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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
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TIEnt.TROIVEWISil (ARON ICU
Welch from ('incinnati. Others have
(stmt• from other large rifles. A baker,
after working hours, teaches (he chil-
dren Hebrew and conducts services
without compensation. A bright
By RABBI MICHAEL AARONSOHN
young married woman is the directing
genius of the congregation. The diet-
(Editor's Note:—Is there Jewish life in our small communities?
ary laws ties' observed.
What type of religious service is conducted there? Who takes the
Noethfork and Welch are
leadership in Jewish work? Is there Jewish COIIIIII111111: spirit? Art
as well organized as any little city in
the children being religiously educated, and by whom? These and
Ohio, with congregation, sisterhood
many other interesting problems of Jewish life in small communities
and religious school.
are dealt with in a series of articles written by Rabbi Michael Aaron-
Clarksburg is a progressive (111V11 tin
sotto, field representative of the Union of American Hebrew Congre-
ill.' Mail' line between Cineinnati and
gations. Rabbi Aaronsuhn is touring the country visiting small as
Washington. Here, for a change, the
well as large towns, aiding in strengthening and organizing religious
West Virginia roads excel. The peo-
life in these places. Ile has made several tours of different parts of
ple in Clarksburg once had a rabbi.
the country and has put down WI paper his impressions of his visits.
The Orthodox insist upon separation
Rabbi Aaronsohn was a student at the Hebrew Union Collt•ge before
and provide their own leader. The
the World War. Ile enlisted as a soldier in the army, 0 as blinded
president of the reform group served
in battle, and upon his return completed his course at the Hebrew
as public health doctor in West Vit.-
Union College. Upon graduation he was appointed field representa-
ginia and in the mountain places of
Allow me to solve your financial problems. Why
tive of the Union of American Hebrew ('ongregations.)
Georgia. lie now has another trial,
lose your car: Autos refinanced. No waiting. No
another test of his ability and pa-
As I review the events now passed,.
annoyance. Ample parking space.
Bence. From reports, we believe that
I imagine the people of this country
this is all that can be). Our bust is a he will succeed in doing what was
,
may he segmented into three met-
remnant of an imperial band of Euro-
,
soots: metropolitan, pioneer and IMF- ean trained students. flat hostess thought to be an impossibility. Re-
cent additions to the group, in the per-
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lutrian. New York City has thtse lp ,..
Strictly Confidential Service — ('ash Waiting.
II, II graduate of a conv e nt ill Ger .
there types; so has Logan, SA'. N a. l many. A few years ago they lived sons of a man and wife who, hitherto,
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were lenders in Lexington, Ky., ought
lieography or rest mate is Tint a rr- far,
fur, far out in the iAllilerness that was to give him the needed support and di-
((pen Evenings to 0:30 — Reasonable Charges.
liable index of t'intractec ' I' he women
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Our host travelled mulebuek rection. Some Baltimore friends abide
SAME SQUARE DEAL CORNER FOR SEVEN YEARS
of Gastonia, N. C., shit in Now Turk , and hOrseback then. Ale. Filand has
here also and accorded its a hearty
('icy. The eiti" n s " f ('"I'I'l"'"" N, f ••! vivid IIIIIIIIIII•IVS of pionoer days—rich welcome.
read the Sunday New York \S old material fur a ready sal ilw. They say
A City Without Jews.
previous.
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the Sattlrlhq night
"".- • no Jew was absent fr..in services that
due School teacher at Northfork, \A . ••riday night. The synagogue is on
Ns a r ( . 1:11!; , burg there are 5,000
Vit questions the divine character of the top floor of a hank ',inkling. 'I'hey souls assembled in the town called Sa-
ilii ,t h• es,tuoile(si tnimillgu r• 6111 ,ibt Ine,..,,, Aniumg t, lie come to worship there in Logan. The lem. On Saturday no business is con-
children compose the c( s
The 1.0- ducted at Salem. It is the Sabbath
day for the mold(' of that place. Vet
t\ hitr•I un titag.as hit ets•ftit.L otirtuliti':•rins' iii‘iveh ti'li •ti: gp ';',I•lci(i'lum simil 'uean litYestt i0Itse nit'lls i ' tm'i til"U• al ls! iwtis°11f no Jew lives in this city. And a few
roads and where their high-powered congregation may build a synagogue weeks ago I heard some one announce
automobiles null over rocky rands IIIIII alongside the church. Real estate is there was only one city in the world
splash through the lulls of countless . at a premium here, there's so little to where Saturday scrupulously ob-
streams, there are .lowish "" l g eega "' be had. They are merry folk in Lo- served as the Sabbath—the city of Tel
tions. In mane of these congregations grin and they talk sweetly of New Aviv in Palestine.
the members wear hats in the sputa- York, Baltimore and Cincinnati.
Around and about Clarksburg there
Used for caulking wood and steel door and window frames, terra
gogue. In others the mem b ers import
A bus nay take you from Logan to may be found small groups of Jews.
kosher :twat. And there ore many
cotta, stone, brick, marble and masonry joints.
They
remember occasionally the relig-
Williamson in less than three hours.
who have lus•) enkindled lip the
1 we A. train may take till day to bring you ion of their fathers and of their child-
of mutters Zionists. How, then, no
hood.
Often their Christian neigh-
(non one point to the other. The bus
determine the civic character of
pi. ". runs over a patch of g oo d road, over bors laugh at those who will not re-
pie? runs miles of improt i.,11 road, over
(Turn to pare 8.)
Used for waterproofing ornamental stone, copings, cornice, stucco
Si, I asked: "What power is it that mountainsides, through innumerable,
and exterior walls.
com bs the great cities and selects one, seemingly endless streams and, if the
• man for San Pietist, Cal.; another for ruin is falling as you are i iding, you
Helena, Hunt.; another for 1 yler, will have more thrills than ever New
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Texas; a fourth fur Marion, Bid.; a York can offer, l'ou will feast on
fifth for Helena, Ark.; a sixth for Or- ,,„„,,,,, gy gorgeous, stirring, glorious, •se•
Manuactured by
Iambi, Fla., and a seventh for A\ elch, rapturously virgin. lt e did not linger 2.',...
\V. Va.?" Once 1 heard a man
o an- this time at NVillizim-on, but at nce r
saver, "A relative." Another told of found seats in the day coach bound it::
a chance meeting in a delicatessen' for Keystone, Nort hint k and Welsh. ;;;;.,
store in New York. Sometimes the, Our fellow
passengers entertained us ....!..
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quest for health, or it may have been inn vivid manner. An ,4..d christiai,
the spirit of adventure quickened hint ,pok., t enderly, WOMI 1,, y ,,f 1,, , ,I ,. ,,...
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and caused hint to cut the bonds that . mut issues. He had read .1.selibus' ;r:
held him in the great city ain't() drift „ Antiquities" through more than once. --;'
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in the in " Plan" if We 't N ' rc.in 'a ' Ile helievet1 in the prophecies embodied ..,...
• New York, Chicago and Sun I. ran- in the bole of Daniel. Ile was opposed .•
risen breathe a finished air. But pins W prohibition and did not approve of t'..
naming and state building go on, even higher education for women. Across is:.
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while New York constructs another the w
ay an elderly woman sang 'slugs .•
subway to relieve the furious conges- she had learned at church. 1'he floor 'g.
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. coated I inch
[ion of machinery and humanity. Ile f • the coach was
i 'II thick •s".•
who once WV the sun only when the 'ilk the refuse of many West Vie-
factory whistle did not belch forth its inian cities.
imperial call, now flourfishes among ,
A Meeting in Keystone.
'the mountains and the forests and the
We arrived at Keystone late in the
everlasting hill of West Virginia,
North Carolina and Texas. But . a fternoon. It is a town, the outgrowth
.
change of real estate does not make' it f a coal mining cantp Our meeting
hint a barbarian. When his pioneer- • t h t afternoon was conducted in a
leasant
room
on
the
[hind
floor
of
the
ing days are ended he is the president p
,
of the congregation, he summons a n ew Knights of l'ythias
trim, American youth to deliver lee- ,• A bout Oh men, women and children,
tures, he sole:veils, to the modern pe- .1 ews and non-Jews, from Keystone is',
riotlicals and newspapers, he "runs” to a nd Northfork, attended. To my sue. P.
New York to shop for himself, his p rise and delight I met two young
wife and his children, he motors to n ten from Baltimore, whom I had
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Bal- It noon years before. Coal had brought 7■7
timore, Richmond, Chicago and New t hem and their families here.
York, his children are enrolled at the' That evening we drove across the I i,J+
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leading American colleges and, presto! it angerous mountain roads to \Vetch, s;:.
he and his family and all his kin are a neighboring; town anti also a fully
eveloped mining' camp. Welch has a
A Visit to Small Cities.
harming little synagogue, where the
metropolitans again.
Allow me t" conduct you over the I nun wear hats. There is a family at
route and through the cities we have
At times we stay glide
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just
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may tarry ae A .reRgareig-eruptfiF
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pleasant personwhil
to con template awe
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of distinctive achievemet. We be:ein
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in West Virginia. The train carries aena:,
us along the Ohio river from Vincin- P-Ba
natl. Our first step is Wheeling.
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Wheeling, W. Va., is a quaint place.
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street:: appear not well cared fur.
/ Many of the houses are ancient in
• style On the outskirts of the town
0 are high, alluring hills. The Ohio
I flows gentle by, and the culture of (
flow gently into
• mutat' and Pitts
• this city. There is a 'Jewish woman in
Wheeling who prescribes for 1,000 and
0 more other women 0 program of the
In
O master thinkers and lecturers.
Wheeling thty talk of the great rabbis
• whom they once nurtured. Within the
O: synagogue you will find a calm. A
brooding power seems to spread a
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O cloud of mysticism over it heavily, en-
/ veloping all things and all worship-
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PASSOVER GREETINGS TO ALL
Once, and not many years ago, Wil-
liamson, AV. Va., was the camping'
t -- from —
O ground of the "bad men who calme
n through the mountain passes of Ken-
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• tucky to settle their differences in
11 primitive fashion. Today Williamson
i r on the e
is a our shing mining fl cent
main line of the Norfolk and Western
of a famous feud-
railroad.
The
son
etcMuscular and
Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica. etc
ist is the star on the high school feat-
Conditions. Turkish and Swedish Departments.
Neous
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hall team. Our meeting was held on
Sunday night in the auditorium of
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0 the principal moving picture parlor.
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Large Dormitory. Private Dressing Rooms.
The children are taught Hebrew in a
room below. We found a youth, a
graduate of I ale, whose library con-
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tains rare titles.
Charleston is a man's town—the
Ladies
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Open Day and Night for Men.
Kenova for a riverfront and the moun-
tains for a homestead. They've a m-
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congregation there, for whom cul-
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ture is a creed and hearty co-opera-
tion a joyous routine. There are hosts
of happy children, too, in Charleston,
and the mountains are their play-
ground. The temple is ample and in-
, citing. We were jubilant with praises
for the temple center. Here our price-
less children will hear the word of lore
and mystery amid rationally comfort-
able surroundings. On Sunday night,
in company with Rabbi Eisendrath,
we joined a swarming group of merry
folk celebrating the installation of
their orthodox leader. We should like
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to tarry longer in Charleston.
Now there's Parkersburg—a wee
581 East High St. Phone Cherry 3485.
place. The Jewish meeting hall is on
the third floor of • downtown building.
And there is a woman who remem-
bers that Judaism ought to live. And
there are fellow women and men who
wonder how. A man or two in Park-
TI
ersburg talked of better days.
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939 East Montcalm St. Phone
What He Found In Logan.
Go to Logan, thou sluggard, look on
the ways of her people and be wise.
Deep, deep in the valley is Logan, en-
and
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circled by mountain ranges. Someone
(chose
her to he the city and there is a
Wel•ling.
multitude of mining camps about her.
Watch
your step in Logan. Formals-
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All Work Guaranteed.
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or PO away. They tear,
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Coal, Cotton and Congregations
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