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August 9, 1929
The Damascus affair of list() was
a bloody stain on the Christians in the (M-
en', and on the honor of France whore gov-
ernment was throughout the affair hostile
to the Jews and refused to aid in wiping
out the disgrace caused by Christian big-
otry. The repetition of the libel last. week
certainly has not added glory to Christian-
ity in Damascus.
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Ab 3, 5689
The Loss of Two Great Jews.
From the capitals of the two leading
•nglish•speaking countries in the world
Comes the news of the panning of two noble
Jews. The passing in London, England, of
Bernhard Baron, the great philanthropist,
and in Washington, D. C., of Emile Ber-
liner, the noted inventor, are great losses
not only for the. Jewish people but for the
world at large.
A single abstract from the will of Bern-
hard Baron is sufficient monument U, this
truly great philanthropist. Out of an es-
tate of $25,000,000 about $3,000,000 will
go to charitable Jewish and non-Jewish
causes. Translated in simple terms this
means that the man Baron, who gave
Maaeer, or a tenth of his earnings, in his
lifetime to worthy movements, givers
double Maaner in willing his estate after
death, Those who followed Mr. Baron's
activities will surely mourn his Ions. His
noble gift last year for a settlement house
in the poor Jewish district of London, his
contributions for Palestine's reconstruc-
tion, his liberal gifts to non-Jewish inntitu-
lions and causes,—these spelled true phil-
anthropy, not easily replaceable with Mr.
Baron gone from this world. He was to
have been raised to the Peerage, but no
earthly honors would have been sufficient,
or comparable to the honors that are al-
ready his for the good he has done in his
lifetime with his wealth.
Emile Berliner's death is a great Ions to
thin country. This man, who started his
career as an American by selling glue, as
a painter of backgrounds on photographs
and as clerk in a District of Columbia store,
later invented the disc phonograph record
and was first to use an induction coil in
connection with telephone transmitters,
thus helping usher in the radio age. He de-
voted himself in the last quarter century
to Jewish educational efforts and to Zion-
ism, and translated his devotion to the Pal-
estine cause by giving large sums to the
Hebrew University and the Keren !Jaye-
sod. His desire to nee the Jew return .to
the soil caused him especially to favor the
cause represented by the National Farm
School in Pennsylvania. His death is a lows
which will be felt by the. Jewish people in
particular and all Americans in general,
Jer....alern is a ,:orr.po4ritied Hebrew
word meaning "the city of peace." Since
the Balfour Declaration, Jews as well as
non-Jews hare revived the hope that a re-
built Jewish Homeland in Palestine will
also serve as the world's capital in a move-
ment for the establishment of peace on
earth and for placing an end to all wars.
Nahum Sokolov.- has again and again ex-
premier! the sentiment that •erusalem may
become the headquarters of the League of
Nations for the creation of amity among
all peopie••
Dr. H. Pereira Mender, Rabbi Emeri-
tus of the Spanish-Portuguese Congregation
of New York. in a communication to
the New York Times from Biarritz, France,
declares that "Palestine can be made to
mean peace for the world if its being con-
stitutor a homeland for the Jews !than be
for altruistic ends, namely, to be a source of
blessing to all nations." In order that the
world's happiness may be spelled in terms
of "peace for the world," Dr. Mendes sug-
gests that a world tribunal for peace be
established on Bible lines, and he outlines
his Bible plan as follows:
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The Life of Itose•," perhaps the
free: work with a Jewish top:-
pubes.-fled :ant year the great Jew-
:eh author found a fire translator,
and D. L. Orna's Enzii•h helped to
give the Eeglieh reader a work as
fine -in tranelatien as it is ir,
French.
In a •irnele mar.ner M. new in-
tredutes LA in this prose-perm te,
5-year-old Claude Levy, and leads
LA up to hie fifteenth year I' in-
troduce u, to hi, {emblems as a
Jew who knows not his people.
And the mariner in which we are
led to experience ice trade of the
French youngster introduce us to
'he problems of a host of others
horn Jews but who know nothing
of their reople; while the author's
method of rnak.rer the youngster
find himself makes' of this poem a
great idyll.
Claude Levy was five, "perhaps
four," when, on a walk with his
nurse, Elise, is examined by a
Iran, wh o
stout, jolly-looking
earl:
(al The Supreme Csun of Arbitration mast
b. en Zion's Hill. For there holy asesociatiene
will +way. Geneva and The Hague are r•ceg-
nizedly only makeeleft plates, chosen to avoid
international jealeueies. Neither en• has any
holy aneeciatiens to lift the nation into
mood.
gre a t
holy
it,) This supreme court must inelude three
tlemente-the religious, the jud.cial and the
eovernmental-and stipulates far the highest
authorities in each.
The Geneva and The
Hague tribunals 'arcs% the judicial.
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Shall
let The finding or verdict of the curt
be final and must be loyally obeyed, under pen-
alty of death for the ',Render.
OD In the can, of a natien crossing its fron-
tier for war in (1 . fiance of the court, the of-
fenders are the king ST preeirlent, plus the
premier arid the cabinet ',hirers.
Nations meet and solemnly sign a pledge for
this or that purpose. 1.41 them meet and sign
a pledge that they will unite to arrest, by force
if necresary, the president or king, the premier
and cabinet, disloyal to the supreme court of
the nations.
Then let thole responsible for the war he
rent to death, and not innocent soldiers sent to
slay other innocent soldiers and to create wit
wm and orphan,' wholesale.
"Execute the executive" is the bent solution
of war!
Better execute, the king or president and his
15 er 20 cabinet ministers than consign 15 or
20 million innocent men to death or maiming,
make countless widows weep and countless or-
phans sigh!
Kings and president', premiere and cabinet
ministers, will think twice before they imperil
their own necks! And they will know that
they cannot resist the combined forces of the
world!
Even in our post-war days, when there is
talk of the reduction in the size of navies
and armies of the world's powers, it takes a
great deal of courage to express the senti-
ment just quoted. Such pacifist ideas smack
of the prophetic. They do not even say,
"peace at any price." What they call for
is peace through justice, through arbitra-
tion, creating a world movement which
would compel the observance of a great
international law for peace.
Of course, Dr. Mendes' views are Utop-
ian. To place a plan like his into practice
Damascus Adds a Page to Bigotry.
it would not be enough that we secure for
Intolerance and bigotry seems deter- it the consent of the rulers of the nations.
mined never to learn a lesson from history. We would first have to educate the peoples
At Damascus, where eighty-nine yearn ago of the world to compel their rulers to live
one of the most outrageous of blood-lies up to such golden rules for the elimination
was perpetrated against the Jewish people, of war.
But it is perhaps fortunate that we at
an attempt was made last week to pin sim-
ilar guilt on a poor Jewish dyer. Fortu- least have the dreamers who have visions
nately, the charge against Shalom Chattah of the coming of the day when "nation shall
was disproves when the case was brought not make war upon nation." Such dream-
to court. But the excitement that was ern keep unbroken the chain of prophets
caused by an enraged mob in the Christian for whom the establishment of peace on
quarter in Darnancis, the fear that was oc- earth is the supreme ideal in life. And
casioned in the Jewish section of the city there are many who still believe that peace
and the bodily mistreatment of Chattah fur the world will yet come from Zion, and
are sufficient to arouse general indignation that rebirth of the Holy Land spells the
that such a libel should have been repeated realization of prophecy which would re-
habilitate the Jew and at the same time
after that city's experience in 1840.
assure peace for the world.
Chattah was acquitted in the Damascus
court when it was found that the charges
Arabs Have an Eye for Business.
that he attempted to carry off a live-year
Simultaneously with the report of Sir
old Christian girl were false. The ac-
John Chancellor, High Commissioner fo?
cusation was made by a Christian woman
Palestine, to the Mandates Commission of
to whom he returned dyed clothes the the League of Nations, that the Arabs in
work of which she ditiliked and payment
Palestine are now showing a desire to co-
for which she attempted to evade. A gath- operate with the mandatory power in the
ered crowd cried for Chattah'n blood and
Insisted on lynching him. He was saved creation of a Jewish Homeland, comes a
by the police, later to be released by the report from Jerusalem that Arab mer-
court, but for some time is to be incapaci- chants are adapting the Hebrew language
tated for work by the injuries he suffered for their display signs.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report
at the hands of a mob.
states that this Arab practice of adopting
This incident recalls the historic Damas-
Hebrew for business purposes "has pene-
cus Affair which called for the sending of
trated to Nablus, known as an anti-Zionist
a mission of European Jews, headed by Sir
stronghold, where a number of Arab mer-
Moses Montefiore, to the East, to intercede
chants have supplemented their signs in
In behalf of Damascus Jewry. Not only Arabic with signs in Hebrew characters."
the efforts of the Jews of England, under
Which goes to prove that our Arab half-
the leadership of Montefiore, but also the brothers have an eye for business. They
friendship of their Christian fellow-citizens know the value of Jewish trade and of the
were noble examples of humanitarian ef- extent of Jewish tourist business, and are
fort in behalf of falsely-accused Eastern making use of it, through the medium of
Jewry. The manner in which Sir Moses the Hebrew magnet. There is something
Montellore was later honored by Queen
for our people to learn from our half-
Victoria for his efforts in behalf of his brothers of the great business possibilities
brethren, and the Firman of the sultan of
in the Jewish Homeland.
Turkey declaring the Jews innocent of the
"What a pretty little 'hap, a
real infant Jew.," Then he a•ks:
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WASHINGTON JEWISH
MIRROR
Charles 11. Joseph
INTRODUCING Salmon 0:tvrr Ltvirs• . ,n of Chi
ear, U. S. A. For once "Time" f•eret to men-
a,
str:ingdy-marked
Straitie ceertenarse"—"Time" mem: be rett.ng
sleepy. but anyway, the was gortd, so
1-.to the F-as: Reese en.
dA - last
week
walked a Ce:eage law,er was ••:.
blare •st :he Matte
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EXILE BERLINER is dead
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to the Wiete li•uee ceremony f 7 "7.-
wat.on of the general treaty f.t tne r•-:. sr.
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non of War. because as chairman of the A^ • r .•
can Commit:et for the Outlawry. of War.:.
him belonged much unofficial credit for 5f:Z1-
nat:nz the idea of making war illegal. C e e.e.
leee agitator for peace, he has been recom-
mended by no lees a journal than the Man-
chester Guardian for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Quite happy now, he eat back, watched the
eulminatien of his endeavers.
Thus another Jew has centrieuted to the civiliz-
ing of the world:
rears we a
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playwright, I am reminded et
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my career. short and not tea brilliant, as a Sib-
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WHO invented the phonogreeh?
Whe invented the gear. -
ph-ere? Edison invented the ;-
-:-graph, while Emile Berliner • f
Washington produced the otie.r -
.trurrent and it is the gram.-II -:
that you have in your home
er that you see about yeu al! tr..
brut•. Did you know that there
was a difference! The phonozrapn
which Edison invented •rigirelle
was a mere toy, a curiosity selte
practical value; a later "ee r.-
graph" it Edison's is today tie
phone. The Victor and • Meat
machines are gramophones ea, i
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IN THE REALM OF
SONG and LAUGHTER
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
QUALITIES IRREPROACHABLE
This story concerns a Jewish
congregation in Montana, whose
membership decided that it ought
to entrust its spiritual activities to
a geed rabbi from the east. Pick-
ing from the list of applicants. who
responded to an advertisement in
the Tageblatt, the name of one
who gave as reference a country-
man of his, a leading merchant in
this Montana city, the committee
in charge inquired about the appli-
cant, and his "landsman" waxed
enthusiastic over him:
"He iS God-like. He is like
Moses in some respects, like
Shakespeare in others."
The committee was elated
Surely such a man will build great
things in their community. The
rabbi was hired. A packed syna-
gogue came to greet him. And
then the congregation learned that
it was tricked. The rabbi's ad-
dress was unintelligible. Ile was
tongue-tied. Ile lacked manners,
and it became evident at once that
he knew very little about things
Jewish. At once a committee was
dispatched to see the man who so
highly recommended their new
rabbi, and he explained his recom-
mendation:
"I did not exaggerate, and cer-
tainly did not lie to you," he said.
"I said he was God-like. Of course
he is. God is not a "mensch."
neither is this rabbi. Surely he is
like Moses, who was also heavy of
speech. And as for my comparing
him to Shakespeare, this rabbi
knows as little Hebrew and Jew-
ish law as Shakespeare did."
THE MISER
F,,,,, the il..brew of Ilen•Zeb 11761.
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A miser once dreamed he had
given away
Some bread to a beggar he'd met
in the day;
Ile awoke with a start, and sol-
emnly swore,
That as long as he lived, he'd slum-
ber no more.
FANNIE HURST'S MAMMAL
Fannie Ilurst's Pekingese,
named "Lummox" after one of
this authoress's most popular nov-
els, said to be one of the mailer.:
dogs to come from Europe, was
about to be prevented by a con-
ductor from boarding a train with
Miss Hurst, when the latter inter-
jected:
"This isn't a dog, it's a mam-
mal."
,"Very well, take him in," con-
rented the conductor, and added:
"But he looks like a dog to me."
DATA ON WIVES
Do you have any data on your
wife?
Eddie Cantor believes that most
husbands; have very little data
about their wives. Writing in
Collier's Magazine on "'One and
One' Variations of the Love
Theme," he tells this story:
"The other day I asked a stage
hand, 'What's the color of your
wife's eyes?'
'I
That's funny!' he said.
can't remember. Though one of
them, I think, is black.'
"'And hose about her reach?'
"'No matter where I hang my
pants she reaches them.'"
EDDIE CANTOR'S DEFINITION
OF LOVE
Eddie Cantor compares love to
a potato. Both, says he, have eyes
and see not.
But it is on the duty of husbands
that Eddie's knowledge seems par-
ticularly expert. Says Comedian
Ed.:
"All that is expected of the
sloppy, good-for-nothing husband
when he conies home from a day
of loafing in the factory is that he
should carry a mere ash-tray in his
vest pocket, a cuspidor in his
jacket, a coat-tree under his arm
and a hangar stuck in his button
hole, so he doesn't throw things
around and mess up the house.
"But this is as it should be, for
don't forget, marriage is a 50-50
proposition-.every time your wife
spends $50 for a dress you can
spend 50 cents for socks."
Nevertheless Eddie would make
a good Shadchan; he is an opti-
mist. Ile says that because love
is like a potato it overlooks a lot
of things.
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We Observe That--
Jerusalem celebrated the Fourth of July with a good old
fashioned baseball game, between former Americans ant
Palestine teams. All they needed was a South of Irelaic
umpire to make the game interesting.
The Grand Klan held a reunion in Indiana recently with only 1,200
of the faithful attending. It looks as if the Klandestiny is petering out.
Seven swarms of bees kept the worshippers out of an
Indiana church. They were probably preparing the honey
for the "streets flowing with 'milk and honey,' " which the
preacher promised the congregation. And anyway, that's a
good alibi to keep from going to church.
Some slicker convinced German anti-Semites that he had a death
ray which would rid Berlin of all its Jews in three minutes. It worked
to rid these anti-Semites of thousands of dollars.
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It has just been discovered that our President is of Swiss
descent. If this descendant of a foreigner makes good, may-
be the Swiss quota will be increased by the next Congress.
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The Pope is "free" to leave the Papal grounds. This bit of news
is warranted to raise the apprehension of our Kluxers, who will tell us
that he will soon come to this country to rule it.
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Voliva of Zion City still believes the world is flat. Can't
we do something to make it more interesting for him?
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of Waehington Ber-
liner's sc.entific contributions are
better known than his humanitar-
ian efforts, but here in the capital
he is kr. , wn as the "Nathan Straus
a Washington." }lave you ever
wondered just how this inventor
and scientist turned to milk pae-
teurzation and babies' health cam-
paigns? It was in lee.) his ener-
gies were turned to this field.
Summers were fatal to babies
in Washington. His daughter,
Alice, was a puny child in her first
year. When s he was six months
old she weighed a pound less than
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"What is your name!"
cate: the truths of the Jewish religion in the mind;
And when he is told, "he stands
of some very bright boys and girls; molt of them,
quite still. Hie face is still close
I suspect, looking backward over the years, were
to mine Suddenly hie eyes
seem, far away. And hie cheeks
brighter than their teacher. George was one of the
leek sad." In a queer voice Elise
most serious-minded of the group, but one wouldn't
"lie is a little Jew,
t ,,114 him:
imagine it after witnessing some of his plays. In
father." He replies: "What a
fact, his stn.: of humor and his ability as a satire,:
pity."
attracted the attention of another Jewish writer,
Thus Claude, Levy's problem he-
Franklin P. Adams, nationally known as "F'. P. A.,"
gins. 11,, father is at the front,
fighting for France. His mother
who conducts the "Conning Tower" in the New
busies herself with music. Claude
York World.
would ask her "What is a little
Jew!" But net yet. He waits.
But hi" soul is tortured. Why did
IIEN I think of the trials and tribulations I en-
the priest say "What a pity?"
dured as teacher in Israel my heart goes out to
Hie little friend Mariette is a
Sabbath
School teachers of every faith in the whole
Catholic. They play together,
world. I presume that some of them must like it,
grow up together. He ask, her
but
that
small minority must have been born that
what it "a little Jew." She thinks
way. I am sure that teachers are never made. Then
it is "something rather bail." She
the
Sabbath
School teacher, especially in the Jew-
asks her mother, is told that a lit-
ish echo's!, seems to have such poor material to work
tle Jew is "an unhappy child" to
with.
I
have
in mind the text-books and net the
whom ..10.1.1.1n brings no presents.
children, though they are not the easiest in the
Then follo• a series of thoughts,
world
to
instruct.
They seem to have imbibed some
pilgrimage, to Notre Dame, plac-
of the skepticism and the rationalism of their par-
ing the slipper on Christmas night
ents.
But
this
is
teaching
a delicate subject, likely
for Jesus to fill with presents, the
to arouse censiderable discussion, so I won't pursue
to know and
tragedy of
it.
But
the
Sabbath
School
books of my day and
learn Jesus, attempts even to kneel
the that I read today seem impossible. Seine are
before Jesuit .. .
extremely difficult to follow and I am cure that the
Ile learns nothing from hie par-
authors never knew how to write for the child mind.
ents. They are Frenchmen.
That's the fault I find with them. They are written
French Israelites, Claude is later
in such an involved and non-understandable fashion.
explained, but not Jews, not He-
It seems so simple that write for example Bible
brews. His parents are not con-
stories in simple language, yet for some reason or
cerned with religion. But Claude's
other the ones I have read in the Sabbath School
mind and heart are tortured. He
list are heavy, stilted, and hard to understand, like
wants to know why he is a Jew.
a "New Republic" editorial. What is needed is a
Ile accosts a Catholic priest, tells
defter touch, a lighter style. I am not surprised
him he would like to become a
that most of the historical information that a child
priest, that he hates those that
gains during his Sabbath School slays is forgotten
crucified Jesus, but as ter believ-
in later life. The wonder to me is that he ever got
ing him a God—that he cannot.
it far enough into his head to stay there during his
The priest tells him that at his age
school. days.
it is not permissible to make him
a Christian. Claude asks how he
can live, now. And the priest
comfort, him: "You, my child,
CAN'T close this subject without referring again
have already been touched by His
to George Kaufman. For a while he was dra-
Grace, light will doubtless be ac-
matic editor of the New York Times, but his fame
corded to you, sooner than to your
rents upon such plays as the "Royal Family," the
future brethren. . . In the mean-
time, be a Jew, my child, be a
"Butter and Egg Man," "Beggar on Horseback,"
Jew."
and "The Wild Man of Borneo." Ile has collabor-
Thus he sets out to learn what
ated with another well-known Jewish writer, Edna
it means to be a Jew. He gets his
Ferber. If this meets his eye I want George to
parents' permission to train to be
knew that I always considered him one of my prize
Bar M itzvah, is provided with a
teacher who believes only in the
pupils.
"I'arsha," but in unable to explain
the rudiments' of Judaism. Ile is
YEAR or so ago I mentioned that the Soviet
led to the rabbi, who gives him a
book, a Jewish history. There he
Union had in mind the creation of a Jewish Re-
meets the Jewish heroes, the
public in Siberia. I also mentioned at the same
time that giving the Jews of Russia territory in Bira
Prophete. A new world opens up
Bidjan, the Siberian district, was giving them some-
for him.
thing that wasn't worth very much, Well the
"I used to he made to read Cor-
YIDDISH SOCIALIST SOVIET REPUBLIC will
nelius Neves, Xenophon, Roland's'
soon be an assured fact and the initiate Y. S. S. R.
Song, Nicodemus, Kipling and
will be seen quite frequently in news items in the
Jules Verne. And these glorious
future. From what I can understand the land to
stories were kept hidden from
he occupied by the Jews of the new republic is just
me!"
about the worst ever. Floods and washouts seem
Ile meets Styrinevisky, a Pales-
to he the main occupation of Nature.. Of course,
tinian, who confuses him further
there are conflicting reports, but after sifting them
with his Zionist theories. Ile tells
carefully it looks very much as if the Y. S. S. R. has
him of Jewish nationalism.
lie
received a juicy lemon from the big-hearted Soviet
takes; him to the Paris ghetto. Ile
leaders. So we shall have a Homeland in Palestine
informs him that he must choose
and a Republic in Russia. Things are moving rap-
of four things one: "Either Ju-
idly for the Jews these days. But I confess no en-
daism is a religion; then COMA' and
thusiasm over any of the changes. Then, too, what
eat here, come and pray here,
a wonderful opportunity some of the Babbits will
some and live here, the ghetto, old
have in this country to point out that the Jews
man, return to the ghetto ... or
Judaism is a nationality; then re-
("just as we told you right along"I are SOCIAL-
ISTS! why, they even have a JEWISH SOCIAL-
turn to your fatherland, next year
IST REPUBLIC. Sad, sad.
in Jerusalem . . or it is both;
then go and pray to Geld in your
own land ... or it is neither one
nor the other: then be a good
TRANGE how we meet persons accidentally
Frenchman and let's hear no more
with whom we have things in common. On my
about it!"
recent trip to Europe I sat down on a bench on
Between reading his Jewish his-
hoard the Leviathan to watch a game of deck tennis.
tory, visiting the ghetto, seeing
There was rather an individualistic-looking individ-
Mariette, whom he tells he'll never
ual already occupying a part of the same bench.
become a Christian, he becomes a
For a few moments we watched the game in silence.
He wants to be in
Boy Scout.
After a bit one gets tired of living with one's
everything. Ile already is best in
thoughts, so I indulged in one of those conversa-
school.
tional inanities that one uses to break the ice at a
Then he has a dream. He dreams
dinner party. He responded in an equally unin-
of Palestine, his parents are in-
telligent manner. But I could see that he was a
volved, and Marlette. And Jesus
man of intelligence. And from his quite marked
is in the dream, and he hears the
accent, a foreigner. I learned that he spent some
admonition: "Hasten his advent."
years of his life in Italy, that he had lived also in
And Jesus speaks: "The Messiah
Japan, where he represented an aviation corpora-
of Peace, the Messiah of Justice,
tion. Ile was now on his way to Paris, where he
he whom I wished to be, he whom
expected to stay a couple of years in aviation de-
I was not, the Messiah, the Mes-
velopment work. I didn't know and I don't know
siah, hasten his advent!"
now whether he wan a Jew or Gentile. We spent
Ile returns the Jewish book to
much time together during the remainder of the
the rabbi. He doesn't want to be
trip and we had many interesting conversations.
liar Mitzvah. Not yet. Ile re-
He was a man of strong convictions and wasn't at
lieves himself of his great idea to
all satisfied with the present conditions of society.
the Jewish minister: "If all true
Ile had an uncle who at one time was the chief of
Israelites became prophets, proph-
the famous Secret I'olice of Russia. And he told
ets of Peace and Justice, true
me many unusual incidents relating to the over-
prophets of Peace and Justice,
throw of the Czarist regime. On the hart day we
true prophets of the Messiah, don't
exchanged cards and I never dreamt that "Random
you think that all true men would
Thoughts" ever meant anything in his life. But
become Jews!" And when told
when he read my card he said, "Why, I have read
that Claude is nearly 15, the rabbi
your column." I looked at him with suspicion. But
smiles and says:
he explained that for a time he stayed in Detroit
"Fifteen! Take care of your
and he had friends who took The Jewish Chronicle
fifteen years, my child! In the
in that city and whenever he visited their home he
days of Moses a man could he a
used to read it, and thus became intimately ac-
prophet at eighty.... In our days
quainted with Random Thoughts. Queer, isn't it,
how the threads of our lives become entangled?
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