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A merica lavish Pedalled Coder

CLIPTON AVMS • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

PAGE FIVE

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Modern Science and
Old-Fashioned Faith"

PI(
dos EP1-1- 1==--

(Continued from Page 4)

zoology. in the first lecture the pro-
fessor spoke of the origin of life, and
Br Chas. H. .1.•16.)
(C....y ■ HIld. INS.
he made the origin of life through
cannot
have
much
value
at
this
date.
A
purely chemical and mechanical proc-
This is interesting though it
der sends me some "Interesting Figures" from a list of statistics gathered esses so simple and certain a matter
rea
rhos the S.stus of Society in England and Wales: Parliamentary report that, as I listened, .I felt my religion
Emerson Easterling is the author of the article in which slipping again. 1Ath my heart in my
1t
made in Intdresting
Figures" appear. In England and Wales, in the year hand, I walked up to the professor at
mentioned, there were 1,600,000 Roman Catholics; almost 7,000,000 Church the close of the lecture and, with pa-
f England members; some 7,000,000 Dissenters; 7,000,000 Infidels and thetic, breathless anxiety, I asked
o
. The total number of criminals in jails at the time were 37,300 him, "Professor, does science agree
57,000 Jew ,
9 6 600 Church of England adherents, 10,800 Dissenters with religion?" The professor was a
.„ id.tiiiels,(so
it would seem that Infidels are rather God-fearing (?) kindly man and he could see what
d not one Jew. So it would seem that those religious groups was going on inside of me. "Sly
only
end
,
persona
that are ac ustomed to bracket Jew and Infidel along with the Turk, as boy," he said with a barely percep-
ing outsid, the scheme of salvation, should begin to realize that all of tible twinkle in his eye, "you ask me
be
bad, even if we cannot be given a place in the Christian heaven. whether science agrees with religion.
How should I know? I have not yet
on aren't FG

Now whit have the Zionists to say to this? From the New York Sun seen this morning's newspapers."
what does Munsey call the Sun now?) comes this statement: The scientific attitude is tentative, un-
certain, doubting, suspending judg-
(by the WA,,,
ment.
The outstanding literary figure of the moment in the German-
Here, too, I believe Mr. Darrow
speaking world is Jakob Wasserman. The leading theatrical producer
agrees with me. lie said in his ad-
is Rhinchardt. The foremost scientist is Einstein. Second among
dress
before the l'isgah Lodge of the
the playwrights is Schnitzler. These are all Jews and yet of the
Order of B'nai B'rith that science
population, the Jews are only about one-hundredth part. In propo-
leaves
the world, its origin and the
tion to their numbers, the Jews stand out conspicuously for their
origin of life still a great mystery.
ability in many countries. Their success is most evident wherever
And
during,
the evolution trial in
their contact with other races is most general. Luther Burbank has
Dayton he declared he was not an
proved ,hat it is a law of nature that "the oollision of two species
uch of sci-
atheist. Ile knows too mcert
often produces a finer type than either. Thal applies to minds as
ain that
ence to be as absolutely
well as to physical bodies."
there is no God as the atheist claims

SIXTY-FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE

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AN INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL HEAVENRICH

The oldest living member of Tem- monuments for ourselves during our
ple Beth El is Samuel Ileavenrich, lifetime, so that we, too, may be grate-
who is not only the oldest member in fully remembered as having endeav- —
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point of age but in point of service,
still retaining an active interest in
the matters of the congregation. Mr.
Ileavenrich joined the temple in 1861
at the age of 21 years, just 11 years
after the Congregation Bet El (as it
was then spelled) was founded. He
is still a member of the board of di-
rectors, having served for 34 years,
and held every office in the temple,
including the presidency twice. Mr.
Ileaysmrich helped lay the cornerstone
for the temples at Woodward and
Eliot and Woodward and Gladstone.
In an interview Mr. Ileavenrich
stressed the activities and worthiness
of Louis Blitz, with whom he served
as vice-president during the stirring
period at the beginning of the cen-
tury. During their administration
the temple at Woodward and Eliot,
which was to serve the congregation
until 1922, when the present edifice
was dedicated, was planned and built.
It stood as a monument to the untir-
ing efforts of Mr. Blitz, said Mr.
Ileavenrich, but others pay a like
compliment to the then vice-president.
Mr. Ileavenrich quoted a short para-
graph which Mr. Blitz wrote shortly
before his death in 1905:
"Let us be admonished that we build

air sits.

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and I part company—Darrow seems Ile keeps denying that there is love
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in the universe, yet he has spent the
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I don't know whether I was the first to suggest it in the press, though to say: "I assume towards all of life best years of his life trying to teach
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amber color or amber col-
Rabbi Lazaron of Baltimore seems to think so. I refer to the position the scientific attitude of uncertainty, us that we shall love even the crim-
SAMUEL HEAVENRICH
the
or with pearl coating.
taken in this column some weeks ago that the Philadelphia peace was peace of tentativeness, of doubt. I am inal. In his address before the Sweet
Wide satin or novelty
ame only; that in reality the compromise meant war between factions agnostic. I do not know whether I trial jury he said in one breath that ored, each in his humble way, to lend
In n
borders.
fighting
for Palestine and for Russian colonization. I urged that it would ought to seek the good or not. I do all human beings are hopelessly dom- • hand toward the uplifting and the E.
now whether goodness can be
upbuilding
of
his
fellow
men."
be fatal for Mr. Marshall and Mr. Brown to go before a divided Jewry to not k
Man's Umbrellas at $2.98,
F.
r.
I do not know inated by their prejudices, and in the
in life or n
Mr.
Ileavenrich
was
a
leader
in
raise $15,000,000 and that in the intettst of harmony and justice a certain foun d
others
at
$4.98 and $5.98. I/
is fr iendly to next breath he asked the jurymen to congregational activities during many
ot ure
.
whet her God or natt.
percentage of the money to be raised should be allocated to Palestine.
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us or not. I do not know whether rise above their prejudices. His whole of the trying periods which are a part
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mankind will ever learn to co-operate career has been an expression of a
Whether these words fell on receptive ears I do not know. Perhaps or not. I do not know whether there high order of religious idealism. In of the growth of every organization
their own good judgment prevailed. At any rate, when I was in the office is any such thing as progress or not. short, Mr. Darrow is a good man, but and institution. Ile was acting presi- =
dent when heated controversial meet-
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York, on Thanksgiving Day, I I am waiting for the evidence to come he has a rotten philosophy. Ile has
was informed that Marshall and Wise had made peace. It was wonderful in." It is this cynical attitude which the same mistaken notion which I ings were held to discuss the unas- =
signed pew system which is now the r.:÷:
news and I told Mr. Landau, the managing director of the J. T. A., that the is the opposite of the positive religious hear expressed by so many people
Jews of America had additional cause for thanksgiving. So at the Balti- attitude toward life, and it tends to nowadays. They say, my religion is customary method in more than 100
more conference (which I presume will go down in Jewish history as the paralyze all moral effort, to discour- doing good. I do not need to go to congregations throughout the country, =
all following the example of Detroit's —
great peace conference), after Messrs. Marshall and Wise had exchanged age all moral progress, to destroy all church. It never enters their minds
the compliments of the season in a somewhat uncomplimentary fashion, it hope. Hope, says Darrow, is dope. that they are exercising an extremely Reform temple.
In that expanding period after the
was decided that $1,500,000 dollars of the $15,000,000 to be raised should It is not only as a religious teacher selfish kind of goodness. They do not
go to Palestine. That's good sense. Some day I hope American Jewry will but as a fellow human being that I join themselves with their fellow men opening of the twentieth century Mr.
contribute to one fund that will care for all national and international un- would reply to Mr. Darrow. I would to promote the goodness that is in Heavenrich was vice-president of the
congregation, having been elected in
say your attitude is unreal, it is un- them and to transmit it by a system
dertakings.
human. It may apply to the study of of education to others. This is what 1899 and serving until 1905, when he
was chosen president for two years.
Chicago got off to a flying start the other day in the $15,000,000 cam- chemistry or astronomy; it fails in religion is—the effort to perpetuate
Sixty-four years of service to the
At the Blackstone Hotel dinner almost $2,000,000 was announced. everyday life. Life is too urgent for the goodness that is in eis and to hand
paign.
Of course, Chicago Jewry is as fortunate in having Julius Rosenwald in you to wait till all the evidence comes it on to others and to future genera_ temple and to the Jewish community E
Women's
rare
and
a
pre-
a
of
Detroit have left Mr. Ileavenrich
tions.
Goodness
is
their midst as the University of Illinois was in having Red Grange. Each in before you begin to act and live.
carious thing—and it requires at least with a sense of duty well done and a = Boxed Handkerchiefs
of these gentlemen in his respective sphere of activity is a whole team in You do not wait for scientific evi-
as
much
organization
and
promotion
wish
to
serve
many
more
years
to
the
himself. Mr. Rosenwald gave $1,000,000 and then, to make it a generous dence and keep an open mind about
$1.00
and advertising as evil receives.
best of his ability. Be has seen the
measure, he added $75,000, of which amount $50,000 was contributed in loving your mother. You are today
Is it not the great tragedy of this growth from the small Rivard street
memory of an old friend, the late A. G. Becker. Of course, that $1,075,000 making plans for tomorrow, even
Handkerchiefs of all kinds
age
that
at
the
same
time
that
our
temple
to
the
present
magnificent
edi-
helped considerably. However, in looking over the list it must be said that though you have no evidence that to-
— in solid colors or plain
morrow will come. Even the scientist science is gaining for us mastery over fice in the north end of the city—the 7=
a large number of others gave most liberally and acquitted themselves with
nature, we are losing mastery over growth from a handful of members to S: white with colored em-
distinguished honor; but we mustn't overlook Jacob M. Loeb, the hero of in his laboratory must have the faith
ourselves? The great war was a veri- 1,300 families with all the affiliated
that
nature
is
intelligible,
that
the
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broidery. All-around scal-
many campaigns. He was one of the inspiring factors making possible this
table triumph of science. One more societies and religious schools which
= loped or plain hemstitched
splendid showing. With Jacob M. Loeb as one of the leaders, the $4,000,000 phenomenon which he sees today will,
such triumph and the human race will serve the large numbers who have ac-
under
the
same
conditions,
recur
= hems. Fancy boxes.
is in sight. At least David Brown thinks so and he knows.
again tomorrow. If you are incapable perish from the earth. Science is at sociated themselves with one of the
Others at 50c to $1.60
=
of the attitude of faith in the universe, its best a tool—a sharp-edged tool. leading Reform congregations west of
• Box.
have
been
very
much
interested
in
getting
reaction
of
"the
country"
Whether
we
shall
use
it
to
enrich
the Allegheny Mountains.
I
you may as well also give up science.
on the position taken in this column to the effect that the Jews are making

The prophets of Israel did not wait human life or to destroy it depends
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too much of the profession of charity, and judging by the reports thus far
upon
whether
we
have
the
religious
for the science of anthropology to
received, many others think the same as I do. Some men won't accept an
prove that peace was possible before ideal of conduct and the religious atti- WHY WERE THEY SAINTS?
invitation to even their daughter's wedding Unless they find some assurance proclaiming the ideal of universal tude toward life. The comforts and
on the invitation that "there will be no solicitations of funds." Others have peace. If we are to live at all, we conveniences which science and inven-
Because they were cheerful when
stopped eating lunch or they eat lunch where their co-religionists do not must make the venture of faith that tion are providing for us will lead
gather in numbers, to avoid being solicited for funds. From all sources I the good life is attainable—which is only to moral decay and physical de- it was difficult to be cheerful, and
patient
when it was difficult to be
learn that collecting funds has become an obsession with the Jewish people. to say that we have a Friend in the generation unless our uses of them
patient, and because they pushed on
So it seems to me that instead of being the "People of the Book," we have universe. As a matter of fact, air. are inspired by religious idealism. when they wanted to stand still, and
become the people of the "check book."
Darrow has shown again and again The conflict between religion and sci- kept silent when they wanted to talk
by his deeds that he has religious ence will be solved when men will
Rarely have I ever seen such genuine interest and enthusiasm displayed faith. Ile only denies It with his lips. learn to use the power which science and were agreeable when they wanted
over the victory of a candidate to the office of alderman as has been wit- He keeps denying that human prog- gives them to promote an ever nobler to be disagreeable.
That was all.
nessed in the election of Mrs. Sarah R. Cohen of the Sixth Ward, Connells ress is possible, yet he is always work- way of life.
vine, Pa. This Jewess was elected on both the Republican and Democratic

say in answer to this?

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tickets, a most unusual evidence of the respect and esteem in which this
woman is held. But what interests me most is the pride that Connellaville
residents take in the event. I have received several letters; I have seen
in the daily press letters from Gentile residents eager to broadcast to the
world the good news. Everybody seems to be happy about it. Mrs. Cohen
is the first woman to be elected alderman in the State of Pennsylvania. Her
husband met with an accident some eight years ago and lost his eyesight;
they have five children and Mrs. Cohen has been the main support of the
family. Now she is signally honored by her neighbors. Truly she must
be an unusual woman.

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rid
ng

There are different ways to stimulating one's latent abilities. I note
where a Russian Jew, converted by the Evangelist Bob Jones, in Pittsburgh,
Pa., went home and painted a picture of Jesus. The picture, so the daily
Paper informs me, was exhibited at one of the revivalist's meetings and
declared by many to have been exceptionally well done. I always knew that
Bob Jones exerted a wonderful influence. From now on I shall not be sun.
Prised at any miracles he performs.

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I have always understood that no man could be deprived of his
liber,y without due process of law. It is my opinion that this pro-
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should be compulsory. The militarists were overwhelmingly defeated. The
result has aroused a mixed sentiment. We have one more or less distin-
guished I ongressman declaring those students who voted against military
Another person refers to the students as an "un-
10 be "pups."
training
A
„maricai." body. But I find that thousands are rising up defending the
N. Y. vote. And I have just received a pamphlet written by Winthrop
t. Lane and endorsed in a statement issued by a representative group of
statesmen,,
tesmen, educators, churchmen, editors, social workers and other promi-
nent men and women, in which military training in high schools and its corn-
..ulaara features in colleges and universities are condemned out of hand.
Until oar reads this pamphlet one cannot realize to what an extent military
mining 13 carried on in our higher institutions of learning.

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GREETINGS FROM AN OLD MEMBER

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AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIUS

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"The Patin M. D.," whoever he is, sends me from Chicago a clipping
that shows he uses his head as well as his eyes when he reads the news of
the day. lie suggests that admitting the statement of the ex-Grand Dragon
Stephenson of the Ku Klux Klan, made to the court at the time of his sen-
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FREUD

Temple Beth El soon after his return
One of the oldest and former active
member s of Temple Beth El is Julius to Detroit in 1873 and his decision to
make his permanent home here. lie
Freud, who, at 86 years of age, is no immediately took an active part in its
longer engaged in active work for the interests and duties and was elected
many years after.
congregation but still holds its inter- vice-president not
ests at heart. Mr. Freud came to During much of the decade between
1880
and
1890
he
served
as president
Detroit in 1856 from Germany and
tan or three days after his arrival of the congregation and upon his re-
tirement
from
that
position
became •
attended services at the first temple.
trustee. Mr. Freud was one of the
Be wan lint
a boy then and, since he
workers for Beth El until he was
did not plan to settle in the city, did
I 'M become a member of the young forced in recent years to retire from
congregation. At that time, he said, active life.
Mr. Freud compared the tepmle and
there were but 12 men and their fam-
the congregation when he first became
ilies who belonged to Bet El, among
them the ardent worker and communal acquainted with them with the temple
and congregation today. The growth,
leader, Jacob Silberman, president of
he said, had been gradual and steady
the temple. Mr. Freud went to Lake
with few setbacks and with great en-
Superior in 1858 and lived in the
thusiasm. Congregation Beth El has
northern part of the state until 1073, kept rapid pace with the growing
when he returned to this city. lie Michigan city, and now holds a high
compared the change and growth in
in the community.
the temple in these 15 years, during place
Mr. Freud. in closing, wished for
which time the Rivard street edifice
the congregation, its officers and mem-
had been erected and was being used bers, a happy and prosperous future.
and many new members had been a growth in the next quarter century
added to the roster. Other families comparable with the growth of the
teem Germany and Bavaria had come
in
to Detroit and had immediately joined nest 75 years. and a celebration
those
the fl
1950 which shall surpass all
ourisoing congregation.
Julius Freud became a member of ever held.

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