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A Day at the Talmud
Torah Headquarters':

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By AN OBSERVER
A day spent at the Talmud Torah
headquarters here, on Wilkins street,,
gave me a certain satisfaction of
learning that there is a real honest-
to-goodness institution in our city
that conducts the work of Ilebrew
education in a fashion worthy of
praise.
Incident after incident was enact-
ed before my eyes in and out of the
classroom that gave me vivid proof
of the strength of the movement in
Detroit. I want to reproduce here,
practically word for word, two con-
versations I overheard while at the
school.
The first conversation was between
the principal and a visiting parent,
who, like the proverbial buyer, is
never satisfied with the goods he
buys. Like the typical shrewd busi-
ness man, he wants to get the best
goods for the least money.
The second conversation is between
the principal and applicants for ad-
mission into the school. The con-
versation reveals the progress for
Hebrew education in Poland and also
shows the advance made toward
forming a unified system of Hebrew
education through the world.
The conversations as I overheard
them follow.

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GIAS. I+. c.JOSEPP - . --- -

(CopywrIght, 1921.

By Chas. H. Joseph.)

Quit. an interesting controversy has raged on the subject of
"Non-Sectarian Prayer," precipitated by Rabbi Harry Mayer of
City, who made the statement:

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No one could have challenged the Reverend Abernathy's
liberty of action and conscience if he had seen ft to make his
prayer sectarian instead of non-sectarian. A clergyman who
believes that his prayers to God should be through the inter-
cession of a aecond person of the Trinity has the privilege,
which none should question, to pray as he is accustomed to
whenever he is invited to pray in public."

The Jewish Ledger of New Orleans answers:

"Sectarian prayers and all else pertaining to sectarianism
most decidedly have their place, but that place is not in a public
institution or gathering but in a church. When a clergyman is
invited to offer a prayer in a public place or at a public func-
tion, he tacitly agrees to accommodate himself to the occasion
and to make his prayers non-sectarian. If he is a man of in-
telligence he will at once realize that he must leave his sec-
tarianism behind when he enters into that public institution
or joins the participants in the public function. Once he has
accepted the invitation, he is duty bound to omit from his
prayer every phrase, sentiment and allusion that may betray
sectarianism and offend the sensibilities of those who subscribe
to doctrines opposed to the ones such a prayer reflects."

A man walked into the office and
made inquiries about his child's pro-
gress. The following conversation
took place:
Father: How is my Jacob getting
along?
Principal: His work is very satis-
factory.
Father: What do you mean by
in tinfortory?
Principal: I mean that he is do-
ing excellent work. Last week I ex-
amined his class on the Book of
Judges and was surprised at your
boy's thorough knowledge. Besides,
he has also learned much of gram-
mar, history and composition.
I don't are it.
I just
Father:
think he knows nothing.
Principal: We don't need to dis-
cuss the matter. We can call the boy
into the office and question him a
little.
It isn't
Father: Don't bother.
necessary.
The boy was summoned, neverthe-
I less, and questioned on various sub-
jects. His answers were prompt and
correct.
i Father: I knew Jakie knew his
lessons.
Principal (a little excited): What
do you mean by making such dis-
couraging remarks at the time when'
you know yourself that the boy
I knows the subjects taught him per- 1
fectly?
Father (not at all embarrassed):
Do you want me to praise your mer-
chandise? Well, you know what the
wise Solomon said in the Book of
Proverbs: "It is bad, it is bad, saith
'the buyer."

I am inclined to agree with the editor of the Ledger. Many
readers have attended non-sectarian functions when • clergyman has
been called upon for prayer and have felt uncomfortable when he
ended with the usual "In the name of Jesus Christ," etc., etc. I know
I feel uncomfortable and that I always consider that the officiating
minister has used bad judgment and was guilty of worse taste. Be.
fore • group of men and women of different religious beliefs, any.
thing that smacks of sectarianism should be avoided.

Good for you, Rosenstein! He is • member of the Annapolis class
of 1922, of which Kaplan was a member. Rosenstein writes:

'I would like to know why you should undertake to defend
the course which my class-mate, Bernard Kaplan, has pursued
at Annapolis, when at the very outset he signed his application
papers as of no religion. I cannot quite understard why, hav-
ing tried to evade the responsibilities of his birth and faith, the
Jewish press should now invoke the influence of his faith in
his defense."

You •re right. The Jewish press didn't know what a renegade
Kaplan was •t the time; but the Jewish press has thin satisfaction,
that Kaplan cannot any longer conceal his Jewishness, because he has
been indelibly stamped before the World. Apparently he isn't much
more than • cheap snob, as is any Jewish boy who lacks the man.
hood to confess his religion.

The world do move. That includes even the Episcopalians. I
always thought Episcopalians • trifle too "churchy." Took their
worship too seriously. Over•theologized, so to speak. Too much
pomp and ceremony, choir boys, vestments and all the rest of it. Then
they lack the sense of humor. I am speaking, of course of the official
Episcopalians. If they hadn't taken themselves so seriously and got
into such • frame of mind where they actually believed that there was
only one heaven, and that ■
an Episcopalian one, they wouldn't have
become such over-starched theologians. For example, for some 300
years they have linked up officially the "Turk, the Jew and the In-
fidel." Rather rough on us, I say. But they took this quite seriously
and God knows what the Episcopalians have been consigning us to
during all this time; that is, in their prayer books. But • light is
beginning to dawn and we discover that at the general convention of
the Protestant Episcopal church at Portland, in September, an effort
will be made to disassociate the Jews from their neighbors—the
"Turk., the infidel. and the heretics"—for some say that it isn't fair
to class the Jew who believes in Cod with the others. One wonders
•as the little progress men have made mentally. And it seems to me
that the church needs • vacuum cleaner to rid itself of the •ccurnu-
lotions of age-worn superstitions.
•

The Bomberger family seem to have found a comfortable place in
the affections of Gentile and Mormon in Utah. Simon Bomberger was
elected governor of Utah in 1916, rind now I see that Ernest Bom-
berger has been unanimously chosen as nominee for United St•tes
Senator on the Republican ticket. So it looks as if there is at least
one state in the Union where the principles of real Americanism are
not merely preached but practiced. It is quite unusual to have such
political honors accorded to the Jewish citizens of this country. The
only other state that has had a Jewish governor is Idaho, where Moses
Alexander was elected, and it is interesting to note that he was re•
elected, which indicates the value of his administration.

The White House attaches should have fumigated that part of that
historic edifice in which sat E. G. Liebold, Ford's secretary, who went
to see the President last week. It is unfair to ask decent minded men
to breathe the same atmosphere as this man, the chief of the spy
bureau of the Ford organization. In this month's International, Nor-
man Hapgood continues to show in greater detail than ever just what
• colossal fool Ford has been in his Jew-mania; how he lent his aid
and spent his money for work of such vile description that no man
with the slightest pretence to manhood could countenance, let •Ione
finance, these undeground spies. Think of it, citizens of the United
States, you have • man aspiring to be the Chief executive of this
nation who engaged men so low, with emotives is low, that they tried
to trace ■ telephone connection between the apartment of Justice
Brandeis and the White House in the hope that probably such wire
could be tapped and the scoundrels could possibly glean some informa-
tion to show that the Jews were all that the erratic mind of the
World's Greatest Dupe imagined. One's blood boils as one reads the
story of the rascals this man Ford hired to check up his crazy ideas.
I would be in favor of having millions of copies of the Hapgood story
struck off and mailed broadcast to show the nation just what sort of
a man Henry Ford is to countenance that which is repugnant to every
honest-minded, self-respecting American citizen.

German-Jewish conversation up to date. I find this in a story in
one of the leading magazines written by ■ Jewish authoress. Won-
derful how much sense some of our co-religionists possess and how
eager they seem to be to help our enemies:

"Mrs. Baer came from one of the best German-Jewish
families in New York, and no did her husband, and it Wan up
to them to show Jew-haters that only a certain class of Jews
are objectionable.
"'You really can't blame them sometimes,' Mrs. Baer would
often say to her husband, as they exchanged gossip of the day
over the dinner table. 'I hate to admit it, but you can't always
blame them. I wish all those kikes would go back to Palestine,
where they belong. They are the ones who make it hard for
the real refined Jews.'
"Mr. Baer was a highly successful real estate operator,
and although he wore the customary ruby-flanked diamond ring,
was quite intellectual. lie read the New York Times every
morning."

Don't you think it is rather warm for this season of the year?

Speaking of the insidious propaganda that is disseminated, some-
times unintentionally, through the magaxines against our people, I hap-
pened across • story in the "Boys' Magazine" the other day that
emphasized this point. It was written by • boy 19 yew, old. The
story was rather crudely written and amateurish. But the subject
matter was vicious and showed the trend of the boy's mind. It dealt
with • pawnbroker in • small college town. He was • cheat, of
course; rather objectionable personality. Usual heavy villain type.
No one would say from the description the shining author drew of
this bewhiskered cheater that he was an Irishman or • Seotehm•n.
He means him for ■ Jew. The college athletic group turned name
wool over to this pawnbroker from which to make sweaters for them.
The pawnbroker used the wool for other purposes and made the
sweaters from cotton. He was exposed, and what could anyone expect
from such • Jew? Every little bit of prejudice added to what our
enemies already have eventually makes quite • bit.

Jacob Levitan writes to the dramatic.editor of the New York Times

in this wise:

"I'm wagering with the members of my group of serious
thinkers that David Wartield is going to find Shylock'a gabar-
dine as elusive as the cloak of the Flying Dutchman—and an
for Barney Bernard, why should the dleineator of one of the
most lovable characters ever presented on the American stage
now sully his art with an attempt to put on the most despicable
character of the English-speaking stage—a character not born
of knowledge, but out of prejudice? The more in this a conun-
drum because Barney Bernard (Abe Potash) is no loyally Jew-
ish, so proud of his racial heritage."

I em glad that others are beginning to express themselves publicly
against Jewish actors who propose to perpetuate the one character
•shove all others on the stage that has done most harm to the Jews-
Shylock• 1 would like to see Belasco and Warfield bombarded with
protests, and if Berney Bernard is going to try to do the same unde•
airable thiag the. Ise, tea, aught I. hear from the Jewish public.

PAGE FIVE

A brother and a sister entered the
office. It was evident that both re-
cently landed here from Poland. The
boy was shy and reticent, the girl
rather bold and talkative. They were
of the ages of 14 and 15. The girl
addressed the principal in a beauti-
ful and fluent Hebrew.
Girl: We wish to enroll here as
pupils.
Principal (seemingly surprised):
Who are you and where did you learn
to speak Hebrew so fluently?
Girl: My name is Rivkah Pecker.
!I came from Poland. There I studied
! in the new Hebrew school. I just'
entered the sixth grade. Here is my
testimonial.
Principal: That is fine inded. We
wlil place you in the same class here
and you will not lose a (lay. What
books did you use?
Girl: We used S. L. Gordon's and
J. Fishman's.
Principal: We use the same books
here. Now what about your brother?
Girl: My brother? lie just knows
nothing. lie studied in an old-fash-
I ioned cheder, you know. Isn't it ye-
culler, though, he studied nine hours
a day and knows nothing.

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"There was a matter before me this
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