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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 44:18-47:27.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 37:15-28.

January 10. 1930

Tebeth 10, 5690

An Irresponsible Youth.

How else are we to label the action of
Judge Nathan Cayton of the District of
Columbia Municipal Court who, evidently
in quest of publicity, launched an attack on
his own people charging that there is "a
Jewish Crime Wave?"
This is the price we pay when irrespon-
sible youths who have never displayed any
loyalty to their people, and never contrib-
uted anything to the advancement of Jew-
ish idealism, are suddenly raised to official
heights to which their small minds are un-
able to ascend. Yet we honor them!
Whether or not Judge Cayton will apol-
ogize for his false statements, there is one
thing for us to remember: We must never
encourage the passion for free publicity
which seems to have motivated the address
of Judge Cayton who released to the press
in advance the text of his charges. We
must be careful in handing out honors, or
in granting the right to the speaker's plat-
form, to people simply because they have
titles prefixed to their names. Before we
hand out honors, let us first be certain that
the honors are deserved. Judge Cayton
certainly abused the honor given him for
his title.

What Ails Our Youth Movement?

The visit of M. Aime Palliere, the roman-
tic French Catholic convert to Judaism, to
our city, served as a stimulant in arousing
the representatives of various Jewish youth
movements to consider their problems and
the obstacles which stand in the way of cul-
tural activity among the youth. At a meet-
ing arranged to greet M. Palliere as presi-
dent of the Jewish youth movement in
Europe, the lack of workers in the youth
movement here, and the failure of the vari-
ous organizations which have like aims and
purposes to Fo-op erste, became apparent as
outstanding faults hurting the Jewish
cause.
Co-ordination of effort and co-operation
on the part of various movements is sug-
gested by some as a remedy. Others pro-
pose the fusion of some of the movements
into one, in order to eliminate the crossing
and duplication of effort. And practically
all who offer remedies for the existing cul-
tural and social ills point to the lack of
proper center facilities as the root of all the
trouble.
There is no doubt but that much of what
is so painfully lacking in the cultural life
of the community could be eliminated if
we had proper and centralized meeting
places where the youth could be reached.
The lack of such meeting places makes co-
ordination and fusion difficult, But the
committee which was organized at the Pal-
liere meeting to consider the question of
fusing and co-ordinating all youth activities
ought to think seriously on the question of
so joining the various efforts as to eliminate
'waste and to make the efforts of one volun-
teer worker serve to accomplish as much as
is now done by two and more in similar
fields of endeavor. The larger number of
boys and girls who could thus be reached
in an effort to organize the youth for Jew-
ish work would be an achievement worthy
of the proposed attempt at fusion.
In this connection it is worth pointing to
two communications which appeared in our
last week's issue in which one correspon-
dent deplored the demoralization among
the Jewish youth, due to the lack of better
center facilities where they could turn their
attention to worthier activities than the
pool rooms and dance halls; and another
correspondent told of the plight of the
Jewish girls who suffer loneliness because
they are unable to befriend the Jewish boys.
Correspondence appearing in this issue in
response to the latter communication right-
fully says that a Jewish Center would solve
this problem.
Public spirited Jews should consider the
problems that face the youth movements.
They are not beyond solution, and the con-
struction of a Jewish Center, for which a
nucleus exists in the fund set aside by Mr.
Samuel X. Gaylord, would go a long way
towards making many young people happy
socially and physically and would help fill
their cultural needs. In the meantime it is
for the youth movements themselves to con-
sider fusion and co-ordination of effort. We
are over-organized. It is possible by means
of fusion to avoid existing confusion.

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Is Spain Repenting?

The Jewish Daily Day of New York is
all worked up over the negotiations that are
being carried on by its city editor, Z. H.
Rubenstein, with King Alfonso, Dictator
Primo de Rivera, Professor Polite, vice-
president of the Spanish Senate, and other
leaders in Spain, in an effort to settle East
European Jews in the land of the Inqui-
sition.
Whether history has decreed that Spain
has suffered decline long enough for op-
pressing its Jews whom it expelled 438
years ago (in the very year in which Amer-
ica was discovered), or whether the land
whose Catholic rulers inflicted the most
cruel sufferings upon the Jews is prepared
to express repentance for its bestialities of
four centuries ago, remain to be seen. At
the present time it is worth noting that
Spain admits economic backwardness and
hopes for Jewish settlers to stimulate its
trade. That in itself is interpretable as an
admission that the country which in its hey-
day gained so much from its Jewish sub-
jects is now seeking their aid again in time
of crisis.

But insofar as the colonization plan is
concerned it is best for our people to be pa-
tient and cautious in whatever attempts
may be made to settle needy East European
Jews in Spain. The men higher up in the
Spanish government may be anxious to in-
vite our people and to extend their hospital-
ity to them, but the reaction of the people
may offer another angle to the plan when
it is realized that reaction and religious
bigotry may still be ruling the minds of the
Spaniards. Besides, the government may
invite the Jews against the wishes of the
church, and then the old hatred may be re-
vived.

We wonder at the same time whether
the self-appointed spokesmen who are anx-
ious for time to heal the Spanish-Jewish
wounds have considered the reaction of the
Jewish masses to the proposed bargain.
Spain may invite, but Jews may reject the
proffered hospitality. It takes more than
a simple invitation to bridge the difficul-
ties that were created by the agonies of the
Inquisition, the story of whose cruelties are
certain to live forever in the memory of
the Jewish people, What if the Jews of
Eastern Europe, out of pity for whom the
plan is being promulgated, should say that
the curse has not yet been lifted from the
land of the Inquisition; that Spain's repent-
ance must be pronounced in unmistakable
terms before Jews will again set foot on
Spanish soil? Will Spain repent?
A writer recently labelled the Jewish
migration as "a moving staircase." There
is no end to the travels of the wandering
Jew. Since the door of this country were
closed to immigration, many baits have
been handed out to our wanderers. Mexi-
co, Cuba and Venezuela, South Africa and
South America, Australia and Asia, Siberia
and even China have been spoken of as new
Jewish centers of migration, and were par-
celled out by visionaries to the homeless in
Israel. Whatever new settlement may be
opened for the Jew will be a God-send for
the sufferers and oppressed. But when
these proposals are made at the expense of
the Jewish National Home in Palestine,—
and the new Spanish proposal savors of
some such intention,—then it is time to call
a halt for the sake of the ideals and hopes
which so closely knit the Jew to Zion.

The Disraeli Romance.

Did Lord Beaconsfield, or Benjamin Dis-
raeli, popularly known as "Dizzy," foresee
the possibility of his government becoming
linked with Jewish effort for the upbuild-
ing of Palestine through the purchase of the
Suez Canal, with funds supplied by the
Rothschilds?
There have been many guesses in ans-
wer to this question, with the bulk of them
in the affirmative. Murray and Maurois
have written on the question. Writers in
newspapers and magazines constantly re-
fer to the romantic episode in Disraeli's ca-
reer resulting in the acquisition of the Suez
Canal. Now come Warner Brothets with
a picturization of the Disraeli story. As
George Arliss speaks the lines for "Dizzy"
in this talking picture, Jews are offered a
chance to muse on the loyalty of the great
Jewish premier who, although baptized at
13, remained a loyal lover of his people.
Through the talking screen, there is re-
vived a rich chapter in the story of Jewish
advancement in British politics. George
Arliss helps to keep the Disraeli romance
alive in the imagination of non-Jews as
well as Jews.

Isjasch Wasser, leader of the Polish as-
similationists, told President Moscicki of
Poland that his party opposes separate
Jewish schools because they are damaging
to friendly relations between Jews and
Poles. Isjasch, do you think anti-Semites
like Jewishly ignorant Jews more than the
other kind? Yu evidently forgot recent
attacks on Jews, during which they proved
that they entertained no preferences in
such matters.

30

Scanning the
Horizon

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

COUNTING THE COHENS

Someone has taken the trouble
to make a statistical study of the
Manhattan telephone directory and
finds that the Smiths lead them all,
followed in turn by the Cohens,
Levy. and Joneses.
To be exact, there are 23 col-
umns of Smiths, 19 of Cohens, 12
of Levys and 9 of Joneses.
Which recalls the old wisecrack
about the New York telephone
company. According to this story,
they are planning to issue three di-
rectories in the future, one for
Manhattan, one for Brooklyn, and
one for the Cohens.
But it appears they will have to
issue one for the Smiths first.

ITS "JAKE" WITH US

Anent this matter of names, they
are telling an interesting story
about Jake Shubert, theater mag-
nate, this week.
It seems that the United l'ress
carried a story from London about
the Shuberts, therein mentioning
"Jake" Shubert.
The Shuberts, no the story goes,
have a horror about the use of the
name "Jake." Immediately, they
picked up the phone and connected
with the United Press offices and
voiced their horror and indigna-
tion.
The story goes that the reporter
of the U. 1', who answered them
refused to make amends and told
the Shuberts that it was lucky for
Shubert that they hadn't written
"Jackie."
And after all, why should Jake
Shubert get so wrathy about it? It
appears to us that he has pros-
pered pretty well with the good old
Jewish moniker. If I recollect
right, there was a famous Ameri-
can, one of the presidents of the
United States, whose first name
was just as Jewish—Abraham. But
it didn't seem to hurt Lincoln at
all.

SCHWER ZU ZEIN A YID

Charles &Joseph

I AM highly gratified that the appeal I made in this

column to my readers to purchase the book writ-
ten by the late Walter Hurt, "The Truth About the
Jews," has been answered. I heard from his sister,
Effie M. Hurt, of 5837 Iowa street, Chicago,
who is endeavoring to dispose of the copies on hand
so as to close the estate of her late brother. I want
to quote just a few words from her letter:
1 am grateful for the kind words you wrote
of my beloved dead. It is true that his last
year was saddened by the attack upon his integ-
rity of purpose, but he never wavered in his
opinions and defense of the Jews. That was
an indestructible part of his tine nature. The
Jewish people never had noor will ever have a
finer, nobler friend than was Walter Hurt. I
am glad to know that many of them appreciate
this fact and have shown it by their attitude.
In the years to come, Walter Hurt will become
better known and his work to the world more
fully appreciated and in that day Walter Hurt
will conic into his own."
I would personally appreciate it if those who
are in a position to do so would purchase a copy of
Walter Hurt's book from his sister, whose address
is noted above. Ile really rendered a service to our
people that we can never repay. So let us do this
trifling thing in his memory.

I WANT to say this and I mean it from the bottom

of my heart. If I had not been able to use Ran-
dom Thoughts as a medium of service to my people
throughout the country, 1 would stop writing to-
morrow. If it lies within my power to use this
column to bring a message of cheer to some lonely
soul hidden in a tiny hamlet somewhere in this coun-
try, I'd rather do that than glorify a leader of
Israel. If I can employ whatever talent is mine to
gain support for a struggling artist in music, paint-
ing or literature, I consider it a privilege. And I
am thankful that among the vast army of readers
there are a great many who have shown their readi-
ness to respond to any worthy appeal voiced through
Random Thoughts.

New England is moving along a bit even
V JELL,
if then do have censors without much sense in

Boston. Here comes the city in Rhode Island with
such is significant name, "Providence," and sets a
precedent by inviting a rabbi, Samuel Gup, to oc-
cupy the pulpit of an important Methodist church.
This is the first time in the history of the state that
a Jew ever preached from a Methodist pulpit. That's
good-will gesture. It must have been quite an event
for I find a writer, Frederick A. Wilmot, writing of
it in one of the Providence daily papers. Ile writes
very interestingly, too, and I want to quote a few
striking paragraphs.

Strange how thoroughly true
was Zangwill's observation that
every Jew is a bit of an anti-Se-
mite. Our dislike of Jewish names
is but a symptom. Only recently,
certain publishers of something
Jewish sent a questionnaire to
some man whose name is as thor-
oughly Jewish as Goldberg or Levy,
let us say. And most definitely the
man is of Jewish extraction, if not
himself Jewish.
Instead of filling out the ques-
tionnaire, this gentleman sent back
a letter, in which he expressed re-
sentment at the idea that he was
taken for a Jew and concluded with
the statement that he had a good
mind to sue the publishers for the
"insult."

Where is the intolerance of yesterday?
A Jew preaching in a Methodist pulpit? This
is a tar cry front the picture of Jew-baiting
and "pound of flesh" attitude of Antonio and
Shylock,in Shakespeare's day. .
There is a new spirit abroad in the land. The
cynic will say that the onslaughts of modern
science are driving all believers in a personal
God into a new and strange fellowship one with
the other. The idealist will see in the event,
for it is an event, the awakening of a deep and
abiding respect for the other fellow's approach
to deity.
This is no mere gesture of broad-mindedness,
it is the result of soul-searching self-examina-
tion. It is not easy for a Jew to forget the past,
nor, for that matter, some of the unkind social
discriminations suffered even unto our day. It is
not easy for a Christian to put his sin behind
him so completely that he does not feel a
twinge of shame at some things that are writ-
ten on the pages of history.
There is a fortunate circumstance, however,
that our attitudes, like our sufferings, are
always borne as individuals. We are not re-
sponsible for the past, and thus we can look
with clear conscience to the future For most
of us, the only difficulty of getting closer to-
gether is that we do not know one another, and
sometimes we approach life from a background
and psychology which make superficial differ-
ences blind us to the glory of each other's true
soul.

A LITTLE STREET SCENE

And we are a queer people. We
were promenading down Fifth ave-
nue. Passing a church, we yaused
to watch a cross, being installed.
We watched the two workmen as
they perspired over the bulky
cross,
"A bissel a-her," said one of
the workmen
"A bissel weiter," said the other.
Two of our Yiddish brethren were
installing the cross.
And yet we note by the morn-
ing New York World that Lillian
Lauferty, the Jewish girl who for
many years wrote the lovelorn col-
umn under the name of Beatrice
Fairfax, told a temple audience
that Jews themselves cause the
prejudice against themselves by
imprisoning themselves within the
walls of race pride.
We would like to take Miss Lau-
ferty for a simple test. We will
take any section of New York
which may be regarded as more or
less representative, and we will go
by and count the Jewish homes
which have Chanukah candles and
those which have Christmas trees.
We have an idea she would have to
modify her reasons for anti-
Semitism.

SOMETHING TO THAT

Anent the recent Christmas sea-
son, Ilerbert Fields, son of Lew
Fields, famous comedian, sent the
following greeting: "Fifty million
Christians can't be wrong—so
Merry Christmas."
Now, we think this a comical
way of putting it, itself is another
proof of the Jew's liberality of
thought.
And while we are on the subject,
we cannot refrain from quoting
the last lines of a poem of greet-
ings by Frank Sullivan, humorist
of the New York World:
"To all I with a Christmas full of

Rabbi Gup's appearance in a Methodist pulpit
is a revelation and a discipline for both parties.
It is a daring venture of love and faith on both
sides. When two persons have been estranged,
the very fact of their meeting one another face
to face and extending a hand, is worth volumes
of argument as to who started the thing way
back there in forgotten times.

It is true not only of the relationship between
Jew and Christian, but also between Roman
Catholic and Protestant, or between members
of different faiths, that a friendly meeting
brings us up-to-date, and we realize that what-
ever might be said of the past, does not hold
true in the present—that in truth most of our
differences are fictitious.

I

HEARD from an old friend, Rabbi Leo M. Frank.
lin of Detroit, the other day. Ile didn't like my
statement regarding the virtues of the Menorah
Journal, and he makes a specific criticism which I
am giving publicity. I am doing this because I
would like to have the editor of the Menorah Journal
make his answer through this column, as others
may have had the same reaction to the article in
question, but did not trouble to voice their objec-
tion. Dr Franklin says that "as a rule I may say
that I would endorse any word of praise that you
might have for the Menorah Journal, but every now
and then in looking over its pages one receives a
severe shock." Continuing, he writes:

Neverhave I so thoroughly resented anything
that has appeared in the columns of the Me-
norah Journal as I did an article entitled "Old
Mnn Reschinsky" by one Louis Berg that was
published in the December number. Had that
same article appeared in any non-Jewish publi-
cation every Jewish editor in America would
have poured out the vials of his wrath upon
the offending head of the author and the pub-
lishers who might be responsible for it. It is
an article that fairly reeks with vile suggestion
as to the character of the Jew. It is a bit of
writing of which any Jew ought to he ashamed
to claim authorship, The Menorah Journal may
from certain standpoints, as you say, be the
best magazine published in the United States.
but how it could pualish such an article as "Old
Man Reschinsky" passes imagination,

joy;

I

wish it alike to Jehuda and
goy."
These"goy" poets are getting
to know more Hebrew than most
of our Jewish boys.
—t —

HOLIDAYS AND HORSES

Indeed, it is a matter of record
that two Irishmen recently ap-
proached a ritzy Jewish young snob
and asked him something about
Yom Kippur.
"Really," he replied. "I don't
know anything about horse races."

ONE ON LARDNER

As this is being written, we are
being treated to reviews galore
about the past year.
As regards our own predilection
for the best gag of the past year,
we lay the laurel wreath over the
story told of George S. Kaufman.
author of many stage hits, and
Rink Lardner, famous writer.
Lardner and Kaufman were
golfing. "I play like a god," said
Lardner, after a particularly good
shot.
"Ring, why don't you end your
sentences," cut in Kaufman.
—.—
DID YOU KNOW—
That there is a report that the
Freeman, one-time Liberal paper,
which during its life was published
by a Jewish publisher, is to be re-
vived shortly?
That Henri Bernstein, famous

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JEWS IN THE NEWS

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DID not read the article in question, but Dr.
Franklin occupies such a commanding position in
American Jewry that his criticism should be consid-
ered with the respect it deserves.

A FORM letter sent out by David A. Brown indi-

cates that a new campaign is about to be inaug-
urated for "overseas relief" of the Jew. He also
takes the opportunity to say that he will not be the
leader as other pressing personal responsibilities
preclude the possibility of his being able to spare
the time necessary for such an undertaking. I
take it that the campaign he suggests will have to
do with the raising of funds for the extension of the
Russian farm projects, economic relief for Polish
Jewsand perhaps a part of it for Palestine. I am
not quoting from any one in authority but I am
merely expressing my views. As time goes on we
are more convinced than ever that the work in Rus-
sia is bearing fruit beyond the most extravagant
expectations of those who originated the enterprise
in the Crimea. Of this I am certain, the responsi-
bility of world Jewry to the Jews of Russia has not
yet been discharged and that they will be called
upon once more to make possible the maximum
benefits to their co-religionists in Russia. In passing
it might be said that the Soviet officials have shown
extraordinary good-will to Jewish leaders in their
efforts to improve the status of their fellow Jews in
the Soviet union.

4

By BERNARD POSTAL

Judge Nathan Cayton, one of
he youngest men ever appointed
o a judicial post anywhere in the
United States, was only 28 years
old when President Coolidge
named him to the municipal court
bench in Washington two years
ago. At the time of his appoint-
ment the Jewish community of the
District of Columbia was extreme.
ly proud of its youthful jurist. To-
day there may be some doubt
about this pride. Already the
Jews of Washington are talking
about a "young swelled-head." Be
that as it may, Judge Cayton
kicked up a hornet's nest around
his youthful head when he declared
in the course of an address at a
synagogue that there is a "Jewish
crime wave" in the United States
and that the Jews of this country
had contributed more than their
proportionate share of criminals.
If Judge Cayton was seeking no-
toriety he certainly got it. Con-
demnation of his utterances is
almost unanimous in Jewish cir-
cles. Demand for a retraction and
apology have already been made.
No one, as yet, seems to know
what was behind his startling re-
marks. But he certainly made the
front pages with them.

Jewish statesmen and Jewish
politicians blessed, or, if you will,
cursed, with non-Jewish names,
have a way of being overlooked
by the average Jew in this country.
Only the Jews living in his own city
or near-by know anything about
that Jew whose name is not typi-
cally Jewish And this same Jew
is often well-known throughout the
country by non-Jews. A signifi-
cant example of this is Murray
Seasongood of Cincinnati, mayor
of the city since 1926 and a mem-
ber of a notable Jewish family,
famed for its devotion to music
and philanthropy. Wherever good
government adherents gather there
the name of Murray Seasongood is
bound to be mentioned. Ile has
just retired to private life after
two terms as mayor. During his
stay in the mayor's chair he had
the distinction of changing Cincin-
nati from the so-called worst-gov-
erned city to the best governed in
the United States. By virtue of

his personality and vigorous execu-
tive ability he rid 'Cincinnati of
machine politics and placed in the
van of the commission ruled mu.
nicipalities. Seasongood now re-
tires to private life, although he
could have been mayor as long as
he liked.

Prohibition right now seems to
be on the way to a long, long
period of attention and it was nat-
ural that when Meier Steinbrink,
the newly elected Republican boss
of Brooklyn, announced that his
new job forbade his connection
with controversial subjects and
hence demanded his resignation
from the New York committee
against the prohibition amendment
that his announcement should
make the front pages. As the rep-
resentative of President Iloover in
Kings county he can hardly afford
to altign himself with the wets. On
the other hand, he denies that he
has gone over to the drys. Stein-
brink's statement recalls the fact
that few outstanding Jews in the
country are in any way affiliated
with the prohibitionists. Many of
them, however, are outspoken
wets. All of the Jews in Congress
are notoriously wet. Julius Rosen-
wald and Bernard Baruch are said
to be financial supporters of the
organized wet movement.

Time and tide wait for no man
and the death of Louis Gimbel is
eloquent evidence of the truth of
that old adage. The founder of
the vast Gimbel Brothers depart-
ment store in New York and in-
strumental in the management and
organizatfim of the Gimbel stores
in other cities before he came to
New York in 1910, had not been
active in business for the last six
years. As time goes six years is
not long but in the business world
and newspaper offices it is like a
century. Since 1923 Mr. Gimbel
has been practically forgotten.
Had he died in 1922 his obituary
would have been worth a column
on the front page in the New York
and Philadelphia papers. In 1930
his death was just another death,
and a brief summary of his career
was hidden away inside.

(Copyrilrht, 1000, J. T. A, )

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Jewish Beekeepers in Poland

By J. CANG

Of all the things that, Jews are
afraid of, said Stolypin, the Rus-
sian prime minister and notorious
anti-Semite, they fear most three
things: policemen, dogs and bees.

Many anti-Semites think so even
now. Undoubtedly it is possible
to show them that, like Stolypin,
they exaggerate the fear of Jews
in respect to policemen and dogs.
But one could easily convince them
also that Jews fear bees no more
than any other people. All I
would have to do would be to take
these gentlemen for a tour round
the Jewish colonies in Poland and
show them the hundreds of beau-
tiful painted beehives adorning the
orchards round the small Jewish
cottages. I would show them the
72-year-old rugged-faced and ven-
erable Samuel, sheriff of Derk-
shna, a Jewish village near Vilna,
who cares competently for his
"sweet teeming things," as he calls
the bees in his garden; I would let
them try some of the honey pro-
duced by bees in the charming col-
ony Israelsko, and let the bees of
lwaniki, near Pinsk, kiss them
good-bye and I am sure that they
would be cured of their anti-Jew-
ish feelings in less than a fort-
night. They would certanly never
repeat the statement that Jews
dread bees.
In their old home the Jews
were distinguished beekeepers. Pal-
estine was the land of "milk and
honey." Now these traditional
abilities have been revived with
full vigor by the Jewish colonists
in Poland.

A Boon to Coloniats.

Fifteen of the Jewish colonies
scattered around Vilna, Pinsk,
Baranovicze Grodno and other
places in Eastern Poland have be-
gun to keep bees on their farms.
In 1926 there were only about half
a dozen beehives in the Jewish vil-
lages. Now there are over 200.
This is a record of which even the
non-Jewish colonies which, unlike
the Jewish, are subsidized by the
Polish government, can not boast.
Bee keeping has proved a great
boon to the Jewish colonists. The
effect is quick and direct. Besides
affording good and healthy food
for the family the income from
honey and wax is of great impor-
tance. A healthy beehive bought
in spring for $10 produces through
the summer about 200 pounds of
honey, worth $35. Apart from
this great profit an able beekeeper
can, from two beehives bought, say
in spring, 1926, make three in
1927, four in 1928 and six in 1929
and so on.
One Jewish colonist near Vilna,
who up to 1928 was a shop keeper
in Vilna, told me that from nine
hives acquired in the spring of 29
beehives acquired in the spring of
1929 for $8 he got back the ex-
penses for the early summer
honey. "No more shopkeeping for
me," he said with a smile. The
example of this ex•trader and now
prosperous farmer is eagerly fol-
lowed by other Jewish farmers, and
beehives of the American Dadant
type, full of honey, are seen in the
Jewish colonies.
The Jewish colonists like their
new occupation and are extremely
devoted to the bees. They would
rather be stung a dozen times than
kill a bee. Old bearded Jews and
young boys and girls in white gar-
ments go about their work, and
use the implements with a firm
hand as if beekeeping had been
their occupation for ages. "There
is a friendship between us and the
bees," a Jew in Lida said to me.
"We understand the bees and when
they are running merrily from
flower to flower gathering the pol-
len and guess their wither when
they return home laden with the
pure essence of flowers." The
Jews seem to know the language of

the bees and arc able to tell the
good or bad temper of a bee by the
sound of its humming.

Unafraid of Stings.

It was in Stolowicze that Bazalel
Chaimovitch, a well built weather-
tanned healthy Jew of 42, was
telling me all about his 16 bee-
hives and watching the little crea-
tures fly through the warm soft air.
Suddenly he turned to me and said
"!lush! the bees are crying! The
queen must have died." He went
to one of the beehives in the row
and came back looking 10 years
older. The "queen" had died. To
me the bees' buzzing was alike. I
was getting a bit anxious because
some of these poor brown orphans
were rather circulating round my
head as if I had done something to
their regal "mother." However, I
could not help comparing Bazalel
to Maetterlinck and Lord Avebury.
The Jewish colonists are not at
all afraid of the sting of their bees.
Some of the colonists even regard
the bite as a cure for rheumatism.
It was regarded as such in the Mid-
dle Ages. The bite is also consid-
ered to be a remedy against deaf-
ness and capable of bringing back
vitality to weakened limbs.

Christians Learn From Jew..

The speedy development of bee-
keeping in the Jewish colonies says
much for the ability of the colo-
nists. But also very instructive is
the fact, when the problem of Jew.
ish colonization is discussed, that
Christian farmers now come to the
Jews to learn beekeeping. "When
we saw the Jewish colonists buying
bees, said a Christian peasant of
the Vilna district, to me, we simply
laughed at them." "It is a wastage
of bees," said many. "Bees do not
like the smell of onions," joked
others. "But now," continued the
peasant, "we begged the Jews to
come and instruct us. Our bees all
died out during the last severe win-
ter, but the Jewish bees are mak-
ing money for their owners," he
concluded with a tone of jealousy
in his voice.

The beekeeper who can keep his
hives through the winter in a good
condition has, as all concede,
passed his examination in beekeep-
ing with honors. No wonder that
non-Jewish farmers came to Mr.
Musko, a Jewish colonist of Lej-
pun, near Vilna, and asked him to
manage their bee farms on a
"50-50" basis.

Ica Sent Instructress.

It was the Jewish Colonization
Association which helped the colo-
nists in Acquiring the bees by
granting Clem small loans for that
purpose. The Ica also sent an in-
structress, Nibs B. Zadenfeld, who
has taught the Jews the art of bee-
keeping. 1ne, they have learned
it very qui kly.

But bee: eeping certainly sweet-
ened the life of the Jewish colonist.
Bees to ed special honey-con-
taining sees and trees. Therefore
acacias, 51Alberries and lime trees
have been planted, giving addi-
tional chai n to the Jewish villages.
The bees also taught the farmers
the moral lesson that they must
work like a bee.
Thus beekeeping made the Jew-
ish colonies in Poland more profit-
able, made the colonists more in-
dustrious, the village more beauti-
ful, and life more happy.

Woe, [ht. 1930. J. T. A. /

lie want, d to learn, to know, to
live, to retch out; he wanted to
satisfy hungers and thirsts he
couldn't tell about. And some of
what he wanted so much, no deep
down, seemed to be in the books.
He told Dennis and other people,
"My best friend is the man who'll
get me a book."—From "Abe Lin-
coln Crows Up," by Carl Sand-
burg.

R.9/49.Q9k1).G.

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