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were boys and girls from 7 to 17, er" and "Jew" were familiar Words
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the
some of whom came from as far away to him. One day the bully of
as 10 miles. Texas ponies or mules school set on him. But the boys who
carried the children to and from formed a ring about the two for a
After the Show
school, or else they rode in rude road I fight didn't see one! Their cries of
carts. But the little boy told his par- I "Fight fair" went quite unheeded by
ents of some of the conditions there Ludwig, who didn't know "how to
-a state of affairs that so alarmed , fight." Wild with fear he flew at the
his careful German parents that they overgrown bully-and it took one of I
forthwith took him away. There was the teachers to tear him away from l •
another school in the village that was a very much cowed and bleeding
For the Most Delicious
run by a queer old man. This old l"bully." But after that Ludwig was
Chop Suey or Chow Mein
num would sit by the window, chewing , left alone.
where in the "States"-as all those tobacco and smoking a pipe at one ! But new friendships then began for
AGAINST THE CURRENT
outside our country called it. But and the same time. The dozen pupils i from then neighbors. The Jewish
the fact that this brother lived in a would play round about the empty, ! from the better families of Charles-
The Story of Ludwig Lewisohn. little town in South Carolina meant bare rooms of the little, old cottage, . ton, friendships that lasted through-
nothing to them. Just when things or study, just as they liked, But so l out high school and college. The prin.
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seemed blackest, this brother wrote run-down, physically, were these poor' ', cipal and teachers were men of morel
By Samuel 0. Kuhn,
To the Rhythmic Tune of
to Ludwig's mother and suggested little children that they played, as than ordinary stamp, and the impres- I
Far, far back-as many who read that the father try life anew across they studied, in a half-hearted way ' sionable
boy, in his 'teens was deeply
Bert Milan and His Band
1 . influenced
this may feel, there was born a little the seas. Ludwig's father grasped at indeed.
by his teachers.
boy in the city of Berlin. The name the opportunity that this seemed to
By this time I.udwig'a mother had ". . . et iam no" umida coelo,'
of this little boy was Ludwig Lewis- be--and the little family of Jacques acquired a fair command of the Eng- read the class of third year Latin in
ohn and the day that he was born was Lewisohn came to the United States lish language. So she took her little unison.
CI -
in the year 1890.
May 30, 1882.
boy out of his second school and pre- I Suddenly the teacher swung upon
Situated Directly Opposite
Ludwig's parents were Jacques
But the little German-Jewish boy pared to teach him herself and pre- l his heel and pointing at Ludwig
Book-Cadillac
Hotel
at
Lewisohn and Minna Eloesser Lewis- saw nothing of New York but the pare him for the high school at l Lewisohn, cried aloud:
ohn. But things went very badly Brooklyn bridge and the gilt-domed Charleston. Ludwig's dreamy school- 1 "That is the only boy who has a
219 MICHIGAN AVENUE
with Ludwig's father-and a little World building, a building that at days ended then and there, for his natural ear for verse!
And then Ludwig Lewisohn knew
boy who did not understand what that time was the highest in the coun- mother was a thorough-going teacher.
SOLOMON SILBERSTEIN
sorrow and poverty meant, found his try. After a very short stay in Ilo- Ludwig's mother would teach him that he had found his life-work-
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Solomon Silberstein, pioneer res - S
little world crumpled up because of boken the little family boarded
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with a school-book in one hand and Iliterature!
1891, passed
coast steamer to go to (listen
both.
a German-English dictionary, that , During the rest of his high school dent of Detroit since
The youngest of the brothers of Carolina. On that decision not to re- she would have to use every now a ' and college life Ludwig was now like I away at his home, 5548 Second boule-
Ludwig's mother had settled some. i main in New York depended the for- then, in the other. But little Lud- all the rest, outwardly. Only in the vard. after a prolonged illness. Sir.
- I tunes of little Ludwig, the current wig had the vast library of English note-books that he filled with count- Silberstein was born in Poland and
less writings, in the books he read Came to this country 34 years ago.
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of whose life would have run in far literature opened to him.
ILI 1 h\st hi hMs1 I II I I
One day during that summer a , and in the visions he streamed was He founded a business on the west
Capital Thrift Association Held different channels had his father de-
Lewisohn
so
very
unlike
his
side
of
Detroit,
where
he
was
active
cided otherwise.
Annual Convention in Lan-
great idea seized little Ludwig. He ' Ludwig
he retired in the summer of
Ludwig found himself in a strange wasn't especially apt with his hands, classmates. At this high school com- until
sing on June 1.
he was given the "honor" 1923. Mr. Silberstein attained a
world-a little Jewish boy and yet but he ran n into the little ya rd of his mencement
'
of
reading
one
of
his
versions
of
Hor-
not part and parcel of the rest of the somewhat
a
lth too ace.
and built
high, It
although
shaky a desk.
was
And the next day those verses reputation
for honesty,
perseverance,
The annual state convention of the small Jewish community of 10 fami- home
confidence
and trustworthiness.
Ile
Capital Thrift Association took place lies in the little backwoods town in high to sit at so he had to stand when appeared in the Charleston Courier. was a member of El Moishe Syne-
in Lansing at the Kerns Hotel, Mon- South Carolina where his parents set- he began to write. Little Ludwig' That brought great happiness to his gogue and, in recent years, of Shaarey
day evening, June 1. The hosts upon tled. Like all the others, Ludwig's didn't know that German professors ! father and mother, for they were 1 Zedek S
gu.
this occasion were Messrs. Shapiro father opened up a store. Then little and Jewish scholars themselves wrote I truly Jewish in that they rated so 1 Funeral services were held in the
"All you have shall some day be given ; then s-
and Foss. At the banquet which fol- Ludwig entered upon a life that was
desks- , highly the worth of learning. chapel at Clover Hill Park Cemetery,
studied, standing at tall
,
Rabbi
A.
M.
Hershman
officiating.
lowed the sales conference, Homer quite strange to a boy accustomed and
fore
give now-that the season of giving m; a y
never sitting down to do so. What I Then Ludwig went to college, the
1 College of Charleston, in 1897. Ile Mr Silberstein is survived by his
Guck, assistant to the president of the before this to a well-ordered life in
.
be
yours
and not your inheritors'."
strange little boy
widow,
two
daughters,
Mrs.
Saul
Detroit Life Insurance Company, was Berlin. But if the little German-Jew- this
in verse and half in prose-writings became the editor-in-chief of the col-
toastmaster. Addresses were deliver- ish boy missed the avenues of Berlin, wich reflected the tales of the Ger- lege magazine and president of th e Sloan and Mrs. Benjamin Marks; five
ed by vice-president Morris Fishman he found a joy that more than made man books that he had read and also literary society. But the first chapter sons, Jacob, Joseph, Harry, Benja-
I (we) hereby pledge the sum of $
and superintendent of agents I). G . up this loss to him in the pine-clad his more recent English readings. , of a Greek letter fraternity was min and Julius Silberstein; two sis-
founded at the college, and Ludwig ters, Mrs. Louis Ball and Mrs. Aaron
Neuber of the Detroit Life Insurance "red hills" of South Carolina. Lud-
to the Palestine Foundation Fund, National Fund and Ilebi sew
l
i
German
at
1
ire
y
n
Ludwig
wrote
ent
.
Company; Frank VanFrank, repre-
was left out. As a boy of 18 might, Wisper, and several grandchildren.
senting the Capital National Bank of wig easily climbed the low hills and this time, deliberately and without
took this very hard. It was bitter ,
University (joint campaign), payable
Lansing; Henry R. Shirk, represent-I found an almost benumbing joy in sense of restraint. But after several I he
medicine, but then he began to see ',
MRS. SARAH FRANKLIN
ing the Union National Bank of Jack- the rich verdure of the South. But weeks he tired of this new game and I the world more clearly, his reasoning ,
a little buy as shy and highly imagin- it came to a
end.
ower and his power of observation I SIrs. Sarah Franklin, widow of the
eon; Clare A. Lamoreaux, manager ative as he could not be violently
oy had nothing in corn. egan to develop. Perhaps that inci- late Moses Franklin, died Tuesday,
The little boy
for Central Michigan of the Detroit transported from the North German
b
began
June 9, at her home, 2081 Virginia
Life and other well known life insur- winter of Berlin to a half tropical mon with the other Jewish children,
dent
was worth the price!
so that seemingly he was lost to the
illness. Inter-
ance underwriters.
I During his last two years at college park, after a lingering
world such as South Carolina and not life of Israel. He went to Sunday of-
Ludwig
"majored"
in
English
and
ment
was at Clover Hill l I'ark Ceme-
be affected. The endless aisles of School and to the church service
1
t
er,-
Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs.
column-like pines aroused his spirits forwards. He could not help but ob. then did a year's graduate work as
ehat clun to g him fur I well, so that upon graduation in 1901 Franklin was born in Russia on March
as the mighty lindens of hie native sorb many ideas
14,
1856,
and
came
to
Detroit
with
t
d
city never had done. A spirit of ad- years-Christian ideas-and yet, for he got both the degrees of B. A. an her husband and daughters 13 years
Order Yours Now
venture that was unthought of in all that, Ludwig Lewisohn was not M. A. And while he was at college, ago from Huntington, Ind. She is
m a teaccher an
For Prompt Delivery.
Berlin gripped Ludwig amid the fields lost to his people, because all his life Preparing to become
1109 MAJESTIC BUILDING
English, he wrote v erses, articles i n survived by one son, M. F. Franklin
of South Carolina.
he
was never allowed to forget that I book reviews for the Charleston of Battle Creek; four daughters, Sirs.
Caillac 2350
he
THE NEW
Ludwig's passion for reading did he was a Jew!
Albert
Ilarris
of
Battle
Creek,
Mrs.
Courier, so that he became a figure
A. C. LAPPIN
LOUIS DANN
But Ludwig soon came in contact of some note in the community. It Herman Fisher, the Misses Anna and
not stop when he came to the New
MORRIS FRIEDBERG
Director
World. One day his father found out with the fact that he was a "Jew." was a great day in Charleston when Mollie Franklin of Detroit ; six grand-
Chairman
af-
that he had a small balance left in His parents moved to Charleston
Ludwig Liwisohn took his two de children and a greatgranddoughter.
Learn to Really Give.
vn •
-
Would
Really
Live
the bank in Berlin. Poor though Mr. ter
things
hail
gone
wrong
y
You
If
them in the little South Carolinian , green and delivered the commence• She is mourned by a large circle of
Lewisohn was, he remembered what
ay f friends and relatives.
a great dor
ment oration.
was a nd happ y o ne
his little boy liked. So he had his village where they had lived for two I Ludwig
and a It proud
NO 1.1 ■■1 1 Mb lalh ■■■■ • It
life
of
'
relatives in Berlin buy certain books short, important years in the
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f for his parents-the happiest that I
MRS. RACHEL L. WEBBER
that he wanted his son to read. One Ludw
Ludwig Lewisohn. The tragedy o
were
ever
to
know.
day there came a package of books the Lewisohn family in Charleston, they
But once Ludwig Lewisohn left the ' The death of Sirs. Rachel L. Web-
to a highly astonished and delighted in their reons
with
commun. South and came to Columbia Uni- l her of 1990 Gladstone avenue occur-
lati rested
on the
a misconcep.
d sudden5ly on W nesday, June 3.
little boy in a South Carolinian vil- ity-at-large,
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lage-a package that had come all lion of what America stood for. Lud- versity to study further, and then to I re She was5 years of erage. Bonet was
wig's
father
and
mother
thought
seek
his
life
work,
the
teaching
of
'
the way from Berlin! These books
ring English and writing, he came face tol at Clover Hill Park Cemetery on
were in German, for little Ludwig " Amer
i things that set them apart face with life's realities. On Dec. 12, Thursday, June 4, Rabbi A. Si.
l those
Tonight 8:20
could read nothing else at this time.
their neighbors. The Jewish 1906, he married a fellow literary an officiating. Mrs. Webber is sur-
SEVENTH WEEK
Among them were the Iliad and the
worker, Mary Arnold Crocker Childs. vived by her husband, Hyman N.
1
(Tax Extra)
Odyssey in simple German prose as frd
German
group the
an Charleston
(Sunday, June 14)
in
would - American
have af. I Much of Ludwig Lewisohn's work is Webber, and three children, Julius
well as the "chap books" of the Ref- fordo Ludwig and his parents the I along the lines of translation or edi- and Sarah Webber and Mrs. Victor
.50.
Nights, 50e to $2.50. Pop. M•tinees Wed., 50. to $1
WORTH MUCH MORE
For many years he was a col- I Rosenberg. She was a member of
ormation Age.
1 tonal.
Saturday Matinee, 60c to $2.00.
community
life
we
all
need
so
much,
lege
teachers
Ile
is
one
of
the
great
I
Congregation
Emanuel
and
active
in
The
little
world
in
which
Ludwig
Try our service -no matter
I
The Miracle of the American Stage!
grew up was divided between the But the Lewisohns wrongly felt that dramatic critics of today, as he is al-1 all charitable and social organize-
where you bought your Jewett.
Anne Nichols' Laughing Success
Baptists and the Methodists in things to be a part either of the Jewish corn-1 I most foremost in literary criticism. ; Lions.
munity of Charleston or of the Ger-
religious. The white people were all man-American
one was to be contrary . Perhaps you feel that you have i
of North European stock, the chil- to the life of America.
So, for years I been reading of one lost to the House
:
ARAB LEADER RESIGNS
dren and the grand-children of those
Lewis ohn has n ever ,
Israel. Ludwiget the fact that he is l
who had settled there almost a cen- and years the family lived on, socially . of
been able to forg
tury before. And more numerous in almost utter friendlessness.
a Jew! Do you thionk would lose ds for ; LONDON.-(J. T. A.)-Dr. Naji el
In October, 1893, Ludwig passed ; the type of those wh
their; Asil, di lomatic representative of
than these were the colored folk, a
Harry Goldberg
examination that admitted
oral
the
t e ei
.
from
strange
people
to
one
who
had
never
him
to
the
high
school,
an
excellent
Judaism?
Listen to what he has to ' King Ali of the
H ins,
ll resigned
I
Leo Goldberg
met any but his own kind before.
SEVENTH BIG WEEK
I his post, according to a communication
say:
school
that
was
to
more
than
atone
I
Samuel Goldberg
All Detroit Run Records Broken.
"The
friend
of
the
Republic,
the
!
he
addressed
to
the
British
Foreign
Ludwig's first teacher in America for his first experiences with the'
The Play Puts U in Humor.
William Goldberg
I lover of those values which alonel ' Office. As themotive for his resigns-
was the Baptist minister of the vil-
of this country.
CROWDS STILL COMING!
ties Dr. Naji el Asil stated that he
lage. His congregation had built him schools
Ludwig
was
speedily
the
object
of
I
make
life
endurable,
must
bid
the
Ludwig to his classmates. "Foreign-. Jew preserve his cultural tradition!" had proposed to King Ali tie arrange
11529 TWELFTH ST.
Seats Now on Sale for This and Next Week.
a large, unpainted shed, and here a torment
I
That
is
the
word
of
one
who
was
for
an
armistice
with
Ibn
Saud,
lead-
hundred children came to school. They
', denied that very thing-and there-, Cr of the Wahabi forces, but King Ali
-000 00- Or
refused to accept such a suggestion.
fore forever lost it!
"The Oriental"
DANCE
NO COVER CHARGE
0,
1
0 II
"is There Aught You
Would Withhold?
• 0
Palestine Foundation Fund $ II •
JEWETT
Six
COACH
rd
$1260
GARRICK
ABIE'S
LAWRENCE
MOTOR SALES
I H
I 10 1 HD 40'
COLLEGE DEDICATES
ANNUAL TO NEUMARK
Annual Summer Clearance
Sale of Genuine
Oriental
Rugs
Discounts 20' , and 33 1-3' ,
ORIENTAL RUGS at
Each year during July we offer our entire collection of
greatly reduced prices. This year we have planned a program for remodeling of
our store front in July and we are therefore holding this sale in June.
Our stock on hand at this time is a most complete one and values far greater
than in the past. We mention a few item; representative of values available:
BELUCH
As. Sire I ft a 3 ft.
\ r us. $35
.C:33:ce, $21.03
IRAN
Ac. Sae 6 It. x 3 It.
Vslue. $65.00
Choice, $43.00
SARUK
Av. Sirs 5 ft. a 3.6
Value, SI 50.00
Choice, $95.00
PERSIAN
CHINESE
• • c
DOZAR
Av. Sire 6 ft. a 4.6
Value, 3135.00
Choice, $95.00
Reg. Price
Sp. Price
$ 65.00
'3 ft. x •6 ft.
125.00
4 ft:: 7' ft.
175.00
6 ft. x . 9 ft.
275.00
8 ft..x 10 ft. • •
450.00
9 .ft. x 12 ft:
575.00
10 ft. x 13 ft:
625.00
10 ft. x 14 ft.'
750.00
11 ft. x 15 ft:
12 .ft: x I ft: ' . 850.00
875.00
12.61 15 ft.
$ 43.00
83.00
116.00
165.00
285.00
365.00
417.00
485.00
565.00
585.00
Regular
7:10.6 $ 225.00
275.00
6x 9.6
Serapi,
325.00
6x 9.3
Lilehan,
650.00
12x16
Arak,
675.00
9x12.6
Lilehan,
850.00
9x12
Saruk,
950.00
Ispahan, 12:15
975.00
Kerman, 9x13
1050.00
11:15
Saruk,
2200.00
12:22
Saruk,
Arak,
Speci al
150.00
183.00
216.00
350.00
450.00
575.00
635.00
650.00
836.00
1560.00
During this sale rugs of former purchase
cannot be exchanged.
S. G. GULIAN RUG CO.
1422 Farmer Street
Neat East Grand Raver
Phone Cadillac 4669
s3
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CINCINNATI.-The second volume 'I
of the Hebrew Union College annual, l
1which recently appeared, contains a I
brief sketch of the life of the late Pro- I
tensor David Neumnrk, serving as a
memorial to him.
The annual contains four articles by
German scholars, Herman Vogelstein
of Breslau, Germany, contributes a
paper on "The Development of the
Apostolate in Judaism and Its Trans-
. formation in Christianity"; Leo Baeck
of Berlin, writes on "Judaism in the
I Church;" the paper by Joseph Homo-
vitz of the University of Frankfurt,
Germany, deals with "Jewish Proper
Names and Derivatives in the Koran"
land Michael Guttman, of the Juedisch-
Theologisches Seminar, Breslau, is the
author of "Decisions of Maimonides
I in his Commentary on the Mishna."
The remaining ten articles are by
American scholars, including Profes-
sor Julian Morgenstern, president of
the Hebrew Union College, Professor
A. T. Olmstead of the University of
Illinois, Professor W. J. Chapman of
the Cass Memorial Library, Professor
William Popper of the University of
; California, Professor Joseph Reider of
Dropsie College, Philadelphia; Jacob
!Mann of the Hebrew Union College
and Dr. Solomon B. Freehof of Chi-
l
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0
cage.
The three remaining articles are: I
"The Ceremony of Breaking a Glass
I at Weddings" by Professor Jacob Z.
I auterhach of the Hebrew Union Col-
Jeep, "The Law of Nature, Hugo
iGrotius, and the Bible" by Professor
I isaac Ilusik of the University of
Pennsylvania and "Some Unpublish-
I ed Letters of Theological Importance"
by Professor David Philipson of the
Hebrew Union College.
Olsen and Johnson, Clever Co-
medians, Head Temple The-
ater Bill Next Week.
5
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5
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Junior, bridge and table lamps; large assortment of end tables, smoking
stands, sewing cabints, phonographs, spinet desks, gateleg tables, davenport
tables, pedestals, Windsor rockers and chairs; large assortment of mohair
and velour seated rockers and chairs; mohair and velour Coxwell chairs;
breakfast suites; mohair, Jacquard and cut velour living room suites; corm
bination walnut, French walnut and two-tone dining suites.
Rugs---Wiltons, Velvets, Axminsters and Brussels. Most every size and pattern
Olsen and Johnson, America's
greatest comics, headline the bill at
I B. F. Keith's Temple Theater start-
I ing Sunday matinee, June 14. These
high class clowns offer a new routine
of songs, piano playing and monkey
shines. They have one of the great-
lest "nut" comedy turns in vaudeville.
Others billed: Nonette, the singing
violiniste, assisted by Harold Solmon
at the piano; Johnnie Berke! and She-
ila Terry in a melange of mirth and
melody; Yong Wong and Company,
acrobats and jugglers; Charles Irwin,1
the modern comedian, late star of I
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"Her Soldier Boy;" Detroit's favor- I
ite, Frank Devoe, presenting excerpts
from musical comedy; Jean Granese, 1
the unusual songstress, with Brother
Charles and Tite De Fiore; the Three
Danube', comedy gymnasts, and the A. CO
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