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Section Three

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926

VOL. XXX, NO. 15

SALT--A Short Story

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, Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our
Many Friends from

By MELVIN P. LEVY

strange lands, and lonely with the
vague desire for the past.
Softly, again: "Papa." Ile looked
up again. "You had better conic to
bed." Ile rose obediently. •

On the Day of Atonement; at sun- were. poor. Perhaps of him: That
set, the Jews come out of the syna- man Shemanski!" he thought that
gogue. They are wearied with fast- they might say, "Why should he not
ing, but they are calm with joy. Their be rich? Ile works always and eats
nothing. How much can his living
sins are effaced; they are without
evil; at one with their god. The old cost him? Ile spends no money and
gives none to the synagogue; and
neatly
in
cloth-
women are dressed •
ing of turned black silk. Their heads sometimes his daughters sell papers
are shaven and they wear upon them in the streets." So the little man
coarse, dark marriage wigs and little thought, and found it not unpleasant.
bonnets which are lied under their Ile approached his home and he re-
chins. The hair of the younger wont. membered again his wife. lie was a
en is bobbed. They move off together little sad, mourning for her death.
in little groups, separting at the doors Yet even that, perhaps, was best. She
of houses for the preparation of food. had been saved great sorrow—the
The men wait at the door of the syna- sorrow of want, and her going Ina(
gogue, speaking gravely. They say, left more for the children. All things
in Hebrew, words which are trans- were in the hands of God. Even now
lated to mean: A good year to you. there was not too much. Sometimes
May you be written and sealed with- he was hungry of necessity. Today,
too, he had fasted, but that was good.
in the books of heaven.

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An important element in the en-
vironmental agencies of a child's edu.
cation is religious influence through
which the child learns of the subor-
dination and responsibility of the hu-
man to the Divine. This is imparted
and impressed in some homes, not
many if one may judge by Oa people
one knows and by results in child-
hood. It is an ambition and goal of
every church and religious school.
The parent who fails to single out a
good church and effective religious
scnool and through parental author-
ity and example send and keep his
child there and interested in uncon-
sciously contributory to that tide of
crime which at times works such
havoc and causes such anxious alarm,
Ile remembered when he had been —Alexander Lyons.
After a while, the men leave; they,
too, going together, stopping at a child that fasting had been painful
houses and partaking of the food to him. His head had ached and his
CONSISTENCY
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body, at the smell of cooking, retehed.
which is prepared.
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was dif-
From them, one separated. Ile was Now he was a man, and it
If prominent men in a community
Among the wide assortment of Cigars you will find
a little man, not clean, named She- ferent. He was without food and he really desire to promote religious
detached of his
here are:
manski. That was a new name—a became, it seemed,
nurture it seems to me that they
remembrance of the pale wherein it weight. Ile saw the young faces of ought to evince a practica l personal
was taken. His old name was lost, the choir boys rise out of white, stiff interest in the church which stands
Langsdorf Selection
Berings
and he did not know which was his collars. They wore tasseled caps of predominantly for such culture. If
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tribe. His neck was thin, with loose black velvet and narrow, silken they only talk what right have they
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skin, and the last hairs of a strag- prayer shawls. The face of their to expect others to act? Consistency
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dark beard,
a
leader
was
covered
with
Cortez
gling beard growing from it. lie was
is more convincing. A layman has
a buyer of rags, and he was going pointed at its end. Ile tapped with no more right than a minister to say
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home to his children. There were his wand and clear voices rose into don't do as I do, do as I say.—Alex-
Ottina
Ignacia Haya
three. The eldest was named Sarah sad, ancient songs.
ander Lyons.
and the second, taking on the protec-
The cantor blew a sonorous corn-
tive coloring of her surroundings, mend upon the horn of a rant And
And though our goal be yet far, yet
strangely—Natalie. But the young- the sound of it came to him with already when I recall how our small
est, who had scarcely live years, was the clearness of distant, recurrent nation sustained the mailed might of
called Rebecca after her mother, who memory. Such fasting was good.
all the great empires of antiquity,
had died at her bearing.
He would go now, and eat. There how we saw our temple in flames and
The little man thought of his wife was today, on y one meal; and on were scattered like its ashes, how we
now. Ile thought of her as she
had a holiday something extra might endured the long night of the Middle
i such
been, he remembered, seated upon be expended. On most days there Ages, illumined by the glare of our
the opposite sides of a room n the was a thick porridge-like soup; and martyrs' fires, how but yesterday we
center of which, around a table, were sometimes, bread alone; but on this wandered in qur millions, torn be-
men—their fathers, relatives, a mar- day , there would be broth, and the tween the ruthless Prussian and the
riage broker. With much haggling lean fowl from which it was made. pitiless Russian, yet have lived to see
these discussed the wedding contract. He visualized the meal. lie would today the bloody empire of the Czars
The young man was gladwhen they speak of Mr. Robbins—he thought— dissolved, and the mountains of Zion
were finished. The girl, with her a rich man, the president of the syn- glimmer on the horizon, already I
small body, seemed to hint, then, very agogue, and their landlord, who had feel we may say to the nations: Com-
beautiful. A great tenderness conic invited him with the others to the fort ye, comfort ye, too, poor suffer-
up within hint, and he desired to feasting at his house. And he would ing peoples... Learn from the long
touch with his thin hand the soft- tell how that he might sooner be patience of Israel that the spirit is
ness of her hair. lie did nqt. His with them, he had refused. The girls mightier than the sword, and that
fingers lay upon hers for a moment, would look on hint with pride.
the seer who foretold his people's
other. Iler hair, he had rentem erei
He would sit at the table, which resurrection was not less proplatt
would, by ancient as etic custom, be would be laid with a white cloth. He when he proclaimed also for all peo-
shorn from her on the day of her would start, very slowly, the long ples the peace of Jerusalem.—Israel
WE DESIRE TO EXPRESS AT THIS TIME
lightly, and they looked from each prayer which must be said before Zangwill.
marriage. For a moment he was the meal. The children would think
OUR FELICITATIONS TO OUR MANY
sorry. Then, shyly, her words merged of food, yearningly. They would at-
For it has become clear-0 grim
JEWISH,FRIENDS AND HOPE THAT THE
into the low tone of her voice, she tempt without success to hide ttheir consolation!—that there is no nation
offered him a gift. It was a talith, disappointment; and then he would today that would not crucify Christ,
NEW YEAR WILL BRING YOU AN ABUN-
ancient prayer shawl. lie carried it increase his speed, and so rapidly R3 and this, although, unlike the ancient
CRUZET, Manager and Director,
now beneath his arm, wrapped in the to make it almost unintelligible, finish Jews, they have had two millenniums
DANCE OF HEALTH AND HAPPINNESS
single page of an old newspaper, the service. They would smile and wherein to learn to understand him,
printed in Yiddish. His fingers broke be quite merry.
Nay more! Remembering who, dur-
through the covering, caressing the
I•ife, he thought again, was pleas- ing this ghastly quinquennium, have
stuff beneath it,
raised their voices to temper the
It had been given him upon the ant.
The little man climbed stairs and frenzy and brutality of Christendom,
hi
day of his betrothal by Re b ecca, s entered a room. Sarah, housewifely I ant moved to believe that we Jews,
betrothed. She had woven it with in cleanly labour, smiled behind her are today the only race that would . I
her hands upon a wooden loom of dark eves. Ile kissed his children not crucify Jesus.—Israel Zangwill• e i
great age, from washed unco lored and bade them a happy holiday,
wool, and, in stripes along its edges,
The achievements of the Jews in
Rebecca was breathless with news:
blue wool which she had dyed. She
"Papa, I helped Sarah. I did just many arts cannot sustain compariaon j
hail tied to it as knotted fringe that II she does "
with the great Gentile creations. But .
might be kissed by devout children as
Sarah touched her in passing. "Yes, in kindliness the Jews are still un- ,..:
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he passed, on holy (lays, about the (Jett her all alone, and she helped rivalled.—Israel Zangwill.
synagogue. She had made it accord- me with the cooking."
ing to ancient law ,,.. and the material
The panting breath of the baby
nor
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of its making was'not diluted;
Now he was warm against his cheek. "You
had it ever been used.
are good children," he said.
thought of her with dear thoughts ,
They sat at the table, and it was as
and
was
content.
He
passed,
sitting on a corner, a' he had expected. On the center of
beggar woman, and spoke to her. the cloth were lighted tapers—these
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But the law said nothing about their
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They laughed among themselves
perous New Year.
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The girls brought to the table.
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appreciation of your
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broth. White steam arose from it,
kind favors and request
waved for a moment, and was dissi-
that you command us in
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moving upon its surface. Smooth
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0. strips of paste-dough lay upon its!
, bottom, or undulated within its yel-
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tared into him and its warmth gave
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him peace. The children watched him
expectantly, waiting for him to dip
his spoon so that they. too, might
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eat. It was even as when he had been
/ a child, and like them, awaited on
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• Dear God! salt."
Tragedy and sudden silence. Then,
sharply:
"The meat! the fowl!"
"It was cooked in the soup."
The baby, weeping softly. "I. only
I
meant to help Sarah. I didn't mean',
t'."
"She only meant to help me. She
did what-she saw me do.'
The troubles of children heal very
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swiftly. Their bellies are filled with
bread. Their tears flow into the cor-
ners of their mouths; and they are
fascinated with the salt taste of
them. They dry in runnels upon their
I cheeks. They sleep. Their hands are
fat and soft and they double them
into their eyes; or they are thin. and
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they lie like wax on the top of the
bedcovers.
The old man, Shemanski, sat alone.
The candles were gone, and • thin
/ light shone through the closed win-
dow. To him came Sarah.
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"Papa." He looked up. She stood
/ before him in the thin stuff of her
nightdress. She had been borne, and
had suckled at her mother's breasts
She had been a child. grave with the
responsibilities of the poor. And now
/ he saw, she was before her time be-
/ come a woman. She, too, would be
wed. There would be • feast with
I joyousness and much laughter. Her
body would become big for the giv-
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ing of life, and shapeless and aged
from labour. And she would die. His
own name was Shemanski. It had
been given him within the pale by
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generations that were yet young in
at time, and the name of his tribe was
lost. Ile had a daughter who Wan
called Natalie. She, also, would go
forth from him. She would forget
, the names of her mothers and her
offspring would be solitary within

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