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November 28, 1924
Kislev 1, 5685
Smith Elected
Although John W. Smith was elected on Nov. 4, it
was not until Nov. 21 that all questions as to his elec-
tion were removed. We offer him our sincere felicita-
tions. Ilis election is significant in view of the issues
involved and the methods employed.
Charles Bowles asked a recount. The recount
showed discrepancies in the unofficial count which gave
Smith thousands of additional votes, while the mutila-
ted, defaced and improperly marked ballots which
were probably intended for Bowles were many thou-
sands more.
Who and why Bowles in the last mayoralty elec-
tion? From an obscure lawyer who was generally con-
sidered before the primary as an added starter, he be-
came a most formidable candidate, so formidable in-
deed that he polled over 100,000 votes out of the 300,-
000 cast and this strength was shown, while not official-
ly, in the ballot. If his backers and friends had prop-
erly estimated his strength he woult, not have been a
sticker candidate but one of the two candidates chosen
at the non-partisan primary. Only after the primary
did his friends, promoters and sympathizers recognize
his strength and then it was too late, for they were un-
able to educate the electorate to the point Where the
electorate could vote intelligently and accurately. And
who were those of the electorate supporting Bowles?
Admittedly, the Ku Klux Klan, the 100 per cent Nor-
dic, Protestant American groups were behind him to
the last man and woman. This superior group, which
would exclude aliens because they are not assimilable,
had not sufficient intelligence or a knowledge of their
native speech to mark a ballot correctly and conse-
quently their ignorance defeated their own candidate.
The managers of the Bowles campaign should have
spent less time in breaking up meetings at Arena Gar-
dens and less time should have been spent in their se-
cret meetings at Danceland and more time spent in
teaching these greater breeds how to spell the name of
their candidate and to discover the mysteries and in-
tricacies of a ballot. In this case pride surely did go
before a fall.
What upholder of the sacred Nordic creed would
admit that he or she could not mark a ballot correctly?
And yet more than 1•,000 Were mutilated and incor-
rectly marked. All of this happened in Detroit and
not in one of the Southern States, which are supposed
to have a monopoly on illiteracy. And yet with such
an astounding amount of illiteracy it is not at all stir-
', prising that the Ku Klux Klan has such an apparent
strength in this community. No soil is better suited
for a plentifell harvest of Klanism than ignorance and
illiteracy. The Klan leaders are faced with a dilemma.
If they educate these dupes and ignoramuses they will
lose them as members, and if they do not, there is al-
ways the hazard that they will be unable to vote cor-
rectly and, consequently, elections will be. lost. Dis-
comfiture and chagrin must be the twin feelings of the
Bowles managers, but Nve can hardly say we sympa-
thize with them. We are exceedingly pleased with the
result. John W. Smith, the mayor-elect of the city of
Detroit, is above racial. religious and national differ-
ences. Ile is the representation of all the people of De-
troit and shall give an excellent account of himself.
His administration will be on a par with the excellent
administration of his predecessors. Detroit will con-
tinue as a progressive municipality where the best in
democracy will prevail.
We can honestly say to John W. Smith that the citi-
zens of Detroit of the Jewish faith who supported his
candidacy Wish him a successful administration.
Even Death Has Its Uses.
There is no intent to be whimsical or even paradoxi-
cal but it is merely the wish to state a pertinent fact
that prompts us to inquire into the uses of death. The
passing of two supreme artists, Anatole France and
Joseph Conrad, provokes this expression.
Both these men were generally known during their
lifetime, but since their death the Interest excited and
curiosity aroused have brought them to the notice of
all who have but a passing concern in literature and a
casual interest in psychologic studies.
Anatole France was made a member of the French
Academy for the excellence of his unique literary work
and was then expelled from the same academy for his
penetrating. revealing shafts directed against the hy-
pocrisy and mendacity in French life. Anatole France,
of whom it was said that love, pity and understanding
were so exquisitely blended that he was at once partici-
pant in all the varied human activities which surround-
ed him; cynical critic of all the duplicity, superficiality
and buncombe of which there is such a super-abun-
dance in French politics; father confessor, guide and
adviser of the wistful, burdened spirits who ever sought
to bring the millennium in their own day; defender of
the persecuted and calumniated, never asking what
race, creed or nationality was theirs. Ile was natural-
ly a Dreyfusard in those stormy. hectic days of French
anti-Semitism and in his last days was a defender of
the Communists, for he conceived them to be the de-
fenders of a new faith against whom the poisoned ar-
rows of hatred and reaction were directed. To all this
was added a catholicity of view, a scholarship so rare
and profound that made him at once the delight and
disturbance of scholars and aesthetes. His mastery ex-
tended from archaeology and theology to economics
and social science. Loaded with gifts that which no man
had greater he possessed a •style which for delicacy.
strength and fragile beauty has never been equalled.
He could paint on broad canvas with a riot of color, or
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he could do the most painstaking etching which requir-
ed that meticulous accuracy and detail achieved only
by the most consummate artists.
"'rho Crime of Sylvester Bonnard" and "The Revolt
of the Angels" indicate one range, while "The Confess-
ions of Abbe Coignard" and "The Isle of the Penguins"
shows yet another. Whether it he a tale for children,
or those who are children in spirit though grown to
adulthood, or if it be in a satirical vein bordering on
the cynical, the spirit of h ve, pity and understanding
can always be found unmistakably woven in the fab-
ric.
Although Anatole France saw the devil's fruit of
the caiastrophe of war and had been persuaded that
hatred, malice, envy and vanity ruled the world, yet
he unhesitatingly joined with those who raised the ban-
ner of love, generosity and good will. He left a legacy
to mankind which will gladden and ennoble for many
centuries. his death created such a widespread and
deep stir that many who had not known of the treasure
which he had piled up during his lifetime and was
theirs for the taking first came to know this genius and
genuine lover of humanity. But above and before all
Anatole France was 4111 artist, the maturest product of
it sophisticated, artistic milieu. Ile labored and cre-
ated out of his materials. works with the definite stamp
of artistic genius and let one not imagine that the
smooth flowing, magnificent periods of Anatole France
were a facile accomplishment for, in truth, they were
the result of persistence, patience, endless study and
mastery of the minutest detail of his art. If Anatole
France chose his name out of egregious vanity he was
rather modest, for his artistry encompasses not only a
country but a whole world.
The other genius who died at about the same time
was Joseph Conrad, a native of Poland who went to
sea. This fact had a greater bearing upon the life of
Joseph Conrad than any other. The sea, that brooding,
stormy, fickle, silent, endless expanse where men who
live tleeply probe to the very heart of things enabled
Joseph Conrad to discover the stuff of which men are
made. And how well he plumbed the depths can best
be learned from a reading of his masterpiece, "Lord
Jim." Hamlet is a tragic figure, sicklied o'er by the
pale cast of thought, a strange figure who broods and
is ever racked by indecision, poisoned by an act of
weakness, but Lord Jim of Joneph Conrad is even a
more grim and tragic figure in his corroded loneliness
among, a strange people. "Almayers Folly," "The Nig-
ger of the Narcissus," "Romance," "Nostromo," "Un-
der Western Eyes" and "The Heart of Darkness" are
tales which bring to us all the tragedies of Shakes-
peare, but the people are flesh and blood, called into
being out of a world of every-day life. The fundamen-
tal human emotions of love!, fear, hatred; the devasta-
ting influence of cowardice, indolence, indecision and
avarice are pictured by an artist who saw his human-
ity naked, read its inmost thoughts. felt its vagrant
emotions and put down in most exquisite, richly hued
English all these thoughts, feelings. nightmares and
vagaries.
English was not his native tongue, but his mastery
of it was so complete that many are of the opinion that
he was the greatest master of the English idiom among
all the writers of English fiction.
'When Conrad picked his victitit he pursued him
with the relentless persistence of the fates and furies.
Not a nuance escaped him, not the minutest change in
the whole range of emotions was deleted, all the vicis-
situdes were noted and examined, the victim had been
psycho-analyzed. dissected and all the ugly passions,
greeds, hatreds and envies were exhibited. But all this
was done without any moralizing puritanism; it was
clone by all artist whose only and chief concern was to
draw the picture as he saw it.
To some, Joseph Conrad is an even greater artist
than Anatole France for the reason that there is no
moralizing or propaganda of any sort in his writing.
His is the detached observant, creative work of a man
living in a rather circumscribed world. His keen intel-
lect, aesthetic appreciation, sensitized vision and hear-
ing enabled him to bring to life the people with whom
he lived intimately. And despite all this wonderful
artistic ability of the man, he wrote "Almayers Folly"
seven years before it was published. Ile was so modest
that he hesitated to offer this masterpiece of an indo-
lence-bitten white man to the world; that it was only
after the most insistent persuasion that he offered it for
publication. This modesty characterized the man even
to the very last. Just before his death he visited Am-
erica. He was amazed and actually thrilled by New
York and when asked the usual questions which inter-
viewers put to celebrities from Europe he refused to
comment fur he felt too deeply to express an opinion
upon a matter of which he had so little knowledge.
Alen who find life so difficult and complex as did Jos-
eph Conrad, men to whom every line written was ac-
companied by the travail and sweat of birth, are not so
ready tog ive blanket judgments upon all subjects.
Conrad unwittingly described himself most adequate-
ly when he said men should be emotionally proud and
intellectually humble. This he truly was. He com-
bined emotional pride and intellectual humility in
charming proportions.
Both men have passed to their everlasting rest. The
world is richer for their having been with us. Their
death, shocking as death always is. has brought them
to the attention of those who would know' more of life
so that they too may become rich with love, pity and
understanding and he filled with emotional pride and
intellectual humility.
Indian Summer
Sometimes when grey November pauses for a while
To let a sheaf of summer days come through,
I stop a bit to greet them gayly and to wonder
What makes an autumn sky so kindly blue.
Before old Winter frowns upon the earth,
One little golden summer smile is with us still,
Even though the trees are shaken of their plumage
And a bald spot shows above the forehead of the hill.
Then the morning mists are made of fairy fabrics
And painted by the good grey elvps, it seems,
Until one day the wind turns mean and cutting.
And our mock summer days have gone to sleep and
pleasant dreams.
HATTIE MORRIS
telarRIMIIIIIIIM .
AS WE GO
ALONG
Survival Or Extinction---Problem Of Jewry
By ELISHA M. FRIEDMAN.
D'oPYright I 924
.rilE
world this year will face a
A shortage of 514,000,000 bushels
of bread grain, according to the In-
ternational Institute of Agriculture in
Rome, and the urgency of the Euro-
pean demand for wheat and rye will
become accentuated as the months
pass by. The International Institute
proceeds to analyze the world's grain
situation and to present precisely
what the human race may depend
on to yield its daily bread.
Reading a newspaper item in which
the cereal resources of the world are
stated by the International Institute
of Agriculture at Rome, an item
which, obscure though it may be in
an inner part of a newspaper, tells
the immemorial story of mankind's
struggle for the staff of life, one does
not at once realize that this insti-
tute is the handiwork of a far-visioned
American Jew, one of the most cre-
ative minds which American Jewry
has produced. And only one in ninny
will recall that this man, David Lubin,
an immigrant lad many years ago,
was a merchant prince in San Fran-
cisco.
David Lubin could not rest content
with mere personal nurses. To him
had come the thought of performing
two services. One of these was to
bring together the nations to that
they might regard the world's grain
supply from the point of view of the
needs of the world rather than from
a standpoint of selfish gain on the
part of the grain producing coun-
tries. The other was to stimulate the
production of sufficient essential grain
in order that mankind plight have
more rather than less of the grains
which constitute the bask of the food
supply.
Why Mr. Lubin chose Rome as the
seat of the institute is not known for
a certainty, unless it was the thought
that in inid-Europe, where food defic-
its have been as numerous as its wars
and lesser strifes. co-operation in the
proper husbanding of the world's
grain supply may at some remote day
form the basis of a peace beyond the
achievement of mere treaty makers.
Strides.
T
b y Jewish Telegraphic Agency./
Bread.
HE seminaries in which Jewish
theOlOgy as well as the Jewish
humaniti e s necessary to effective re-
ligious and communal leadership are
being taught are noiselessly, though
not without inner struggle, making
great strides. The fact that these
centers of learnintr are extending
their usefulness in an unobtrusive
way is an occasion for greater satis-
faction than were they to resort to
spectacular methods. During the last
year or two monumental acquisitions
have been inatle in collections of re-
ligious aril historical books and docu-
ment- and ceremonial objects of an
Me:11(.1110de value both by the Jewish
Theological Seminary snit the Hebrew
Union College. Great as these col-
lections are, they do not transeend
in imfoort11111`0 and in possible influ-
ence on Judaism in America the
visits of European scholars who are
being invited to these shores from
the erstwhile centers of Jewish learn-
iI1c ill the old world. The Jewish In-
stitute of Religion. under the leader-
ship of the large-thinking Stephen S.
Wise, and the Rabbinical College of
,America, guided by the scholarly Ber-
nard Revel, have, each in its own way,
recognized the inestimable influence
which great teachers exert on young
men preparing fur the rabbinical ca-
reer or seeking spiritual efficiency
through the medium of ample Jewish
knowledge, although they have no in-
tention of filling pulpits or perform-
ing the functions of heads of religious
communities.
One who for the nonce seems dis-
tressed by what seems widespread in-
difference and ignorance in the Jew-
ish community may be heartened if
he will inquire as to what the institu-
tions already mentioned, as well as,
for example, Dropsie College in Phila-
delnhia and the Hebrew Theological
College of Chicago, are doing. lie
will learn that hundreds of native
boys and young men have rallied
about the banner of Torah; that
scholarly pursuits are being fostered
by American .lewish funds; that ever
larger efforts are planned by these
centers of teaching and learning to
bring to the Jewish public something
of the nobility, cultural wealth and
edification in which the lore of Jude-
ism abounds.
Language,
W
E have heard of any number of
Jewish immigrants who have
come into the possession of a working
knowledge of the English language
as a result of perennial digging into
a Yiddish - English dictionary. Did
you ever meet wide-eyed youths or
maidens who carry with them wher-
ever they go a Harkavy dictionary
and refer to it as they read the daily
newspaper or listen to conversation?
They employ, not infrequently, words
that rouses one's risibilities and yet
they satisfy, because one realizes that
these ambitious young persons typify
earnestness of a high and fine qual-
ity.
But there is one method of learning
the Hebrew language, (puritan us
if we leave off English and discuss
the language which the prophets and
the psalmists employed and which the
musical lips of children in Palestine
utter with an ingratiating easel.
which we heartily do not recommend.
That method is to follow the trans-
literation of Ilebrew words into Eng-
lish. as it Is done in certain Anglo-
Jewish papers. We understand, of
course, that it is the printer's fault
if the Hebrew words turn out to be
a cross between a soothsayer's in-
vocation to the throne-seat of the
mysteries and a formula for death-
dealing gas in a German treatise on
chemistry.
Which leads us to suggest that the
way for a newcomer to learn Eng-
lish is to attend a night school and
the proper method far those who wish
to acquire a knowledge of Hebrew is
to employ a properly equipped in-
structor or attend a special class in
a school similar to the Kirby Center
or the one at Philadelphia and Byron
avenues, to speak of schools located
in our very own midst.
EDITOR'S NOTE,t—Idx article Is one
chapter of Mr. Frietimar'e book “Survival Or
Extinetion" in which the within' give,' •
graphic and scholarly dx,iyiption of the
proeess of development\ and adaptation of
Jewi-h thought In the Id-t 2.000 years mid
treats of the fundamental problem of mod-
ern Jrxi..h life.
by Columbus., Magellan and
Gama. Jacob ben Makir int,' •
improvement on this and it e
as Quadrans Judaicus. Levi lo
son also discovered the "cant.
scura."
Linder conditions et
tom the Jew was creative.
PART IL
However, with the rise of th
ern scientific spirit and of the
tine system, the Jewish poop!.
fined in ghettos wherever it
at all, was shut out from Or
life of mankind.
Francis
"Novum Organum" was pre.,
spirit by the works of (intik. ,
sonides and other Jewish rat
philosophers. In freedom, lb
might have brought on the
movement several centuries lo
to its arrival. However, hist,
it otherwise.
The development of dogmas to Wil Tet
needs Of the envirenm•nt is shown by
the shifting emphasis in the codes of
Anan lien David, Saadiah, Hai, Al-
fassi, Nlaimonoles, Asheri, and Caro
le adapt them t the theological de-
mands of the time.
The ceremonies, white fixity the un-
inquiring and unlesterical Orthodox
.few holds as a 11.•;4111a, show growth,
change iitol iilisiihistitince, survival
and suceumbing - the characteristic
signs of eeolutien. The levitivai cedes,
the sacriti.-es, in fact all the "mitz-
vi th" or eurnamodnients that depend-
ed upon the Palestinian habitation of
I •I'ael were discarded. The entire
structure of the Yorch Utah, or sys-
tem of dietary laws, is a growth Ilion
insignificant' passages in the Bible.
The Halidelah and Killdush ceremon-
ies of the Sabbath art' outgrowths of
specific periods. To sum op, religion,
embodying as It does one aspect of
life, is stittiist to all the laws of life.
Before attempting an application of
this historic experience to the prob-
lems of modern Jewish life, let as con-
sider the past value and the future
possibilities of the race. Towering
above all is the religious contribution
o f Israel. Admit, even, the critical
doctrine that the God idea in Israel
evolved from the n• tion of one of the
tribal Fa him until it rovihed the
prophetic eu
of the immanent
cr-til one which bids fair
ethical
to last all tine., Judaism certainly
illciS/11 to till . western world.
gate
sentributien of
Of great ;aim , is
ethical ideas and practiots, of a !teethe
literature, the approximation to whiise
grandeur is the prose of Milton, I.f to
philust phis eptimisin in the ultimate
good of Providence—•hich seems the
goal of much ef midern spiritual as-
piratien.
Straagely enough, historians have
overlooked one big fact in Jewish his-
tory. The contribution nr Israel to
the culture of the world was made
when Israel was fr., e and upon its own
soil, and when it limed a normal life.
Reading the annals •f this pc tple, one
is struck hp the contrast between their
fruitfulness in the slier( ',cried before
the dispersion mid their comparative
sterility in the brig Galuth. The his-
tory of Israel befcre 010 fatal crisis
was it stet y of action, after it, line of
suite rin-;. Creation and ssl f-preser-
vat bin, liestetving and hat-banditti:—
Oa se are Die antithesus of Jewish his-
t v.v.
Truly, the golden period in Jewish
post Biblical history found the Jews
in large communities in Spain--the
nearest approach to a normal life on
a native soil. In literature Jehudah
Halevi found his muse weeping in
the land of his fathers. He lived and
wrote in the Galuth, but the spirit
of his once free fathers moved hint.
In an age given to scholasticism and
theology, he evolved in the field of
abstract thought the philosophic con-
cept of monism. ion Gnbirol redncrd
the world to three categories, God,
matter and will, Hastlai Creseas re-
jected utterly this philosophy of Aris-
totle, which led Itlaimonides and Ger-
sonides into opposite errors, and laid
the basis of Spinoza's system. Spi-
noza gave us, a priori, a God-filled
monism, to which the researches of
science are adding abundance of
proof. Owing to the anomalous po-
sition of the Jewish people, these geni-
uses created not freely and normally
but were either neglected or attacked
by the Jewish community. Rooted
in Jewish life, they flowered outside
of it.
Aside from these irrepressible
flashes where conditions approached
a normal group life. the story of Is-
rael in dispersion is not one of ex-
pression but of suppression, not of
life but of existence. From the Fiscus
Judaicus in the first century down to
the Kishineff massacre in Russia, civil
disabilities in Roumania and legal re-
strictions on Jewish students in east-
ern Europe, the tale is a sad com-
mentary on the un-Christian spirit of
the Aryan race. Nietzsche's "blonde
beast" Wan learning his lessons.
Anti-Jewkh decrees, the badge of
shame, legal restrictions, forced con-
versions, interdictions against the
study of the Talmud, compulsory at-
tendance at Christian sermons, those
were the short notes sounded in the
dirge of massacre, inquisition and
expulsion. The path of the crusade
was traced in red, by the blood of
Jewish martyrs. The human sacrifices
of the auto Ila fe were barometers
of the passion and ignorance of Span-
ish and Portuguese rulers. The criss-
cross path of wandering Jewry reek-
tered the accession and death of
fanatic kings. If the Jews contrib-
uted anything to a world culture in
these ages, it was the subjective vir-
tues of the human race rather than
any objective intellectual contribu-
tion. Loyalty to an idea, patience in
tense times, these are virtues that
are called forth as much by modern
needs as ever before. The Jews
could not contribute in these ages
any more than the rising thermometer
can warm the waxing sun. The his-
tory of the exiled Jew is the index
of growth of Aryan tolerance.
In the days of theological specula-
tion and religious philosophy Juda-
ism affected the Christian theology
of Duns Scotus, Thomas Aquinas and
Albertus Magnus. With the emergence
of Europe from the Dark Ages, the
Jews played the role of intellectual
intermediaries between Arabs and
Christians. A Jew sent by Caliph F. ,
Safrah to India brought back to Arab-
ic Europe the Indian system of nu-
merals, now used by us. The first
geometry in Christian Europe was a
translation from the Hebrew of Abra-
ham bar Ilyya, and the first arithme-
tic was translated by Ibn Daud. Abra-
ham Zacuto, teacher at Salamanca
and astronomer royal to King Eman-
uel of Portugal, compiled the astron-
omical and nautical tables used by
Columbus on his voyage of discovery
and now preserved at Seville. Levi
ben Gerson discovered "Jacob's staff,"
an instrument to determine the right
ascension of the sun, which was used
he
qy
Ithile Copernicus was nile,:
it,.
I'teltimaie theory of epicycles te
tom scheme of planetary r e cd
and this in spite of the murder ot
position of the Church,
prnuine up her Jews in the m t
While Versaillins, FAllinpin. mu , t
tachius were laying the basi
omy, Portugal was institet
•
Inquisition for !Marrero
T
Tycho Braila and Kepler tt• i•
tablishing the laws of planets,
trot; while Galileo, under thr
penalty, was demonstrating uum
the truth of the Copernietiti
and Bruno dying for it Joseph
was writing his Schulehan
Lurya was developing Cabled' iI
Church Europe was racking it-
for new forms of oppression to
papal bulls, banishments, burtti•
the Talmud and Cossack mum! , it in ).•
Poland.
While Newton was estahlH u
law of gravitation and she, i•
appliention alike to stone 11 - t
the Jews were Preserving tie
ski
ture by the Chassidic revii i!
shunting their repressed intim.",
powers into endless casuistry
splitting distinctions in
while Akiba Eger, "the light
son." and Ezekiel Landau, thi•
of Frame, were delving in "ri
literature. How easily then
have been names to eon juru•
,•
SC ■ 011•e and nlelosonlw
have issued tram a Jewish la ,
The brilliant atilrevement't i i v
rev in the circulation of thc
Huvghens in lieht. Boyle and .
in laws of rises: of Buffett me
mum in bioloirical eh.
.
HF
of Sheele, Priestly, Cavend
Lavoisior in the foundations
istry; of Euler. Bernnulli
nitz in differential and Integra'
ins. and of Laplace and Lagr,
celestial mechanics found the ii
ed Jews fighting for their el,, , r. •
rights as human beings and
in a social order, while for.I1
were Moses Soifer and Mot-• -
intellectual Den Quisoti
their lives to the problems
minutiae and in the Veshilnies
musical schools, rearing a it
eration to do likewise.
The irnurnerahle lights le
as!, of stars that have rov , a',
lutionary biology, [he a'""'
istry of the nineteenth
the undulatory theory in ,
found a stray Herschel. a 11.-
and a Hertz who, dscarding th ,
ish guise, stepped out into Oi. '
world to Vice play to. the
up energy of centuries ken '
by Talimidical
The first decade of the I,.
century produced the serotle ,
Ehrlich and Wasserman in Gar ,
unfl Flexner in America; a I '
biology, an Einstein and a
in mathematical physics, on tt
hand, and, on the other, the
brilliant geniuses in the Ye:10,
Europe who are trying te
ethics and earlocks, or salvation
J .
the personal Messiah.
ITS he continued next week
THE REJECTED STONE
lit Ihe realm of man's
it
there are two dominant
--materialism with- its
world conception, and ideali,
its spiritual content.
Whilu• I
gives testimony to the ideali•e,
faith, there is zi mighty, ir-e..
force without that is at tem pi
klet'irone the religious legaci,
only of Israel but of the mm IT
I
mankind. This force is scienou ,
and formal, that is being plan, I u.
the hands of men. True it is,
are on the eve of the Aug,ustan ei
of science, the beginning of o
dawn we are approaching.
science has taken hold of an old •
decrepit world and made nes: i•
of the elixir of human life :rot .i
man has become like Ponce do I
----a new-born child.
Yes, science has (lone st,
things! The very power which -
put into the hands of men a..
doomed tie civilization that
emit What has it left us? . \
intellect with no spiritual heriil,
redeem mankind and set this T T
world of ours in under. What ha-
sci•ntific civilization left us? A ss
less universe. God must again be ,
Shepherd; God, the Eternal, whom r
must see as the great motivating for
in the lives of men; Coil, to win . ''
we must turn to help translate tn.
scientifically crazed universe it••
a sinti
i,ris
into heart imp,: • -
touoalt passions.
There is just one hope left in itii•
world. Have we enough moral Pico.-
ism to handle this materialistic witro
sy.
.o7htiitchh,at it become a faith-sustaires.
iroitduaslhlyaltelrie•vig
atni 7ng universe
Po
Israel must ask for the old path-
and walk therein. Israel must l ( te
again through its spiritual life. ler
We Jew's cannot survive by beauty, in
strength, by wealth, for there arc
many more beautiful, stronger and
wealthier than we. We can sunrise
oenr
h lyitabgyetthoe mankind.
Up, then, ye Semites, to help in the
f
advent
of theIsrael whe n o f spirit
stretched hands we may exclaim .
F. sanl dnenrsl . is my light, whom shall
"The
fear! The Lord is my salvation. of
whom need I be afraid?"—Rabbi Ira
Y.