
the picture three times, twice for
adults and once for the children of
, the local schools.
In connection with the showing of
the movie, Dr. Baer Epstein of The
Hague, Holland, will be here to ad-
, dress the audience's. Dr. Epstein is
a graduate of the universities of Hei-
delberg and Marburg, where he Mu-
died medical chemistry and philos-
Men's Trouser Sale
Hundreds of Pairs in Three Groups
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Trousers of every description---for men of
every build---in this great sale featured for
tomorrow. Men can come and choose from
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GROUP NO. 1
A wonderful lot of Trousers suitable for work or dress in
Cassimeres, Cheviots and Worsteds; striped or plain colors, very
specially priced for this sale at—
$1.80
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DR. BAER EPSTEIN
ophy, the latter subject under the
famous I eader of philosophical
thought in Germany, Hermann Cohen.
Dr. Epstein has been devoted to the
Zionist cause since his youth and was
for a time one of the leading Zionists
in Wilna.
About eight years ago Dr. Epstein
was persuaded to devote his oratori-
cal talents and organizing ability to
the cause of the Jewish National
Fund. Snice then he has traveled a
great deal over Russia, United States,
South America and England, stimu-
lating everywhere Zionist sentiment
and organizing the activities in be-
half of the Jewish National Fund.
By his vast knowledge, high intel-
ligence, oratorial gift. and his capac-
ity for organizing, Dr. Epstein occu-
pies a prominent place among the
best known propagandists for the
Zionist cause.
A small admission fee will be
charged to see the movies of Pales-
tine, the fees to go towards covering
the expenses.
Arrangements are also being made
for the annual Flower Day, taking
place this year on June 11. The com-
mittee's plans are to avoid interfer-
ence between the showing of the
movies and the collection of funds on
'that day. Volunteers for the fund
will be given a special showing of the
movie.
In connection with the Flower Day
collections, a gathering of volunteers
will be held in the near future to or-
ganize the local forces. It is hoped
that this year's collections will exceed
those of previous years. A number
of local organizations are already co-
operating for the activities and as
many more as can be reached will be
asked to supply volunteers and co-
operate in every other possible way.
Jewish young men and women of
17 and over are urged to join in the
Flower Day collections this year.
Volunteers desiring to enlist in the
work are asked to communicate with
the secretary of the Jewish National
Fund Committee, Miss Victoria Shelf-
man, 529 East Hancock avenue.
COLONIAL TRUST TO
COMMENCE CAMPAIGN
1,600,000 Pound Shares to be
Placed on Sale in Next
10 Months
LONDON.—(J. C. B. By mail.)—
It is announced that in accordance
with the decision of the Zionist Con-
gress and the Board of Directors of
the Jewish Colonial Trust, the Finan-
cial and Economic Council of the Zion-
ist Organization has decided to coin-
! mence a campaign for the sale of
shares of the J. C. T. Ltd.
The resolution in question was to
the effect, that the J. C. T. should,
while as far as possible maintaining
and promoting its present financial
position, he so developed as to become
the central financial institution for
the development of Palestine, and that
steps should be taken to increase its
share capital.
Of the authorized share capital of
£2,000,000 only £380,000 shares have
been subscribed. There are still more
than 1,600,000 shares to be sold, the
aim of the campaign is, within the
next ten months, to dispose of at least
500,000 of the J. C. T. shares.
As a 5 per cent. dividend was de-
clared by the J. C. T. at its last gen-
eral meeting in Carlbad and the pres-
ent financial position of the Trust is
: very satisfactory, the request to sub-
scribe is not made merely on the
grounds that the bank is participating
in the constructive work in Palestine,
but much more so because the shares
are recognized as a good and sound
investment.
There is still a sum of £17,415 in
the possession of the bank, in the form
in the form of unpaid dividends which
certain shareholders have neglected
to claim.
BURAREST.—(J. C. B.)—Repre-
sentatives of the International Red
Cross and the Kishinef directors of
the Joint Distribution Committee have
concluded an agreement wherby the
former is to help in transferring sev-
eral hundred Pogrom orphans from
the Ukraine to Siebenbuergen, where
the orphans are to be adopted by well.
to-do Jewish families.
GROUP NO. 2
At this price, choose from Dress Trousers in striped Worsteds,
Cassimeres, Serges, blue, brown and green Flannels; also fancy
mixtures to match suits. All sizes—
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GROUP NO. 3
All kinds of suiting patterns in this group; Checks, Stripes,
Fine Herringbones, Heavyweight Serges, Pure Worsted, in fact
every kind of fabric in mixtures or plain colors. All sizes—
$4.80
Frank
& Seder—Men's Store—Third Floor.
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ORPHANAGE CARD PARTY
GETS HEARTY RESPONSE,
Officers of the Detroit Hebrew Or-
phan Home announce that a large
number of tickets have been sold for
the card party to be given on May
15 at the Women's Federation club-
house, Hancock and Second avenues.,
In view of urgent needs of the Or-1
phan Home, the officers expressed i
the hope that persons who have not
already bought tickets will get them'
at once from the volunteer commit-;
tees. The officers' appeal states that
"it is only by the generous spirit of
the public that the orphanage can
be supported" and they expressed the
hope that the public will, through an
active interest and financial support,
help in the maintenance of the insti-
tution.
Tickets may be procured from the
chairman of the committee, Herman
Cohen, by calling Edgewood 3920.
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EMANUEL TALMUD TORAH
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
The congregation and Talmud To-
rah Emanuel announces that regis-
tration of new children for the He-
brew School are being continued for
the new term and that there is room
in the school for a large number of
additional pupils. J. Cashdan iss
teacher in charge of the school.
The Talmud Torah has made con-
siderable progress during the past
few months. Among the hardest
workers for the Talmud Torah is Mrs.
Eli Sachse, who is devoting much of
her time for the affairs of the school.
Mrs. Sachse is taking a great interest
in the children of the school and was
on numerous occasions instrumental
in arranging holiday parties and en-
tertainments for them. Mr. Sachse
is the treasurer of the Talmud Torah.
ENTERS PUBLISHING FIELD
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Buys AmeM.
can Agriculturist.
NEW YORK.—Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., son of Henry Morgenthau, for-
mer Ambassador to Turkey, pur-
chased the American Agriculturist,
one of the oldest farm papers in the
United States from Charles Capehart,
Edwin D. DeWitt and Thomas A.
Barrett of New York. Mr. Morgen-
thau was special government agent
attached to the American Embassy
in Constantinople during his father's
period of service there. In 1917, in
conjunction with Herbert Hoover, he
purchased and shipped 1,500 tractors
to France. He was later a lieutenant
in the navy.
Mr. Morgenthau will devote his en-
tire time to the expansion and de-
velopment of the American Agricul-
turist. He is a practical farmer and
owns a 1,000-acre farm in Dutchess
county, stocked with many thorough-
bred Holstein cows. He had de-
veloped an apple orchard of more
than 6,000 trees and is one of the
largest growers of alfalfa in his sec-
tion. He was a student of agycul-
ture at Cornell.
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