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Aterksur faith Perioaal Getter

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• CINCUOIATI 30, OHIO

PAGE FIVE

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Paints on Life's Canvas With
Brush of Tenderness.

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(Copywright, 1921.

BOOK REVIEWS

01.1:91-iT5,

. I).sr

CritOtr,fEWISII0IIDNI CU t

COMPANIONSHIP

Bat. and Hopkins
By Anne C•mphea.
185 pp.
New Visa.

Laf•adio Il•arn, Eugene Field and
Ainghji William Cullen Bryant, to mention'
in the late nineties, three poets of widely differing talents

By Chew H Joseph.)

Dec 27th

ItANDOM TBOGGIITS-for week of
I in•-t Samuel Gompers twice. The first time was
.
I was introduced by a roan who used to "roll"
tobacco
with him at
powers,
were lives
for greater
Or lesser
we used
to designate
as the
"a same
stove and
periods
of their
connected
with'

What

bench.
wore such
a sack
suit lad
t," Ile
Being
a short
figure and the hut being so high, his appear. newspapers. Let it not be thought
pips
ince ha
a' .ricted me as much as his personality. Again in company with the that poetry written On assignment, as
spent no hour with him in his Washington it were, is On that account less authen- ,
from Jewish life and tic than poetry which is the product
J , Leonard Levy, 1
Ilk detachment
late li.thlii
lab frorw things of the fine frenzy goldenly moved by
II tint , CO111 ' 0,801
Though
he
at
offi ce.
a SYmPathette feeling
e lfare an occasional brief span of inspirit.
Jewish activities, yet there was present
o
w,. But Gompers could think and talk only in terms of
pa
and 114, invariably It the topic Of conversation back to labor conditions, thin. One may be a newspaper man I I
profblems and the holies and aspirations of labor. One felt the earn. or woman and yet be a poet of merit, I
the profound sincerity which moved him. Ile was provided of course
there obtains the
toot
mysterious ur ge fo lyrical expre,ion.
o the man and
Anne Campbell
for of The Detroit
born of Dutch Jewish parents and the family name was Gumpertz.
who is a
News is a newspaper Wiiillan
---::—
ohn . Leary. Jr.. probably the poet. She writes for a large audience
about Gompers by J
and
deals
with
subjects
that
quickly
In an wspaper
article Written
reporter in the United tate
Ss, hJ concludes in this fashion:
touch the sentiments of the general
ablest Tie
reading public. Being a poet and a
"All in all, Gompers was a strange blend of two distinctive types
he dreamers, who have furnished the world with some
of his race-t
attunes her lyre to themes which, for
of its greates t poets, musicians and artists, and e word Jew almost
their
tu obvious cogency, arouse warm
responses
in those who prefer to sense
Jr
with banking the world over."
--;;__-- •
Front an unexpected source conies a plea to the Jews
to
uphold
the
beauty
in
the
idle sub-
hu.
merius of Harvard. man situations thousand
that make and
up the
e nation, a4141res•01 stance of life than laboriously to hunt
traditions of their race. Charles W. Eliot, Pre•blent th
his regret at the growing for it in grave poetic speculation.
mit' who can truly be said to be the Grand Obi Man of t
nd
the
Harvard
Society recently
and
a and Christian. Ile seems to think Beauty, after all, is a relative term;
tendency
to Zionist
intermarriage
between
Jew
that this is one of the positive evils that threat-n tho solidarity of JewrV• poetic passion is comparative; tole
act, he is an anti. II, believes that it will poet
sings with a three-stringed lyre.
to another utters his comprehension of
an assimilation ist: d better for the country if he doesn't try
truth in organ tones, now like a .il-
Be is not
r the Jew an in f
this man of 911years is, he. very lute and again like thunders in
be better for
assimilate. To show what a keen observer
makes mention of a visit he paid to New York where he attended a lune'teou unison.
ewish couples in a spirit of "nookrn- n, Miss Campbell's volume of potions
at Columbia. Ile noticed that three J
ake good. pleasant reading. When
ism" ordered dishes that "seemed selected for the sole purpose of showing
one finds science exactMg, philosophy
their independence of their religion," and he added with keen insight, "their weighted with platitude, and art and
conversation
partook of the same spirit."
literature mordant with cynicism and
rs
-----;;.----__
n t
rist hope
" 41 assur-
'
know of just such Jews who, in their desire to show how desnair, one derives
.
ce rom poetry that is not only well
I
ompletely
l'ou and they have thrown MT every semblance of attachment to things ante from h.
' ' crafts
.
41 -
stand-
11 ip
.
:mans

,
Jewish, deliberately offend good taste by going out of their way to flaunt ' done
from
t
point ll
but fu
ull of what, for a better
their so-called emancipation to the world. It is interesting for them to . phrase, might be called a singing
their that such actions are observed and commented upon by the veil' humanness.
know
Being a poet, Miss Campbell sees
they seek to impress.
'

per
ife und erstandingly in more direc-
views
The Irish have had their ire aroused by the statements made by Dr. l
Charles W. Eliot. The Irish insist that they do assimilate.
And that
the thcs•
Irish tins
most
Eliot ineant
the than
"comedy
of people
errors" do.
and She
of effort '
Dr.
' which (mosttales life with tenderness,
ews also assimilate. I iagis.
of the Jews flowing like the Gut ,
soy th not be submerged. That old story[ probably
what the doctor had iii humor and sane courage. "Compan.
n
should the J
nInship," which no doubt represents
humanity
it
stream through the ocean f
hat Gulf stream.
the best of her work, is a g in/it little
dile bit of water, that
mind. Rather a enrols:

and
in
Iles
sv•ir

ort
Poo.

Bans Ilerzl, son of Theodore llerzl, who was rei•enfly converted t4J, hook
to own.
I
Possesses
Catholicism, seems determined to show his appreciation of the new company Jewish Philanthropy
he keeps. Cable &snatches rep4,rt that he will soon retool to Vienna to
a 4,000 Year History.
for Catholic charities. Ile is being
but ions among his f arm.
raise
canto
roundly
scored by sonic of the European Jewish papers for using his name
in the interest of Catholic propaganda. Of course. a nano. is a name. But HISTORICAL
SURVEY OF JEWISH
PHILANTHROPY.

ho
ring
and
on

then again its value often depends upon the value of the person who bears ,
it I think young Herz' is. pretty well discredited, and he won't cash in very By Ephraim Frisch. Niacmillan Co. New

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On such a basis Frank & Seder's have faithfully
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If there be among thee a needy
man, any one of thy brethren within
. '4 f thy g ates in the land which the

I urn in receipt of a great many letters asking
articles, stories, lectures, sermons, meetings, and incidents of all sorts that
have a Jewish interest. I am very glad, indeed, to receive these communi- ,
cations, as much valuable material is frequently obtain,' through such Lord thy God giveth thee; thou shalt
sources. However, it is manifestly impossible to consider in this column not harden thy heart, nor shut t hy
all the matters suggested. Sometime,: the subjects are not of general hand from thy needy Mother." 'Phis
interest, some of them may have already been discussed. 41r for a hundred verse is front Chapter 15 of Dont erio
and one other reasons they may be unavailable. This explanation is made members
nomy. Duties
the as
"needy"',
of the towards
community
traced
that those good friends whose communications
reason
do not and
seem
appreciate
to receive'
my in Rabbi Ephraim Frisch's . book is
shown to be the duty of the Jew to ,
an
.
the attention they deserve,
ry
will understand the
the world?
p rovid e the fullest measure of sup- ,
is our existence to accumula-
I think of our oblige- use will
position ,
not survive by the
Ili .ht. they port and attachment to every humane i
:
the building is tin-1 "Whenever
not only to We
'


will merely
f or k .
k e i t s 4
rancid
C
of
wealth.
That
ed. It is toms as .
They surely think a lot of Felix Marburg in .'t
shedand completely furnish
our own community but to the worl d tion ken envy. We will not survive
the Jewish
and in
should, too. The actors gave him a dinner the other night in honor of his cause
which
might community
ma
811Ce ill
awn
large, I am reminded of stilling e by
not only built and foll110111.11, Ina
being line doctors or lawyers or
, :It
STUDE
splendid philanthropic work. But they gave him more than empty tributes:
1111'11
Ill
Inn
in
it.
Thi
a check for $'200,000 was presented to him to be devoted to any worthy the world at large, from the most
loll,. 10'11 vcung
merchants. IVe should serve human.
evolution
from the inadequate homes I found in my husband's papers. II
cause he chose. I notice that among the other good actors was Charles M. the
direct
find
elementary
of ,
term
"needy"
to the implication
most indirect
" 'Unless we contribute our share ity in this way, but ur
the
world does
and surroundings they formerly hail w riles
knowledge
of
and cultural connotation. Rabbi
i
alrvady
its etfel.t.
have to the civilization which is being bult
Frisch has done not a monumental I
seen shows
a happier,
more Never
contented
not
upooral, milar things.
Schwab.
law depend
or medicine
out
up by the family of nations, of what
has gumption enough to
at last ,waelwwly
Aaron
slim declared in Detroit the other day but a useful service in indicating the I National Federation President I group of young men.
I am glad to see that
dependent prove in the court.; continuous emphasis which the pillion.
re ceived through.
Describes Work of Women
Ford's Folly into court.
n
People who
that "we are going 'o
the Dearborn
i
.. make
co-operative
marketing
movement represents
a con- thro
impulse
ha.
In Serving Judaism.
the industry
out at
Jewish
literature.
that the federation, center, dire
of Michigan that th ,
h bankers to ,ntrol
---
.
.. ,
rtiracy of the so-called International
dther and more spa- I
address be.
States." Jewis
Fords ' Folly attempted apparently to think
(
(11.1
MBUS.—In an
TWIWernent, I
of
agriculture
in conspiracy
the linited against the interests of the fanner. Maybe this triet service an o
show
n Jewish
of the United States fore the Ohio State Council of Jewish
suit that will be instituted by Mr. Sapiro will be the forerunner of similar cializt.41
social
:1.1,01114
the
JeWS service
are attributable
to the rise of the i Worni.n, Mrs. 3 Walter Freiberg.
actions in court against the publication of that line Christian gentleman, modern "social conscience," which is president of We National Federation
century old, will of temple Sisterhoods, emphasized
1
• hwomen it
lord's Folly.
to in
the
effect find,
on more
reading
Jeo is community
w
mitt of ie.
Jewish
In the issue of Dec. 5 I quoted a statement which appeared
a report
hardly
t ian this book, that they . the part played
the
, Mich., were were mistaken. For Jewish social and the 4l. Helot
Harbor,
of activities in connection with Ott. Council of Jewish Women
eclared hat
ions
an
segregated with colored children," and the authority
given for this state- cultural needs form the them' of much I I life.
'she
co
-Ira-1'd
shed
work
oft
in
two k
that "Jewish children in one of the schools
SPECIAL
Bible,
the Apocrypha,
the Talmud the
and the sis•orhood• lay more emphasis
on
merit was 51 iss Anna C. Brenner, field representative of the National of the
literature
which constitutes
the coon.
, ile,k'opment
the writings of the medieval Jewish religikkii
scholars. Jewish social workers and cil l oot , a r the ethicational
wel-
e
she e kkeiewed th
Council of Jwish Women.
h
of the Ho h
hoolls in the
mediately asked the Detroit Jew
. persons interested in communal fare
could not credit this, and im
activity would not for a moment blunt k work done ,-,,,',..
by t
ld of the
;,••d
r
Chronicle to make a thorough inestigation,
with the result that the lay
v
, training
tr
built by
the
keen
edge
of
their
intellectual
the issue of the Chronicle of Dee. CJ.
, }mild', g which Wil3
equipment by becoming acquaintint 41ormitor
following statement was nuide ill
e to Miss Brenner in great with the principles and ideals, ex- fun
arents cam
It seems
that
one of the and
Jewish p
haste
one
morning
her discovered
to come several
with 3ewish
her to pressed
a school
near
Mkr
ds thou-
ra..41
by
the mem-
home (near
South
Moen, Mich.). asked
Miss Brenner
hundreds
and
indeed
her exclusively
of the federation
throughout
the
She also discussed the co-operation
acher because she had found the heads of some sands of years ago, which form the4country.
omunity wel-
mol'Iating urge for Jewish philan- ,
e
ith
the
t
w
throf
y
at
its
best,
in
its
most
convinc-•
given
by
women
in
comm
idication of
under instructions of the school direr-
parents arg uing
faro activities. A,
use
of the children unclean, and acting
I•rogr•ss made by women, she told of
Mg as{ eels.
thrs, had ordered the Jewish children sent home to dean IIII. And 'whites'
to
instnicted to "separate th .
-
1

tile
now.
in
force
in
ninny con.
-
-
---

1
,
I,
1 • d
she had
gregations where women are eleetei
the teacher's own words
on one side of the room sat the Jewish
WI o n e
SO
nt the J OS, " Si
Miss Brenner imniediately call e
as members of the board of directors
from
on the other side the "whites." xplain his orders
to the teacher. Ile said
and trustees. r address follows:
d
the sel, m1 am!
pi back
Of the directors and asked him toe W1114011
"The sisterhoods are aiding and
11 k
th •
rder.
ort
or;
he hadn't given such an o
promoting every line Of endeav
countermand it. He at first refused, but threatened with a rep
tends to revitalize Jewish in-
mmissioner, he finally acceded to her request told went back to
ruins Which
Was
Miss
Viola
Kaufman
co
county
rvening, Dee. 16, at six terest," said Mrs. Freiberg. "They
the school with Miss Brenner and told the teacher to put the children
Tiok.lay
unk dinner at her home honoring !have entered into every pha.e pov..erful
of con_
are a
tJesti.h) back in their own seats.
c h
Clean, and was met with
, h influence. The de
, agency for Jewi
the Miss
response
that
they if
were
not, but
they
had all
caught it from the others. the much feted brides-to-lie, Miss Celialgregational
life and
Brenner
asked
Christian
heads
were
velopment of Jewish women in club
urse, was not proven. Rut Miss lirento•r voluetevred Barnett and Miss Alma Buckner.
WAS in
C,,mplimenting Miss Alma Buckner,Ilife has been marvelous. It
Five Balloon-Type Tires
during the Vi'orld's Fair in
s t a te ment. o f co
This
to conduct classes for the promotion Of cleanliness and health, which she
Ethel and Celia Barnett 11}4113 thnt the Council of Jewish Wom-
is now doing. Miss Brenner states unreservedly that the Klan is very were hostesses at a theater party to? yogi ,
strong in those parts (near South Haven), and that the dirt ctors tried "to the Misses
guests Thursday evening, later I en was organit ed. This was the first
I time that Jewish women took nny fil-
I.ight
put something over on the Jews in their neighborhood."
trust in club life and all that it
----::--
--- Inn.
Why was Henry Ford ignored during th e visit of the Imperial Deadhead, going to the Mandarin
WOODWARD AT MARTIN PLACE
involves,
JEFFERSON AT CHENE
Mks Celia Fine, who is a student
Welfare of Student.
Grand Duchess Cyril? There niust be a rift in t he lute.
It
is
all
the
GLENDALE 7117
s
i
, Bork Brasol,
who
is
at
Miami
College,
Oxford
Ohio,
i
EDGEWOOD 4460
th ,
"There is one branch of work in
Man
moresurprising when one considers arrangenry's
bosom
friend
t
ments.
Boris
is he
- Garfield 7139
Linwood-
8517
seemed
ged to
tin have
be on palmed
the committee
off ,411 of the giant brain of Posthorn the niost monti-
sPending
the Mt,
holidays
with her par., 1 which both the Council of Jewish
North Central Motor Company,
Anil suss.,
Mr. nail
M. Fine.
!Women and the National Federation
Woodward - Empire 6980
Norwoodward Mona . Co., 9115
--
,
all
Michigan Glendale 9888
mental fake of modern times, the Protocols ef the •Elders of Zion.
Mrs. Joseph Schwartz and Mrs. Ben. of Temple Sisterhoods are deeply in-
Hualtaell-Knowlson Co., 2445
at terested. It is resits; a vital question,
Mr, Ford has been so sore ever since Oust he has never
ceased taking it out
Cainpau-Empire 4083
a ntiemite, was associated
Northeast Motor Co., 8164 Jos
a
us the welfare of the student. 'I pis I
,
ws.
So
this
man,
who
is
a
notoriou.
shower
for
Miss
Celia
Barnett
and
with
en
the the
d e Black Hundreds of Russia, was one of the sponsors for the Grand jmin Elhling were joint host
Hergenroedei , Inc., 14615 E. Jefferson-Hickory 7600
Scheme's am sure is a piece of work in which
came at the invitation of the aristocratic descendants of the a 1 o'clock luncheon and miscellan
goal y interested. The which
Midwest MotorCo.,7753Grand River-Garfield 7100
Miss Alma Buckner. Covers were we are equally •
Du c h ess, w h o
1601
arship fund of the eouncil has wpm.
Dix-Western Motor Co., 3950 Dix—West
id for 14 guests and a color
founders of the Republic.
la
• plished marvelous work in as sisting
1172
Pr'd'Ini nuIvd
°rabid Motor Co., 8226 Gratiot-Lincoln
and
talented
young
men
If Brasol actually brought the forged Protocols to Ford. which Ford was
deserving
enough to publish, then the least he should have done was to give Ford ef yellow and white
ner received
prizes at
bridge
Mrs. and women By assisting them with
rtunity to get his money's worth in some other 'way, Hr should Miss
Viola Kaufman
end
Miss and
Ruck-
scholarships, they have been able to
f° 01
h
o
an opp had the Grand Duchess ride around Detroit in a Ford limousine with
continue their school, university and
have
--
Henry, the shirt sleeve democrat, sitting alongside wearing a "plug" hat, Norman Iturkner
at ma jong.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Solomon are home professional studies and have become
with Boris sitting in the front seat handing out copies of the Dearborn
went the kind
Henry smacks
his
lips would
over, have
because
is, to invest.
use a after spending 10 days in New York a While
credit the
to those
interested
in them.
council
looks after
their
Independent
to that
the cheering
throngs.
That
been he
a good
' educational welfare, the sisterhood
erful circulation stunt that City.
lfare with
us
we
i watches their religio
Scotch phrase, rather "near." What a wond n ge
meticulous care. There are many
would have been, for better than bullying maars into getting subscrip-
lly
students who welcome the has-
lions. And then the Grand Duchess possibly could have been induced for
to
one
of sisterhood members and
say something of the naughty Jew Bolshevists who made such trouble help
pitality
Club.
doubt of the good which
Street
Mothers
And (whispt•r it), she might have obtained funds to
Twelfth
i s no dou
Twelfth Str....t 51lithers' Club , there
her family.
is thus accomplished, for young peo.
the monarchy, because Henry will fall, you know. for the "bunk."
press
The
will meet next Saturday evening, at 7
eR, yes, the notorious Mr. Brasol was asleep. And where was Ford's
o'clock, at the Talmud Torah at !Mils-191e
from
many
dstraction.,
to
ph , say suffer
nothing
of the
temptations
that
finds
o se
agent?
441elphin and Byron avenues. J
beset them. The sisterhood work.
11 ess
on a scholar,
Chanukah
an important part of its
her of homeless children ' Chaggi, lecturer and
Hebrew
, this
.
ell is interested in the
i r
the
num to
e 406,000, the majority of will deliver an address
amounts
theme. A Chanukah
program
will their
he VI
here the
coun
The members
and
secular
education
of young men and
sisterhood
confines most
them orphans.
women, the
The state institutions are caring featured.
i of its work to assisting the education
2,000 or- husbands are invited to attend.
—___-___
of
Hebrew
Union
College
students,
for 198,000 children and 7
i
are kept in children's homes
Considerable Percentage of Hungry phans
fate,
are obliged
the
corn-
the
future
rabbis
who
will
go
out
into
The
remaining
226,000, to
left wander
to their about
Dr. D. Cohen, an energetic co
the world to instruct our children
in
,
Tots Are Jews.
I
worker and an active contrib.
recentlyIthe ethics and teachings of our fore-
tn
Wall
streets.
The
Ukrainian
Central
Commission5utor
to
Zionist
interests,
Built Dormitory.
KIEV.-(J, T. A.)-Nearly half a
Relief of the Homeless, confront. appointed professor of ancient history i fathers.
million children, of which a consider- ed
or with these appalling figures, finds at the Leiden University. Holland. i
greatest Federation
piece of work
which
able percentage is Jewish, are home- the situation too great for them to Dr. Cohen was educated in Leipzig ' "The National
of Temple
e
was Ihe
less and starving in the famine dis- cope with and it has sen a stirring and Goetingen.
t
Uni- ' Sisterhoods has undertaken
In 1912 he recived
was
laude from the Leiden
tricts of the Ukraine, according to
Cen-
to the Commissars
All-Russiant Council
of the
cum and in 1922 became private' building of the dormitory. It
data collected by the Ukrainian Cen- appeal
the Peoples'
for assist-'
versity
i only in 1921 that the idea was con-
tral Commission for Relief of the
I lecturer at that institution,
Homeless. Registration completed by ante.
the commission Nov. 10 shows that

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