PAGE TWO TIE 9LTYCOrr, AWISil (it 80N ICI F, Margaret A. King CLAUDE S. WILSON TEACHER OF Established 1905. ELECTRIC NEEDLE EXPERT THE PIANOFORTE Specialist in All Lines of Beauty Culture. Hair Goods and Toilet Articles. 2072 TAYLOR AVENUE Near Fourteenth Garfield 3969-W 207 FINE ARTS BLDG., 58 W. ADAMS ST. Randolph 0737 Dr. B. H. GATES We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a Happy New Year. • 6535 GRAND RIVER AVENUE Next Door to Ferry Field Thee,. REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST CELEBRATING A SPRING FESTIVAL IN PALESTINE The Feast of the Passover, commemorating the return of the Children of Israel to their homeland in Palestine from slavery in Egypt, takes an added significance in Palatine, where the Jewish colonists celebrate the return of the modern Children of Israel to their rebuilt homeland. These children, decked out in garlands of flowers, are joyously celebrating the festival of • Jewish colony established within the past four years on land Eyes Examined. Optical Repair Work. The New Scien- tific Method of Fitting Glasses for the Aid of Vision and Relief of Headache. CAUGHEY-JOSSMAN CO, of the Jewish National Fund. Sundays by Appointment. Open Evening. till 8:00. CEMENT and learn. In former times, there would have been a corrupt employe, who, in order to hide his ignorance °Would have named an arbitrary figure I for the ticket. These youngsters of By REUBEN BRAININ. the Russia of today know that they are in a period of self-education, are naively proud of the fact, do not Dean of Hebrew Journalists. care a rap about official prestige, and will eventually become efficient and (Copyright, 1926, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate) trustworthy public servants. (Editors Note:—In the first of a series of articles dealing with Jewish Since my arrival in Moscow has be- ' life in present-day Russia, Reuben Brainin, dean of llebrew writers, who is now touring the world as correspondent of the Day and the come known, by the Jewish popula- Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, presents an inkling of the changed en- tion, I have been submerged by old friends and relatives. Much is to vironment in which the Russian Jew finds himself. In this article, Mr. be said about Jewish life in Mos- Brainin traces the background of his forthcoming writings, gives the cow. I have realized that very little atmosphere for an understonding of the radical changes that have untainted news reaches us in Amer- affected the Jew in the new Russia. What he has to say of the most ica about the true status of Jewish prominent change in Russian Jewish life is noteworthy. It indicates communal life, cultural and political the acuteness and penetration of insight which characterize all of Mr. matters. Many calumnies have been Brainin's writings, and which gives a peculiarly authoritative counte- spread, calumnies that have harmed nance to his judgments and opinions of Soviet Russia.) our brethren here a great deal, be- I have come here to view condi- of the exact day of my arrival. I cause the impression was given that tions, devoid of prejudice. I have went to the hotel, and after deposit- the reports had come from their quar- tried to strip myself of whatever pre- ing my baggage, started on an aim- ters. Small unimportant frictions be- conceived notions I may have held. less errand in the streets. It was I have tried to adjust my mind to re- late afternoon, and the streets were tween an individual who happend to semble that of the conscientious jury- crowded, with the mob milling about be a Jew and sonic Soviet official man, who is only intent on receiving aimlessly. The street signs are most have been transformed in the press evidence, and cautious not to form erratic. At one corner, there are of Europe and America into real is- any opinion until all the facts and an abundance of directions, giving sues vitally affecting Jewish life. Sev- circumstances have been presented on information about streets, crossings, eral strict class edicts, under which We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons both sides of the case. It was in etc.; at another corner, there is not the Jewish element might suffer to- frame of mind that I entered the slightest symbol to aid one in gether with other elements, have A Happy and Prosperous New Year. & that been pointed out as strictly anti-Jew Moscow, the stronghold of the So- orientation. Wandering about, as though in a ish discriminations. I cannot now en- viet intelligentsia. labyrinth, I finally landed at my ter into details. In subsequent ar- It may be said honestly, however, starting point, although I thought I ticles, I will fully and frankly discuss ACI01=10=01=10=0 1= 0 =10 =10130 that the foregoing was only my F had moved ahead some distance. And theoretical state of mind, one into it seemed to me that I had seen and present my observations concern- which I attempted to conjure my- faces that had wandered with me, ing the status of Jewish culture, 11e- self by main force, but which did whd had suffered from the some illu- brew education, Jewish colonization ri not actually color my perspective. sion. I am an old traveler, and did and the future of our brethren as My human weaknesses remained with not ascribe this experience to the Jews in Soviet Russia. The Jew in Russia has been lib- et me; I was unable to combat my usual strangeness encountered in a subconscious, nor even to govern my foreign city. The more so as I erated from his fear of pogroms. This alone struck me as the out- conscious moods. But what I write know Moscow quite well, having I O here are not judgments, nor even lived and studied here some 30 odd standing change in Jewish life here. The new generation listens to the opinions. I am still in the register- years ago, when Czaristic Russia ing process, seeing important and thought itself invincible. This sense tales of Czaristic persecution with as- tonished eyes. They are growing up lowly personages, studying statistics, of disorientation was rather sym- comparing figures, and, primarily, in- bolic; it indicated to me that I would without any minority stigma. I have haling life as it surrounds and con- have to revise all my pre-Soviet Rus- seen many types of boys and girls fronts me, without dissecting or sia notions, and that if I wanted to who reminded me strikingly of our 0 best types of Chalutzim in Palestine. analysing. find a way, I would have to concen- A straight, fearless mentality, and 6 0 in ble g I had not informed my friends trate. I would have to lose my de- physique. Pogroms under present tachedness. V6IMMICIMMISW‘WiSSIfIN•••%•Walstalt.%•SWISillIMM.IMICIMISNX conditions are impossible, is my be- For a few days I lived all by my- 4■■■•• C. E. BEYMER, President self, evading old friends and making lief iussia, it seems to me, is primarily D. W. ABBOTT, Sec'y.Treas. H. J. HOLMAN, Vice-Pres. new acquaintances. By and by, what concerned with the youngest genera- , had struck me as a lack of orderli- Lion. As soon as the youngest gen- 11 nese, gave me a sense of unhampered eration ceases to be the youngest, it BALDNESS freedom. When I visited people, and must sacrifice its privileges for its IS found them crowded into an insuf- juniors. ONLY ficient number of rooms, it did not SIGN provoke pity in me. The system of '0110 ,\1 ilIK4 I MI IMIli.\\\N •71 0 F k f:f." zt alloting an exact amount of space to EMPIRE 6695 SEGLLC1 every human being has its good sides, o in view of the apparent shortage of housing facilities. No more spacious apartments for an idle bachelor, and AFTER one room for a family of 10. Houses BEFORE Dandruff, falling hair. 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But Special DePartment for tedies equality has taken on concrete shape We Gran Your Hair or Rehm,' & Your Money r here, regardless of its advantages or Now Located at F disadvantages. I have come in contact with many HAIR ::ROWING SPECIALISTS of my Jewish brothers and sisters, 'g 1300 Broadway, Sult• 406405. asking many questions, but receiving p... Hsu., It a. tn. to few replies. There is a noticeable Offic•si New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh •nd flatland disdain of phrases. They all seem Ask Us to Demonstrate It Out Mack to tell me: "See for yourself." They are tired of being asked questions, On Your Own Rugs. which expect illuminating replies. Those that suffer economically vouch- safe the same opinions as can be had from the some type of individuals all over the world. But, first of all, there is to be observed a mass ef- fort among the youth to learn. Mod- ern science attracts them, and the research laboratories, experimental Plumbing and Heating stations, and technical institutes are crowded with eager, Jewish youth, PROMPT SERVICE exhibiting the same "Wissendurst," 5. as the erstwhile Jewish externes, who When you are building let us est were not permitted to enter the Czar- mate on your plumbing and istic Universities. This is another generation—but the Jewish thirst for heating. knowledge is permanent. I am con - vinced that Russian Jewry will pro- CHEN E STREET duce, in the near future, oustanding 0 8716 scientists and daring technicians. Melrose When I told some of those students A Bet. Gladstone and Blaine. about the fearless architectural and 2 engineering achievements in Amer- 5 ice, they smiled, not in a superior I way, but sadly; as if to say, we also gi6,,k„szimoinkloxiimmimin0 have ideas and plans, if we only had the opportunity. These eager youths reminded me of an incident while en route to Mos- cow. I had to stop at a small sta-' lion to purchase an additional rail- ticket office located in a small woods road ticket. I finally discovered the en hut. A few very young men were sestsil i• the office. In answer to Miser and Ornamental my ri quest, one of them made out Iron. Wire and Bronze Work, the ticket. after considerable con- Fire Escapes, Stair Railings, sulting of books and catalogues. Then Balcony Railings, Fe n c e s, started i painful effort to calculate Slates, Etc. the exact price of the fare. The four young men bent down over t'usr I ilssks. produe , d elementary whims machines. perspired profusely, and 2948 one of them finally yelled out ,amount triumphantly only to have !himself contradicted by the nest mathematician. Then followed • d.! bate, and finally the four young. s. esrrest officials began counting in chorus. with the joyful spirit oil schoolchildren trying to solve a prob. ' hem. After some hard labor. they'! 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