PIEDEFROIVEIVISR (11RONICI,£ PAGE FOUR spirit of the Bible. No great "Eng-Ithe activities of the Jewish bank- able as mere personal whims. This Bob writer can he understood with- ens who were the sole financiers of work, however, "The Legacy of Is- out the background of the Jewish 'mediaeval tines. Ile traces the rael," though Jewish as well as classic's. Shakespeare and Shaw,' modern commercial corporation non-Jewish scholars have collabor- Milton and the Brownings, Carlyle f back to the charters which mediae- ated in it, represents a permanent and Dryden, Tennyson and Kip- val kings gave to Jewish banking universal judgment. It bears the "The Legacy of Israel." ling, Eliot and Wells—they are all and trailing concerns. Ile traces Mrs. A. Srerc Is Chairman stamp of an institution which rep- Aged Charity Worker Hon- children of the Bible. The story of some of our laws with regard to A Review of the Recent Oxford University Publication. resents the bruins of the British ored by Old Folks of Committee Planning the Legacy of Israel comes fitly tenants hack to the regulations of empire, a university which is one Home. from Oxford University, for no the mediaeval ghetto, the most con- By RABBI LEON FRAM. Annual Event of the world's capitals of learning. more good out of gested spot of mediaeval days. lie people has got It is no exaggeration to say that tells how in a case Involving the The Old Folks Home, 318 Ed- Israel than the people of the Brit- The dance given annually by the book constitutes the tribute of In IVA with a volume called every field of human endeavor, ish Isles. It is a fact that a study rights of tenants which came re- "The Legacy of Greece," the press from the faculties of other schools the seedier and junior chapters of the whole world to the genius of mund street, was the scene last of the Bible is an absolutely neces- cently before the Supreme Court of Oxford University, England, be- as well as from its own, tee estimate Detroit Hadassah is invariably one the Jewish people. Even if it were week of a unique banquet in honor sary introduction he English and of the United States, one of the true that we Jews have no future of Mrs. Kate Levitt. gan the publication of a series of the value of the bequests which American literature. Parents who precedents cited and accepted was as a people, even if we the Jews of works on the debts which our mod- have been willed to us by the vari- indulge their children in irregular- the answer which a mediaeval rub- today represented the aged rem- ern civilization owes to the civili- ious peoples of antiquity. The vol- ity at religious school might take bi gave to a "Shaalah" in a similar nants of a people about to die, it zations of the dead past. Every ume on the legacy of Greece was that fact to heart. They are let- situation in the ghetto. were still a beautiful thing that we educated person knows that the followed in 1923, by the second ting their children miss nut only number in the series on "The Leg- He tells moreover that when in should receive these lovely flowers art, literature, law, religion, philos- that essential in life—religious the state of Michigan objection was from Oxford town while our ophy, and even the science w hich acy of Rome. faith—but also that fine luxury of made to the quarantine law, which The publication of such works is breathing nostrils are still capable we enjoy today are not altogether life—an appreciation of literature. value's the placing of a placard on of enjoying their fragrance, while of our own making. Although we nut only an important scientific Third. the Bible not only stimu- any house one of whose residents our hearts are still able to respond are a very original and inventive project, it is also an art of rever- lated literary ideas. it actually cre- is afflicted with a contagious dis- with a thrill of joy. The Legacy of 1 age, a large portion of the good ence for the glorious departed. The ated languages. Its influence, as ease, and the case came before the sentiment of reverence for the dead Greece and of Rome are flowers to things we have, comes to us solely Meillet of the College of France Supreme ('our` of the State, the the dead. "The Legacy if Israel" by inheritance. Consider this sim- is expressed in the very titles of testifies, is felt in all the language precedent which carried the day in the beaks: "The. Legacy of Greece." is tlawers to the living. I pie illustration, if illustration is at "The Legacy of Rome." A legacy of Europe, but two owe their very favor of the law was the xerse from all necessary. The beautiful struc- What are these gifts for which existence to it—German and Eng- the Book of Leviticus (Lev. XII is, of course, a gift left to the liv- ture of Temple Beth El was built the civilized world through this vol- ing by someone who has died. lish. There were a hundred differ- ) A nil the leper, who has the by an architect who had at his com- Unle expresses its gratitude to Is- The term therefore fits very apt- nit dialects sp 'ken in Germany un- plague, shall cry aloud, 'Unclean! wand mechanical tools and sources reel? ly the case of Greece and Rome. til Luther translated the Bible in- Unclean!' " The. humanitarian of power which were not dreamt of Some of them are familiar. You NO one believes that the people to one of them and the language of legislation of Europe and America 2,000 years ago. yet he modeled this hear them frequently from Jew- who live in Greece today can be that translation became the pres- is allied, Professor Isaacs main- building after one that stood in At- ish pulpits, but it is good neverthe- ?tit day German tongue. So there tains, neither to Roman law nor to hens, Greece, 2,000 years ago. identified with the Greece that less tie see them authoritatively ac- taught us sculpture and architec- were a hundred Anglo-Saxon jar- the Law of Maws. This is true Greek civilization is dead but our knowledged so that they become eons spoken in England until the particularly of the Sabbath Law. architect inherited its ideas of ture and drama and philosophy. matters of human record rather King James translation of the Bi- The Jewish Sabbath is the original That Greece—Classic Hellas—is architectural beauty. It is one of than partisan boasting. Others ble was made. Everybody in Eng- source of all legislation to protect the most fascinating projects in dead, and we are all its living come to you as a surprise. They land read that Bible and prayed the workingman and to lift him heirs, enjoying its legacy. Nor the world to make an inventory 14 are all in the realm of ideas, for from it. Its English naturally be- from the plane of commodities the ideas and institutions by which are the people that are living in ancient Israel neither built nor MRS. KATE LEVITT came the language of all England, into the sphere of personality. MRS. A. SRERE we live, and see, which are of our Rome today in any sense continu- painted nor carved nor conquered. and to this day the language of the When the serfs of Europe had noth- ous with the Rome of the empire- own making, and which have been Mrs. Levitt, who is 82 years of They are chiefly in the field of re- bequeathed to us by the nations builders, Caesar and Augustus. I of the most brilliant social events ligion, but they extend into other age, has devoted a half century or Bible is the "King's English." ing else of freedom they had at in Detroit. Sunday evening, Feb. COMPLETE remember the little guide who not only for writing but also for least this gift ief the Je•—one day whom we have stueirseded. more to social service, notably in action. AtItRati011 Professor M'. B. Settee, of rest in seven. And the posses- showed me thruogh the Forum in 10, has been chosen as the elate for fields, since the religion of Israel SERVICE r It was to satisfy such a genuine- Rome. Ile spoke both French and this year's affair, which will take expressed itself rich in literature, behalf of the hcc.vish Old Folks principal of Mansfield College, Ox- sion of this right paved the way in a comprehensive code of law, in Home. Through her personal solici- ford, tells us what a dangero• ly human inte-est that Oxford Un- Italian so fluently that I could not place at Hotel Startler. for further progress—the •ight- tation the needs of the home have iversity undert wit this series of in- help asking : "Are you a French- Mrs. Abraham Srere is senior social ideals passionately betel, and book it is. It provoked the Crom- hour day, child labor regulation vestigations, and it has employed man or an Italian?" The little chairman and Mrs. II. A. Singer in an original view of nature per- been provided for many years. well rebellion ni England, and and similar legislation. e. the most distinguished scholars in fellow inflated himself like the junior chairman, assisted by a sistently adhered to. Thus it is Many thousands of dollars ha fed the Revolution in America. Finally—and this is the upshot found that not only the religions, been made available for the use of Its defiant prophets were evain- frog in the fable, stood on his large ball committee which is but law, government, commerce, in- this worthy institution as a result plers of free speech. The demo- of the whole volume—the world is toes to ?mike himself as tall as bending every effort to make Iln• of Mrs. Levites personal efforts. :floc, indebted to the Jew for two ideas dustry, language, literature, philoe:- cratic spirit of the Law of possible and said: "I? I am .1 dassah's 1920 dance an outstand- In recognition of these services and of the Judges who refused which dominate the thinkin;: of the ophy and natural science are pro- ing success. Roman.' !he board of directors of the Jew- d mo ie The first iea is th man. crowns, and of Samuel, who Many of Detroit's 'most promi- foundly affected by the teachings I recognized at once—the Fascist that came out of Zion. ish Old Folks Home held a banquet mankin d, deriv ed warned the people against the men _ t e the r unit y of pose. No, he was nut a Roman, he nent Jewish citizens will act as n, The debt that Christianity owes and presented Mrs. Levitt with a archival form of government—these h was an latlian--I don't know why patrons. belief s to Judaism is carefully defined ley gold medal by way of expressing taught the people of England and from that grand .lewish T passio he should have been ashamed of the gratitude of the board for her at first a daring venture Dr. F. C. Ilurkitt, Professor of Di- America to fight until they hail which Was that. Modern Italy possesses a el, has now I i ero p n i hots one o f vinity at Cambridge University, splendid work for charity. In the wrested power fro m the kings and t of h glory of its own. All that is left tub. I recalled the strange sensa- and by Dr. Edwyn It. Bevan, lec- nddnsses that were made on this by the science of bi- o nlaced it in the hands of the people. born conf of ancient Rome are the ruins of tion I felt as I, a living .lew, gazed turer on Hellenistic History and occasion Mrs. Levitt was awarded The Jewish Bible gave to Englandology, which shows all the races of the Forum and the legacy of lan- upon that monument erected to Literature at King's College, Lon- he had a common ances- her due coal of praise for a life the gift of democracy. HMI to hale and guage, literature, administration, commemorate my destruction. I tor. It the chief aspiration of all don. Their essays are very learn- devoted to errands of mercy. It A story which had lung been ru- and engineering described in the it passible, I speculated, that Ox ed and exact, but the conclusion is was told how she has aided many human beings today—the abolith 11 mored about in scholarly circles, noble Oxford volume. The Roman for University has taken seriously simple. Christianity owes to Jo- needy families and how she has al- of war—is to he realized, it will be namely, that the Jews were largely the latest anthropological fad that people is dead. laism, Jesus and the Bible. The ways is promptly to any responsitile for the Renaissance of because men will finally absorb this Having been acquainted with the Jews of modern Europe are situation is reJurrently illustrated and all appeals for every worthy idea which the Jew has so long of- Culture in Europe which took place these two works of reverence for descended not from the ancient every December. Almost simul- fered them and which they have so in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- vanished Greece and fallen Rome, people of Judea, but from that taneously, Jews celebrate Chanu- It was also pointed out by the stubbornly resisted—the faith that turies is told at length for the first I was considerably disconcerted Turkish horde the ebonies who kah and Christians Christmas. If speakers that in spite of her age the human race can live like one time in this book. The classics of when, early this year, I received no- adopted Judaism in the eighth cen- we recall what happened on Chan- Mrs. Levitt is still an active as ever family. tice of the newest volume in the tury? Is it possible, I wondered, ukah, we can say defintely: If not in the service of the Jewish Old Greek literature had been lost to by Europe—destroyed by Rome and The second idea is that of the un- series of legacies, namely, "The that Oxford University should ig- for Chanukah, there would be no Folks Home, having collected and the Church. But they had been pre- ity of nature, also a corollary of Legacy of Israel." I was glad to nore the existence of a living Jew- Christmas. Chanukah recalls the turned over to the home the sum of in the the belief in one God. The world learn of a forthcoming volume that ish 'wank continuous with the Is- desperate struggle that the Jewish $700 only a few days ago. The to- served in Arabic translations countries of Islam. It was the .Tew- resisted this idea of the prophets, would estimate Israel's share in rael tbat lived in the days of Ti- people made for its life shout two tal amount of the money Mrs. Lev- ish scholars of Arab lands that as it resisted the idea of human the making of our civilization, but tus? hundred years before the birth of itt has collected fur the home is brought Aristotle and Plato hack unity. Ancient men found it eas- When the bode verved at my it was the title that dismayed me. Jesus. If the Maccabees had failed said to exceed the amount collected to Europe and stuted the Revival ier to believe in many gods and desk, I eras cons:terahly relieved. It seemed that in the eyes of Ox- in that battle, there would have for a similar purpose by anybody of Learning and the Renaissance many conflicting natures. Modern ford University, Israel was dead as In the very refit ,e it was evident been no Jewish people and there- In the city. Emanuel Synagogue, located at Taylor and Woodrow Wilson, of Culture which ended the Dark science which could not exist with- the Greeks and the Romans. Again that the editors to ?twelves had not fore no ,Ioseph nor Mary nor Rsus. Mrs. Levitt lives with her chil- is situated in the very heart of the Jewish district. To stimu. ' Ares and brought on the modern out the principle of unity owes this my mind flew back to the Roman been a little worn al about the ap- If the Maccabees had not succeeded dren at 1150 Burlingame. late greater Jewish activity by enrolling Jews for Jewish ef- to the Jew. The Greek philosoph- enlightenment. Fortin, and I recalled the Arch of plicability of the title. They ac- fort, we offer you this opportunity to join Emanuel at this in protecting the Books of Jewish The Jew acted here merely as a ers, indeed, wrote of the unity Titus which stand!) at the further knowledge that the ?eople that pro- Law from the armies of Antiochus special low rate. material in the Books of Moses and middleman — an administrator of nature, The idea seas never alto- end of it—a great arch erected by duced the Bible is ailt a living or- • who were under orders to burn the the Minor Prophets. the legacy of Greece, but it was a gether foreign to men. Primitive the Roman senate to commemorate ganism, its members still very ac- A. M. ASIIINSKY, Rabbi. Meyer Beckman, President last one of them, there would have Second, the Bible is not only in memorable service. Oxford pro- savages, Paul Roden tells +is, some- the annihilation of the Jewish peo- tive in every field of 'lumen activ- been no Bible. Chanukah is the itself a beautiful creation, it has claims Israel not only as a Creator, times thought of it. An Egyptian ple by the legions of Emperor Ti- ity. But, they maintain, when they mother of Christmas. inspired the creation of other mag- but also as a Carrier of Culture. monarch, Professor Breasted tells set out to estimate the contribution One of the leading European au- nificent literature. The now fa- us, once wrote poems about it. But which the Jew has mime as a peo- Perhaps the chief novelty of the thorities on :Mohammedanism, Pro- runner judgment Of Matthew Ar- it seas through the Jewish Bible ple, they could speak definitely fessor Alfred Guillaume, recounts nold is here recalled that half of volume is the article' on Israel's and through the passionate persis- only of the contribution made by the Jewish origins from which Mo- to Law. written by Dr. the world's literature is grounded contribution tence of the Jew that the idea was the Israel that was contemporary Nathan Isaacs. Professor of Busi- hammedanism arose. Mohammed upon the Ilebrew Bible, and the finally absorbed into the mind of with Greece and Rome and the Mid- traced his religion of Islam back other half is inspired by Greece. ness Law at Harvard University. Europe, and natural science with dle Ages. They know their limits to Abraham and his son, Ishmael, Of English literature it may safe- I should advise every lawyer to all the good things that it has giv- as scholars. They are well ac- the legendary ancestor of the Arab read it. Dr. Isaacs traces our mod- ly be said that it is permeated en us, followed as a consequence. quainted with the past and ran race. Professor Guillaume takes through and through with the ern instruments of credit hark to judge it. Modern times are simply issue with the scholars who say not within the compass of their that it was not from Judaism but studies. from Christianity that 'Mohammed I one reminded of a little inci- drew his ideas. Ile merely asks dent that occurred at the meteing them the pointed question: What power plant are multiplied still further For numberless puzzled motorists Dodge of the American Oriental Society in is the difference? The origin is ul- by perfect distribution and economy of the Hebrew Union College last Brothers new Victory Six will simplify timately Jewish anyway. spring. In the evening after din- weight. the problem of selection, for nowhere The Bible, or the Library of the ner, various world-famous scholars Jew, accomplished more besides the in the world is there a car like it. Greater were seated in the lounge of the Power in relation to load is materially establishment of three great relig- expenditure will not duplicate it. college dormitory, and groups of increased—pick-up quickened—fa r great- ions. It has also other than relig- students were trying to identify ious values. The first of these is er flexibility achieved. To possess this car's unique advantages them one after the other and strike the sheer leeauty of its pages. Our you must possess this car, up conversation with them. Some- volume has a chapter on the Bible miles per 25 valid miles per gallon at 21 one pointed out an Englishman who as pure literature. Any collection was renowned as a specialist in hour is made possible FOR A SIX! of the world's great short stories, Chinese history. Immediately the Incredible smoothness at high speed is even if it wan edited by atheists, boys gathered about him: "Profess- another great gift of this new design! would inevitably include the stories or, tell as something about the of the Patriarchs which Goethe re- present situation in China." In The Victory, for the first time in his- garded as unsurpassable, and es- Elimination of hack-wheel "chatter" "Oh—ah—the present situation tory, the body sill is eliminated. Body pecially the story of Joseph, which when the 4-wheel Lockheed Hydraulic in China," the British scholar be- Tolstoi designated as the model and chassis are built as a single integral brakes are quickly applied is still an- gan querulously, half-resentful that short story, and the stories of Ruth unit. such a question should he asked him other! and Esther and David and Solomon. at all. "I am sorry, but the per- No selection of the world's great Thus, the wide, deep chassis frame of iod of Chinese history that I am And thanks to The Victory's low center poetry, even though made by an Ths Victory, now flush with the lines of studying does not go beyond the agnostic, would omit the Song of of gravity and wide chassis frame, sway- fourth century B. C." the body, avoids the customary overhang Songs, the Psalms. the Drama of ing. skidding, tipping—each a factor of Hence the term "legacy," as the of a wide body upon a narrow frame; Job and the Prophets. No picture weight and its proper and improper Oxford scholars justify it. These of life in antiquity could be at- and the chassis itself, rather than the students of the past maintain that placement—are reduced to a new and tempted without the rich source- body, supports all weight—body, floor, they are in no position to say negligible minimum. whether the Jews who are doing seats and passengers. epoch-making work in modern times—Einstein, Ehrlich, Bergson, added to the express in all covered jobs, while "D" Ingenious design of the bodies top may be and "E" respectively arc the screen Brandeis, Wasserman, Epstein— body and a standard Graham for Graham Brothers trucks pro- and panel sides added to the can- have expresesd in their work a The results of this construction are Prothers canopy truck is the re- vides the owner with exceptional opy type to produce these differ- Yet Dodge Brothers have taken a further specifically Jewish genius or rath- sult. The express body is also astonishing. advantages and economics. The ent models. er the general spirit of Western revolutionary step to insure the safest the basis for building up the screen The Detroit Land Contract Com- Not only is the economy of this Europe or of their native coun- standard line, including express, motor transportation it is possible tee 330 body parts are eliminated. and panel types as shown in the design important to the owner tries—Germany, France, Denmark pany, at the annual stockholders' canopy, screen, panel and carryall create. illustrations. In the large view who may wish tee change the type and Russia. Nor are they in a po- meeting, appointed James E. At- types, is built so that body types 175 pounds of superfluous weight are sition to judge whether the Jewish e,f body on his truck after it has can be changed simply by adding of the panel truck the part marked cast off. For the first time in automobile history, people as it is reinstituted today been in use, but the first cost is or removing various standard "A:" is identical with the parts they have applied the so-called battle- promises in the future to be as "A" in the smaller views of the reduced to a minimum because of The all-important CENTER OF GRAV- units. Tl•us, if for any reason, the fertile in creative ideas as it was mass production in manufacture ship construction to closed car design. different types. "C", representing owner of a Gra'eam Brothers ex- ITY is materially lowered. under the special conditions of the the calm, is similar in all types. of the few units going into the press truck wishes to convert it distant past. Conscientiously and make-up of several models. In other words, the body has a double "II" represents the standard top Without the slightest sacrifice of head- into a canopy, the standard canopy graciously t' 4 Y invited the eminent steel shell, locked together, with an air room or road-clearance, the over-all Jewish scholar, Claude Montefiore, space intervening— author of "The Outlines of Liberal height of the car is also is actually TWO Judaism" to cleile the book with an lowered—one of the essay on the possibilities of the bodies, one within the secrets of The Victory's Jewish futture. All the other vol-' other—yet lighter by umes in the series have a prologue , great beauty. 175 po unds — and but no epilogue. This is the only one of the legacy volumes that con- the safest body The ansiting resources tains an epilogue—a word about known. 1-DOOR SEDAN, P. O. B. DETROIT of the car's brilliant the future. In this way the Oxford scholars have offered concrete • enough acknowledgement of Israel i as a living Marty. Mr. Montefinre I Tune in on WII7 for Dodge Brothers Radio Program rtery Thursday night, Rto 8.30 points to Palestine as • possible National Broadcasting Company Netu ark. source of future Jewish creative- I ness, (though he is not a Zionist) and insists that in the field of pure religion the Jewish people, as a re- ligious community s c a t t e re d JEFFERSON at (SCENE throughout the world, has yet much 8.18...00d 4460 to teach. JOHN R a ENDICOTT WOODWARD a MARTIN PLACE It is • book of extraordinary val- Noah.... 5406 (.1enclal. 7117 ue—this "Legacy of Israel." Not JAMES E. ATKINSON A CHANGE IN ITS CORPORATE NAME TO Lena: 4400 that it is the first in its field. Jos- 14615 E. 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Jefferson_ The company, one of the olde.t tforwoodward Motor Co., 9115 Woodward Emp. 6940 Whit. 1172 But it was the work of a Jew writ- of its kind in Detroit. has assets in Grano` Motor Co., 8216 Gratiot , ing about Jews, and for that rea- excess of 83,000,000. The officers EFFECTIVE JANUARY 10, 1923 son exposed is disparagement by and directors are L. W. Good- president; James H. x , sceptics. ter' y Beaulliau, a enough, Frenchman, wrote a similar work Flinn, vice-president and trees- entitled "Israel Among the Na- urer; James F.. Atkinson, vice- ! lions" and Professor Baldwin, an president; F.. A. 1..oveley, vice- , kmerican, prnfe,for of literature president; G. 11. Van Buren, viee- at toe University of Illinois, wrote president; Jean M. Battelle, secre- , on "The Modern Debt to Israel." tary and assistant treasurer. and Rut these are the works of sporadic Oren S. II••es, Guy S. 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