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SENSATIONAL
FEBRUARY.
To Sing at Lecture
At Orchestra Hall
"Do the Dead Live?"
who are convinced that they are in
touch with the spirit world, can think
of nothing else. They lose all interest
in human beings and are of no serv-
ice to them. This proves, I believe,
the soundness of the position of liber-
al Judaism. It is good to have a poet-
ic faith in immortality, but it is fatu-
ous to permit it to become a dominat-
ing interest. Let those who are be-
reaved sublimate their love for the de-
parted into the service of their fellow.
men. All who have tried this sub-
stitution have found it satisfying.
We need all our energies for the
service of life, for the promotion of
justice, the dispelling of ignorance,
the distribution of happiness. The
brevity and uncertainty of life used
t3 drive the men of ant:quity and of
the Middle Ages 1.3 inyst.c oroodings
upon another world. They teach
modern men that there is no time to
be spared for any other than the needs
and the problems of living human be-
i ngs. The thought of death has value
to the twentieth-century man only in-
sofar as it stimulates him to live beau-
tifully while he may. The memory of
the dead has value only insofar as it
exerts a sweetening influence upon
our lives and the lives of those about
COOLIDGE TO FAVOR
"REASONABLE CHANGES
RABBI LEON FRAM
W A SH INGTON.-(J. T ■
Reasonable amendments to th„ it,.
The most difficult task for the human intellect to master is to distinguish
ant immigration law, which a t !1
between reality and wish. Every object that we see or hear is colored by
rect the evils which impose et! c.
our loves or hates, all our reasoning is guided by our hopes or fears. Nol
sary hardships upon separated • a.
man can be trusted to be a witness for himself. None of us can be relied
lies, will have the support at
upon to testify to what goes on in our own minds. Even experiments in
dent Coolidge, it woo declare,
physics and chemistry-certainly the most concrete of subjects-sometimes
following the l'resident's cent. • • ,
go wrong because the investigator sees the result he wants rather than the
with Secretary of Labor Da,
result that is actually before him.
It was understood that the
Nor is this tendency of our imaginations to master our reason by any
of the conference was to f.„.
means to be regarded as an unadulterated evil. It may be an impediment
a definite policy with regat.!
to science, but science is only one of the many interests which make up
1
proposal for the exemption
I human life. This wistful creative imagination of ours has a lofty purpose
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relatives from the quota
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y.
to serve. It offers us a refuge from th2 hard, dull and ungenerous world of
definite decision, it is underst.,
reality. It is nature's way of compensating for our limitations and failures.
be reached at further cont. ,. •
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Those wishes which we cannot fulfill in actual life, we satisfy in fantasy.
which Congressman Albert
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here is the stuff of which poetry is6
t
chairman of the House Mee
made. What does the poet do but con-
committee, will be asked to j
resurrection in the Prayer Book and
jure up an inner world furnished with
It was declared that the Pi. ,
transformed them into abstract sug-
the beauty and the joy which the out-
gestions of immortality. In other
told Secretary of Labor Doe • t ,
er world denies him?
It
words, both in synagogue and in
he felt that the existing Munk, .•
It is to this streak of poetry in our
church, there has been a returning
law ought not to be weakened. l i
make-up, it is to this creative imagi-
I
to the living religion of the Propsets.
President felt, however, then a
nation of ours, that we must credit
Only, the wish for immortality in-
features in the present law whirs it
the belief in life after death. This
SEE OUR LIVING ROOM SUITES.
pose unnecessary hardships mien se
belief appears to be as old as mankind stead of being ignored as it was by'
crated families.
We Manufacture Them to Order.
the
Prophets-is
given
a
place
in
the
itself. The most savage people we
US.
During a conference mitt, c o
meet with today, and the earliest rel- poetic background of life, as a mood
gressman Perlman and
S.
ics we can dig up, show some form of to be indulged, as an expression of
LEONARD BRAUN
burial or mortuary ceremony, and faith in the supreme value of hu- New Record for Graham Bros. Wadsworth several days ag,,, tl
President promised to give cot-„de
man
personality
and
in
the
abund-
mortuary ceremonies are invariably
Retail deliveries of 1,478 motor ation to the pending hills.
an indication of a belief in a hereaf- ance of Divine Love. As for our trucks and busses in the United
ter. And the belief appears to be as prayer for the dead ,the Kaddish- States and Canada, during the four
universal as it is old. A fierce desire it was not necessar yto make any weeks ending Jan. 30, according to
Bread and mantle do not t.
t
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for life is the condition upon which changes in it to make it conform to official figures just released by the philosopher.
Warehouses Open Daily, Also Monday, Tuesday and Saturday
the spirit of the Prophets, even
life exists at all.
factory
at
Detroit,
showed
an
in-
Evenings.
As old as the belief itself is the though it was written by the rab- crease over the corresponding period
search for proofs to confirm it. While ble who believed in resurrection. last year of 807, a gain of 120 per
there has never been any evidence in the first place-the original Hebrew cent.
the strict sense of the word, there does not even mention the dead. It
The week ending Jan. 16, with de-
Arlington
Arlington
have always been intimations of im- is a song of praise to God, conveying liveries of 409 trucks and busses, was
Dine and Dance Every D.y
Sons of Judaea.
1175
mortality. Spencer shows how primi- the idea that even in sorrow and in 196 per cent ahead of the correspond.
at the
At the last meeting of the Sons of
tive men were persuaded by their bereavement, we are strong enough of ing week last year. The week ending
Remodeling and Repairing of the Better Kind.
Judaea, Sunday, Feb. 7, elections dreams to believe in a life independent faith to give praise to God.
VIRGINIA
ROOM
Jan. 30 set the record for January
CLEANER AND DYER
were held. The following officers of the body. To jump a million years
Having traced the concept of im-
Where Real Southern Atniosph,r,
were chosen: M. Kaufman, presi- from the savage to the scientist, Sir mortality from its crude beginnings with deliveries of 425 units.
LADIES AND GENTS TAILOR
Prevails.
"Our production during the last
dent; M. Magidson, vice-president; Oliver Lodge, foremost British physi- in primitive life and in ancient civili-
3383 BURLINGAME, Near DEXTER BOULEVARD
I Wiener, secretary, and A. Becker, cist, gets a like intimation of immor- ations down to its modern sublima- two weeks in January," said a Gra-
— Music by —
treasurer. Mr. Liederman gave a re- tality from the phenomenon of men- tions, it would seem that our story has ham Brothers executive, "amounted
to 1,124 trucks and busses, a gain of
BUNTZ'S CHOCOLATE
port on the life of Henry Groetz, L.
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1 Gellfund discussed llerzl and Hirsch tal telepathy. Professor Breasted, the conic to an end. Unforseen circum- 68 per cent over the corresponding
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great Egyptologist of the University stances however, compel us to begin
DANDY BAND
and I. Subar reported on the Roman of Chicago, has indicated that the an- all over again. For in every city of period last year."
Ghettoes. After the meeting was ad- dent Egyptians got their chief inti- Europe and America, the mediums
00
journed the club attended a Chamiso mations of immortality from quite a whom Moses drove out have made
Greatest January in History.
Oser B'Shebat program at Shaarey different source. The climate of their appearance again. They are
With actual retail deliveries in cars
Zedek given by Young Judaea.
Egypt is that of the desert which sur- holding their seances and putting us and trucks in excess of 14,943, Dodge
0
rounds it-exceedingly dry. In such in touch with the spirits of the de- Brothers, Inc., have closed out the
Forget-Me-Nots.
a climate dead bodies remain a long parted just as they did in the days of greatest January in history, it was
Wishes to announce to his many friends
Entertainment every Evening
At the last meeting of the Forget- time in an excellent state of preserva- Saul. Everywhere tables are tipping, announced today. These figures repre-
that he is conducting business temporarily
Real Southern Harmony and
Me-Nots, held at the home of Edith tion. With the aid of embalming ghosts are appearing, trumpets are sent an increase of 67.4 per cent over
fluids,
the
body
can
be
preserved
al-
speaking,
mysterious
rappings
are
Charleston - Strutters .
last
year
and
ineMentally
throw
some
Arenson, the following officers were
from his residence
elected: President, Anne Lapinsky; most indefinitely, as is proven. by the heard, furniture is being knocked light on Dodge Brothers production
mummies
now
being
unearthed
in
such
about-the
spirits
of
the
dead
are
try-
schedule.
vice-president, Revs Goldman; secre-
We Cater to Special Card PArtie
In former years Dodge Brothers
tary, Annette Fine; treasurer, Ruth large numbers-many of them thou- ing to break into the atmosphere of
and Lncheons.
dealers have experienced the greatest
Star. The program consisted of a sands of years old. It was this natur- the living.
That most astute of magicians, the difficulty in securing deliveries during
debate on "Resolved, That Hebrew al circumstance which gave the Egyp-
tians
a
more
concrete
and
substantial
human wish, is once more at work. the spring months. The lowered
and Not Jewish Should Be Taught in
o
the Hebrew Schools." The affirma- belief in life after death than any The Great War together with the in- prices, which are reported to have
No connection with any other firm.
at the
tive side won. The Forget-Me-Nuts people has ever had. In Egypt the be- fluenza epidemic brought bereavement accelerated the demand, would other-
a attended the entertainment at the lief ceased to be poetry and became a into nearly every home in Europe and wise have worked the greatest hard-
Shaarey Zedek, at which Mary UI- work-a-day fact. The Egyptians be- into many homes here. They were ships but for the expansion program
lieved (to put it rather broadly) that mainly young men who died-young decided on last fall. This program
nick gave a poem.
the deceased continued in a kind of sons, young brothers, young husbands. represents a cost of $10,000,000 in
26 PETERBORO
bodily life, that they required food and The longings of the bereaved have buildings and machinery. It is now
Teterboro near Woodward .
drink, dress, cosmetics, ornaments, been so keen that they were ready to practically completed and before the
furniture, servants, and buildings.
Call
believe in anything that seemed to put end of February Dodge Brothers ex-
Fenkell Mothers Club: We are obliged to Dr. David Neu- them in touch again with their dear pect to put out 1,500 cars a day.
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mark of blessed memory, late Profes- ones. I even know of a rabbi who ser-
The phenomenal increase in ship-
For R
l ions.
Stock of •Michig•n Coal and Wood Company (bankrupt) will be sold
A meeting of the Fenkell Mothers sox of Philosophy at the Hebrew Un-
ments in January indicates how ac-
Club will be held on Saturday after- lion College, for the suggestion that it iously believed he was communicating curately officials ganged the market.
at tremendous bargain in order to vacate premises.
with his departed wife by means of
noon,
Feb.
13,
at
2:30
p.
m.,
at
the
was in reaction against this Egyptian the ouija board. She had died of in
All lengths-any quality. Phone orders taken for immediate
Custer School, Linwood and Midland. concern for the dead that the proph-
delivery to all parts of city.
Arthur Dondineau, director of super- ets of Israel formulated their religion fluenza three months after their mar-
riage. Our wishes are stronger than
vision of the Board of Education, will of concern for the living.
our reason.
follow up the "Know Your Town"
After the days of the Bible, how-
There is enough of fraud and of
movement from the angle of the edu- ever, Jewish literature begins to teem
Main Office: Cadillac 9100.
cationalist. Mrs. A. Cohane of the with assurances of Olom Rabe, a life self-deceit in all this to place it be-
Wood Yard: Seventeenth and Hancock; Walnut 3251.
Music Study Circle will render sev- beyond the grave and with pictures neath notice. In July, 1925, the Com-
eral musical selections and dancing of Heaven and of Hell-Gan Eden and mon Council of Detroit felt itself com-
of European and American folk Gehinnom. What led the Jewish mind pelled to pass an ordinance prohibit-
ing all such practices in this city ,so
ances w
wall
ill follow the meeting. Res-
welcome back the thoughts it had
creations will be taken at this meet- once expelled? The answer is: Op- flagrant was the fraud perpetrated
ing for the banquet which is to be pression. Oppressed peoples tend upon the credulous. Yet there is also
Where to Dine and Dance? Of Course at
I held on Saturday evening, Feb. 20, naturally to believe in the coining of enough of genuineness in these phe-
n ut , p 8.9 waetna ths etrJ,
e e ,twish Women's better times. They who are not per- nomena to make them worthy of
study. Some of the greatest scientists
mitted to see joy in this world soon
and psychologists of modern times
begin to feel certain of obtaining it in
Oakman-Davidson Mothers Club: some other world. It is significant have examined the evidence. It seems
that a few of the mediums whq claim
The following were elected officers that the belief in the Messiah and the to be in communication with the spir-
at a recent meeting of the Oakman- belief in Resurrection came into Juda- its are unquestionably honest and that
Davison Mothers Club: Mrs. Jen- ism simultaneously. Goaded beyond they do display a knowledge of things,
nie Shook, president; Mrs. Ida Israel endurance by the Roman conquerors, mainly small personal matters, which
vice-president; Mrs. Anna Weiner, our people began to await a deliverer
they could not have obtained through
treasurer; Mrs. Anna Tamaroff, cor• -a Messiah. They awaited him ordinary channels of information.
responding secretary, and Mrs. Roselhourly. And when the Messiah tar- Those scientists and men of letters
Robins, recording secretary. vied and many that were expecting
who lost sons in the war, such as Sir
him died the marty's death, the rab-
Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan Doyle,
his began to believe and to teach that
Father and Son Celebration:
jumped immediately to the conclusion
A Father and Son celebration will those who died while awaiting the that this information came from the
would rise from the grave
be held at the Balch School, Ferry
departed spirits of their beloved ones.
of his arriva on
and St. Antoine avenues, on Thurs. to enjoy the glory
Sir Oliver Lodge even ventured to
i way the doctrine of resurrection
thin
ction
suggest that the spirits of the dead
day
evening,
Feb.
11,
at
7:30
o'clock.
crept
into
Judaism.
Follow the Sessions Daily, 12 to 2, 6 to 8 and 9:30 to I.
might have their physical home in the
There
will
be
an
address
on
the
sig-
GRAND RIVER AND JOY ROAD
I
w the crowd for Saturday Afternoon Dancing, 12 to 2:30.
I believe the negro spirituals dwell
light-bearing ether which permeates
nificance of the Father and Son so sadly and yet so joyously upon the
movement by a son and a talk to the next world because the negroes suf- the world. Unfortunately the Ein-
sons by a father. Several violin solos fered so much pain and humilation in stein theory of relativity does away
with the old theory of the existence of
are planned, which will be followed this world. Their spontaneous ioy of
by movies and orchestra selections. life crushed and distorted in slavery an ether, so that the spirits are evict-
Birnbaum has engaged the services of
ed from the home which Sir Lodge
Also,
a
boxing
match
will
be
included
was
transformed
by
the
alchemy
of
The only place where accommodations • •re satisfactory for
provided for them. However, scient-
in the program. imagination into a bright vision of a
parties and banquets of any sire.
ists whose emotions have not been un-
happy hereafter. So the wretched
Expert Designer.
balanced by bereavement, such as Pro-
Institute Mothers Club:
darkey-a mere piece of chattel
Our custom tailoring department is now personally
fessor Jastrow, the psychologist, be-
At a meeting of the Institute Moth- bought and sold, sometimes whipped
managed
by
Mr.
I). Reiner, formerly associated
lieve that the remarkable powers of
ere Club which was held on Saturday was going to walk all over God's
with such concerns as Bendel's, New York; Plyms,
the mediums do not require an expla-
afternoon, Feb. 6, at the Balch Heaven as soon as he died. Dear h
at
Washington,
ancl
. J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit.
nation in terms of an Unseen World
School, the following were elected as would give him wings of freedom
For the very latest ideas in fur coat making, see
of Spirits. They can be explained
officers for the coming year: Mrs. !Safe in Heaven, he hoped "to shout
Mr. Reiner. The results and reasonable cost will
purely in terms of the physical world
Max Weissberg, president; Mrs. Fan- Glory when the woild's on fire." Lit t
please and surprise you.
and the mechanism of the human ner-
ray Parker, vice-president; Mrs. C. was so hard, he would welcome dear h vous system. All the students of this
Rosen, treasurer. All of the clubs are with its promise of rest. "Swing low subject-it must be said-are, in ac-
very much interested in the annual sweet chariot, comin' for to carry m cordance with the true scientific
l'urim masquerade ball and are work- home." This is great poetry, spun spirit, keeping their minds open, for
ing as hard as they can to make it a taneously created by a compensatin g "there are more things in heaven and
imagination.
. , success in every way.
earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
It is true that oppressed people s
your philosophy."
tend unconsciously to seek comfort in
!Delray Mothers Club:
Meanwhile the story of Egypt is be-
dreams
of
Heaven,
it
is
also
true
tha
The next meeting of the Delray
ing repeated. Those men and women
Mothers Club will be held on Wed- oppressors have always consciously
taken
advantage
of
that
tendency.
r.
. nesday afternoon, Feb. 17, at 2:30
p. m.,., at the Delray Synagogue, Bur- The wielders of power have always
. deno near Cary. Miss Leila McGuire sought to strengthen their position by
of the Merrill-Palmer School will talk keeping the thoughts of their subjects
fixed not on their grievances on earth,
will greatly appreciate
on "Food Values." Music and danc-
MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH.
but upon the prospects of Heaven. To
inspection of his unris
ing will follow the meeting.
gain this end, they have not scrupled
stock of
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The number and variet
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Continue "Rose - Marie."
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weaves and unusual size ,
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MAX ELKIN, Manager
which started its return engagement sheviki have inscribed in immense red
T'S so easy to enter-
specialized service render
in Detroit lam week at the Shubert- letters, for all the world to see, the
tain at the Pal-
by Mr. Bonahoom and t
Operated by ELKIN HOTEL AND BATH COMPANY
Lafayette Theater, will continue for motto: "Religion is the opiate of the
metto. Everything's
very reasonable prices .1
Elkin Hotel under same ownership.
a second week starting Monday, Feb. masses." The Russian Church richly
there. Every facility
to his vast direct impel . :
15. Sam Ash and Dorothy Seeger deserved this rebuke. During all the
-correct and in good
tion, low overhead and
centuries
that
Russian
peasants
and
play the leading roles and are sup-
taste.
perior foreign connect,•
ported by a well-selected cast. "Rose- workers groaned under the yoke of the
Luxurious big ball-
Marie" continues playing to large Czars, the Church of Russia attempt-
room, distinctive small
audiences and is now appearing in ed neither to stir the conscience of the
dining rooms, banquet
five large cities in the world. 1 Czars nor taught the people to pro-
hall-take your choice.
test against the injustice of their rul-
Society has placed her
Third Floor University Bls
The hook without bait catches no ers. Instead, it taught the people,
mark of approval on all
first, that their troubles were all due
fish.
of them.
to the Jews who had killed the Sav-
For bridge dinners,
ior, and second, that the more wretch-
dances, luncheons, pri-
ed they were in this world, the happier
vate parties make your
would they be in the next world. So
reservations at the Pal-
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was the teaching of life after death
metto. Call the steward.
made an agency for perpetuating des-
For Special Parties of Any Kind Call
potism.
Lomb«. t1:30 to 3-45e.
Realizing the dangers inherent in
preoccupation with the other world,
Muer LSO to inso--siza
The Finest Outside of
the progressive teachers of religion in
Sunday Dimmer 11.30 A. M. to B P. M.
New York and Chicago.
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this day have relegated all reflection
on death to a relatively minor position
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Now he has taken a modern factory and
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After March First this is the address to
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