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tact with the masses such contact must be maintained.
It is true that the great masses of Russian Jewry
still live in a medieval ghetto so far as their intellectual
outlook is concerned. Their right to continue in their
abysmal ignorance can be defended of course. It can
be argued, that, as the late lamented William Jennings
Bryan used to say, "the people have a right to make
their own mistakes." But it can also be shown that
those who are somewhat more advanced also have a
right to reach the masses with their educational propa-
ganda, and that, as long as they do not resort to force
or coercion, they deserve nothing but commendation
for their efforts. But this much is certain: that what-
ever may be the aims of the young Communists of Rus-
sia, they are not going to let themselves be fooled by
the blandishments of the assimilationists.

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The Union of Orthodox Congregations, in session at
New York, came to the conclusion last week. that an
amazing ignorance of things Jewish exists in American
Jewish communities. It is even more amazing, it seems
to up, that the Union of Orthodox Congregations should
be at all amazed on finding this to be so. But its action
in attempting to rectify this condition is very interest-
ing. The idea is to establish an Orthodox Jewish pub-
lication society for the issuance of books on Jewish re-
ligious subjects in English, Yiddish and Hebrew.
Perhaps it would not be beside the point, however,
to recall that much the same method has been employed
for a long time by the Reform wing of Judaism-with
doubtful results, to say the least. There seems to be
something about Jewish life in this country that tends
to nullify the effect of literary propaganda. Doubtless
it is the fact that the propaganda never reaches those
whom it is intended to influerce. A glance at the fig-
ures for membership and book circulation of such or-
ganizations as the Jewish Publication Society and the
American Jewish Historical Society-or even the Bloch
Publishing company-reveals the futility of the liter-
ary approach.
It is all very well for Rabbi Leo Jung to announce
that "we stand for absolute loyalty to the Din Torah."
But it is quite another matter to bring to the average
busy American Jew a knowledge of what the Din Torah
means. And, even if it should be posible to reach him,
what assurance can Rabbi Jung have that he will be
favorably impressed? Orthodoxy's problem, it seems
to us, is more than a matter of propaganda. It is at-
tempting an adjustment, to be sure, but so far we have
seen its proponents in no other role than that of the
prophets of doom. Perhaps that is inherent in the very
structure of its position. After all, adjustment implies
mutual compromise. Obviously there can be no com-
promise with the Torah, Hence Orthodoxy will suc-
ceed in America in so far as it succeeds in persuading
American Jewry to adopt once more its traditional hab-
its of life and its traditional points of view.
Such things have happened in the history of our
people. But we may be excused for harboring a doubt
as to whether it can happen again-particularly in
America.

Killing With Kindness.

Fascism, says Mussolini, frowns on anti-Semitism.
That is good news. But it lacks importance. The Jew-
ish population of all Italy is considerably less than that
of Detroit. What is perhaps a little more important
is the fact that the Duce's statement was made to a
, delegation of Roumanian press representatives. Just
IA what Mussolini's purpose was in making such a state-
r ment to Roumanian newspaper men is not clear. Surely
it can have no connection with recent rumors that Italy
seeks the mandate over Palestine. Those rumors have
all been repeatedly repudiated. Nor can we reason-
ably assume that the Italian dictator seeks to win the
favor of the handful of Jews in Italy. So far as we
know he already has their favor since they are nearly
all middle-class merchants whom the Fascist adminis-
tration is inclined to favor.
Yet there is one sentence in the report of Mussolini's
interview, which, if he is correctly quoted, throws, at
least a dim light on his motives. "Fascism," says the
Premier, "seeks unity; anti-Semitism seeks destruction
and separation?'
Who does not know that the chief aim of Fascism
is the Italianization of Italy? That includes the Jews
of Italy. Mussolini probably sees in anti-Semitism a
unifying influence that tends to revive the group con-
sciousness of the Jews. Consequently he is against it.
We do not like to seem ungrateful for the Duce's
kindly expression of sympathy, but we see in it no rea-
son for enthusiasm. There is a lively revival of Judaism
going on in Italy at the present time among the rem-
nant of Jewishly conscious Jews that still survive there.
Nothing is more likely to stem that movement than
Mussolini's passion for "unity." Here, as in Russia,
we have a good example of the sort of kindness that
kills.

No Assimilation.

The decision of the Young Communist Leagues of
Russia to oppose assimilation will be hailed by Jews
the world over as a step in the right direction. The
Jewish Communists of Russia are beginning to realize
that what the Russian assimilationists mean by assimi-
lation is the Russification of the Jews. That is the es-
sential nature of assimilation everywhere. To the dom-
inant group it always means the absorption of the mi-
norities.
The Jewish Communist leader Tchemeriski, is
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4 shrewd enough to realize that in intensive, group-con-
scious nationalism is the order of the clay in all parts of
Russia just now. He observes that "at a time when
there is an intensive Ukrainianizatiun, White Russian-
ization, a policy of assimilation among the Jews would
resolve itself into a process of Russifi•ation."
The second, more important reason that he gives is
that "assimilation under the present conditions would
. inevitably lead to the vanguard breaking away from
t '3 the masses, who still live in the present and past. Re-
VI, member the Jewish assimilationist intellectuals in Po-
t,: land and the masses. There was no relationship be-
i tween them and the intellectuals had no influence on
• the masses." Since the effectiveness of the Communist
propaganda among the masses depends on close con-

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Those Concessions.

Indications are that the Dead Sea concessions will
be awarded to two engineers, one a Jew named Novo-
meyski and the other a Gentile by the name of Tulloch,
an Englishman.

We can rest assured that the British government
will see to it that there is sufficient capital back of the
concessionaires to assure the efficient exploitation of
the salts. That is a particular in which British states-
menship has never been remiss. But the gist of the
news is the announcement that the Palestine and Trans-
jordania governments will share the profits from the
enterprise. That is good news-in a way. It is com-
forting to learn that the largest natural source of wealth
in Palestine will not fall a prey altogether to private
interests. That the revenue derived from it will in a
measure help to lighten the burden of taxation by be-
ing diverted, in part, to the uses of the government.
Nevertheless, that very fact recalls to our mind
something we have been thinking about. Why wasn't
the project undertaken by a syndicate organized or
controlled by Zionists so that the profits from the sale
of the salts would be made available for colonizing pur-
poses? Whatever special technical knowledge is need-
ed for such work could certainly have been enlisted by
the Zionists. And, if the project is really as vast as it
is said to be, what a fruitful source of revenue it could
have become. We would be interested in learning
whether such a proposition occurred to the Zionist lead-
ers and, if so, whether it was broached to the British
government-and with what results.

Culture and Economics.

It has long been a mooted question whether the eco-
nomic condition of a people has anything to do with
the vitality of their culture. Opinions on this subject
range all the way from the assertion that poverty
breeds culture to the contrary opinion that only a hap-
py people can produce a culture.
Thepresent state of PolishJewry is a good example
of a people reduced to poverty by economic and politi-
cal misfortune. Looking into the cultural state of Pol-
ish Jewry, M. Lodzinski, finds that there has been a con-
siderable decrease in the number of books read during -
the last year or two and a corresponding decrease in
the number circulated. This would seem to indicate
that there is a definite relationship between culture and.
economic well-being, but, as Mr. Lodzinski hastens to
assure us. the decrease has not been at all in proportion
to the decline of the economic status of the people.
Lest we American Jews should get the impression
that Poland is today an intellectual desert, he reminds
us that in 1925 no less than 519 Yiddish and Hebrew
books were published, numbering 1,101,300 copies.
The average circulation of these books, he tells us, was
2,122 copies, which is not at all bad. In 1926 the num-
ber of books published increased by 11 per cent. 592
more books were published than in the previous year
but the average circulation fell to 1,479 or about 30
per cent.
From these figures we can assume that it does not
necessarily follow that the creative activity of a peo-
ple is seriously affected by economic adversity but it is
also clear that the ability of the people to profit by or
enjoy that creative ability is curtailed.
The chief point in Mr. Lodzinski's report, however,
is that Polish Jewry is still very much alive culturally.
We all know that it is Polish Jewry that has sup-
plied a large part of the creative talent of the Jewish
people for the last hundred years. Polish Jewry in
America leads in the number of its eminent actors, ar-
tists, journalists and literary . men. Behind the Polish
Jewry of America lies a long past of artistic and liter-
ary history. That past, we learn, is not without its
present and possibly also its future in present day Po-
land, in spite of the deplorable economic crisis that
faces the Jewry of that unhappy country.

Hadassah Sabbath.

The season of winter activities has opened aus-
piciously for the Detroit chapter of Hadassah. Not
that Hadassah is at all seasonal in its activities. It must
be remembered that last summer when most Zionist
organizations were lying dormant Hadassah alone car-
ried on its work with great vigor and actually succeed-
ed in raising a considerable sum of money to meet the
emergency in Palestine.
But more than ever before, it seems, Hadassah is
active in Detroit. Its valuable work has already won
the recognition of the national organization and its use-
fulness is known to Zionists the world over.
Headed by an efficient and self sacrificing group of
officers, the local chapter has succeeded in meeting all
the obligations it pledged itself to in the past and prom-
ises to do as much in the future.
There is no more energetic organization devoted to
a Jewish cause in our city.
Saturday, Dec. 10, is to be celebrated as Hadassah
Sabbath. What more fitting occasion than this to con-
gratulate the Hadassah, not only of Detroit but of the
United States. on its splendid work in Palestine and to
wish it the brilliant future which it so richly deserves.

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The Merry-Go-Round

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The following letter, touching upon a Ino,, t unfor-

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tunate incident which has resulted in the wIthdrawal of

What Ads You?

a sympathetic Gentile from all further interest m Jewish

If you feel the symptoms of the
poetic frenzy c'ming on, don't be-
come a victim of suppressed de-
sires. Obey that urge. Hop on
the Merry-Go-Round.

affairs and the discontinuation of a project to launch a

yew magazine, I feel deserves full publication in this
column. The Gentile referred to is the literary journal-
ist. Walter Hurt, of Chicago. and the writer of this letter
is Robert Stone, whose article caused the present deplor-
able situation.

Dear Mr. Joseph:-Mr. Joseph Brainin, head
of the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, has just
called my attention to the comments you have
made in Random Thoughts on my article, "It
Doesn't Pay"

I am replying, not because I believe the article
needs an apology, or even an extenuation, but be-
cause I do not with it to appear that there was
anything personal against Mr. Walter Hurt in.
robed in the discussion of his forthcoming maga-
zine. The case of Mr. Hurt, fortunately, brings
up for diecuesion a subject which has too long
been avoided, a subject which you. well known for
your ruthless "debunking" of all insincere and
shallow professions of Jewish faith, should have
dissected long ago.

The time has come to throw into the open the
question of "good-will" between Jew and Gentile.
The "movement" in that direction is rapidly gain-
ing momentum, as witness the numerous lunch-
eons and banquets at which Jews, Protestants and
Catholic+ pat each other on the shoulder. Jews
should be the last in the world to deprecate any
honest effort to ease their burden. But as long
as the "good-will" movement is restricted to oc-
casional four-minute speeches on the fine qualities
of the Jews-(most often delivered in Jewish
temples and synagogues(-it remains only an epi-
cene gesture to stifle the resentment of the Jew
against the discrimination in the economic and
social world of America.

It is hardly indelicate to ask what the Good-
Will Society is achieving concretely. Felix War-
burg, Louis Marshall, Stephen Wise, Sam Harris
and Irving Berlin do not have to meet at luncheon
Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Bishop Manning, Owen D.
Young and Nicholas Murray Butler in order to
convince us that the reciprocal relations of these
two groups are thoroughly amicable. Let the
Good-Will Society forget its interminable ban-
quets and laughable efforts at preaching toler-
ance in Jewish synagogues, and let them take up
concrete tasks, which I, for one, will have no dif-
ficulty in pointing out. Take that beautifully-
done but potentially devastating film, "The King
of Kings.' Fair enough, the Jews are protesting
in a half-hearted manner, and even that is shame-
faced. But why shouldn't the Good-Will Society
enlist the efforts of Dr. Cadman and Bishop Man-
ning and Nicholas Murray Butler to appear in pub-
lic prints denouncing the film as a Scurrilous slan-
der, as fraught with the direst disaster, as im-
pugning Jewish morality of 20 centuries?

The Yiddish-speaking world has an admirable
word with which to describe a certain contempt-
ible type of Jew; it is "manfith Jew." This latter
type is cringing, fawning, the man who publicly
shouts that he is a 105 per cent American, a man
who is insistent in publicly declaring that his Jew-
ish religion does not in any way interfere with his
Americanism-despite the fact that our most emi-
nent Jews are regarded as the most loyal and
noble Americans. Why should Jews be the first
to take to their bosom men and women who have
announced their mission to save the Jews from in-
tolerance? There are thousands of Christian pul-
pits in this country where the message of toler-
ance could very logicaly be preached. It is not
necessary to tell Jews that they have been mis-
treated through centuries, that a modern Ameri-
can aristocrat (Nordic brand) would no more
think of having an average Jew in his homethan
he would of legally marrying a Negro, that eco-
nomic discrimination is practiced in certain
branches of industry and commerce.

Surely, Mr. Walter Hurt will not take the fore-
going as directed against himself particularly. The
article, "It Doesn't Pay," was the quintessence
of a gathering resentment against this mock cam-
paign to save Jews from the anti-Semitic enemy.
I do not want to read Mr. Hurt's Gladiator, and
I will repeat it a million times, despite the fact
that it hurts my Jewish soul very deeply (as, in
fact, when I read Mr. Hurt's letter to you, I feel
like meeting him personally and delivering my
apology to him and telling him that I do not know
him from the man in the moon, but that I wouldn't
mistrust his motives for the world) to think that
Mr. Ilurt has thought of giving up the Gladiator.
But. though it may offend Mr. Hurt, I must say
again that he will do more "to promote the mis-
sion of good-will and peace on earth' if he will
publish the Gladiator, but make it a stipulation
that no Jew may become a subscriber to the maga-
zine. Let the Good-Will Society of America be-
come the magazine's official sponsors, and let
them, through their numerous channels and influ-
ential leaders, secure subscriptions to the Gladi-
ator, which I would then hasten to acclaim as do-
ing a humanitarian work.

As long as the circulation department of the
Gladiator continues to Fend letters asking for
subscriptions largely to Jews, I am afraid I shall
have to continue saying: "It Doesn't Pay."

I am hoping that my communication to you
will re-open the subject of relations between Jews
and Gentiles. Your column must literally have
tens of thousands of readers. Their concensus of
opinion on this matter ought really to constitute
the finest contribution to a study of the relations
between Jew and Gentile in the United States.

In the meantime, I hope Mr. Hurt will publish
the Gladiator for years to come-with the subtitle,
"For Christians only." Sincerely yours,

Robert Stone.

In Hungary, the students have an anti-Semitic ratio
of 16 to 1, somewhat after the fashion of the Ku Klux
Klan in thin country. In other words, it takes 16 anti-
Semitic students to assemble sufficient courage to attack
one Jew. From all the records I have, I have not been
able to discover a single instance when a Hungarian Jew-
baiter alone attacked a Jewish student. Therefore, it is
quite in keeping with the sporting blond of the Hun-
garian student to refuse the challenge to fight duels is-
sued by the Jewish student. That would require entirely
too much courage and no one really has a right to ex-
pect it of cowards. They fight in mobs, which is the way
bullies and hoodlums always fight. There is no good rea-
son why the government shouldn't close down the uni-
versities, since the main occupation of the students seems
to be to whistle to keep up courage to fight the Jews.

I have some readers in Hungary and I do hope that
they will do me the very great favor of having the fore-
going paragraph translated and handed to some of the
students I have in mind, with the comment that it re-
flects in a large measure the sentiment of the people of
the United States, who hate cowards.
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Last March a group of 12 Protestants, Catholics and
Jews met at a dinner in New York and decided to make
a study of the prejudice existing between Protestants and
Catholics and Protestants and Jews. Recently, the town
of Fairfield, Conn., was chosen to make the experiment
of trying to discover through a questionnaire what was
the foundation of the prejudice against the Catholics and
the result demonstrated that much of it was the result
of a misunderstanding of Catholic doctrines. Now the
same group is planning tests for Protestant and Jews.
If they can arrive at the reason for anti-Jewish feeling
they will have done more than any one since the days
of Haman.

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Now that the Hungarian government has declined to
give guarantees for the protection of Jewish students in
the l'niveraity of Budapest, which Jewish banking firm
here or abroad will enjoy the dishonor of loaning money
to help such a contemptible and uncivilized
country?

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If you have a grudge against the
world, don't take it out on your
wife. Tell the world about it.

If you know anything about
which you think ;he truth must be
told, don't tell it to your friends
and get in bad. Tell it to the
Merry-0n-Round where everybody
can read it-and then see what
real trouble is.
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The People of the Booklet.
One often hears the contention
that "there must be something in
these modern cults. Look at the
cultured people they attract." The
argument contains an interesting
falacy. The people who fall for
the hokum of the cultist are not
cultured. They are only seeking
culture-which is quite another
matter. And, like people who
mistake stiff formality for refine-
ment of manners, the cult fiend
mistakes mystery for knowledge.

Tell it not in Gath, but it is a
fact that our own American Jew-
ry is today a very lucrative field
for cultists' propaganda. Let any
long-haired sage with an Oxford
accent print a little booklet filled
with vague and mysterious apple-
sauce about the Power of Mind
and he can usually find a goodly
number of our people among his
best customers.
%Ye used to be the People of the
Book. But more and more we are
becoming the People of the Book-
let.
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It is not necessary to fall back
on the old stupidities; there are
plenty of new ones.
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The Golden Age of War.

Who has not heard the lament
that war land, for that matter,
everything else) is not what it
used to be. We are told that mod-
ern war is inhuman and machine-

like. And this is always follow,.
by a glowing account of %tartar,
in the good old days before the
vention of gunpo•er. These I.-
mancers plunder the thesaurus f...
fetching words to describe t'n ,
subtle sword-play of hand-to-han
encounter in the Golden Age
War. It was all very gallant
the days of iron shirts and open_
work plumbing. No one ha'
more to spread the notion that a'
cant warfare was brave and
than Plutarch, yet it was he o
let the cat out of the bag.

In his life of Theseus he tell.
that ". . . the Abantes la Gr,-.
nation) that they might not
g
advantage to their enemies
their hair, took care to cut it
And we are informed that Alex. -
der of Macedon, having made t:,.
same observation, ordered b..
Macedonian troops to cut off the•i-
beards, these being a ready hand.
in battle."

What a glorious scene it ma
have been when two Greek her...
got mixed up in a gallant bear
pulling match on the field of Cli-,
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And it is also an item of ilr.•.!
humor that the great horses ..•
Normandy who bore the prda
knights of England and Franc e
the Age of Chivalry are now
just as great demand in Europe
for drawing the brewery way
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Miseries of Human Life.

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Cigars that burn down the s:

Overtrained little girls of 5 is
do the Frisco for company.

Sentimental motion pictuti-.
dedicated to tolerance, in w
the Jew demonstrates his "g.e.:
will" by eating a hats sandwi e i,
and the Irishman smacks his lip-
over a plate of noodle soup.

More sentimental motion pid•
tures in which the Jew "maks--
good" with his gentile neighbor
by donating a drum to the Salva-
tion Army or betting his limit er:
the home team.

Lettuce sandwiches.

ASK THE RABBI

A Sheaf of Sheilas

By RABBI LEON FRAM,
Director of Religiou. E duration, Temple Beth El.

1. Who is Perez Ilirshbein7
2. What play of Hirshbein's has
been played on the English Stagy?
3. Who is Sholom Ash?
4. Which of Ash's novels have
been translated into English?
5. What play of Ash's was pro-
duced on the English stage?
6. Whotook the leading role in
the "God of Vengeance"?
7. Can
Rudolph
Schildkraut
speak English?
a. truer what literary influence
does Shalom Ash write?
9. Who is David Pinski?
10. Which of Pinaki's plays have
leen p rer on the English stage?
11. Which of Pinski's one-act
plays are popular in American lit-
tle theaters?
12. Who is the translator of Pin-
ski's plays?

u

13. The works of what , ther
great writer has been Isaac Gold-
berg translated?

11. What short stories of Pinski
have been translated into English!
15. What great Jewish sculptor
is being claimed by both Italy and
Poland?
16. What famous Yiddish poet
lives in Detroit?
17. In what recent anthology
hate some of L. Miller's poems
been translated?
Is. What is the American Jew-
ish Committee?
19. Who is the president of the
American Jewish Committee?
20. What Detroiters are mem-
bers of the American Jewish Com.
mittce?

: Sir

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Beisan. Excavations Illuminate Bible

Discoveries In Two Temples of 1500 B. C. Throw Light
On Old Testament Passages.

Excavations at Beisan, Palestine,
by the University of I'ennsylvania
NIuseum's expedition have resulted
in discoveries that will give a new
understanding of the ancient relig-
ions. particularly in their sacrificial
aspects, according to the report of
Alan Rowe, the expedition leader.

Two temples belonging to the
reign of Thothrnes Ill of about 150
It. C. hate been found and one has
been uncovered sufficiently to re-
veal altars, scarabs and jewelry of
gold and stone, military standards,
sacrificial daggers and even the
bones of a three-year-old-bull that
had been slain as a sacred offer-
ing.
The scarab of Thothmes, adorned
with the figure of a bull and hear-
ing the king's name, was found on
the floor of a room adjoining one
of the temples.
Deseribing the plan of the exca-
vated temple as embracing a large
court yard, behind which is an in-
ner sanctuary containing two al-
tars, with corridors leading to ad-
joining rooms and to a small stable
for the sacrificial animal, Mr. Row
continues:

"On one wall of the inner sanct-
uary, which is of good size, being
40 feet long, is a shallow stone bas-
in which may have held the blood
offerings for the deity. The brick
altar is approached by a flight of
steps and was probably used as a
table for the sacred objects that
were found lying around it. Chief
among these is a libation cup on a
pedestal base, decorated handsome.
ly in dark purple-red designs on
red background.

Other cult objects include a fig-
urine of the goddess Ashtoreth, her
figure inclined slightly to the right
in a pose giving considerable sug-
gestion of animation; an ivory cos-
metic pot, beads, amulets, a gold
pin, a scarab, pottery lamps, pots
and jars, all of which were prob-
ably once offerings to this very po-
tent goddess.

"A second stone altar in the sanc-
tuary probably held the cooked
meat offerings that were offered to
the Deity.
In another room is the brick al-
tar of sacrifice, about 12 inches
high, on the top of which is a deep
groove in which the blood of the
sacrificed animal was carried away
to an outlet where it was caught
by some kind of receptacle, doubt-
less a pottery vessel.
"Nearby were found the horns

and collarbone of a bull which had
been sarrificed, together with It sac-
rificial dagger of bronze. The ben,
prove the sacrificed bull to hare
been about three years old, remit -l-
ing us of the bull offered by 11:0.-
nah in the 'House of the Lord' in
Shiloh, as described in the twenty-
fourth and twenty-fifth verses in
Chaper one of the First Book of
Samuel.

"A fragment of plaster found in
the room of sacrifice shows traces
of blue paint and suggests that the
walls of this room may have been
painted bright blue as was one
room in one of the later temples.
In one wall was a cupboard, once
closed by a wooden door, where
were found a fine faience cylinder
seal and a unique bowl decorated in
red and black, which may have
been among the treasured temple
possessions.

"In a southern corridor of the
temple were unearthed over 100 ci-
gar-shaped objects of mud, about
three and one-half inches in length,
which were evidently votive objects
and doubtless represent small rolls
of bread or cakes.

"Finding of these objects recalls
verses 17 and 10 of Chapter 7 of
the Book of Jeremiah, in which it
is said: 'Brest thou not what they
do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem? The children
gather wood, and the fathers kindle
the fire, and the women knead thy
dough to make cakes to the Queer,
of Heaven and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods.. .

"Two round balls of clay found
in another place this season bore
seal impressions containing the
Egyptian word 'imenyt,' daily of-
tering, which indicates that the
clay cake was a votive offering for
providing a daily supply of bread
for the Deity.
"The usage has a suggestive an-
alogy to the practice of preparing
show bread at the sanctuary of
Nob, referred to in the First Book
of Samuel, Chapt•r2I, sixth verse,
which custom in Israel Wan not so
long after our Canaanite-Egyptian
usage at Beisan. The daily prep-
aration of bread in this instance
may well throw considerable light
on the periodicity of renewing the
bread as referred to in the First
Rook of Samuel, where the fre-
quency of renewal is left entirely
undetermined.

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