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CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, 01110
PAGE THREE
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racy),..rForr,k_
Pres-
the Jews, like C. A. Kinney Chosen Vice -
tensibly and nominally
ident and Cashier of New
ther minorities, have been afforded I
Griswold Bank.
DISTINCTIVE
equal political rights and economic op-
portunities, the Jews have been forced
WEARiNG s
from page I.)
(Contnued
to
continue
a
separate
existence
as
a
A.
Kinney
has just been elected
APPAREL FOR
C.
animal or vegetable kingdoms. When political entity. So we find in the vice-president of the Griswold Na-
MEN AND BOYS
Se;;m,
the
national
Polish
Assembly,
tional
Bank,
which
will shortly open
I was a boy in New York—and to a
very great extent, this is true today- the 25 Jewish deputies who are banded
together
in
a
club
for
the
purpose
of
," the houses built with brown stone
fronts, over acres and acres of streets, protecting Jewish interests. They act
WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
were all alike and I imagine that the and vote as Jews and for Jews. In
dilligualf Haul Stella
furniture of these houses was also Lithuania, this situation is even more
very much the same. How uninterest- patent. Every Jewish community is
ing and depressing in comparison with organized as a governmentally recog-
the variety prevailing in home con- nized Kehilla, with certain rights and
struction today everywhere through- duties, with the power to tax their
out the country. What an attractive members. Each community elects
city this is, because of the individual delegates to the National Jewish As-
character of the homes, their se'ting sembly, which in turn selects the Min-
and their construction. My own little ister for Jewish Affairs in the cabinet
street gives me a picture of nearly ministry. The street signs in the
the whole of Europe. As I enter it capital city of Kovno are printed in
from the main road, I walk alone. ivy- Yiddish, as well as in the Lithuanian
h
covered stone walls on the winding language. And in Czeco-Slovakia
call, three
path which vividly recalls to me a the government itself, I re
years
ago,
when
I
was
there,
was very
street in Fontainebleau, and, further
anxious
to
have
the
Jewish
popula-
on, I see an Italian villa, with a sunk-
tion
in
Slovakia
and
Sub-Carpathia,
Swiss
a
en garden, and next to that
chalet, like the hundreds which I ad- which constituted about 3 per cent
mired so much, built on the sides of of the general population, organized
the Alps Mountains; and beyond that, as a separate Jewish minority because
behind a long fence of rose bushes, I they were afraid if they remained un-
can distinguish through the foliage of organized that their leanings toward
the beautiful trees, a large, imposing Hungary would jeopardize the peace
of Czecho-Slovakia. This was a real
Is, first of all, perfect fitting
English manor house.
danger, because of the eminently
The other night, at the Community happy position the Jews in Hungary,
and what makes it so is the
Fund dinner, in a pageant intended to to which that part of Czecho-Slo-
hand tailoring. Every stitch
visualize the multifarious work of the vakia had belonged, had occupied be-
moulds the garment into per-
many social service agencies of De-
fore the war.
manent lines of grace and
troit, appeared a group of men and
Now, what shall be your attitude
women in the native costumes of var-
good style.
ious countries, intended to represent and my attitude toward this problem
of
group adjustment? It is a serious
C. A. KINNEY
You'll find a joy and satis-
the different racial groups who are be-
question that affects every one of
faction in wearing this char-
ing served by the constituent agencies
you, not only in the university but its doors in the Buhl Building. The
of
this
great
organization.
And
the
acter of clothing.
in the world that you enter after election of Mr. Kinney as vice-presi-
2,300 people who were present were
dent and cashier is significant of
thrilled by the vivid color and variety your college days are over.
I do not intend to answer this ques- the important posts now held in bank-
of these costumes; they must have re-
ing by the younger business men.
alized the tremendous artistic, cultural tion for you. I do not desire to im- Just past his thirty-fourth year, Mr.
and spiritual contributions which the pose my particular views upon you Kinney has been active in Detroit
It
is
a
question
that
you
must
answer
foreign groups have been making to
banking circles for 14 years.
1 the common life of America; and must for yourselves. But you will not be
have caught something of the truth happy until you do answer it, because
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that if a universal brotherhood is ever there is nothing that causes greater Pretentious Market Opens at
to be attained it will not be a brother- unhappiness to thoughtful and con-
Hamilton and Highland
hood of individual men, but a brother- scientious people than the state of
doubt which is produced by failure
on Saturday.
hood of racial groups.
to clearly define one's relationship to
The Jewish group presents a unique the world about us. Before you at-
The Hamilton-Highland Market,
situation, as you know, because it dif- tempt to answer that question, it
fers essentially from other groups. It would be well to point out that there which opens at Hamilton and High-
represents not only a religion but a are different types of Jews, each re - l and Saturday, marks a new era for
race and a race that has persisted for flecting an attitude toward life.
t hat locality, inasmuch as it is a
horoughly modern, metropolitan
2,000 years without a land and lan-
The first I might mention is the t market that can supply the people of
not
so
difficult
for
the
was
guage. It
Reform
Jew.
Reform
Judaism
is
Jewish people to persist as a distinct
i ts neighborhood as well as downtown
group because it was thrown upon it- about 100 years old. It was born in markets.
Germany and not long after it was
Outside of the downtown district
self within the walls of the Ghetto and
protected by those walls from disinte- conceived it was brought to this coun- t here is no other so thoroughly equip-
gration and destruction. Now, as a try and is the professing faith of p ed market in Detroit.
many of our most substantial and cul-
result of the Versailles Treaty, minor-
tured people. Reform Judaism, rec-
ities have been guaranteed equal
ognizing the dynamic character of
rights in all countries of Europe. Jewish life and theology, is an at-
Whether the Jewsih people will sur- tempt to bring Jewish practice and
vive the struggle between the centri- worship into conformity with the cus-
petal and centrifugal forces, the con- toms and attitudes of the majority
serving and the disruptive forces among whom we live. It recognizes
which have been going on in the liber- that in order that Judaism may sur-
al countries like the United States . vive, the Jewish group must remain
England, France and Germany and intact and therefore Reform Judaism
which has now spread to all other
frowns on intermarriage.
countries, is a question which neither
This is logical, but in its anxiety
you nor I can answer. This struggle
to have the Jew part of the life at
is going on with greater intensity be- large, it has refuted the age long
cause "the world has been made safe
aspiration of the Jewish people to re-
for democracy."
establish itself in the Holy Land and,
On the other hand are the forces of as a self-conscious church, has been
disruption. The fact that we are a opposed to Zionism. To justify this
negligible minority is in itself a cause repudiation, it has evolved the so-
for disruption, because of the natural called mission theory, teaching that it
1925
inclination of the minority to imitate is the holy mission of the Jewish peo -
from Jane's Diary, November
the majority and to become absorbed ple to be scattered throughout the
If I could entertain as delightfully as Marian does,
into it. I remember when I was a earth in order to bring the word of
youth, teaching in Sunday School, I God to the nations of the earth. This
I should give a party every night! Her bridge lunch-
had a class of about 15 boys. I recall theory, to me, appears only as ration-
eon today at Webster Hall was a masterpiece of sim-
with the amusement that I then felt ization, a justification after the deed,
plicity and charm—and the luncheon itself was be-
that not one of thee boys had a Jew- and it is a theory which does not
yond words.... Winter again, with its round of social
ish name. The names, I recall, were operate as a living, throbbing motive
Montmorency, Reginald, Montague, in the life of even the most profess-
affairs. What would we do without cardg' It's
Percival, Sylvester and so on. This ing of Reform Jews.
sun-room
on
the
top
floor-1
can
see
why
cosy in the
was likewise true of the girls. Certain
Then there is the Conservative
men choose Webster Hall. . . . When it's my turn to
Anglo-Saxon names have been so com- Jew, who, also realizing the dynamic,
be hostess, I know where I'll have my luncheon—
monly used by the Jews that they have as distingusihed from the static char-
become distinctly Jewish, such as Mil- acter of Jewish life and religion, and
Specially
Bridge luncheon., 12 o'clock OH 2.
oo
ton, Milford, Sidney and others. The also desiring conformity to the Occi-
prepared menus, $1.10 pee come. Cardms
only names that have not been adopt- dental life about us, has been willing
and table. for the afternoon wIthout char m.
9000.
Pardee from 4 to 24. Phan. Empire
ed as yet are Christian and Christina. to modernize, in some measure, the
And the process of adopting Anglo- Oriental customs and practices of the
Saxon family names is growing apace; Jewish people, but is not prepared to
and most of our Jewish brethren are resort to the drastic changes of the
satisfied only with the most aristo- Reform Jewish church, fearing that
cratic of Anglo-Saxon names. Who too radical a change threatens the
knows how many I.ees and Cabots and integrity of the Jewish people.
Lowells belong to the Jewish fold?
Then there is the Orthodox Jew,
As I look about me and observe you who, in spite of equal opportunities
young men and women, I can see little and the destruction of the Ghetto
that distinguishes you from the na- walls, still lives within a spiritual
tive, non-Jewish stock. You dress Ghetto. He Is satisfied to live by
like them, you carry yourselves like himself, to follow the customs of his
them, you acquire their interests and, ancestors for generations back, im-
in some of those distinctly Anglo-Sax- pervious to the influence of the sur-
on interests, you even outdo them. You rounding world, and is ready only to
join in their athletics enthusiastically. entertain economic contact with it.
Some of our best, football and base-
Then there is are racially conscious,
ball players are Jewish. The best non-religious Jew, who may be agnos-
prize fighters in this country are Jew- tic or even atheist, but who feels his
ish. Some of the most distinctly Am- Jewishness intensely, whose first loy-
erican writers and dramatists are alty is to his own people. lie is the
Jewish, and vaudeville actors, too, and Nationalist, the Zionist, who foresees
the only distinctly American music, the ultimate absorbtion of the Jewish
Jazz, has been writen nearly exclu- people of the Diaspora into the great
sively by Jews, with some inspiration, majority, but who, in his fervent pas-
eriy. and epvreon.
sgefo
ur eN
p i etthe
m
from
sion for saving the Jewish people, re-
o, w f ecao u r r sme , : „e
gards the settlement of Jews in Pal-
fusely than our non-Jewish neighbors. estine, their legally assured home, as
There are virtually no distinguishing the paramount task, and as the only
physical marks between you and your way in which to save Israel.
Christian fellow-students. An inter-
Then there is what might be termed
esting study made by the renowned an- the charities Jew, who may or may
thropologist, Professor Boas of Colum- not be a Reform Jew, yet may belong
bia, some 20 years ago, of the children to a temple, but has little interest in
of foreign born parents disclosed re- Judaism as a religion, but who still
markable changes, not only in stature feels his kinship with his people and
but in cranial structure. Where among finds satisfaction in supporting and
the parents the broad head with dis- perhaps actively identifying himself
tended ears prevailed, among the chil- with Jewish philanthropy. This man
referring
affec•
1 dren the long head with closely crop- frequently possesses intellectual in-
People have a way of
ped ears, the so-called Gibson type, terests but more frequently he is the
tionately to "the good old days."
Memory, of course, lends enchant•
successful business man to whom
Was the rule.
On the other hand, there are the money-making or golf is not enough
ment• but this same memory can re•
forces of conservation, the centripetal but who possesses some idealism
call that the good old days were not
forces: our temples and synagogues, which expresses itself in service to
so good after all.
this students' congregation which was others.
Finally, there is the assimilationist
established in order to hold you; our
kitchen
range
that
had
to
be"stoked"
A
religious schools, our fraternal organ- Jew, who regrets having been born
from the woodbox at monotonous
a
irations, cur philanthropies; (and our a Jew, who wishes he could cease to
intervals; bath water heated over the
philanthropies have been perhaps the be a Jew and hopes his children will
fire; summer days spent over a red-hot
strongest conserving force because leave the Jewish fold.
If you belong to the first in this
they have held many men who had no
stove, preparing meals for the family:
the
house.
Jewish interests and who otherwise category, the Reform Jewish group,
you could hardly expect
I
shall
be glad to know you, because
' ' would have abandoned the fold.) These
keepers of America to long for a
are the inner forces of conservation. I will find you congenial. You dress
return of the old days.
as
I
do,
you read the same books I
But there is one outer force that is
even stronger, the force of anti-Semi- do, enjoy the same pleasures that I
But the old days would come again if
do
and,
though
I may not altogether
tism, which prevails everywhere and
your gas supply should suddenly be
has shown itself stronger in this coun- agree with your logic, particularly
cut off. Without gas, domestic tasks
with
reference
to
the mission theory
try' today than ever before.. This in-
that are now considered trivial would
' tolerance, misunderstanding and prei- of thetweeish people, I think, on the
become exhausting hardships.
, udice always results in making even whole, will find each other pleas-
the most lackadaisical and indifferent ant company.
It is the work of more than 3,000
If you are ■ Conservative Jew, I
, Jew more conscious of his Jewishness,
see
that
the
homes
of
Detroit
people to
and, although it may make him feel shall respect you for your logical po-
have a plentiful supply of gas at all
uncomfortable, usually make him sition. I shall attend your religious
more anxious to align himself with services sympathetically and with •
times. They compose an army of
great sense of spiritual utisfaction,
i
his people in their defense.
public servants known as—
I And this struggle between these two and I shall find you, too, congenial,
forces is going on in eastern European although personally I may observe
countries, where, up to recently, there but few of the 613 mizvahs you prac-
KNABE
was very little assimilation. In these tice.
If you are an Orthodox Jew, I shall
countries, perhaps as you know, un-
respect you greatly, as I do my own
like
the
situation
in
America,
the
Jews
Pnra sad Cm. Min
find you
Ch.. W. Beane.. 11144
have been officially recognized as a mi- dear mother, but I shall not area
bit
nority and enjoy certain rights as mi- so congenial, because you
norities and possess distinct responsi- too antiquated.
bilities as minorities. So, even though
(Continued on page eleven.)
Poland has become a republic and os-
"You Jewish Students"
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or
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at
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from the Hickey Shops
om
My
and
left
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em-
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per.
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look
we
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each
and
as I
irry•
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t for
you
ne
my
once.
hog-
And
sties,
each-
igno.
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she
ig up
ut in
time
w for
It for
hard
.ydda.
ne for
is now
of my
. Ere
or. A
doled,
domed
id that
a fam-
n, God
le this
I say:
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