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"Old Wine in New Bottles:"
"Old Wine in New Bottles" will be
at the subject of Dr. Franklin's sermon
They want to raise $1,000,000 to buy the home of Thomas Jefferson to on Sunday morning, Apri l 18, at
wish that some wealthy Jew would buy it and present it
discuss cer-
anklin will pro
.fio. I
cello.
l are 10:30
J eerson.
ff
Monti
ns
pi
blems of
Theree are confctin onio
'on
"'"e" nSti
th
ut al If so- tain religious Frand social
e ng of the t rm.
g he b road est meaning
importance to our generation.
he was
-iireedthni
d 100 per
cent Americans understood the Americanism of Jefferson prime
such a charac-
will be tinter!
an en d to this religious and rce
a hatred that is denying the The sermon
:aile
st of old
the Virginia Act for Religious ter as to invite the
the r e
Aica . Jefferson was author of
lis n1 o ! and through that gave Jewish emancipation an impetus through- and young.
Freedom,
out Eurepe. Jefferson willed that in his lasting epitaph it should be in-
not that Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States, but Saturday Morning Services:
take place each
- CHAS.
Y. W. H. A. NOTES
Electio not Officers:
Last Sunday evening the Y. M. II.
A. of Detroit held its first annual
election, which marked the official
entry of the Y. M. II. A. into the
communal work of this city. Those
elected were: S. II. Rubin, president;
J. Willis, vice-president; M. Ornstein,
corresponding secretary; J. Wein•
stein, financial secretary, and W.
Lichtenfeld, treasurer.
leader. Let the Jewry of America
Formed:
look forward to its future and begin Two CI
Final arrangements are being made
with the young.
the "Y" will
The Hebrew schools and Talmud for two classes which
Torahs. functioning as they are now conduct at 89 Rowena street. They a
for a few hours in the afternoon, can- will be a public speaking class and
school,
as well salesmanship class. Further details
not fulfill their purpose.
The child
will be announced at a later slate.
Divine services
aurtihbOrd'of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom. By this act it was
• naturally places such a
inferior rate-
proclaimed to be a natural right of mankind that religious opinions shall Sabbath morning at 10:30 in t h e
an infer
g
in a
i
s teachngs,
st
never offset civil incapacities, and that no man can be compelled to support . Brown Memorial Chapel. These serv- I as
ods. A real
of Banquet to Be Held:
nieth
ther
an
sto
as
ag
goy
never religious worship. What a difference between William Jennings Bryan ices should be particularly attractive
completed for the
e i
Plans are b being
. h educational system consists
.
•
tended to be a Jetfersoman. to those of our members who find it J ''
ener-
any
and Thomas Jefferson, though the form er p re
first annual "1 banquet, w is wI
schools that command the best
e
pretended
to
a
belief
in
inconvenient
to
attend
the
Sunday
who
utterly inconceivable that an y ma n
gies of the child and inspire his • re- be held the early part of May.
We particularly ask that
Hut it is nt t of Jefferson, could have had in preparation, as Bryan did, an services.
spec[. We must improve educationa l
th
t he e doctrines o the Constitutio n of the United States to make this a Chris- mothers bring their children to the methods and text books. There must Install ■ tion of Officers:
as
(S,
idea
er t
1 sue,
1ph of
blun-
beam
CS 1,1
e go,
(es hi.
II
wrun c
'less
of Iv
in hi:.
is far
tait!
divided
8We of
Id spit -
Milli,'
neholy
tation"
sncholy
he son,
figur,
lolly in
sestion-
valls of
'ook
see is
through
bottom-
go Riv-
e to the
are two
id mod-
es
Con to
I. Both
■ ofar as
to a re-
cd out-
insofar
courage
n racial
growing and branching out, becoming
a multiform complex and yet preserv-
ing an inherent unity. Such a life
must have leadership. It must have a
fountain of guidance and inspiration.
What sort of leaders will America de-
velop! This, it seems to me, is the
first essential of every leader that he
must be aware of his people's line of
he
march. lie must know its history,
must understand the motives that
have been the mainsprings of its
deeds. A Jew who is not versed in all
of these things cannot be a Jewish
lv
ited by
as. Here
?non. A
of paint-
:1 Greco
DO a lit-
le and a
ware is
e church
is incon-
id in the
ms prop-
the Be-
noisd his
more in-
n to the
n. Even
ehnic, he
an over-
he is not
ore than
ten Jew-
heal and
tare his
ha" with
in's Bias-
go and it
I Szware
t of Old
Raban's
aside and
whether
ieth um-
ject him-
ht of the
7 succeed
set can be
e Biblical
If in the
swore try
brasses?
a made a
raving and
ink strive
"ass. Gel-
nkly sym.
y sense-
d with A
n. Salcia
ring" and
rho which
but with
sea an ex-
decorative
or. Louis
presented,
era, was a
The New
esented by
lacked the
that char-
p, but one
M. Sayer.
nee of the
iliar name
irtists, had
.h El show.
4,88 repre-
dl
dled wills
would only
nit himself
!arty laugh
h manner.
.evy would
a the most
I my opin-
by Jascha
tibit of th,
d to brine
e great life
minds and
s the world
realization
eatness lies
reasures of
sly they ig-
dding hen-
nesting be-
hentic.
the greatest
ignized that
rth while is
y. He cons-
:y symphon.
which, dif.
,ne another,
est harmon-
y afford to
age? I ant
-n thinkers ,
them, in in-
cracy, advo-
.al creative-
of each no-
receive its
the common
ni ■ g›MI TC
e%add
stne
attempting to nullify the act that gave Jefferson his great- Sabbath services. The sermons at also he an intensification of cultural
Installation of officers will take
tiara nation, thus a democrat. yes, I think it would be a wonderful thing the Sabbath services frequently take work among adults. There should be
place on Sunday evening, April 18,
to manyy
bei
one or
Jews to buy the home a this great champion of religious the form of heart to heart talks and a continuous stream of Jewish books
tit r claim
at
89 Rowena street and every Jew-
are very stimulating and inspiring.
for
and periodicals in Hebrew, Yiddish
On Saturday, April 24, Dr. Leo 1i. and English. Jewish life is teeming ish young man is invited to attend
----e--so-e-
liberty
and
join, if he so desires. After the
inst the Jew sh Temple Franklin will occupy the pulpit. On with creative talent which must be meeting, the members and friends of
I note where some protest has been voiced ons
Saturday, April 17, Rabbi Leon Frani brought back to the soil in which it
agabecause it inivited
Y.
M. II. A. expect to attend the
Brotherhood of one of the St. Louis congregati
the
preaches on the subject "Religion can take root; for this is the common
ence Darrow to lecture under its auspices. The ground for the protest, I
performance at the Bonstelle Thea-
and Medicine."
experience that whoever runs away
The Junior Hadassah has taken
i an atheist. To my mind there are many
ter.
believe.
was
because
Darrow
fine humanitarian who loves his fellow man.
from himself wil Bose himself without over the sale of tickets for the Sot-
barrows.
One
of them
is a fine
Speak:
finding anything else.
It seems to me if you want to find the real Clarence Darrow you will not Rabbi Abb• Hill.' Silver to
day night performance.
pold-
Leo
th
The Jewish educational problem has
ra
trial,
or
ie
On
Tuesday
night,
April
20,
Rabbi
find him in taywood trial, or in the M Nam
" w hich is the Abba Billet Silver of Cleveland will moved in a charmed circle. On the
"
you will find him in his book, "Farmington,
"TEN COMMANDMENTS"
ut H
Loeb
bhe
Eery case,
of his
early life. There you will find this great lawyer chock full of address the Men's Temple Club on one hand, there has always been a
AT SHAAREY ZEDEK
sentiment. Not a great, grim-visaged figure, sinister, of course, to the the subject "The Four Major Ten- realization of its importance; on the
always
been
a
has
n
I
I
A
boy
with
an
in
uiring
mind,
a
dencies in Judaism." It is to be ladies' other hand, there
as y •
intolerant,
a boy, even
sort of paralysis of the will for its
boy
with a but
penchant
for odd philosophical observations. Aboy opposed to night at the Men s Club.
The first part of "The Ten Com
around barefoot
solution. "If you are not for your-
to
truth. Jus churc who loved
mandments," a screen spectacle which
al b oys. And Beth El College:
selves who will be for you? And if
bunk. A boy seeking hool and to t a kidh like all oth er runorm
n
vividly picturizes the liberation of the
go
to
sc
to
and hated
d with an aversion for the same things. Bating
Theclass in Bible literature is now not now,—when?
Israelites from Egypt, the crossing of
today
he hypocrisy.
is . still a Hating
y .
sham and
smug complacency and self-sufficiency. Doing taking up the reading of some of the
the Red Sea, the destruction of the
to the
JERUSALEM.— (J. T. A.— Dr. hosts of Pharaoh, the march in the
at i f there is, accor
lyric poetry of the Bible. The mem-
su ch a wa that
and
ving
in
li
inget Him
will be rea dy to dme
t he decent thing
bers of the class are writing papers Chaim Weiznsann, president of the wilderness and the giving of the Ten
t of m ankind, a God, the n
the res
l ights of fear.
without
I don't know why there should be any objection to Clarence on the Biblical poets' idea of the World Zionist Organization, conferred Commandments, will he shown at the
a Christian con-
.
with Field Marshal Lord Herbert C . assembly of the Shaarey Zedek Sun-
an
atheist
(if
he
is).
Didn't
because h
Darrow
by Jews
gregation
invite an atheist, Luther Burbank, to occupy its pulpit. An 1 ideal human character. The c ass in Plumer, high commissioner of Pales- day School, Sunday morning, April
the world were filled with atheists like Luther Burbank it would be that
a world
religion
is
studying
the
symbols
and
w-
be the ceremonialss of the leading Je
tine.
18, at 11 o'clock. The picture will be
it
It was learned that during the con- free to the parents and friends of the
vals. The classes in history
fit to live in, which it isn't today. Now, ladies and gentlemen,
i sh
are taking up the study of the Golden ference questions concerning the reor- children of the Sunday School as well
treason make the most of it! -- —e--4.--e---
Age of Jewish history, the days of ganization of the Palestine frontier as to the public.
Henry Ford is collecting old homes, old dances, old fiddlers and about I lialevi, the poet, and Maimonides, the forces and the participation of Jews
Prior to and at the conclusion of the
in it, the enactment of the Palestine showing of the film, the school will
h only thing the distinguishes! collector has overlooked is Smith Bros. physician and philosopher. The Wed-
nesday evening class in the New Tes- Communities Ordinance and other sing selections from the daily and
Cough Drops' Whiskers.
tament has completed its reading of questions virtually affecting the de- Sabbath religious services. Miss Em-
the correspondence of Paul and is be- velopment of the Jewish National ma Lazare will direct the singing.
I am sorry, Mr. Prince of Pottstown, Pa., that I cannot join with you ginning to study the life and the say- Home in Palestine were discussed.
honorary member of the Congregation Ilesed Schel Emes in erecting ings of Jesus from the Jewish stand-
America . It may be as
as an
a temple Pottstown, endowed by the Jews of
Jews of America point.
you say, a lofty ideal, though I fail to understand why the
should unite to erect a temple for 75 Jewish families in Pottstown, Pa.
Fenkell Avenue Religious School:
Some time ago there was some talk about the Jews of America erecting
a
the p la n,
Registration for classes in the Fen-
Wh ile I didn't agree with
in
sen se
t
kell Branch Religious School, corner
a l emple
in Washingtose
in it. But if anyone can show any
least
some
s
en
is
at
Fenkell
avenue and Dexter, will take
re
the
yeti suggestion that American Jewry should endow a House of God for 75
t. There place Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
the
m
Jewi families in Postown,await
with interes
I hismessage
tt
ra
All
the
children
living in this district
rman
of
the
honor
board)
sh
way is chai
way, Mr. Prince ([who by the
not attending other religious schools
is
to one
help make our dream come true, and that is for the community of Potts-
are invited to register. They must
town to dig into its jeans.
be accompanied by their parents.
I happened to miss this letter in the Nation at the time it appeared, but
in looking over my files the other evening I discovered it. I am York
not sure
Eve-
whether the Godkin who is its author belongs to the former New
ons are
ning Post Godkin family, but it's quite likely. While his observati are a
interesting, I am sorry that I must disagree with him. If the Jews stage s-
pure race it's news to me. And secondly I must protest against his
American and 25 per cent Hebrew.
tion that the Jew should be 75 per cent
Using percentages in the sane sense that Mr. Godkin does, I per
would
that
cent say
Ameri
the Jewish-American should be 100 per cent Jew and 1 00
the s ituation. But
can. That's the way Mr. Godkin, the reform Jew, views
here's his letter. Read it for yourself. Maybe you would like to comment
I'll try to make
on it. If so, send your comment along and if it isn't too long
room for it in this column.
racial characteristics no book pub-
Sir:—To students of race and
lished in the past year equals in interest Ludwig Lewisohn's "Israel." -
race in its relation to the rest of the com t
The problem of the Jewish
is there presented with understanding and sympathy. Tha
this problem exists cannot now be dewed. And it has sprung up
in this country in the last 60 years. The race problem is not a new
one over here. Seventy-five years ago an equivalent prejudice,
h in this
though founded on different grounds, existed against the Irisin
country. "No Irish need apply" was a frequent adver-
tisements here. Let the Jewish race give up claiming that they are
100 per cent American. Let them be satisfied with being 75 per cent
American and 25 per cent Hebrew. All the rest of us acknowledge
and take some pride in our racial ancestry. The Jew can well and
proudly claim that his race is the only pure race, the only race that
has preserved for 3,000 years its physical and mental characteristics;
that the rest of the Americans are hybrids composed of a mixture of
strains--Saxon, Teutonic, Slavic, Celtic, Latin, etc.—and
that With
this
pride.
very purity of racial strain gives the Jew a cause for ize
should found, support and patron their own
this in mind the Jews
universities, hospitals and other institutions of aid and culture, take
a pride in their race and heritage and not try to deny them or force
themselves into the society of Gentiles. And let the Gentiles, on the
orn of the Jewish race and
other hand, remember t hat Christ was baccordingly.
the Jewish race
bear themselves toward
LAWRENCE GODKIN.
New York.
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In return we ask that you
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in a spirit of fairness so that
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this courtesy and an intelli-
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Joseph Camp. ■
Wvandotte-- 76 Norah Biddle Ass.
School of Religion:
On Sunday morning, April 18, the
Senior High School will hold its ora-
tory contest. Irving Wartell, chair-
man of the High School Council, will
preside. The speakers will be: Esther
Slesinger, on "Zionism;" Hannah
Ferman, on "I Am a Jew," and Mil-
ton Goldstein, on "Universal Peace."
The judges will be Mrs. Samuel Men-
delsohn, Jacob Nathan and Alvin D.
Hersch. The prizes for this contest
are known as the Harry R. Solomon
oratory prizes.
Elaborate plans are being made by
the high school faculty and the school
board for the high school graduation
to take place in May.
Young People's Temple Club;
The Young People's Temple Club
is holding an informal dancing party
on Sunday afternoon, April 18, at 3
o'clock.
New Members:
Wallace Rosenheim, chairman of
the membership committee, will ap-
preciate receiving the names and ad-
dresses of such of your friends not
affiliated with other congregations
who you believe ought to affiliate
themselves with Temple Beth El.
If You Want a Packard Six
This Spring-Order It Now
Last year thousands who wanted to
buy Packard cars could not get them
and had to be satisfied with something
less desirable or keep their old cars.
Temple Library:
Do you know that the temple has
a circulating library for adult read-
ers and that as a member of the tem-
ple you are eligible to the use of the
1s money everything? Does every man have his price?
I of
think
not. library? The library is open every
man
outstand-
$1,000 for a
Sunday morning from 10 until 12
s able to
For three weeks I have had a standing offer of
o'clock and every Sunday afternoon
lecture, the only stipulatio
inan l that h et is f
ing reputation to deliver a
o'clock.
attract a good sized audience willing to pay a nom admisee. I from 2 until 4
replied that he made an oath 20 years ago not
He
asked 11. L. Mencken.
sium:
■
mn
Gy
to lecture and he refuses to collide with that oath for any price. Arthur
Brisbane writes me that the fee means nothing
and $10
he won't
lecture.
Sen-
H ve you joined the men's class on
000, so
long as
he
5 , 000 or 1
t Monday and Thursday evenings?
!tor Borah won't lecture for $ ,000
is a member of the United States Senate. Col. Theodore Roosevelt will no There is still room for the organiza-
or for any price. Ring Lardner says emphatically: " tion of a woman's class at any time
lecture for $1,000
never have and I never will," and resents even the suggestion of $1,000. which may prove desirable. Members
I happen to know personally that Israel Zangwitl could have had 25 lec-
or of the temple are urged to avail
apiece and refused to take them. He slid deliver one in- themselves of the fine opportunity for
ture. at $1,000
ay.
two lectures more as a favor, even though e received could e numeratee a health education offered by the gym-
nasium.
dozen more who have refused this $1,000, and many of them are men in
moderate circumstances. But they refuse to do something they do not like
w
to to just for money. And most of them are imbued ake timefromm thei
for their own gain. So you see that
work paid for by the public to lecture
(Continued from last page.)
money really Isn't everything.
---e-sww -e---
r
60,000 persons paid tribute to the dead acto
re on the Yiddish stage; yes, Jewish source. Needless to point out
I read with interest that
realize it-
sque
Jacob Adler. He VMS the most
an
stage. In the declining years that American Jewry will
Americ
figu
impossible
for him to continue in him self in a richer and more varied life,
I might go further and say on the
when hie health had failed and made it
As the general theater public if its eyes are turned steadfastly to-
Irvin and Tom- wards Palestine. What Palestine is
Profession, he became almost a legend.
Booth, and Coquelin, and Irvi who had the ready to give the Jews of America
in
hushed
tones
of
Edwin
sPeaks
public spoke of Adler,
mpo Salvini, ISO the Yiddish theater a McCullough. Many years ago the have not become ripe to take.
There can be only one Balfour Dec-
i ance in New
majestic sweep and dynamic force of
of the Ed ucational All orget the hour titration to kindle the imagination of
late Dr. Blaustein, the great leader
f
' d e and I shall never it wee
the Jewish people, but recognizing the
York, took me on a tour of the • Si
play Shylock.
an unforgetable
it of e a Jewish National Home
I !tent in a Yiddish theater watching Adler
in Palestine does not yet mean pos-
and last time I ever saw Adler on the stage and it made
sessing the will to build it. A plant
impression.
must have the proper soil in order to
hair
grow The only soil in which the will
Wow! I can see Professor Morris Cohen tearing his
the furniture about the room, and Professor Horace Kellen lifting his eye- to build Palestine can take root is a
brows in pained surprise. A reader inquires in one of the current magazines: deep-seated Jewish culture. it will
then be an unconscious, inevitable
se, mean
perception rising from the deepest
Are there any philosophers in America? I do not, of cour orace
Hocking, or John Dewey, or H ear-
M.
well of the human mind and soul.
more
than
men like Professors W. E.
The tragic rift between Jewish chil-
I believe, are able to under-
Kellen, or Morris Cohen—all of these,
dren and parents in America is, no
ho have
who
ters
r
been
phers.
.
nevephiloso
nest, but raher dulll yoeurb
real
mean
doubt,
directly traceable to the differ-
ungsach.
stand P lato,tKant
shall be more than glad to ent cultural worlds in which they live
A child accepts the standards of the
When
Why, of course, Messrs. Kellen and Knutmacher,
Cohen, I
Pasadena, Calif.
time table handy. majority. He is intolerant and con-
give
you his name and address--Hugo
d
temptuous of minorities. He despises
the next train leave for the coast! Really, I haven't a
If Not Now—When?
Oes
what he doesn't know and doesn't un-
derstand. The solution for the rift is
the cultural rapprochement of the two
generations. Let the child drink at
this:
the fountain from which his father
along lines of the sacred
has been nourished and the rift will be
develop
If our civilization continues to
healed. A community of four million
rights of property instead of along lines of the sacred rights
of
men,
,
if
mn
re
on
na ti
Jews, living in peace and prosperity
if control of wealth is given to men who lack
im•gi s a n d labo reer s. in-
ants , a italiit
ought to be able to solve the problem
serv
to be divided Into masters and
to
One would have to despair of the Jew.
of united as brothers and friends, it will not be long be ore
ish future, were one to believe that I
is as dead as the dodo bird, and a captain of industry will
capitalism
antiquarian figure as a feudal knight in armor. It
comm unity wou ld be content
su
be as curious an hurch that overthrows. It will simply be another
back-
cul tu
ve • on in a state ofcultural
su ch
the
c
be
will not
the Lord and built • city on another
wardnees
and were willing to see its'
ca se of men wh o h ave d e fi ed bases. And as for preserving, as for
cultural heritage become dissipated
is asking too
th n the Lord's commanded
a
and lost. It must become clear that
ause they are in, that surely
keeping the i ns i n j us t bec
not need the church to artifi-
no Jew, however deeply he may have
If
civilization
is
decent
it
will
much.
drunk at the wells of other cultures,
it. If It is not decent it would be blasphemy for the
cleft b u ttress
can be considered educated and cul-
church to seek to preserve it.
An- tured unless he has first drunk at his
Bell, president of Saint Stephen's College,
own.
Rev. Dr. Bernard Iddings
I see Jewish life in this country
nandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, is the author of that statement, which
I guess one of those bolshevists who are always
knocking
everything
and
stay
in a country
like ours,
are permitted to even
More than twice as many Packard Six cars
were sold in 1925 as in 1924. Had Packard
been able to provide cars for all who want-
ed them this record would have been even
greater.
This year the 25,000 fortunate owners who
secured cars last year, are sending their
friends to Packard.
And though well prepared now, it is no
doubt but a question of weeks before cur
built-up stocks will vanish.
Those who act at once may have an imme-
diate or early delivery of any model Pack-
ard Six.
Those who wait may be disappointed like
the thousands of last year.
Quality cannot be built hurriedly, and with
Packard, quality comes before quantity.
You may have a Packard Six, a five-passen-
ger Sedan for example, delivered at your
door with all necessary accessories and
with freight and tax paid for $2702.16.
If you prefer to buy on the payment plan,
you may pay $701.74 on delivery and
$184.23 monthly.
May we examine your present car? If it
has a market value we will buy it and apply
its price on the down payment on the new
car.
If we may have your car now, or soon, we
can sell it in the best market of the year,
which of course will be to your advantage.
Then your car buying problems will be over
for years to come.
The proof? The majority of last year's
buyers told us that they intended to keep
their new Packards more than twice as long
as the cars they traded in.
PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY
DETROIT BRANCH
574 E. Jefferson Ave. Cadillac 7000
8500 Woodward Ave. Empire 7123
s
mbuot shhoauve
ld wr
beitgtelend
appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
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