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year. I am glad, indeed, to see this signal honor bestowed upon one who
is so worthy to receive it. ProfessorGottheil has been one of the outstand-
ing Jews of the country and, for that matter, of the world. He is a scholar
of first rank and the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity is to be congratulated upon
its recognition of Dr. Gottheil's contribution to Jewish life. The medal will
be awarded to the Jew who receives the approval of a committee of 11
selected from the Jewish journalists of the United States.
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Bishop Manning says that he would like to see the Catholics, Jews and
ICeemstight, tut.
By awn. H. Amok.)
Protestants to join in common effort for the preservation of marriage and
Good morning, Mr. Houdini! I see by the papers that you went gunning the home. One great cause of divorce, he said, was the wide open door of
for the spiritualists down in Washington. I was very much interested in the divorce court. lie showed that there is one divorce for every five mar-
the statement of Dr. Jane B. Coates of the Spiritualist Church of America, riages in Ohio; one to three in Texas; one to 5.8 in Michigan and, taking
who said before the House of Representatives committee:
the country as a whole, there is now one divorce to every seven marriages.
But I disagree with the bishop. The fault is not in making diverces too
I have saved many young girls from marrying the wrong man
easy, but in making marriage too easy. Most folk approach the marriage
and have kept others from going wrong. My religion goes back to
relationship with about much intelligence as that possessed by a mem-
ber of the legislature of the state of Tennessee.
Jesus Christ. Houdini does not know I am a Christian.
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And my dear Houdini, I am pleased with the quickness of your mind
in answering:
Jesus was a Jew and he didn't charge $2 a visit.
I must say, Houdini. you surely make a good news item. Whenever I
am hard put to fill up the column, along comes someone and asks me if
you are related to this or that Weis. I think you and I have by this time
pretty well satisfied the populace that Dr. Stephen S. Wise and you are
not brothers. But now I have an inquiry as to whether you and Weiss of
Bruck-Weiss are brothers. The assertion is made that you are. Will you
please relieve the mind of the reader? In the meantime Bruck-Weiss is
getting a little free millinery advertising.
Lothrop Stoddard, I am told, is a very nice man. One thing I do know
about him, he can write an article proving that the Kleagle of the Ku Klux
Klan was once the shammas in a achule. That article of his in the March
Forum on the "Pedigree of the Jew," will keep the Jews busy for another
thousand years trying to figure out whether they are Jews. Stoddard is
really an expert on matters of race. But sometimes I think he gets his
prejudices mixed up with his facts. A bad combination, a bad combina-
tion, brother.
Now the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, in honor of Professor J. II. Richard
Gottheil, is going to award annually a bronze medal to the American Jew
who has rendered the most distinguishing service to Judaism during the
tion and uncared for. He expresses wonder that the Jews have not enough the engine and who have well
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pride to care for such historic places. Ile speaks of:
the army and navy in its lt:tn,g
development, found that with
This strange and quaint old cemetery, first laid out in the time
minor changes more than
Peter Stuyvesant in 1658, is a tOliver street and New Bowery at
power could be added to it, p
Chatham square. This old cemetery, which should be sacredly and
output without adding an ounce
carefully enclosed and preserved, not only as a resting place of many
weight. Simple as the change s w
of New York's earliest pioneers, but even as an antiquarian curi-
they represent an entirely now (1,1
osity, is neglected under accumulated refuse and debris, among tall,
tore in airplane motor design,
unsightly and dilapidated tenement houses.
they made possible a reliable and
engine speed of 2,500 reenhni n
What's the matter? Is New York Jewry so busy with "drives" that it minute, giving the increased pit
hasn't time to think about such out-of-date institutions as old cemeteries? The navy department just !Toil
announced that one of the engines ,
A gentleman bearing the distinguished name of John Quincy Adams cessfully passed through a 30•h
sends me a pamphlet written by himself and issued by the Prophetical wide open throttle test at this sP
Society of Dallas, Texas. It is entitled "Zecharish," and deals with gloomy
The United States now has
prophecies and forebodings. The Jews are going to have to feel the wrath in1tors which are attracting w
of God. It seems that the present materialistic age marks the beginning wide attention, the 600 hio p,
Archy, the cynical cockroach, created by Don Marquis, drops this of the end. An interesting observation of the author is in connection with Packard engine and another Ptak
thought to show how far reaching is the evil effect of a single drop of certain quotations from the second and third chapters of Isaiah. The words motor similiar in general charai
"and their cools and their round tires like the moon," we are solemnly but larger, developing slit) h,
poison-thought. I must thank Collier's for the suggestion:
assured, mean the automobile tires that all ride on today." Possibly those power.
who use balloon tires are slated first for God's wrath. We cannot help but
"i dropped into
smile (we are sure Mr. Adams will pardon us), when we note that the
AM / AZAVIAZZAW ZAAV A ZZ AA VAZ
a clam chowder the
AWAY
statement in Isaiah, "the chains and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the
other evening
bonnets,"
is
commented
on
by
Mr.
Adams
as
follows:
"If
you
want
to
for a warm bath and
know what God's wrath is going to strike very presently, just note these
a bite to eat
nouns of his displeasure—there is today's millinery." I agree with Mr.
and i heard a couple of
Adams that some of the millinery one sees these days is sufficient to invite
clams talking
wrath. What I wonder at sometimes when I find my mail filled with all
it seems to me they are sore
sorts
of fantastical literature such as that issued by the Prophetical So-
on the oyster family
ciety of Dallas, Texas, is how is it possible to find enough presumably nor-
and have formed an
mal-minded
persons to support such queer ideas, to the extent of spending
organization to
money in their dissemination?
do away with them
they call it the
Chaim Bialik is quite a person. It is a pleasure, too, to see our co-
ku klux klam
religionists turn away for a moment from Edna St. Vincent Millay and to
"archy."
honor our own greatest poet, and for that matter one of the world's great-
est. I don't know whether I am telling tales out of school, but I did hear
Which reminds me that they have tied the kan to the klan.
a whisper once on a time that Bialik was "runner- up" so to speak, in the
James Allman, a former newspaper man and a rover, according to the Nobel prize award when Reymont, the Polish novelist, walked off with the
New York World, has discovered that Jewish cemeteries in New York City honor by writing "The Peasants." Maybe he will be the Nobel winner one
located in the downtown district since pre-revolutionary days, are covered of these days; then he will become even more widely advertised than he is
with dirt and rubbish and that these last resting places of the Jews who today. Though I fancy he is not much for advertising. While on the sub-
fled to this country from Spain and Holland in 1652 are in terrible condi- ject of the Nobel prize, it was a pity that Reymont died so soon after his
book appeared.
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I am in receipt of an inquiry as to whether the ethical culture movement
is growing among the Jews, especially in such centers as New York and
Chicago. I don't know. Maybe some one of my readers can supply the in-
formation. It always seemed to me that Felix Adler was such a tower of
strength to the movement that in the event of a decline in his activity a
distinct setback might result.
Those of you who are interested in all these discussions of Jesus, the
Jew, and Jesus and the Jews and the Jews and Jesus, might find it well
worth your while to get a copy of the unusual sermon delivered by Dr.
Bradley of the People's Church, Chicago, a few Sundays ago. It was the
boldest utterance from a Christian pulpit that I have read in years,
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What have we to do with the admission of Countess Cathcart or Count-
ess Karolyi or any of the other more or less prominent personages who have
been refused admission to this country because of the extraordinary Babbit
minds that are now functioning on Main street, Washington, D. C.? Just
this. This exclusion stupidity is merely another variation of the Funda-
mentalist tune that has supplanted "Yes, We Have No Bananas Today."
The same minds that are trying to ku klux the country into thinking in a
standard way, into living in a standard way, are the same illiberal, fanati-
cal, reactionary minds intent on keeping everybody out of the country who
doesn't eat apple pie and drink ice water, belong to the Rotary Club. the
Elks or the Shriners. and who refuse to believe that the Bible was ever
intended to be a scientific book. The battle for the Karolyis is a battle for
liberalism, and don't forget that for a moment, even though the blue-nosed,
sniffling hypocrites try to tell you something else.
BUILDERS' SHOW
HAS 830 BOOTHS
A Complete Home, Erected on
Floor of Convention Hall,
To Feature Exhibit.
The 830 booths in Convention Hall
are set up and trimmed for the ex-
hibits of the annual Builders and
Better Homes Exposition and the ex-
hibits have taken on order and har-
mony of color.
Particular care has been taken by
all exhibitors to make decorations and
furniture in the booths harmonize,
and the effort to make masonry and
woods work into the general color
scheme has not been overlooked.
One exhibit of the great exposition
which will attract a constant stream
of visitors is the full-size home of six
rooms which has been built within the
Convention Hall precisely as it would
have been constructed for a residence
on a city lot.
A Dodge Brothers Motor Car . . . A speeding truck rac-
ing down hill and out of control . . . A collision ... .
Take one look at this photograph. It is not
pretty, to be sure, but it will convince any
sensible man that all steel construction is the
only safe construction for a motor car body.
That is why Dodge Brothers introduced
the all steel body more than eleven years
ago, and this year greatly improved and
perfected it.
In fact, Dodge Brothers are convinced that
the day is not far off when wooden motor
car bodies will be a curiosity. People will
'shudder at the thought of having ridden in
them and will thank Dodge Brothers for
the greater safety, durability—and beauty,
too—of all steel construction.
A steel body will stand up under impacts
that would crush the average body to bits.
Steel cannot splinter. Steel cannot burn.
Steel is an armor of protection on the
crowded, hurrying highway.
Outwardly, nearly all types of bodies ap-
pear to be all steel. In reality, however,
most of them are simply frames of wood
covered by a metal shell.
Dodge Brothers Motor Car bodies are steel
through and through—steel reinforced by
steel —buttressed and braced by steel—
even the frames and running boards are steel.
And slender, stronger steel corner posts re-
place the customary bulky posts of wood,
affording full, unhampered driving vision
on all sides— a safety feature of the first
importance!
Travel in safety! Powerful, quick-action
brakes, a chassis world-famous for its sturdi-
ness, and a body of steel— these explain the
enviable reputation for safety enjoyed by
Dodge Brothers Motor Car—and the envi-
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drive it.
The car will continue to be a "four." No reasoning buyer will be dis-
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Excise Tax reduction effective NOW.
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Not woodward Motor Co., 9115 Woodward_ Emp. 6980
Bucknell•Knowlson Co., 2445 Michigan... Glen. 9888
Northeast Motor Co., 8564 Jos. Campau.. Emp. 4083
Colonial Motor Sales, 683440 Michigan_ Cedar 3138
WOODWARD AT MARTIN PLACE
GLENDALE 7117
Len. 440.0
Mergenroeder, Inc., 14615 E. Jefferson
Hem. 4297
Hiles Auto Service, 12217 Twelfth
Midwest Motor Co.. 9111 Grand River_._ Gar. 7100
Dix-Western Motor Co., 3950 Dix
Crratiot Motor Co.. 8226 Oration
Fairview Auto Sales, 10940 Mack
North Central Motor Co., 8517 Linwood_ Euclid 1880
Laf. 1601
Lin. 1172
Hickory 4357
DODGE BROTHERS
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A Complete House.
This house is completely finished,
furnished and decorated, not a small
detail of the necessities and comforts
of the home having been omitted. It
will be a great object lesson to the
many thousands of small home owners
visiting the exposition, showing what
science and skill in choice of materials
can do today to make the househelder
of modest means as happy in his home
as any prince in his palace.
Every new device in the construc-
tion and furnishing of homes which
will add to permanence, economy and
comfort is shown in detail. The use
of steel sash, embedded in masonry;
varieties of building blocks, reliable
makes of stucco with pleasing color
tones are among the thousands of de-
tailed features of the exposition. Not
less than 2,000 feet of floor space is
devoted to various forms of iceless re-
frigeration, and, to offset this frigid
display, numbers of oil burners of
latest desien are in full operation.
Music Furnished.
The blare of loud bands has been
eliminated from the show this year,
the management contending that too
much music interferes with the pub-
lic's real enjoyment of the features
of the exposition and with the lec-
tures which are in progress afternoons
and evenings. But delightful music of
the softer type is provided by Finzel's
orchestra, which will he shifted to
various points in Convention Hall.
The doors of the exposition will
open at 7 o'clock Saturday evening,
March 13. Every 35-cent admission
ticket has attached a coupon with
blank spaces for estimates on cost of
the Ideal Home, which is to he given
away on the last evening of the expo-
sition, March 24.
Packard Develops Motors.
While the world may have been led
to believe that the United States is
still stumbling around in the back-
woods so far as airplane development
work is concerned, both the U. S.
navy and the army have been working
quietly, consistently and with a defi-
nite purpose in view, and now have
announced a new aircraft motor
around which in time of need it is as-
serted a complete aerial defense could
be built quickly. It is said no coun-
try has a motor which develops as
great power for its weight or which
is more dependable.
Three years of intensive develop-
ment has resulted in an engine which
can lift four times its own weight
straight into the air. Although it
weighs but 720 pounds, it develops
615 horse power, less than one and
one-quarter pounds per horse power.
Only last fall the engine was rated at
500 horse power, and with this rating
was acclaimed an outstanding air-
plane engine among all the aircraft
motors of the world.
Engineers of the Packard Motor
Car Company, who designed and built
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