America Path Periodical Caries CLIYTON AVIN01 - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO PAGE SEVEN TiftVernortfinsa64Romael A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All My Jewish Friends The Jewish Method Of Slaughtering By DR. ISRAEL FELDMAN, Demonstrator of Physiology; London Hospital Medical College. HEART OF THE JEW By ANNA FRADA Through sanguinary hate's relentless heart, Through inquisition's baleful art, The Jew, on low or high behest (From North, South, East or New World West), Through shadows grim or case of sun Till man with love for man lw won, The Jew and Jew at heart are one. Save Coal and Keep Warm Start the New Year Right Once again, after a period of quiesc.I ■ ibservation and experiment. It has owe, the subject of the humans ' )•een estimated that after the cutting neck in the ritual manner, con- slaughter of animals for food has 1 of the come into prominence here in Eng- I sciousness is completely lost within 0 tragicheart! Immortal is thy quest— land, and the various societies that 'three seconds, and in mentioning this have been establsihed for the purpose hurt interval of time it must b e , F r: h xalt i cd, by Jehovah's crest shalt hil.rir':nttrie d a II " n of protecting dumb animals are mak- s 8 ,1n 1 ing every endeavor to influence the' emphasized that well within even this ' 1 kY,, light sun; " authorities to revise the conditions short period the receptiveness of the Nor shall a world of of war and rage, under which the slaughtering of ani- higher brain to all sensitivity must Nor bigotry nor venom's gage heritage. E'er past thee from main for food takes place. The sub- destroyed. In addition to E'er —American Hebrew. jest very intimately and directly con- have bane cerns us Jews, inasmuch as from time thus causing practically ous loss of sensibility and of con. ' The learned man whose garment is immemorial we have practiced the ,ciousnes, Shechita ensures that the is undeserving of honor.—The method of slaughtering known as , g y drained of soiled holi. body is thorouh mud. a method that, like many r' Shechita-- t for apart from the immediate lal other customs associated with the ' in this direction brought daily routine of Jewish life, has been direct t by the severance of the large s ' b..1iu most carefully and minutely de- a ' %Thine.' in all its details by the teach- arterial and venous channels in the neck, there is the subsequent very im- NICKLE PLATING ings of our rabbis. portant contributory factor provided METAL BUMPING Injunction to Avoid Cruelty. by the violent spasmodic convulsive LETTERING FENDER ENAMELING Some of us who have been brought contractions of the muscles which up in an intensive Jewish millieu are squeezed the blood out from all parts apt too readily to take it for granted of the body, thus rendering the meat that our fellow citizens share with more acceptable and delaying its us that instinctive conviction that, be- putrefaction. cause a practice is sanctioned or ad- . It has been suggested that the act vocated by the Jewish religion, it of cutting with the knife may pro- must. of necessity, be humane. The duce pain. But this assertion is an- reason for this is not far to seek. As sacred by the fact that the possibil- Jews, our training has, from very ity is reduced to an absolute mini- early childhood, imbued u s with a mum by the excessive keenness of deep and conscientious feeling for the Shochet's knife and by the de- OUR WORK IS AS SPARKLING AND BRILLIANT AS OUR NAME the dumb creatures around us. The liberate and sudden manner of its Bible and the Talmud constantly re- application. Even in the case of hu- iterate our duty to avoid cruelty of man beings, with their much more FREE ESTIMATES—ONE-YEAR GUARANTEE any kind to any living creature. We highly organized and more sensitive are commanded to rest all cattle on nervous system, if they are afflicted the Sabbath day. Ti avoid the work- by great and sudden injuries (as in ing together of two animals of un- battle or accidents) they experience equal strength and different tempera-. not so much a sensation of pain as merits, Jews are not allowed to that of an indefinite ill-defined blow. MANAGER ;dough with an ox and ass together The act of bleeding, as such, is, in it- in one harin , ss. .An ox must not be self, even in a conscious being, pain- muzzled when treading the corn— this in order that he might not be le " : Training of Shoshetim. resented from partaking of the food By Weather Stripping Your Home. REINFORCED METAL WEATHER STRIP CO. 524 Griswold Street Peter F. Kehoe Detroit's Cheapest and Best Factory Sites. Located Where the Best Labor Is Available. 1748 PENOBSCOT BLDG. Lincoln 0435 Cherry 0323 Cherry 6224 R. J. 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Hunting therefore, note that the official Sho- a o f animals for pleasure, or for so- chet or slaughterer has to undergo called slant, is over and over con- rigorous and exhaustive trolling pre- AI of • By virtue io to uali g;ficat [219MMnMFAiR nsifIs demned by the rabbis. „e OMMMMnRAMMETaM aMMWANT 5rai the slaughterers ar vious traini w ith this „ Starting - Lighting - Ignition , the blood from all parts of the cases, our rabbis did not explain, at ' of any rate in scientific language, the " o "y* A New Casting Apparatus. basis for the very many customs that Jews,are exhorted to observe in their I Much emphasis has been laid, both daily life, nevertheless, what appears now and in the past, upon the fact', superficially to have been empirically that, previous to the actual cutting! e nunciated is found on minute and by the Shochet, the neck of the ani-1 ca reful investigation to have scien- mal must be extended. The methods title data for its support. We can, employed for this purpose in the case without any hesitation or reserve, of the smaller animals have little emphatically state thst Shechita deft- room fur honest criticism or controsl nitely comes within this category. versy. In the case of larger animals,' the method of "casting" is adopted. Procedure in Shechita. This has very frequently been criti- The essence of Shechita consists in sized on the grounds that it some- the following procedure that is car- times caused the animal pain or dis- ried out by the Shochet, the official comfort, and the Jewish authorities entrusted with the duty of slaughter- have always been anxious to improve ing. With a super-sharp, smooth, the conditions and details of the cast- 1 ev en-edged knife a single continuous .ing process. I was recently present cut is made horizontally across the at the Isslington Cattle Market when neck of the animal. The cut must I a demonstration was given of a new I be free and exposed, and no lacers- apparatusfor this purpose that hasp tion of the tissues is permitted. As been devised by J. B. Hayhurst, M. a result of this single lightning stroke R. C. V. S., the chief veterinary in- all the structures in the neck down spector at the Metropolitan Cattle to the spine are cut through. The Market, and lecturer at the Royal essence of this procedure lies in the Veterinary College and the Royal I fact that the great blood vessels pro- Army Veterinary College. The fa- I ceeding directly from the heart to cility with which the casting of large' the brain and vice versa, i. e., both bullocks was effected by this newt; carotid arteries and both jugular method, and the exceedingly small ! veins, are instantaneously and freely degree of discomfort experienced by cut across. The brain cannot funs- the animals in the process, added to tion unless it receives a constant and its commendable simplicity, indicate very rich supply of arterial blood that by the development of Mr. Hay- from the heart, which, under normal hurst's designs we are well on the conditions, acting as a central pump, . smut to obtaining a means for the ensures this through the medium of preliminary casting of large animals, the carotid arteries in the neck. Af- , which should prove most effective,' ter passing through the brain, hay- easily worked, and painless. ing given up oxygen and fudostuffs, I In the foregoing article I have en- the blood returns as deoxygenated1deavored to present, in broad out- blood back to the heart through the lline, the results of a large series of! wide channels provided by the jugs'. scientific scientific observations and experi- lar veins, these likewise passing ments on the part of independent through the neck. Of all the var iousl workers. I have refrained, on this structures in the body, the most sin-, occasion, from quoting, in any detail, I sitive to even minute changes in blood the many and varied data upon which supply are the nerve cells. It is these conclusions are based. I have 1 well known that interference with these before me as I write, but I1 the blood supply of any grouping of trust that sufficient evidence has been'! nerve cells, even for a very short brought forward, in as simple and di- period, results in the permanent in- reef a manner as possible, to indicate jury or death of those nerve cells. It that Jewish sentiment and Jewish is also well known that by simple , practice for all creatures, which, in' of ' the order of things, have been placed both carotid arteries, loss of con- , within the power of man. In their sciousness can be suddenly and con- , dealings with the lower animals, Jews pletely produced. This Fact was rat' possess a clear conscience, and this is' one time very frequently taken ad-1 ' fortified by the sincere conviction' vantage of by ruffians who, by this' that in the practice of Shechita they', method, known as "garotting," ren- are employing a method of slaughter- dared their victims suddenly uncon- ing animals which is certain, rapid - scions and rubbed them. The device and painless.—The Jewish Chronicle, is also employed among the Japanese Lo ndo London. n. I for the purpose of self-defense. It, is well known that, of all parts of ', the central nerve system, the higher, FUTILITY brain, which is the seat of conscious-. ness, is the most readily affected by1 the slightest variations in its blood- supply. The result of cutting, at one lie always came to us on Friday night,. stroke, with carotid arteries and both The thin old man who worked with dreams and clay; jugular veins, is an immediate cessa- tion of the flow of blood to the brain, !Who wrought within his figures all ' the might, and at the same time, a literal drain- - 7- - The fancies and the hours of yes- .- ing away, with great rapidity, of terday. == _E - most of the blood that was present in the brain just previous to the cut- --= -----_- ting. This must produce immediate Those nights the candles only seemed - to glow loss of sensibility and of conscious- -- R LL- For him. Such lovely colored bits -= ness. One of the immediate results - ... of fire observed after the cut is the spas- __.--- modic and violent tossing to and fro That never snapped, but gently =- burned—so slow of the head of the animal. This is a As though they could not ever end sign, well authenticated and accepted, !.,..E_ or tire. that the brain has indeed become anaemic, and that, as a corollary to -M - this, a series of strong impulses is He talked to us of models he had :It- 7 made being sent down along the nerves , connected with the musculature of s But did not sell—none wanted •E-- - - - - fairy queens, the face, causing them thus violently to contract. This is followed by And still he hoped, hoped some day to be paid similar convulsive spasm of the Though men do not buy hazy fig- muscles of all other parts of the body. urines. brought • about by anaemia and asphyxia of the spinal cord. To the lay untrained observer, these convul- But now he's dead, and so he lies alone sive movements might suggest a pur- poseful struggling effort on the part Beneath a figure strangers carved from stone, that this is an of the animal. 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