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lAnd they seem in a fair way to do it.
In St. Louis as in Cincinnati and
•other old Jewish communities, I have
among
the
anu
I found very definite feeling been
blind
Jews who hitherto had
assimilationists that their salvation
1
-
I
Greetings! To the Rundom Thoughts reader in Seattle, to his neighbor lies
in a development of their own cal-
the fiend who re ads the c olunni in Little Roek, and to I tutT and in a self-respecting stand,
r
s to
Walter Hurt, to my nmst dis-1which will establish the value of the
in Los Angele,
to the Gentile,
Minneap olis,
him who lives in itemHenry
Ford, to the Knight-shirt Brigade, to the Jew Jewish social groups in the
Gentile
vironm ent Not unti l no w have they
tingutshe d news-
he o n e w ho receives the Vilig
a
hicago,
C
that despite the ir efforts at
whoo waits for the word in
to realized
n
ew, t in
Louis
Modern
St.
the
l
oft
a
Rosentha
n
Cleveland, to my colleague
l
ark Lev of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Jerusalem, to the assimiation
the no•Jewish world hs
i
amt. tom
the ReverendJohn M q• David y Brown, to the lire-eating Lipsky, to Captain kept ve i•y tletuntely
, and has permitted little inter-relation
• 't
al ) Jett
too•to
'ourammus Saxe, the Jew with a Catholic complex, who has at t e t si
I the column, to my at-home Pittsburgh friends, .to the world's greatest I ship. Ludwig Lewisohn's "Israel," I
Jacob
Landau
and
his
I
and
of
workers
for
the
Jewish
I believe, brought this clearly to their
0
wi natherer
ews-g
Mell-lattention and, once awakened to the
Jesh
ic Agency, to the nun and women who wait for the weekly
ey been intelligent enough
and the faithful guard in Detroit and Baltimore,fat. th have
Telegraph
o t adopt the only effective solution to
in Newark,
Sher
the group in Brooklyn, and my colle•ague Ilerbach. in Philadelphia, even to ' to
the Grouch, to the earnest readers in Augusta, Ga., to my f ar-away friend , t heir position. Cincinnati.
.
in North Carolina and down in Florida. a here the real estate lemons grew,
.cat i ng that in this
i t is
to the University Club of Pittsburgh,
i n Rocheste, r N.
„f Ifef„,„," one of the m o st jm.
, and all my critics, to everybody who belongs , ,1,1
to the followers
anti
the
editors
should
bbis
anti
ra
the
to the
ra portant of the Reform
rabbis should
to my circle of readers and who have made possible the writing of
to Protestant and i. hot., 'given it as his most careful
ragraphs for the past 52 weeks, to Jew and Gentile,
judgment
that
the
new
and
the
old
pa
happy New Year!
groups in Jewry will slowly but in-
to Catholic, to all I wish you a
one
well-organ-
-•.....,-•—
evitably •OHleSCe illl0
• Fine Furniture Breeds
Contentment and
Happiness In the Home.
A certain sense of contentment and happiness reigns in
the home where new furniture. of character is displayed.
Since most of your time is spent in the home, why nod
spend it amid pleasant and comfortable surroundings?
Furniture for the most part reflects 'the•character of the
casual observer it tells a story of home-
home and to the
life. We have spent years in helping to make homes more
comfortable, more attractive and more livable. We have
been doing it'at the lowest possible expense to the home-
furnisher and as a result we are today serving furniture
buyers in every part of the city. Our stock is always com-
plete with the very newest style furniture from the work-
shops of the' country's finest M111111 f a et u rums and our prices
Like Roosevelt used to say, "I've had a bully time!" And I intend to ized whole. This opinion was the nest
keep it up. Its been a great year for letters. Some of them have been encouraging sign I had in Cincinnati.'
ssings in disguise. And I do hope that your good right arms will gain Everything else seemed to indicate it-,
in e strength this coming year. W rite anything you please, say a nyth in t reconcilable differences between the
bl
you please, because I have a generous, wide-mouthed, smiling waste paper Reform German
Jews immigrants.
and the more ,
Russian
basket that just craves food. Many letters I didn't answer. I couldn't. Conservative
The greatest and the most obvious
Sonic were answered through this column, but, answered or not, I want you
to know that I appreciated your writing them and that every single vii need,
if these is
groups
will eventually
get together,
an outstanding
leader I
who can unite them in a common en-
of them gave me something to think about and. to write about.
deavor. To me it is also clear that'
, this common work must be of a cul..
While it is true that much of what appears here is written that
with
light
1 a
owe
to 'lurid tharm•ter as that is the least
touch, do not think that I fail to realize the responsibility
000,000
,
I,
On te•
t other hand, it
gi
I two
u t groups.
500,000 readers! It is a huge family. Sonic day I hope to have
tt, •d t at neither of the
ie admitted
readers here and in Europe. And I shall try my
s .
1: ictions
is
at
present
in a position to
tu them. Who can truly fail to find satisfaction in the knowledge that he ,'
r an appeal to
has brought some little interest every week into the lives of a multitude of ' i'te,' p port icul a rly mo vedby
interests.
men and women in every conceivable walk of life. I have found such start
satin-
fio I . I • .1.1 ,arti
At present the unifying force in
faction and I'd be a hypocrite if I said anything else. So here we
boyish life is outside of the lowish i
.
another year of pleasant relationship!
community. It is the very definite in-;
• sses-w---
ability to penetrate into the Gentile
I have just picked up Edward Be•it's new book, "Ibillane Only," dealing community on an equal footing which
the most radical of the Re-
with the subject of the men of big business and big men in tae professions keeps ecru
who realize the meaning of the word "service" in its largest aspect. And form elements from what they would
I found this statement which will be of special interest to my readers: consider complete assimi'ation. They
are unable to intermarry without go•
lag to a lower social level in Gentile
It amuses me in a way, but it also irritates, to receive a letter
rtiii, I i ,. I y than their own; when they do'
Mlle lying.
--I have had several,,In fact—which says as does the one
so they are seldom wholly :1 ■ ••• ■ • pt,d'
even there and usually bring the Ge n-
before me:
"You don't find the Jews taking up the service idea of yours to
• t il e liack into their own ranks.
the exclusion of their commercial pursuits?" No? It would be dif-
.
The surprising observation that one
tieult (continues Mr. Bok I to make a comparative list, but I will
' must make is, of coin se, that the Ile- •
guarantee to name a Jew whit is serving not only his own people
'mew Union College, se• important to
but all mankind in America, irrespective of race or creed, for every
lewry at large, plays no signiti-mo
Christian who can be named. What a silly statement to make! And
tiart in thi , communit y life iii 1'!n -
yet it is made all too often. If there is any single race of people in
cinnati. The students, who curve !I• 01
the world which is distinguished fur its idealism, it is the Jewish peo-
a lower social plane and are r )1 , I e•
pie. Fancy the hole that would be made in the history of American
from Conservative homes, err nn pie
service work if the Jews were withdrawn.
;
Ocularly welconw among the Itmling
-
by comparison - are surprisingly low.
el Credit Plan Which Makes Ownership ConTenient
To buy furniture,here does not mean an immediate outlay
of money. Our liberal credit plan is arranged to suit the con-
venience of the purchaser. This enables you to select the furni-
ture you want for it reasonable down payment and allows you
to pay the balance in convenient amounts over It period of time.
All in all this is an ideal store in which to purchase furniture, for
loW prices on the
it offers the finest furniture at attractively
simplest kind of credit terms.
ZUIEBACK AND CANTOR
"Furniture for Every Hrtme."
9332 OAKLAND AVENUE
Then Mr. Bok goes on to list a few of the many Jews who are rendering Reform elements. The faculty, with
-. i r.' •
great service to the cause of humanity. I am gratified that so eminent an one or two well-known except ion
as indivitluds
th
of no i mp ort a nce Oer
authority, one whose word is received with respect by the people at large,
example,
are
for
and,
olar
s
or as sch
took the opportunity of going out of his way to pay this tine tribute to the hardly able to draw at min•an when
Jew. It will increase understanding and good will.
substitillinu for Reform rabbis in the
e-sests-w-------
local temples. Thus a force which
might undoubtedly have mean, much
to freeze out all immigrants, or
I to the sp iritual life of he comuoity
There is a stacked-card game going On
e at all.
practically all immigrants except those who come from England and North-
practi ca lly no i n tfluencnt
ribute ;rts
exe
Ireland. The countries mentioned will, if the plan wins, cont
The situation in Cincinnati is par-
.
Thev have succeeded in
ern
t
y
n na
On
portnt
a
not
65 per cent of all ininligration to this coon y.
vestiUgati iin I tie u la rly im
he inthe
obtaining from the census department a ruling that 'i te of
n ited I it is a deplo rahle condition for a larz • -
now
going
to determine
'national
origins'
of the peopl
States,
the on
census
of 1790 shall
be taken
as conclusive
proof of the na-1 and powerful Jewish community but summer months at Camp Wmalmere
will re-
anne whose ancestors I also in that it exerts a tremendous in. • in the Adirondack Mountains,
yo
n blood, but is of im• j fluence on the entire South. Its dif- , turn t•• her home on Monday.
of the 'native white stock.' Therefore
tionality
came to America after 1790 —
is not of native America
- ferences and antagonisms are dupii-
•
one writer says, 'this will be news to millions of Ameri- 1
ening last M iss Ber-
generations,' It sounds like i cateil en miniature wherever there is
mirant
blood. All
g
I a small Jewish community in a South- • nice
On I Solomon
ride ' eventert ained ' informally
in America for
.
cans whose(amities. been
at a dinner party at her home on
a joke, but it isn't. If this ruling is permitted to stand, then e
ern town.
Among the
immigration law with its national origins clae means that th It
bulk
of
looks
of the. lay- Franklin boulevard.
Louisville is a n example
future immigration will come from England and Northern Ireland.
Orthodox than the guests we're: Miss Gail Schwartz of
to the outsider like the most brazen piece of jobbery that has ever been man wh o is more
Chicago, L. II ouser of New York, the
of men who understand what
.
h
•
, hatever differtnst e ;
put
over in
this country,
and
the word
"America"
means
that the President will not permit this shame- iPope.
11
I Cincinnati
between Reform and Orth
, odox elements are multiplied many
less scheme.
times
and
raised
into definite animosi-
— •-•••••-e---_
ties in this city across the border. The
peculiar
character
of Louisville is that
The following letter is of sufficient importance. to publish in full. It is
addressed to the editors of the Chicago Sentinel and refers to a statement the Reform element outnumbers the
others, whereas almost everywhere
of mine in Random Thoughts:
else the situation is reversed. It is
Rise, unique in that the power of this
Gentlemen :—An Assimilation • Note:
element has never really been chnl-
"Mina Kirstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Kirstein, is
. .Greenwich, Conn. Louis
.
lenge(' by a new generation of Rus-
onist
married to Henry Tomlinson Curtis
r and is promare t in Ziupon
1 sian Jews for, as a matter of fact,
Kirstein is, 1 believe, of the Filen° fi m
inenvisited
, there is very little of the new gen-
circles. While it may be that the sins of the father
men 1
ere on in Louisville. The young m
! erati
their children, yet it's hardly fair to make the parents suffer for
1 who might rise to a position of
the backsliding of their children."
portance go away seeking
for their edeucation
The above announcement, which appeared in the Sentinel of
wivs and
1
I and stay away,
has just been called to my attention, and although
j
June
18,
! employment elsewhere. Those of the
it may
seem somewhat late to refer back to it now, I fe'el that it
Russian Jews who remain are the I
should not be allowed to pass without comment.
Sh'Tadlastill
feel in awe
I smaller old
traders
who
It is evident that the editor of the column in which this notice
The absence
of the ,
appeared is a narrow-minded, bigoted person who is taking upon
l or political power or i f
of
financial
himself the task of judging the actions of two individuals who in
1 any sitficant numbers and of VOY
culture and refinement must rank far above him.
definite cultural at•hievement by the
Mrs. Curtis (Mina Kirsteinl holds an assistant professorship at
h weakened sue'll ;
newer immigrant s, has
one of the leading women's colleges and Mr. Curtis is an official in
emIseevalive movements as'
1 Y1"e" 115- and
Louis-
a very well known corporation.
Zionism
Hebrew education. Louis-
That these two individuals were able to transcend the opinions
I villa is on the road toward elitninat • '
I
of such people as the column editor represents is to their everlasting
ing
the
Jewishness
of
its
Jews.
courage. to forget blind loyalties and un-
credit. That they had the
n sympathy
This is a definite change in attitude !
understandin
g ad
avor of human
j
reasoned preudices
in f
1 which has come about in the last 10 i
or found fit to
than the "notice" which the column edit
years. l'revious to that time the Jew I
merits better
ish Reform element proudly kept it- I
give Granted
them. that he- feels very keenly on the question of inter-mar-
person to
I self definitely apart from the Gentile
riage, yet it was far beneath the dignity of a cultured
I community and sought to win a posi- ,
express himself in such a contemptible manner.
I lion of importance independently ••f '
One can hardly hope for an apology.
RICHARD PICK.
non-Jewish affiliations. It looked with'
great disfavor upon Inter-marriage I
and even upon intimate contacts with I
w ill be the Gentile population. Now these I
First of all, Mr. Pick is correct in assuming that no apology i tion of close forms of assimilation are resisted!
al or intellectual pox
I
a far less and a good deal of inter-mar-
forthcoming. Regardless of the social
at a Je w who marri es
the fact is unalt erable th
isg H a , goes on which may he taken as
the bride an o
of that word and li kew
meaning
the correct
backslider
in
Jew
is
also
in
the
same
category.
That
they
a symbol of the loss
of any distinc-
1
•
Christian is f
a
five identity on the part of the Jew-
a
Christian
who does
marries
are
prominent
not alter the situation. Intermarriage is intermar-
i ish community. Nevertheless, such
liege and if Jews believe in assimilation and self-elimination as a Jewish symptonis cannot be considered as
group, then intermarriage is tie be encouraged. I don't think so. So far i
as Miss Kirstein is concerned, she is privileged to marry anyone she chooses. I final in a community
numbering 10,-
1 „.,,,,,. I t may be a temporary
But in marrying out of her faith she becomes then properly the subject of
the ,000
answer to the definite growth of anti-'
special comment in the Jewish press. There is a larger aspect from
i
s
, • 1,, w h prejudice and it may cease as
conventional standpoint that must be considered. The Prince of Wale
ouiekly as it began when it proves
it- _
to preiu
must marry royalty if he ever expects to function as
King of England.
ineffective,op-gar
On such a course, as t ho „if at, ineffective
,
it
invariably
has
everywhere
It may be narrow minded and bigoted to insist
of
royalty
h" ,ii,. ,,,
not
prince may have in his mind and in his heart some lady
chooses to marry. But the state expects him do adhere to tradition. It is ,.1,,..
not, my dear Mr. I'ick, narrow minded and bigoted for a writer th
in a the
Jewish
Christian,
∎
press to comment adversely upon the marriage of a Jewess w
whether the lady in question be named Kirstein or Schiff.
•
xist
One Block North of Clairmount.
Open e•ery evening except Friday. Closed Saturday. Open S•tur.
day night and all day Sunday until S P. M.
MOSCOW (J. T. A.)—M. Henri
hold its annual conclave Sept h and
Torres, counsel for Sholom Schwartz-
at the Hotel Stotler, Detroit. Mem-
bard, who shot Semion Petlura, ar-
bers of the fraternity from Flint,
rived here in connection with the
Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Pontiac
Schwartzbard case.
and Detroit will attend.
M. Torres will spend several thorn
in Moscow and will later proceed to
Mrs. Saul Orman and S011, Harold,
Miss Lorraine Levi of Laporte,
a
six
week's
visit
Clairkoff
and Kiev to collect data on
have returned tram
Ind., is the guest of her cousin, Mrs.
the anti-Jewish massacres under the
in New York City.
M. II. Willer and Mr. Willer of Oneida
Petlura regime.
The Beta Phi Tau Fraternity will road.
Misses Florunee and Jean Birnkrant,
Iola, Mark, M. end Saul Ifirnkrant,
all of Iletroit, and Miss Marian Km
vinsky of Pontiac.
" w.
FRET) W. GREEN
Nominate
Green For
Governor
He's a friend of Labor
He wants a "Daylight Government"
He insists State Accounting of Tax moneys should be Public, not
Secret
He wants more Paved Highways and the work done economically
should have more places on State Boards and be
He believes women
directly interested in State Affairs
He has a Real Development Program for Michigan
1 tontine N otes]
you. Any thing that will reflect glory on Amer'. I .....................
k
to
All right, I'll root for •
M rs. Joseph Barnett enrtained
o ly W anderers, well I
oe f the Brokn
.,t, at luncheon Tuesday. Aug. ' ,
Mr.
Agar,
into the
I'm for. If
knownewry
can
J
same enthusiasm he breathes
maintains
themanager
letter he soccer
writes team,
me, I'm
satisfied
he will achieve wond1srs: The. other day I • at her summer home at Venice on th •
,lake, honoring Mrs. Charles It. Go
suggested that it was too bad that the famous Ilakoah players had suc•
cumbed to the lure of the American dollar and thus broke up. to some ex - den
■
of Tampa, Fla., and hcr doughty .
tent, an organization that had been the pride of European Jewry. There- Mrs. Ellis That of Detroit. The table
fore the following letter: ; was beautifully decorated with sum-
' mer flowers and a luncheon of Iseaut . •
ful appointments was scree t . a t
Dear Mr. Joseph:—Your comment on the seven Hakoah players
bridge, which was the diversion of
who have succumbed o the lure of money and left the Vienna Club
the afternoon, high honors were at-
for this country, while generous and fair, has a regretful note.
taint,' by Mrs. Ellis Thal and Nlr, I
Joseph Magidsohn. Mrs. Barnett re. 1
The The
r.• is Ilakoah
no ieason
for
it.
soccer team of Vienna is continuing on its victorious
cently entertained with a lawn party i -e
march. Only the other day Ilakoah defeated the strongest team of
at her home, honoring Mr. and Mrs.
Riga. It must not be forgotten that Ilakosh is more than a team.•
Ellis Thal of Detroit, and David Gold-
It is a movement which does not depend upon any individual star.
farb of Flint.
Europe has enough first class Jewish players to fill any position va-
cated by departing players.
As for the Ilakoah players who have signed with nip club. They
me
mo ney fro m e sobe-
are not money mad. They could have gotten more
W ander ers,
club. They preferred to join the
other American
ra nsformingg the Wanderers into
know my intention of t
man if
cause th
all-Jewish team; I am a Jew and would
en
it were given to me to build up the strongest Jewish football club
of the
world.
Watch
oat for the New York Ilakoah; it will soon take the place
of the Wanderers an rect glo ry
upon American Jewry.
NATHAN AGAR.
Sincerelyy yours ,
Y
Mr. and Mrs. M. II. Willer and
daughter, Marcia Ann, have returned
from a two weeks' motor trip through
!Michigan and India u.
1
Mr. and Mrs. B. Goldstein and
daughters, Mildred and Jane, spent
Sunday in Lansing.
Miss Sylvia Solomon, who spent the'
FRED W. GREEN
will be a good
GOVERNOR
Vote for Him September, 14th
at the Republican Primaries
Compliment of Friends