1 74E IgentorrAnsn No.∎ fat • . ;. .• TREPETKOTTJEIVISII RON ► eMe•hted W• 40 7 I/7 re. I/rwlele cwwwis Reuses ea, es, •• * IS.,4-4 • •• ■ va , o• • P• A•• n 446. et to. • .e• aso-rs Gemara! P•rs•• :):4 •• AC • , t. • Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Chrusisla Tologoleoussi Caolillat 1040 Cehle rof..• 14 Stradfetil Macs, Cowles, W. I, Esoil•issl 13A6 P.r Year Subscription, to Advance • /11•610•1 esiaiicaoms. ■•••■••1f/A4/,'• • • •* At fuss* rose% tar •O•. wife s.ii *1. Wit, a Iv? J•vo• nor,. ••• ••••••• •• A Song of Songsl Edmond Flees "The Boy Prophet" a Classic Po- j etic Production. By &I- Tire ROY PROPHET. Tran•.ation by D - F"..X L Orra Published by E. P. Fou r, Inc , Irv!. • N.... York .121. • we : Peis r.ews-st w ern .r. Dr. Mendes' Plea for World Peace. ow moo...W.. suss • . Salslath Ouse* lissisliaig. .4 the Total. Pentateuehal poren-Dout. Prophetical ;settlers-h. 1:1-27, Tielia WAS Raul:ago sif 1Ise TwaleTluarsslay, Aug. IS. Meninx: Pentateuthal portion- Dent. 415-40. Prephetieal portion-Jar. 15:13-e.2e. Afternoon: t Pentatevehal pereien Er. 22.11.1 I. ".% ', •55 • e Prophetical v■ rt: ,,r. 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. eee, es••• ■ •••• •••••••••••, i1.141 feeereet Je-wielt I 14 , • of ritual murder. are historic 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: I .r. :rte cas e s f ir•a.r , 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. • 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: " 1 1 ) 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 U-shaped table cosere e r.rn ir, formal at•.re. • meet -.ahem • - By Hillel, The Observer EXILE BERLINER is dead n re.. T rre,s ss was - ^ Seery years -.•! et the Cs r ; • -• Basset r's sears -ter ta- e Bererss •• r es •:a see: • est f .• ,r -.- ..r se • rd r 11 , A• cot- peratione, was one ef the fee to the Wiete li•uee ceremony f 7 "7.- wat.on of the general treaty f.t tne r•-:. sr. Nlr le r r • was 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 a :7. "E .• y1 r ,• r . • time I see the non• o f Il•-•ree S. Kauf- E VERY playwright, I am reminded et man. the famous my career. short and not tea brilliant, as a Sib- bath School teacher. For one year I tried to incul- F.: • • r • ! 7 • 7 I A S : 7 te. the r.•.. :ha: 1.-,t Q, 7 • r paze. • •r•a•.el - : f - f - tt f Hesse -. r al. •••• r. on Colum.b.a 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 Crum to Next Page). 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. 1411/• 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. ti .:4 r .4e is 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. '.5 ;Si . -3 3 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. : 24:7 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. ••3 • Voliva of Zion City still believes the world is flat. Can't we do something to make it more interesting for him? :4 7 , K ■ re'rWr. , CT.‘ZIPf . , - process was C 7 1 m as app', zed es et: Er - ; • carr • r ; r, - ca• • • r. le : r metal of and I's- : :`• rears- ^ (' c :zar •: . lener. Oraeg• . st te no avail. 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 . • s • :7. :••••• r. end :ins! a•Irnent an . eeen a .. tipped toe kale- E 22 Frsrn that time he. e 7. ref: ef his tfe He beee • : trat him. had suffered fr - roe n ...at there w .f she ha: ...- .sir:zed milt;. . ee l tr..y la- •• ..•er s ehere "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? (Turn to Next Page). trying • read I• -. s. In- sf.er ---■•■•■•• w z e e r : good friend. Senator Borah, =i.e..- head of the U-soaped ..tilt . Levineen, 53, roeert, mer :•-r . • •,• a• age: et great he felt a ettle ..s. a: ' r- e Ir. 53 a• - ••