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I
hide my beloved from it in my hot,
strong arms. I used to hide her from
it beside my hot, loving heart. I I
used to try to blow of her face with
By Z. Y. ANOKHI
imy hot breath the dews of death. I
•did battle with death. I did not want
(Translated from the Yiddish by Hannah Berman.)
And
l of wheeanh I
to it. A
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death, fi
tfosurrear:
already full
rmly encompassed her with its ace
was
I
I love its colors.
I love life.
wings.
The
last
day
she
was
no
more
kissed
her
beautiful
hair.
And when
love its creative, restless movement.
and
bed— dry
than a with
dead dead,
body dead
in the eyes.
That
is death reduced her lips to two thin,
I am in love with life, but I am afraid cold
cold threads, I kissed her cold, white
of it. It frightens one to think of it.
teeth. But death was the conqueror.
I love life, but to think of it I am how death itself must have looked.
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When one spoke to her one waited. It took her from me.
afraid.
When they took my beloved from
Now,
now
she
will
speak
of
death.
I bete death. I hate its coldness,
its quiet, its dumb decisiveness. I And, at the same time, one thought me, and put her into her grave, my
Ittest wish was that I should be
yr
within
one
:elf
that
the
had
long
ago
am an enemy of death but I think of
' 'aid there beside her, in the arms of
it always, and anxio.ssle. It draw- 'versed the secret of death.
l o sed , loath. It was easy for me to attain
A
s
ort
w'Slit
before
she
c
me to it. My t etueht encompass it
1 knew how it could be
I hate death, but always, always I her eyes forever, she cabal her bus- my
But, I remained by the
band and children to her. She threw attained.
think of it.
,
And neither of them—neither life her glances at them. Only death it- side of the grave, among the living.
self looks in such a manner. And And every day, every day I come
nor death do I understand.
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she said in a voice which was the to my beloved in her grave. I bring
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voice of death itself: her flowers. In the summer I bring
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When I was a boy T studied with
"In a short time I shall be no more. her summer flowers, fresh and sett
an old Jew, a teacher, Reis Isaac. He I shall be dead amongst you, living- with the colors of blood and life. In
capacity, being adaptable to any type of body
was tie best teacher in the town. Ile
For a long time I embittered your the winter, I bring her white flowers,
that your business may require.
was a man of 90, tall and thin, with
lives. I did not let you live. My white with the color of snow and
long, snow-white eyebrows, and a
sickness took your rest from you, 1 frost.
long snow-white beard and a face full
Every day, every day I come to the
darkened your days. Nose, when I
of death. His face was covered with
die, begin to live. Bear my death grave of my beloved. I bring hers
a web of quiet. cold wrinkles. It was
with courage. Let mourning not in- flowers.
death which had woven this web of
Does anyone know this—
terrupt your lives. Begin to live. Do
[ wrinkles. Its dead thoughts had
Why does life care about death?
not be sorrowful, I.ive as you ought
' marked hint. When Reb Isaac sat
to live, my children. Bear your loss
among people, sunken in thought,
bravely. Do not be sorrowful, but
everyone felt that death was sitting
live. . . . Live as you ought to live.
there and thinking its dead thoughts
East Grand Boulevard at Oaklanad Ave.
. . I, your mother, beg this of you.
' of an existence on the other side of
Du this for me, I beg of you. . . ."
Detroit, Michigan
movement, on the other side of exist-
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
Cold tears rose into her eyes. And
en•e. In the town everybody knew
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much prayer was written on her
that Reb Isaac was a guest among so
dead
face.
Early this year there were numer-
the living---a dead guest in the midst
Why did death care about life?
ous occasions when I visited all sorts
of life. And everybody knew that
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of business poeple, most of them met.
soon, soon, on one of these nights, on
It was on a summer's day—a fresh, chants and manufacturers of the
a dark, still, dumb night, he would
vanish from among the living. He bright, dear day. One of those days fairly successful type, on errands of
on
which the living so dearly love a non-business character. These er-
had already prepared a place for him-
self at the House of Eternal Rest. He life. Early in the morning, after rands were quite removed from con.
prayers,
the caretaker of the House cans of commerce and were of a
had had gravecloths made for him.
Out of High Rent Distrkt
Between Second and Elizabeth
And every night, every night, he put of Eternal Rest came quickly into the nature to encourage rather a per-
them on, lay down on the floor and synagogue. Ile was pale and fright- sonal and intimate exchange of ideas
buried himself in thoughts of death, ened. Ile was a tall, strong Jew. His on general affairs. The conclusion to
Along with me, several other boys face was full of life. I knew him for which I came may interest those who
a man with a straight, firm, healthy desire to know the state of mind of
studied with the dead Reb Isaac.
When he was teaching us he gave mind. And, desolately pale fear a large element among the less afflu-
himself up to teaching. His dead spread over his face. Ile went over ent men in the business and industrial
life of New York.
face used to frighten me. But, at to the rabbi and said:
Wherever I went I found, to my
"The paling around the House of
such moments, he was inspired. And
when we did not understand what he Eternity has fallen in . Graves are amazement, a general feeling of dis-
trust
for the other man. That this
taught us, he became greatly agi. broken."
All those who were in the syna- state of mind gives rise to doubtful
toted. More than once, his thin, dead
practices
and cynical methods struck
hand fell on our faces. He was so gogue were torn by the heart. They
excited and agitated that he used to folded up their talethym and phylac- me with painful force. My insistence
cough. His body, his hand shook. teries, and went off to the House of that distrust and suspicion lead to
And he coughed and coughed, and Eternity. They looked at the broken confusion, impaired business morale
barely managed to catch his breath. graves, and they were downcast. and a consequent condoning of dis-
It happened sometimes that who- Tears showed in their eyes. With honest acts that undermines the com-
broken hearts, they begged forgive. mercial structure elicited either ri-
Detroit, Mich.
ever stood by asked him:
"Reb Isaac, what is the matter with ness of the dead. They recited the bald laughter or an attitude of supine
Factory and Main Office:
you? Calm yourself. Well, your pu- Pslams. And with great sanctity, resignation.
Despite the general cynicism, I can-
pils will become rabbis a year later!" they repaired the broken graves. On
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Ile would then open his dead, dead the same day, they began to build not get myself to believe that busi-
ness
suffers from a vicious circle of
eyes, and his dead voice would ring around the House of Eternal Rest a
mutual dishonesty or, at best, unfair-
high, strong, beautiful wall.
with heart ache.
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I stood in the House of Eternity ness. If the contention of Mr. X. is
"Surely, they will crow un men of
the earth. . . They will not be with all the others. I looked at every- true that he must fight Mr. Y.'s de-
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able to take a Jewish book in their body. I looked at the faces of the ception with deception, that his com-
hands! . . . How will they live in people who were overflowing with petitors ever lurk in the dark to undo
him, one must conclude that busi- I
life. I did not understand.
the world?" . . .
ness is infected with moral sabotage
Why did life care about death?
As time went by, I trod a long,
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worse than the more obvious destruc-
long road from that time onwards. I
tive methods which syndicalists arc
I
loved
r.
woman.
At
the
begin-
knew life. I thought a great deal
In presenting pictures, we do our utmost to get what
about death. I did not understand. ning of my happiness I felt that death said to employ. The ugly thing about
had cast its angry glances at her. It the whole situation is that on the ,
Why did death care about life?
we think our patrons want,—however if at any time you
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began to paint her cheeks with its surface men engaged in the same I
have any suggestions to offer we shall be glad to hear
colors. And from day to day it fast- business will maintain a sort of of-
I knew a woman, the wife of a man
ened its arms more firmly about her. ficial solidarity that is quite mean-
from YOU.
and the mother of children. She was
I took it upon myself to do battle ingless. They belong to the same or- 1
ailing.
For
years
she
was
bedridden.
cALFRED LANE, c°Mgr.
ganizations, employ the same spokes.
Death slowly, quietly, calmly but with cold, sullen death. I used to
men to represent them in matters in
which the business or industry as a'
whole is interested, and on occasion
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actually fraternize with one another.
A few weeks ago a man who repre-
sents various New York manufactur-
ers in New England confided to MC
that when he conies to the city to '
straighten out his accounts he must
, keep his eyes wide open "lest they
do me out of something." He told
me that he reposed no confidence in
ee:ma -are
I the people he represented, that is, in
the methods they employ towards him
in financial matters. A young, clean-
! cut fellow, his references to the
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manufacturers were by no means
pleasant to one who believed that -
honesty in business was general and
dishonesty the exception. "They are
all alike," the New Englander con-
, eluded, contemptuously.
! That the business world of which
I am speaking is not altogether free
12 YEARS IN DETROIT
, from doubtful practices has been
brought home to me not infrequently
by persons who figure in the situa-
tion. Young men enter business not
with the feeling that sterling honor
is necessary and profitable, but with
the attitude that all is fair in busi-
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However, I still cling to the hope
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brazen business methods. There is
Mr. Isadore Wolf, Branch Manager.
no way to reduce unfair and un-
conscionable practices to a minimum
except to hunt out the crooked fel-
lows and punish them either by the
law or by the stern repudiation of
those with whom they deal. The nub-
lie can compel honesty by refusing to
tolerate the notion that the essence
of business is shadiness and greed.
Business men who complain that they
must engage in faulty deals because
others in their line are doing the same
thing are accomplices of a despicable
sort and are no better than those
against whom they rail. The man
who insists that business men are de-
void of elementary ideals is most
or
eootkoott
likely a man who prefers the easy
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