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(maim 9cwish Perla- cal Carter

CLIFTON MMUS CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

TH EPLIVOrt IEWISR ARON ICU

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

The Other Herzl

perhaps the others will then also unpolitical. If you knew how I
learn."
suffer at the thought of my lost
I remember that these words years, how I regret that I did not
made a profound impression upon take up my task earlier, when I
CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE brought him. Wasting no time
me, for all of ua had uncon- was fresher! If my health were
with introductions, I stammered sciously felt irritated that Ilerzl as good as my intentions, every-
the word "Zionismus" altogether.
words to the effect that I wanted seemed unable to decide to give thing would be fine; but years
At the beginning of the new cen- to submit a story to him. He
tury this sarcastic city perhaps took it from me, counted the up his position with the Neue are irretrievable."
No, sir! Right down the old fairway goes the
derided no one more than Theo pages of the manuscript, regard- Freie Presse–:-because of his fam-
Fame and Silver Hairs
ball, when the Ginsberg organization tees up
dor Ilerzl, unless it was that other ed, the first page with great In- ily, we thought. It was only
I walked with him for quite a
much
later
that
we
and
the
world
man
who,
at
that
same
time,
alone
for you. Neighborly, friendly interest, courteous
terest, leaned back in his chair.
while, and he spoke much of the
and unaided, set up another great It was with a certain feeling of learned that this was not so, that
and efficient service—what . a combination!
he had spent his private fortune difficulties he had to face—not
universal concept: his fellow-Jew,
terror that I watched him begin for his cause. And what he him-
very bitterly, but rather with
Sigmund Freud, whom the uni- to read in my presence. The min-
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versity faculty even now, on his utes seemed to pass slowly; but self suffered from this mental resignation; he appeared used to
70th birthday, did not deign to this first view of his face, seen schism is revealed not only in this finding every new obstacles in the
greet with a congratulatory from one side, made a deep im- talk, but also in many entries in most unexpected places. Attempt-
his diaries.
word. (I like to make public this
ing to tell him something cheer-
pression upon me. It was a fault-
Ile thought my frequent flights ing, I spoke of the spread of his
disgraceful fact as often as pos. lessly handsome face. The soft,
for no one abroad will be. well-kept black beard gave it a abroad were much to my credit. idea abroad, of people whose
lieve it.)
"It is the only way open to fondest wish it was to shake his
clear, almost rectangular outline,
To be absolutely frank and into which the clean-cut nose, set us," said he. "It was abroad hand, and I asked him whether he
honest, I must confess that at exactly in the middle, fitted well,
himself did not feel how far his
the beginning I, too, loved and as did also the high, slightly that I learned everything I know. influence had grown beyond him,
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But he only smiled sadly and
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pressions are deep and ineradi- French face in the style of Al. thank God, it had matured before beard with its many silver hairs—
cable—I remember almost every phonse Daudet, in this face which I brought it here, so that they "here, take the white out of my
one of his feuilletons as distinctly would have seemed slightly artifi- could do nothing to harm it."
beard and my hair, and I shall
Then he spoke very bitterly of give you all my fame."
as the first poems of Rilke and cial or effeminate, or suggestive
Vienna,
where
he
had
met
with
Hofbannsthal, which I used to of the beau, had not the thousand-
And this theatrical utterance
read in school. To me his au-1 year-old melancholy of his soul the greatest obstacles; had not actually sounded genuine. I
thority was the highest, his judg- shone through it. Ile seemed to new encouragement conic from walked with him almost to hie
nee known for Ihele excellent Wile.
ment fundamental and absolute. notice that I was observing him, other countries, particularly from home. There he stopped, gave me
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And thus, when I wrote my he looked at me keenly, but pot of the work.
DAILY TO TIDE smug:4.
never visited me at home. Tele-
first short story—I was then 19 severely. He was used to being
"My principal mistake," he phone me before you come, and
To be sure Ws "lionsberes” look for
regarded;
perhaps
he
even
liked
years old and had just shaken off
the blue label wbleh boo the name
said, "was that I began too late. I shall arrange to have time."
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lionelsem the nainnt, of the follow-
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But I did go to him only a few
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had begun to bow him when I
the
pages
into
place,
he
put
them
Try Our
whose word was final. And, as I
years best suited to struggle—
SKINLESS WIENERS
did not know him personally, and together, wrote something on to say nothing of the great men saw him had conquered at last;
and
I
could
only
accompany
him
had no means of meeting him, I them with a blue pencil, and put ofhistory. I would need some
and BEEFENETTE
on the way to the cemetery. And
(Koehn. Boron)
chose, with the happy naivette them into a drawer on his left. young man, fervent and clever,
only when he was being lowered
and now irretrievably lost cour- Only then, after these curious ac- who would think with me, and
into his grave did those who had
age of youth, the simplest way of tions, evidently intended for ef- would know instinctively what my
been too close to him in Vienna
all: to look him up in the editor- fect (for he was never free from thoughts would be. I had hopes
recognize at last the universal
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scope of his work and his life.
turn
to
me
and
say,
conscious
of
was engaged in the discharge of
his duties as feuilleton editor. I making a great announcement:
" Your story is accepted. "
had made inquiry as to his office
Martin Bober—Hie Noblest
hours, which, I believe, were
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from two to three o'clock in the
That was an unbelievably great
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afternoon; and one fine day I
simply went to see him. To my achievement. For at that time
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surprise, I was admitted at once; the feuilleton was still a sanctu-
to my even greater amazement, ary accessible only to bearded or
into a very narrow little room gray-haired men; only Hoffmanns-
with but one window, a room thal had once penetrated that
reeking with dust and printer's sacred percinct. Theo dore Herzl
ink. And suddenly. before I had then asked me a number of ques-
collected my thoughts, I stood tions as to what I was studying.
before him, and he had risen po- But there was not much time for
CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGH litely and offered me a chair be- conversation, and he dismissed me
aide his desk. His natural, charm- with the invitation to submit
I could see the Jewish colonies ing courtesy cast its spell upon something more before long. He
and their great dark patches— me at that first moment and at actually did publish that story;
every one of our later meetings. what was more, and equally un-
the orange groves.
The character of that courtesy expected, he suddenly observed,
This is the season when many was French, but his majestic ap- in one of his next feuilletons,
hands are needed to harvest pearance unquestionably gave it that there were in Vienna some
the grain from the fields, and something of the dignity of kings young men of whom all sorts of
things might be expected, and
the Arabs, therefore, haven't or great diplomats; the idea of he mentioned my name. It was
filling the role of a leader may
the time to go to the Moham- have had its origin not merely the first time that any one had, of
medan festivals of "Nebi Ru- in his mind, but so to speak, in his own accord, and out of a
bin" and "Nebi Salach." But his physical constitution. For his spontaneous faith in me, given
me public encouragement; and
suddenly I heard an Arab greet very physical appearance was
sufficient to cause every one to perhaps no moment of a literary
me, and turned to see the Sheik
career is as decisive and unfor-
defer to him involuntarily.
Abdullah of Abu Gush (a town
He welcomed me in friendly gettable as a first unexpected bit
near Jerusalem), his wife Se- fashion, and asked me what I had of championship like this. I have
always felt myself under an obli-
lika and their four children
gation because it was Theodor
come into the coach and take acres. And Fatmi, the wife of Herzl himself who was the first
Hadj Said, has told me that for to have confidence in me in
their places beside me.
ten years God had kept her womb
stinctively rather than because of
I *now the Sheik very well,
sealed, and it was only through
on a DUDE RANCH for he often calls at the lie- the grace of 'Nebi Meir,' to whom work I had done; and I am still
In the Santa Fe Southwest brew High School in Tel Aviv, she went to pray and for whose as grateful to him as I was in
that first amazing hour.
soul she lighted oil, that God
where his son is a student.
After this I was able to see him
answered her plea and she bore
I returned his greeting and
occasionally.
Not very often, for
and pays big dividends made room for them. We a son. I have heard of many I was studying in Germany; and
other wonderful things that have
in renewed vitality
when
I
did
come
to Vienna my
three—the Sheik, his wife and happened to non-Jews who have
I—sat on the floor, our legs gone to pray at the graves of the respect for him deterred me from
Jewish prophets. Fulfil my re- taking up his time. But it rarely
crossed under us, Arab fashion.
quest, my master! Let us go to happened that he saw me in the
"Where are you and your Tiberias, where 'Nebi Meir' is theater without coming up to me
family bound?" I asked the buried, and let us ask him to pray and, with a few kindly words, in-
God for us, that we shall have quiring after my work. In the
Sheik.
children.'"
meanwhile my gratitude to him
"To the 'Nebi' (Prophet)."
The Sheik Abdullah interrupted personally had also made me at-
"To 'Nebi Salachi,' or to his story for a moment. Once tach significance to the idea that
'Nebi Rubin'?" I continued. • more he offered us cigarettes. was occupying him more and•
more. I began to follow the
"No, my lord, if I were I For himself he produced a pipe
filled with tobacco. When he had Zionist movement, and sometimes
would not be going in this di- it going he continued:
attended, as a spectator, the little
rection."
"Thou seest, Suleiman Effendi, meetings that usually were held
"Where, then?"
there are my two sons and my in the basements of various cof-
fee houses. There, as well as
"To 'Nebi Meir,' to your two daughters. By Allah, but this
is in reply to the Nebi's prayer! at the university, I met, more and
Ask for
Nebi. That's where I am going
. I heeded my wife. We took more frequently, the noblest of
picture folders
with my wife and children, may food along and a jug of the best his disciples, Martin Buber, who
R. C RIDER, Cow Areal
olive oil to be found in Abu Gush, at 21 was far superior to all of
God lengthen their years."
SANTA FE KY.
aalwlnr
"How is that?" I asked in and together we went to the grave us in seriousness and knowledge
T RIM 'rr
of the Jewish 'Nebi Meir.'
and in maturity of view.
amazement.
'a
"I t was so crowded in the
But I was unable actually to
The sheik prepared to answer. neighborhood of the burial ally myself with the Zionist youth
But first he took out a package' ground that we were forced to of that day. The students, to
of cigarettes, offered one to nie, rent a very expensive room in a whom the ability to defend them-
took one for himself, and gave building near the Springs of Ti- selves was, somehow, still the nu-
one to his wife. When he lighted berias. After the celebrations I cleus of Judaism, were alien to
all three cigarettes, he began:
asked the sexton to let me go to me; and I disliked the evening
"I'll tell you a story," he said, the grave of the 'Nebi,' and he discussions because of the now
"that is a part of. my life and' granted my request. I gave the hardly imaginable attitude of dis-
that I hope to tell to my children, jug of oil to the sexton, and he respect which the very foremost
for them to tell their grandchil- at once set up a great basin with of his followers adopted toward
dren. Twenty years ago, I bought many wicks floating about in it. the person of Herz). The East
my mite Selika, who sits beside These he told Selika and me to Europeans reproached him with
G•1 MONITOR TOP
us, for 300 French napoleons. light. The sexton returned, and • understanding nothing of Juda-
M..1.1 X. 055.14
She conies of a One aristocratic Selika and I were left alone to- ism and with even being unfamil.
Itsig•t• /.e
family. She has a splendid char- gether. We poured out our ach-
urror. A, OW,
iar with its rive; the economists
&ma ea •MIIIII4011.
acter and her soul is more gentle ing
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to the Jewish prophet, considered him a mere feuille-
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than my noble horse. I loved pleading that he pray God for us
tonist. Every one had objections
G.1 MONITOR TO P1 2
Mlle.
her dearly. For 17 years I lived that we might have the blessing
of his own—and they were not
peacefully with her. But then of a child.
:17.57;:e‘a
always very respectful. This in-
my wife began to complain of her
"Thus did we daily for three capacity for intellectual subor-
fate, that God had not granted weeks, and I felt that my Selika
dination made me instinctively
her any children. She began to was growing lighter of heart.
Ig In ■ refrigerator long life,
avoid those circles.
You pay no price penalty for
implore Inc to take another wife, Satisfied that our prayer would
Strictly Confidential
Learning Self-Sacrifice
dependable performance and
such a one as she could also live surely be granted, we returned,
General Electric performance
I
knew
how
badly,
in
that
diffi-
low operating cost outweigh
1CON1'LUITI ■ from EDITORIAL PAGE) with peaceably and by whom I at the end of three weeks, to our cult time, Herz' needed the help
might perhaps have a child.
village.
Whether your income is 120 a week
in value all "features" and
of perfectly devoted men. and
"I heard the prayer of my
"Well, Suleiman Effendi, Selika
very much interested in Sam and
or a million a year you can have
"gadgets' combined. If you
particularly young men, who
for only Ii a year!
wife
in
silence.
I
sympathized
bore
my
eldest
son a year after
subsidized Sam's education with
would, without saying a word,
would buy for lasting perform-
a G•E refrigerator.
Any Style! Any Sinai Any Pricel
the idea of making hint a rabbi with her anguish, but gave her no we had been to the grave of 'Nebi work with him even in om–sition
Meir.' Then came his brother,
ance be sure the mechanism
4 1P • .. Leaving Rosenwald, oldest son definite reply.
"One day, as I sat at my meal, Achmed, and then my two daugh- to their own private vies.; and
of Julius, financed Sam's trip to
is hermetically sealed-in-steel.
the quarrelsome, contention, spirit
England, where he won the inter- I could hear my wife crying in ters, Fatma and Chumba, may
The only refrigerator mechanism
of the internal revolt against
the 'next room. I went in and God prolong their years.
national chess tourney
All General Electric refrigerators
Herzl
made
me
turn
away
imme-
with forced feed lubrication.
asked as to the cause of her tears,
"Since then, Effendi, I have
BITS
—Monitor Tops, Flatops and
but she remained silent. Finally , morn to visit the grave of 'Nebi diately from the movement to
Each minute 3 to 4 quarts of
David Freedman, radio gag-writ-
I went out into the field to work,' Meir' every year, there to rejoice which I was drawn only because
Liftops—are powered with the
er, is in a high state of excitement
oil are automatically forced
of Herzl. I frankly confessed this
"ageless" G•E sealed.in•steel
because the gold-mine stock that hoping my wife would soon be in the company of my wife and to him on one occasion when we
through the G•E sealed•in.
his late father bought and then calm. But when I returned in the children with all the Jews who were discussing that subject. He
mechanism.
It
requires
no
men.
sold for a song would be worth evening she was crying again. come to his burial place at this
steel mechanism under 6
smiled somewhat bitterly. and
don, not even oiling. Hundreds
After
much
insistent
pleading
on
time.
I
give
the
sexton
what
today $5,000,000 ... Harold Jesu-
pounds of pressure.
money presents I can afford, and said:
of thousands in use five, six sod
run, Columbia U. students, is my part she said to me:
"You must not forget that for
"'My lord. I have been asking on the grave of 'Nebi Meir' we
working his way through college by
seven
years
are
in
as
good
con.
Tests with other refriger•
centuries we have been accus-
awakening students in the morn- you so long to take another wife light oil and thank him for the
dition today lip. hen first bought.
arm show the operating Colt
ing for a nickel per man He's who might bear you children. that great blessing he brought upon tomed to playing with ideas, to
arguing about them; for 2,0001
Their record is unparalleled.
called the university's walking you may not remain alone. I am me and my wife, Selika. And
of a G-E is 15% to 50% lower.
years we Jews have not, histor-
alarm clock . . . Isidor .1. Kresel, barren and God will not grant me that is where we are going today,
ically, had any experience in
and
child.
But
you
are
cruel
to
by
my
life,
but
Allah
is

reinstated New York lawyer and
bringing something real into the
Max D. Steuer, his old opponent yourself and to me and will not Allah, and Meir is his Nebi!"
There was a whistle, and peo- world. Unconditional devotion
and personal foe, are at it again, heed my plea. Hear my words.
opposing each other in daily legal my master, and may the Almighty ple began to move about. Many must still be taught. I myself
battle in the Federal Court H. hear them, too. This is the season streamed toward the exists. The have not quite learned that lee-
woods, Broadway producer, who when the Jews go to Tiberias to Sheik Abdullah turned with astir,- son, for I still write occasional
faction to his wife and children: I feuilletons. I am still the feuille-
swore that he would never succumb pray at the grave of 'Nebi Meir
"Here we are, at Semaeh al- ton editor of the Neue Freie
Di the lure of Hollywood, now has just as we go to the graves of
a big job on the Coast, supervising •Nebi Rubin' and 'Nebi Salach'. ready. Now • short journey by Presse, while it would be my duty;
steamboat
and we shall come to' to harbor no thought but that
From
old
Jewish
women
in
the
pictures . . President Roosevelt
Open Evenin g s, Sunda y
p. m.
is very much pleased with the sil- Street of the Hundred Gates, I the grave of the Jewish prophet.. cause. But I am improving in
Rabbi
Meir
the
Miraculous, bless- this respect.
I ehall begin III
houette that Jack J. Levin, a Bal- have heard that the wonderful
learning self -sacrifice
timore ■ rtist, made of him • • • 'Nebi Meir' performs great rnir- ed be his memory."
myself;

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