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deflected from their course by many irrevelant consid-
erations. Too often the man who has much to say and
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has a choice of popular language with which he is not
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Published Weekly by Th. Jewisl Chronicle Publishing Co., inc.
so familiar, and a language which is limited in its use,
Presment but of which he has an intimate and thorough knowl-
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
Editor edge, oscillates between them and ends by doing noth-
JACOB MARGOLIS
General Manager ing. Not so in the case of Yehoash. Ile loved Yiddish
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
which had become to hint an effective, precise instru-
Entered as Second-el:Ise matter March 3. 19U, at the Postulant. et Detroit.
Mich., under the Act of March 9, 1870.
ment by means of which he could express all the nu-
ances and passions of Jewish life with its stark tragedy
General Offices and Publication. Building
and poignant wretchedness as well as the lighter and
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Cable
Address:
Chronicle
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
humorous aspects.
London Office:
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England.
His death is truly an irreparable loss to Yiddish.
This is not merely a figure, it is a definite and distinct
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, in Advance
loss to any group when an articulate artist whose whole
To Insure publication. all correspondence and news matter must reach this
office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices,
life is devoted to a special work passes away. It is like
one We of the paper only.
kindly
the complete damming up of a tributary stream which
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of interest
empties into the larger one.
to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for •n indorsement of the
views ewe/Iced by the writer..
The death of Yehoash in 1927 reverberates in
Sh'vat 18, 5687 America in a fashion hardly conceivable to American
January 21, 1927
Jewry of the beginning of the century. This alone is a
tribute to his genius and persistant labors. His con-
The Weizmann Visit.
freres who have worked with him will honor him most
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zion- by carrying on with the same singleness of purpose as
ist Organization, will be the guest of Detroit Jewry on characterized him ill all his literary undertakings.
Jan. 25. He is coming here to stimulate interest among
the Zionists of the states of Michigan and Indiana who
A Familiar Ring.
are making plans for the forthcoming campaign of the
United Palestine appeal.
Diplomats representing those countries of Europe
Since Dr. Weizmann's last visit to Detroit much has noted for anti-Semitism, numerus clausus and pogroms
happened in Palestine and in Europe that has given a should be required to read the Protocols of the Elders
different complexion to Jewish affairs. The story of of Zion, and the International Jew by Henry Ford be-
Russian colonization and its immediate repercussions fore they receive their credentials. After having read
among Zionists is a story often and adequately told. them, they should appear before a special examining
The misfortunes of Polish Jewry and the mass emigra- board consisting of Professor Cuza, Adolph Hitler,
tion to Palestine in 1925 is a chapter which has not yet Count Klebelsburg and a few other choice spirits of
been completed. Detroit will greet a different Weiz- the Hakenkreuzler, Swastika and Fascists and after a
mann and Weizmann will greet a different Jewry, but searching examination showing qualifications in Jew-
both he and they are more appreciative of the splendid baiting, Bolshevik howling should be given a diploma
achievements in Palestine and the problems and diffi- which will enable them to properly represent their
culties which must be liquidated and solved.
country.
No matter what opinion one may have upon the na-
We are not informed as to whether John Cretziano,
tionalist, political of cultural aspects of Zionism, wheth- the Roumanian minister in Washington, went through
er one be a member of the World Zionist Organization,
Mizrachi, Poole Zion, the League of Revisionist Zionist, the delightful process described above, but yet he
or even a non or anti-Zionist, the fact cannot be escaped seems to have learned well the lessons taught by those
that there are 150,000 Jews in Palestine of which num- subtle and perspicacious gentlement who wrote the
ber 100,000 entered since the Balfour Declaration. This "Protocols" and the "International Jew." He has even
inexorable fact obtrudes itself whether one agrees with bettered the instruction for nowhere have we read of an
the causes of the crisis, or with the theory of mass immi- instance where the Jews were charged with persecu-
gration. With this influx, unprecedented in the history
of the Jewish people, there have been created educa- ting the majority population of the country where they
tional, cultural, economic and health organizations. live, before this charming and well informed Rouman-
This mass has made an effort to adjust and accomodate ian minister told us that not only were all the reports
itself to the new and strange conditions which it found of persecutions against Jews untrue, but the very re-
in Palestine. The complications arising out of this ven- verse was the case, the Jews were persecuting the Rou-
ture have often perplexed those who felt responsibile.
manians. True he did not mean it literally, but even
The heroic efforts of the agricultural pioneers (the
the figure is meretricious and hypocritical. Does this
chaluzim) have won the admiration and respect of the
most critical observers even when they could not praise diplomat imagine that his denial and counter charge
their efficiency and ability. The improvement in edu- exculpate Roumanian pogrom makers when the whole
cational and sanitation methods for which the Jews of world knows from unprejudiced and objective sources
Palestine are responsible have evoked praise from the that Roumania is the plague spot of Europe today. Are
hardest bitten anti-Zionists while the raising of the level the leading dailies of the world in league with the Jews
of the standard of living has made it possible for even
the Arab fellahin to envisage some of the comforts of to pogrom Roumania? We wonder if Clarence Streit of
Western civilization. Then too the method of peaceful the New York Times and Arnold Dosch Fleurot of the
penetration and racial collaboration has reduced the New York World are in the employ of the International
ikl ill feeling prevalent in the early days following the Bal- Jew. This variant of Jewish control and power is orig-
four Declaration. These accomplishments in the face inal if not true. It must bemuse John Bratiano and his
1411
of physical obstructions and human obduracy are of clique to read the brilliant and original defense of their
7k;
no little consequence. In the history of colonization few
efforts have achieved more in such a short space of time. astute minister in Washington. Poor, maligned Rou-
mania of Professor Cuza and Captain Morarescu. It
We are not in the habit of giving fulsome praise for is not enough to have these thoublesome dominant
we prefer to point out the weaknesses and limitations, Jews, but to be persecuted by them is just a little too
but in an objective survey of the venture we cannot but
thick.
help appraise the enterprise at its proper value.
But the minister is not satisfied with this profound
Detroit Jewry espoused the cause in the past and original idea of the Jews of Roumania persecuting their
sH
as an earnest of its belief gave of its time but more of its Christian neighbors, he must spoil it by dragging that
money to promote it. The work is still in the early
ancient cadaver, the Bolshevik Jewish myth into the
stages of development. The problems have become
fray.
more complex and numerous since the Balfour Declara-
Roumania the land of peace, benignity and equality
tion, which means that American Jewry must do more
than ever if the undertaking which now involves the is a thorn in the side of the Bolsheviks who would fo-
lives and fortunes of 150,000 people is to be carried to ment strife and stir hatreds if for no other reason than
to satisfy their malevolence, and who controls these
a successful conclusion.
Bolsheviks other than the preponderant majority of
Dr. Weizmann has carried his burden gracefully
Jews according to the Gospel of Cretziano. This dodge
and uncomplainingly. He comes to Detroit to make has been resorted to since the day in November when
Detroit Jewry appreciate its responsibility to those Lenin dissolved the Constituent Assembly and drove
150,000.
Kerensky into exile. When every other excuse fails
In the hurry and bustle of our dynamic, throbbing, a reactionary anti-Semite, he can always drag the red
ik
industrial life too many forget their obligations, not herring of Bolshevism along the road to cover up his
from any lack of feeling, but just due to the lack of malodorous practices. It has been a smelly business
time. However those who are keenly alive can render and most people with any sensibility have reached the
a great service by enrolling as workers so that all who point where they do not care to hear of Bolshevik prop-
are able and willing to give may be reached. Those aganda and misdeed as the cause for every unsatisfac-
who work can do just as much as those who give.
tory racial, national and economic situation.
We can hardly expect a diplomatic apologist to be
regardful of the facts any more than we can expect a
Yiddish Poet Passes Away.
strict adherence on the part of Henry Ford when he
Solomon Bloomgarden, better known under the pen writes on his pet aversion. Therefore, when Mr. Cr t-
name of Yehoash, died in New York at the age of 56. ziano charges the Jewish Bolsheviks with the present
His death followed close upon the passing of that other difficulties in Roumania, he failed to make any inquiry
scholar and modernist, Achad Ila,am making the loss as to the existing status of the Jews in Soviet affairs. If
to literature and philosophy double heavy.
anything, the Roumanian excesses synchronize with the
Yehoash was-one of the creators of modern Yiddish complete loss of prestige and standing of the Jews in
which is now recognized as a literary medium. It was the inner circles of the Soviet government. This is
no s;:,,ple task to prevail upon the purists, who would most unfortunate for the case of Mr. Cretzia o. Had
not be persuaded that a jargon, spoken in as many dia- Stalin, Bucharin and Kalinin known that the Roumanian
lects as there were communities in the countries of Eu- minister and Henry F rd were basing their case against
the Jews upon their control of Soviet Russia, they may
rope, could be employed as a literary vehicle.
The poet was an anomalous combination of modern- have postponed the deposing of Trotzky, Kameneff and
ist and classicist with his roots deeply embedded in He- Zinovieff for at least a month. Such little amenities
braic scholarship. lie as much as any Yiddishist was could have been arranged among themselves. But yet
primarily concerned with modern Jewish life and insist- again these Soviet people are not noted for good man-
ed upon giving expression to that life, yet he devoted ners and proper form and may have been so rude as to
years to the translation of the "Pentateuch" into Yid- refuse to accomodate them. Be all that as it may, the
dish. As a literary effort it no doubt was worth all the cry of Bolshevik propaganda in the case of Roumania
travail and research that he was compelled to put in- and her Jews is the h llo• est evasion. Were the case
of the Jews not so precariously tragic, this charge of
to it.
Yehoash like Achad lia'Am avoided the acrimoni- Bolshevism would be rollicking humo r.
We would advise the Roumanian minister to sell his
ous controversies which from time to time raged. They
loved the materials with which they worked and as ar- denials and counter charges at a bargain and buy some
tists with the creative urge uppermost they proceeded fact s that will stand tthe test of analysis. In the mean-
time the civilized people of the world must do their tit -
to bring into being the finest work of which they were
capable. Men of less intense artistic feeling are easily most to end the pogroms and brutalities there.

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Tells of Work in Adjusting Boys to Society

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J. S. Pearlstein of Social Service Bureau Explains Problems and

Means of Solving Them.

(Editor's Note:— A few days
after :had Ila'am's death, Ameri-
can and European Jewry again
went into mourning, when Ye-
Bloonigarileni
(Solomon
bash
died on Jan. 10. The author of
these impressions—which are not
intended as a critical eva luati o n of
the great Jewish poet, undoubted-
ly one of the most significant liter-
ary figures American Jewry has
produced—was an intimate friend
of Yehoash.)

tion usually come on the basis of un-
Sammy, in court for the fourth
employment, but they, upon careful
time, was beginning to be scared.
investigation, do not always repre-
This was the third time the police-
sent employment problems. For ex-
man had brought him up for the
ample,
one boy who applied for a s s
same o ffense—going joy-riding in a
job was found to be mentally deli-
stolen car—and each time before he
cient, requiring medical care, so was
had been freed on parole. Ile didn't
sent to a psychopathic hospital; un-
want to go to the reform school, but
other was found to present serious
the temptation had been too much
behavior problems and required spe-
and again he had taken someone's
dal supervision at home and special
car to go for a ride. What was the
adjustment on the job. The depart-
judge going to do now, he wondered.
meat AIMS to place boys in the trades
Meanwhile, Sammy's parents were
Yehoash fought death for more
and to give them permanent employ-
alarmed at his continued arrests and,
than a quarter of a century. From
melt, Thus two boys are learning
having
heard
that
the
Jewish
Social
1900 on, when he entered a Denver
the printing trade, one the electrical,
Service Bureau could help them,
sanatorium—to remain theta, only a
(mother is apprenticed to a plumber,
a
r
po
ul
u
berc
et
bat-
came
to
see
the
boys'
welfare
de-
short time—the t
still, another, who is studying pharm-
partment worker. The boy's personal
tied feverishly for his life. When,
icy, has secured a permanent pool-
and family history were investigated,
his cheeks flushed and his eyes glow-
tion with one of the large drug cool-
his troubles in school, at home and
ing with fever, he insisted on speak-
panics. One young boy, gifted as an
with his "gang" were noted and the
ing, despite hi s doc t or's orders, heap-
artist, is being given the opportunity
worker, feeling the boy was incor-
ing ideas on ideas, talking restlessly,
to become proficient in the commer-
rigible but not subnormal, went to
as though lashed by fear, it often
cial art field.
court nod asked that the boy be pa-
seemed to me that he conquered
Speaking of the part vocational
soled to hint. The judge, glad to co-
death only by refusing to give hint
guidance plays in the prevention of
operate and save the boy, approved
the floor.
delinquency, Mr. Pearlstein declared: CL
the worker's plans for Sammy's int-
Yehoash silenced death with his
"When the buy is working he is not
provement and, although a fourth of-
effervescent, mercury-like spirit, no
only helping the fancily, who in most
Tense is considered a bad record, toil-
that the grim reaper listened in
cases
are badly in need of whatever
amazement and, shamefaced, went
lingly paroled the boy.
financial assistance he can give, but
away.
Discovering that Sammy's home
Is
also,
usually, using his leisure time
But
B a few days ago, when, all alone
life was causing his wrong doing, a
to it better advantage than hanging
and bent over his books, he paused to
'
relative was ' found who would take
relative
around on street corners. We aim
draw breath, his old enemy suddenly
the boy at'id keep strict watch over
to teach the boy it trade so he will
surprised and overcame him. To ren-
him. The worker gained the boy's
der harmless the spirit he feared, confidence so he was able to give hint become entirely self-supporting and
not find himself, at 30, in a blind-
death robbed him of speech, and
that would be followed, adjust
alley job. We find his probable line
when,
when, in agony, the poet raeehed for
hint to his school and, after discover-
of development and his interest and
his pen, he paralyzed his body.
ing his interests, direct them into
help to fit him for the job in which
Such was the defeat of e ono ,
proper, normal channels. After eight
he will be most efficient. After he
the most eminent of modern Yiddish
month; the boy was stabilized sic he
starts working we continue to advise
poets.
could return to his home and a bet-
hint and oftentimes help him to study
ter relationship brought about be-
in the evenings and perfect himself
How simply he lived, and how
tween him and his father. The has
in the particular trade.
he created! Ile spent the lost
ther, worried and anxious over his
"The employers can co-operate in-
10 years of his life in a dark, sordid
son's welfare, had sought to control
telligently and to their own advan-
Bronx apartment, yet he was infinite-
the boy by constant scoldings and
tage
as well as the buys' by hiring
ly far away from the noisy fair of
harshness. The worker was able to
these young men to fill vacant posi-
New York. And how pure the air
show the man that, instead of cor-
tions.
One of our main troubles in
was in his small, stuffy room.
recting the trouble he had only
this field is the lack of understanding
The poet had overcoats and passed
driven the boy entirely assay from
of
the
department's
methods and ob-
the commonplace long before. Ile
home and into the companionship of
jectives on the part of the employers.
was not merely struggling against
the worst gangs.
If they would eliminate the errone-
physical mortality; he was fighting
"No boy is inherently bad," said
ous notions that Jewish Social Serv-
for spiritual immortality. Ile strained
Jacob S. l'earlstein, worker at the
ice Bureau boys are lazy, do not
his far-seeing eyes to discover what
boys' welfare department, when tell-
stick to their work and are generally
form would be taken by the litera-
ing of his work, "except those who
incompetent, they would find that
ture of the future. Sometimes he
are
tnentally
defective.
It
is
we
these boys are generally more satis-
was overcome by a dire fear that he
adults who are the bad ones; the boys
factory than those from the employ-
might be lagging behind, that he
merely
follow
our
example.
Also
ment agencies, because he receives
might not be keeping pace with the
lack of proper care, whether through
constant supervision on the job, al-
most modern of the moderns. . Then
ignorance or design, forces boys into
though, at time, naturally, a boy will
he wouldplunge into the latest pro-
doing anti-social acts. Persons work-
turn out to be a failure in the par-
ducts of world literature, would let
ing with boys and girls feel the diffi-
ticular line in which he is placed.
the current of the times carry him
culties confronting them because
But with the employer's co-operation
along. Often it provoked him to
they cannot reach the adults who are
he will be given better service and
change his own literary form, to re-
a
bad
influence
on
the
child
whom
the
boy will be enabled to find his
construct his style. But essentially
they are trying to correct. For ex-
own niche in the industrial world.
he always remained the classicist who
ample,
we
have
found
many
boys
Our
boys need their jobs and are
never sacrificed an idea to a stylistic
who are arrested for carrying liquor;
helped to become efficient through
feat.
the bootlegger feels they will attract
outside study and steady application
less attention from the police than a
during working hours, no should
No artist was so intensely afraid of
man would, so they do nut hesistate,
prove advantageous to employers
being banal as Yehoash. This fear
for their own gain, to set the boy on
who are looking for apprentices and
gave him no rest and heightened his
the downward path. Many boys and
workers who will stick to the job."
critical faculties to such an extent
girls as well learn immoral habits
that it sometimes endangered his cre-
Through various influences the
frequenting low-type movies and res-
Jews are better in commerce and
ative nature. Ile was lenient toward
taurants where improper conduct is
business and show a tendency to stick
any literary form but his own. Ile
allowed or, at least, not curbed. It
to "white collar" jobs. Families oft-
was merciless, and frequently unjust,
is these influences which we must
times insist that their boys take such
toward himself. Although he con-
combat."
positions, thus spoiling what might
tributed to the daily newspapers, he
Aims Prevention of Delinquency.
be an advantageous induStrial career.
never permitted himself to be drawn
The boys' welfare deportment, Mr.
into the journalistic stream. When
The bureau aims to adjust the boys
Pearlstein avers, has for its main
industrially so they learn productive
he wrote he always remained the poet
purpose the prevention of delin-
who cared little for the moment or
trades, whenever possible. The boy's
quency. One of the difficulties in
his public. Like the great stylistic
wishes are taken into consideration
prevention, however, is that the ma-
artists of world literature, this Jew-
in all vocational adjustments, us the
jority of the boys do not come to the
ish poet, too, felt the urge and had
worker feels that a boy will become
attention of the worker until after
the patience to search conscientiously
more efficient and progressive in a
they have been arrested for some
for the only appropriate expression,
field to which he is adapted and for
anti-social act. The worker must which he has a particular liking.
to interrupt his work for (lays while
then break down the old ideas and
he sought one elusive word.
Work With Immigrant Families.
instill principles in the boy which will
But the character of Yehoash's
One of the serious dilliculties
lead him to become a useful member
work is crystallized neither in his
which the boys' department worker
of society. This is the most difficult
many volumes of poems that sing of,
encounters is in dealing with the im-
part of the work, which Mr. Pearl-
or weep over, love, death and nature,
migrant family. It is extremely dif-
stein calls "thrilling and difficult,"
nor in his impressions of his trip to
et b;
i enfohuy,peulletihol:efo. o
s f,rtee,o s, tn n.eloaeetrurkuobts o ah ,a yn e f sc t ,y,htoshcnai t h dlj oucalsh t n itldodt them -
and adds that no boy is so bad that
Palestine. His great opus, which will
selves
selves to the strange American
he cannot be reclaimed for society.
live as long as the Yiddish language,

The worker must not only guide the
is his translation of the Bible from
gt hueagfearea irley shoe differe n t,
w hh hen u a
boy in his school work and play but
Hebrew into Yiddish. The work con-
work
must secure the co-operation of par-
sumed five years, day and night.
often unwittingl y eerun s
ents, teachers and guardians in super-
Feverish creative work, without
the
vising the boy when his problems are
pause.
difficult ones. The worker soon
There, in the Bible, lay the immor-
senile court. One boy was taken to
learns in practically every case that
tality he had sought all his life; he
school by a relative who gave his one
whatever may be the particular dif-
wished and achieved the connection
as two years younger than he really
ficulty a boy is reported for, his
of his name with the Book. Winged
was. The boy's mother was a widow
trouble is not an isolated one within
with this desire, he summoned the de-
who had to stay at home to care for
him. There are many combinations
sire to conquer the difficulties of such
a sick sister; his two married broth-
of
factors
which
must
be
found:
eco-
a translation. The Yiddish language
ers paid the rent, while an older sis-
nomic situation at home, incompe-
had to be created anew and many un-
ter, earning $12 a week, was the only
tent parents, deliberate or volun-
clear, controversial passages of the
support for the family. The worker
tary neglect, traits in the boy him-
Bible had to be interpreted.
proved, through physical and mental
self—his reaction to his environment
But as the difficulties increased,
examination, that the boy was really
as well as his mental and moral
the power of Yehoash's will grew
16 years old and was finally able to
equipment.
greater. He had to do original re-
induce the authorities to go beyond
Ofttimes the Board of Education
search work, to read and compare the
the legal formalities and release the
will report a boy to the department,
literatures of many languages on the
boy from school. The worker is at-
usually as a last resort. Benny, one
Bible. It was a miracle that his frail
tempting to get the boy a trade job
boy, was constantly a truant and in
body bore up under this gigantic
and soon expects to have the family
addition was accustomed to stealing;
task. It was, unfortunately, inevit-
become economically independent.
he practiced immoral acts and was
able that his brain should succumb
"We do not aim to find the jobs
wild
in
every
respect.
The
worker
from the strain of this superhuman
for our boys," Mr. Pearlstein con-
found that he was an orphan with no
exertion, which was accomplishing
tinued, "but suggest to them where
home,
running
around
in
a
low-grade
the work of an entire academy.
and what to look for. We want them
neighborhood. Ile was found to be
Yet Yehoash conquered death, for
to think and act for themselves and
the offspring of a mentally deficient
he won immortality.
so restrict ourselves to giving advice
father and mother. Ile was placed
and supervision. In this way the boy
in
a
boarding
house
and
made
to
at-
But even if Yehoash had not writ-
feels that he must stand on his own
tend school regularly. The worker
ten a single poem, even if he had not
feet and work out his own life.
found normal companions for him
translated a single syllable of tho
"Our ultimate aim in all this work
an
' constant supervision no
1S:filatures, he would none the less anrnrdtherr
is prevention of further delinquency.
eversych emdiunluetethat
u
e blu daily
of,
the I mportant art -
n lreinn one of
When one boy is influenced for the
boy with busy
fats
h
better we feel he can help his young-
waking hours. In less than a year
He was a , thinker, or, better, a
er brothers from falling into the same
0
13r
h
ba
rstIr
en
d0
t
,:
stolen,
t
n
o.
t
h
but
one
srit. Merely with the
motivating
vat
pitfalls
he had to climb out of."
two
up his
personali
tiglrrtes. raised
lt nl uvae li
of h'. ' ty
The boys' welfare department is
immoral habits and, in given of his
about .
to
a
part
of
the Jewish Social Service
subnormality is progressing very
all humanity, was far removed from
Bureau, of which Melville S. Welt is
.sl.Th.
for ,, Lneer
next te rt nerLaLill isbent to fit _
Ilia Jewish-
fnd
a
a nu party
eaurnturspna tsa
president
and Mrs. Rose M. Lipson
him
interest
noble, profound
director. This department works in
ed in and capable of working at a and
ale,
joy in creating
for his people,
p ear of
close co-operation with the Children's
n
ome b eel(-supporting.
eeee
! s fu
an intuitive understanding of the per- teach
Bureau, under the supervision of a
Most T
has
i get
tradition.
treaxcleiteIpo
petAattgungr with
committee of which Fred M. Baton!
trouble
i ys,
s, through
hrou h misuse
ti of a
o Ofttimes the making it is chairman. The bureau is a con-
sure
.
time.
year's stay in Palestine and Egypt,
stituent society of the Jewish Wel-
possible
e
°four a it boy n to piles,' in a super-
year;. of his
35 of
fare Federation, recently organized
group
rno, unf
ctuurren bin
ilefelnh U n it e
to enroll all Jewish charitable, phi-
of his maladjustment
adiuste
him
Ilitse:Piriteualdseh
h°a -
Wan a cosmopolitan.
e
d ti
lanthropic, educational and cultural
into
a
normal
boy.
A
factor
not
to
velopment was , not stamped by the
organizations in the city. Henry
be forgotten
m
n trien, an
rfg
n
he n influence
ign ‘fl n ce o folder
culture
fic
of
Wineman is president of the federa-
members
teach
-d p
ic
ehoash
c
tion and Morris D. Waldman, manag-
easily-lad boy bad habits.
l ts. The boa a.:'
indisputable place
. among the great
ing director of the United Jewish
worker
says that he has influenced
writers is of Yiddish literature: M e, n-
Charities, is secretary and director.
'
conduct
merely
by
•har-
u .S r tr iu phorim, Jud Leib 1 e-
—S. B. R.
in
a
g
at
°}'
their
interest in baseball or other
and
Sni Aleichem.
absorbing interest.
o
Permanent Employment N
ry.
PREJUDICE
An evening in Yehoash's home. A
Many boys, either because of eco-
If anyone treats you with the petty
bare dining room, furnished only with
nomic necessity or desire to work for
persecuting spirit of prejudice in.
chairs and a table. Immature, union -
spending
ee Por di tn nts m t o ney, c owm
bir. k e t oEr netche
ehd ebrbtiyh a j n•
stead of with the kindliness and jus-
teas
w
lligbly
y modern
on the
to
tice of consideration don't get angry
walls.
e
,
e ef s
ne thnerei e k
u
iny
estigaetn
e
d
gtettiej
burning,
i g , A read one
and betray weakness but with the
name procedure as for the delinquent t
aloud .
pdhilosephical fairy-tale,
majesty of the strength of selfscon•
boy — family and personal history.
nan Arabian legend. The
b
trol expose his folly and futility by
no conducting yourself an to disprove
Jewish
a sedopoet wrote it in 1915, when school and play life, mental, physical
and moral characteristics. Boy! who
his criticism and opposition.—The
(Continued on next page.)
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