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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 1:1-4:20.
Prophetical portion—Hos. 2:1-22.
Readings of the Law for First Day of Shevuoth,
Sunday, May 18
Pentateuchal portion — Ex. 19:1-20:23; Num.
28:26-31.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 1:1-28:3-12.
Readings of dm Law for Second Day of Slurried',
Monday, May 17
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 14:22-16:17; Nem.
28:26-31,
Prophetical portion—flab. 3:1-19.
May 14, 1937
Sivan 4, 5697
The Late Abba L. Keidan
Detroiters who were privileged to know
the patriarchal octogenarian, Abba L
Keidan, will retain sacred and pleasant
memories about him. Ile was one of the
most distinguished of the older Jewish
residents of this city. Pious, consistent in
his devotion to his people and their tra-
ditions, a man who was so closely linked
with the synagogue that he was rightfully
considered the strongest pillar of the con-
gregation he was affiliated with (Shaarey
Zedek), the passing of Abba L. Keidan
unfortunately points to the disappearance
of a most interesting generation whose de-
votion Is not equalled by the younger peo-
ple.
Mr. Keidan was, in a sense, a commu-
nity in himself. Yeshivas throughout Eur-
ope and Palestine knew that they could
took to him to be their spokesman in De-
troit—and for many years he was much
more than a contributor to every orthodox
cause: He orgabized committees and per-
sonally solicited for theological schools ,
homes from the aged and the orphaned ,
free loan associations and relief move -
ments.
It was natural that he should have de -
voted his years to study. Until his more
serious illness about three months ago
Mr. Keidan was almost always to be found
at the Shaarey Zedek, either at services
or in study. Young and old know him and
found him to be sympathetic, kindly, re-
served and very humble in his way of
living.
Unquestionabiy the greatest tribute that
can be paid the late Abba L. Keidan is
that his children carry on his life's work
with dignity and with devotion. They are
all observant and religious Jews. They are
liberal in giving to worthy Jewish causes
and are concerned over the fate of their
people. Furthermore, they are religiously
attached to orthodoxy, and sincerely ob-
serve the traditions in which they were
reared. Such a tribute, which the late Mr.
Keidan experienced in his lifetime, must
have made him very happy during the
final years of his life.
We join the thousands of Detroiters who
are now paying honor to the memory of
this fine man.
Buy a Shekel
The editor acknowledges the perennial
suggestion that comes with every cam-
paign for funds. We are told:
Jews who do not contribute to the cam-
paign should be ostracized from commu-
nity life. Sincerely devoted men have been
out campaigning and have sweated blood
in an effort to secure the means necessary
fix the continued upkeep of local institu-
tions and for the relief of hundreds of
thousands of needy and oppressed Jews;
but too often men and women with means
have been so niggardly that they have
discouraged the loyal volunteer workers
who now desire to see the community
"purged" of sinners and of those who re-
fuse to share in community responsibilities.
The complainants are right. These sin-
ners and irresponsible people have no
place in the Jewish community. If they
cannot share in the financial obligations
to important community efforts they need
not expect the more loyal Jews to accept
them socially, or to give them a place 'of
equality with those who carry the burden
of supporting our schools, of financing our
relief efforts, of caring for'the aged and
the orphaned.
But why should we stop with those who
merely refuse to give money for Jewish
causes? Are not these people merely to
be pitied? Hoarders of money usually pay
the price for their miserliness.
There are worse offenders.
A Jew who does not send his child to a
Jewish school to learn the language, the
history and the traditions of his people
defies a 4,000-year-old heritage. Such a
man is more sinful than the miser and the
hard-hearted.
A Jew who besmirches his people in
public, who makes himself obnoxious to
the detriment of his fellow-men, who re-
sorts to unethical methods of conducting
business—such a Jew is more criminal
and more destructive of Jewry's honor.
A Jew who fails to carry on the tradi-
tion of learning and modesty and dignity
harms his people, because when one Jew
sibs the entire people is held to blame.
When we begin ostracizing and excom-
municating, why not include the sinners
in the categories just enumerated with
those whose hearts have turned to stone
and whose only aspiration in life is to
hoard money?
We are like the other nations of the
world. We have the good and the bad—
and we must accept both. We have the
liberal givers as well as the hoarders. We
have the dignified as well as the undigni-
fled. We have the learned and the ignor-
ant. The difference between Jew and non-
Jew is that we make greater demands upon
our people, because the world at large
makes greater demands upon us. To suc-
ceed, a Jew must be far more enterprising,
far more brilliant than the non-Jew. This
is one of the worst commentaries upon the
treatment that is being accorded us in the
world today. But because of it we must
rise to greater heights than our neigh-
bors. That is why we are so pained to
know that not all Jews are liberal givers,
that some Jewish hearts are like flint, that
some Jewish minds have been dulled by
the material aspirations in life.
Somehow, we believe that there will be
no excommunicating of our sinners. "Yis-
roel, of al pi she-choto, Yisroel hu." "A
Jew, even if he has sinned, remains a
Jew?' Instead of considering ostracism for
offending Jews, let us think in terms of
uplifting them spiritually, of convincing
them that their methods are bad, that their
hearts need to be softened. We must re-
store learning to a glorified position in
Jewish ranks, and we must inject dignity
and honor in Jewish ways of living. Every
sacred Jewish tradition must be honored,
and Jewish life must be raised to a posi-
tion above reproach.
Instead of excommunicating Jews we
must strive to elevate them. This, after
all, is the preferred Jewish method of
living.
Lights from
Shadowland
By LOUIS PEICARSKY
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FLIGHTS TO FAME
Lindbergh's Jewish Contemporaries
tropyright. 1137. a A. r. s)
BOSTONIAN GETS
STUDIO POST
Julian C. Blaustem of Boston is
the newly appointed story editor
of Universal Pictures. A graduate
of Harvard in 1933, Blauntein has
the distinction of being the young-
est man on the West coast filling!
an important position of this type.,
His rise to this post has occurred'
in the brief space of two years,
during which time he has mecca-
sively been a script reader and
assistant story editor at Universal.
Before coming to Hollywood, Blau-
stein was in the Army and a mem-
ber of the selected Flying Cadets
Corps at Randolph Air Field in
Texas. He is also a student of
economics, a writer of great abili-
ty and an art enthusiast.
IT HAPPENED IN
HOLLYWOOD
Paul Muni, Warner Bros. star,
is very particular about the au-
thenticity of his make-ups. It is
reported he spent two-months' time
and consulted more than 200 pic-
tures of Emile Zola, before making
tests for the film on Zola now in
production.
Jerome Cowan, the ex-Broadway
stage favorite, was vacationing at
Palm Spring's, Calif., the other day
when he was invited to ride in
the annual circus parade at the
desert resort. Cowan had only a
vague idea of how to nit on a horse.
All went well in the parade until
be waved to a friend among the
spectators. The horse shied, and as
you guessed, Cowan was thrown to
the street. He was severely
bruised.
Four programs indicating ap-
proval of the Bnai Brith order of
the public service being rendered
by the motion picture industry are
being broadcast on the weekly
goodwill hour of Los Angeles Lodge
of Bnai Brith ... Scenes from im-
portant films soon to be released
will be discussed by a leading par-
ticipant in those films, according to
Isidore Lindenbaum, radio chair-
man of Los Angeles Lodge.
David RubinofF, the orchestra
leader who fiddled while a New
York hat check girl burned, has
been signed by 20th Century-Fox
for •principal role in "Last
Year's Kisses'.
Joseph Roos, former associate
editor of the Bnai Brith Messenger,
is back in the movie studios serv-
ing his one-time boss, Jesse L Las-
ky, again as assistant story editor.
Roos edited a string of German
language newspapers in Chicago
before coming to Hollywood.
RADIO STARS GET RAPPED
A bunch of dandelions and sour
grapes plus a few raps are thrown
to Block and Sully, radio entertain-
ers, for what is described as a
distasteful performance at the Los
Angeles Radio Editors' Show. Re-
porting the show for the Bnai
Brith Messenger, Dick Chase
writes:
"If 'it' ever 'happens here', non-
Aryans like Block and Sully will
probably never realize just how
much they had to do with it. To us
their brand of filth was nothing
less than a disgrace to what is
sometimes referred to as the 'Jew-
ish name'. Whether they were fun-
ny or not Is anybody's opinion; as
Jews with obviously Yiddish facial
characterizations who told pain-
fully off-color stories to a crowd
at the show that included children,
they should be made aware of the
fact that there are other Jewish
comedians who are trying to build
good will, not to break it down."
By the way, have you noticed the
return of so-called Jewish humor-
ous characters in radio acts? Even
Joe Penner's show and Uncle Ez-
ra's program have obviously Jewish
characters whose command of the
dialect Is absolutely zero, With all
the talent lying around the coun-
try, it Is pitiful that producers of
radio acts have to resort to that
time-worn trick of introducing Jew-
ish comedians to get laughs, at
the expense of the Jewish people.
By GREGORY BLATTMAN
EDITOR'S NOTE: Oo the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh'. his-
(grit Right across the Atlantic, which will be celebrated on 'Thursday, May
20, Mr. Blatt.
man brings to readers of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle the fascinating story of the
Jewish men and women who followed the Lone Eagle in advancing the science of aero-
nautics.
(5'0P/right. 5517 : Seven Arta Feature Pyndleate)
On May 20, 1927, a then unknown young
aviator took off from New York on a solo non-
atop flight to Paris. In the 10 years that have
elapsed since that flyer stepped out of the cock-
pit of the Spirit of St. Louis at Le Bourget air-
field in France and announced to the waiting
throng "I am Lindbergh," aviation has made
tremendous strides.' Lindbergh's pioneering flight
across the ocean set the stage for an era of un-
paralleled progress in flying, during which dis-
tances have shrunk before man's complete con-
quest of the air.
Since Lindbergh's epochal achievement in
flying the ocean alone the world has found its
wings. But so quickly has man accustomed him-
self to flying that he has forgotten the pioneering
whose early labors contributed to the modern
development of aviation. Among them were the
German Jewish engineer, Otto Lilienthal, whose
development of the glider marked the beginning
of the airplane; David Schwartz, an Austrian Jew,
inventer of the dirigible; Louis Breguet, the
French Jew who invented the elastic rubber de-
vice used to prevent bumps in aircraft; and Emile
Berliner, the American who devised the first
helicopter.
Only less well remembered are the exploits
of those who came after Lindbergh and whose
part in the further advancement of aviation is
of more recent date. Today zeppelins and clip-
per planes fly passengers and freight across every
ocean on regular schedule, but it is less than 10
years since the first passenger traveled by air
from America to Europe. In May, 1927. Charles
A. Levine bought a plane which he named the
Columbia, hired Clarence Chamberlain as pilot
and planned an ocean flight. He created a sen-
sation when he announced he would go along
AS a passeger. And he did. Bound for Berlin,
the Columbia came down at Kottbus, Germany,
on June 5, 16 days after Lindbergh's flight.
The Chamberlain-Levine flight set • new world's
distance record and made Levine the first trans-
atlantic air passenger. Two years later another
American Jew, 22-year-old Arthur Schreiber, be-
came the first stowaway on a transatlantic air
journey when he hid in the tail of the Yellow Bird
and flew from Old Orchard, Maine, to Spain with
Jean Assolant, Rene Le-Fevre and Armand Lotti
oh their projected flight to Fraiice.
An Exteremely Hazardous Undertaking
Few now remember the disastrous expedi-
tion of General Umberto Nobile, who took off
in the dirigible Italia for a flight over the North
Pole in the spring of 1928. On the board the
ill-fated Italia was Prof. Aldo Pontremoli, grand-
son of Luigi Luzatti and one of the world's great-
est authorities in the field of earth magnetism.
He had joined the expedition to complete experi-
ments which he hoped would add to man's knowl-
edge of weather conditions, a vital matter in
aviation. Pontremoli was one of those who died
in the crash of the Italia; but a rescue party,
which saved the survivors, recovered the young
*dentist's notebooks, which contained records re-
garded as invaluable aids to the science of Arctic
navigation.
In 1929 Admiral Richard Byrd electrified
the world by his Little America Antarctic expedi-
tion and his flight over the South Pole. It was
Lieutenant Commander Isaac Schlossbach, com-
mander of the U. S. Navy's "fighting five," a fam-
ous wartime bombing squadron, who was the
ace flyer of Byrd's crew. Schlossbach flew sup-
plies from the base camp at L ttle America to
the explorer, an extremely hazardous undertak-
ing. Now he is making ready for a trip to the
North Pole as the pilot for the MacGregor ex-
pedition, which intends to set up a midway sta-
tion on the short air route to Europe via the
Arctic regions. Also observing with Byrd was
Master Sergeant Benjamin Roth, a genius at air-
plane motors, who was in personal charge of
Byrd's plane which flew over the South Pole.
The exploits of Levine, Schreiber, Pontre-
moli, Schlossbach and Roth, all of whom did their
share in making the world air-minded, were soon
overshadowed by the appearance of the "Jewish
Lindbergh," a woman. In the spring of 1930
the late Lena Bernstein won for herself the title
of the world's greatest aviatrix. Long before
Amelia Earhart and Amy Mollison took to the
air, Miss Bernstein, a Russian Jewess living in
Paris, demonstrated that the weaker sex was
nothing of the sort when it came to flying. In
1929 she astounded the aviation world by flying
non-stop from Marseilles to Southern Egypt, a
distance of more than 1,400 miles over the Medi-
terranean, an over-water flight for a stretch
equivalent to a flight from Newfoundland to
Ireland. The following year she set a new
world', endurance record by remaining in the air
for over 35 hours. What Miss Bernstein did in
Europe Mildred Kaufman and Edith Bernsen did
in America. The former set the women's loop-
ing record in 1930, while the latter, the first
woman manager of an airport, won the Amelia
Earhart prize at the national air races in 1935.
A Record of Jewish Achievement
Parallel with the progress in airplanes was
the growth of stratosphere and zeppelin flying
and gliding. Prof. Auguste Piccard of Belgium,
the first man to make a stratosphere balloon flight
who ascended 10 and one-half miles in the sir
in 1932, was the grandson of a Jew. Two years
later Llya Usyskin, a young Russian Jewish scien-
tist, crashed to his death with two comrades after
their stratostat, the Osoaviakhim 1, had set a
new record by climbing 13 and two-thirds miles
into the stratosphere. To Karl Arnstein, a Bo-
hemian-born Jew, who is now a naturalized
American, belongs the credit for the phenomenal
advance in the design of zeppelins. Now the
chief engineer of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Cor-
poration, Arnstein designed the Macon, the Akron
and the Los Angeles and has contributed many
new devices to zeppelin construction. The world's
champion glider is Robert Kronfeld of Austria,
an aircraft builder in London. Kronfeld, who
holds most of the world's records for gliding,
was the first to complete a London-to-Paris glider
flight and also the first to make a round trip
glider journey across the English Channel.
This record of Jewish achievement in avia-
tion in the last decade would be Incomplete with-
out reference to the munificent grants of the late
Daniel Guggenheim for the advancement of fly-
ing in the United States and South America;
Iradore W. Schlesinger of South Africa, donor
of the $50,000 prize for the London to Johannes-
burg air race; Sir Philip Sassoon, under-secre-
tary for aviation in the British cabinet, who
paved the way for the introduction of regular
air service between London and India by making
a 17,000 mile inspection tour of British aviation
stations via the air; Sigmund Levanevsky, the
Russian airman who just failed to complete a
non-stop flight from Moscow to San Francisco
by way of the North Pole; and the late Ben
Leider, former American newspaperman, who
was killed while flying for the Loyalists in Spain.
Strictly
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyright : 11sr. a A. •• no
READ WITH CARE
Anti-Semitic organizations are
only less disappointed than the
theater owners at the failure of
New York's license commissioner
to renew the licenses of the bur-
lesque houses . . . The fact that
Jews held many of these licenses
was being widely exploited by the
anti-Jewish groups.
The appointment of Dr. Hein-
rich Bruening, German ex-chancel-
lor, to the liarvard faculty, was
indirectly made possible by Lucius
N. Littauer Bruening has been
named lecturer on government in
the new Harvard Graduate School
of Public Administration, which
was founded with Littauer's $2,-
000,000 gift.
Dr. 13. E. Geer, president of
Furman University, Greenville,
S. C., is one of the prominent
Southerners who is fighting efforts
of industrialists to defeat union-
ization of textile workers by rous-
ing feeling against Jewish organ-
izers ... Speaking of South Carol-
ina reminds us that the swanky
Saint Cecilia Society of Charleston
has a set of by-laws which bars
divorcees, actresses and Jews from
its social functions.
Anti-Semitic businessmen in New
York are said to be contributing
to an anti-Nazi boycott organiza-
tion in order not to lose their Jew-
ish customers for German goods ..
Due to the efforts of James N.
Rosenberg and John IV. Davis,
18,000 copies of "We Or They", a
swell anti-Fascist tome by Hamil-
ton Fish Armstrong, have been
bought and sent to key people
throughout the country.
ABOUT A VISITOR
Some strange stories are being
told about this Prof. Leo Frobe-
nius, the German archeologist who
is here on a lecture tour: Ile is
said to be a Nazi agent .. . We
are also informed, however, that
three exiled German scientists,
Franz Torbeke, Arnold Hollreigel
and Dr. German, are accusing him
of allegedly having no right to the
claim • of having discovered the
African pre-historic caves, which
he claims to have explored ... Hell-
riegel insists that he is the dis-
coverer and that Frobenius ap-
propriated his material ... Other
information concerning Frobenius
Is that he was appointed museum
director in Frankfort-am-Main In
1934 after a conference with Hit-
ler, that he once tried vainly to
get a job through the late Kurt
Eisner, Socialist premier of the
short-lived Bavarian Republic, and
that he discharged his assistant,
who is now in New York, because
he Is married to a Jewess ...
TRANS-ATLANTIC
FLASHES
Vienna is agog over a sensa-
tional suit filed against Barons
Eugene and Louis Rothschild by a
Frau Teresa Gold, who claims to
be their mother... She is seek-
ing 1,000,000 schillings on the basis
of certain documents which are
supposed to prove that she etas
secretly married to their father,
Baron Nathaniel . . . Frau Gold,
however, seems to be slightly mis-
taken, for there is no record of a
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild in
Vienna ... And what's more, the
father of Eugene and Louis was
Baron Albert.
Thomas Mann is editing a new
magazine to be written by and for
important German exiles . . It
will be called "Measure and Value"
and the first issue is due in August
... Chagrined by General France's
failure to win the Spanish civil
war, the Nazi press is discovering
that he "may not be an Aryan" be-
cause "he looks like a Jew, and his'
race is mixed, to any the least".
Now that Putzi lianfstaengl is
in exile maybe he'll be willing to
tell about his part in helping to
plan the Reichstag fire which
helped the Nazis gain final power.
Increasing German Jewish emi-
gration has made Jewish match-
making an international business.
Frau Margarete Bornstein, Ber-
lin's best known shadchen, has
opened branches in Paris and Hai-
fa.
The Shekel is the tax that every Zionist
is required to pay as an indication that he
subacribes to the Basle platform.
The Shekel today is the tax unit that
every Jew is obligated to pay to the Zion-
ist cause as an indication that he is pre-
pared to align himself with his people in
SHAVUOTH
Israel's Troubled Pilgrimage
behalf of the movement for the redemp -
CURIOSITIES
tion of Israel's nationhood against the re -
Occasionally Jewry receives most heart-
action that threatens to stifle and strangle ening encouragement in its rehabilitation
Jewish Contributions to Farming Progress in America Things You Never Knew Till Anent the Latest Volume of
us.
Miss Jessie E. Sampler's
and reconstruction efforts from non-Jew-
Now About This Holiday
Poems Issued by the Jewish Publication Society
At a time when Palestine loomed on the ish quarters. It is a mistake to imagine
By GABRIEL DAVIDSON
Jewish horizon as the only hope and sal - that the world is always cold to our ap-
By RABBI A. H. ISRAELITAN
By TAMAR DE SOLA POOL
vation for hundreds of thousands of our peals, or that Christianity is indifferent to EDITOR'S NOTE: Although jenivh fanning In A,,t.. I. hot ••" •
old, it has •ver been in the vangoard of
ereirediemi 10••••5 Oa the
oppressed and persecuted, destructive our aspirations.
BRAND PLITKPZ) FROM rnx
me of elletuoth, the enrknt Swot of the IBM Malta, Dr. lbseldue. the HINTS TO THE HOUSEWIFE
EIRE. n Jewle 15 Sumter. PeilliMed b; the
(emend
manager of the Jrwieh Agetraltand Society, reviews the record
Jewhit Publication Society of Amedea, Philadelphia, Pa. (14.50).
forces arose to molest us and to undermine
It is true that the demonstrations of
of Jewish
motributions to farming progress le this 0.•07.
Would you like to have mat-
the foundation of the Jewish Nationa l sympathy are rare. But when they finally
zoh on your Shevuoth table?
Snow in Jerusalem. All night
Home. Our pioneers stood the test nobly find expression they are so heartening that
(CoPYright, 1137. Seven Arai Feature Syndicate)
To the outward observer there
Well, whether you consider it it fell. When the city awoke at was, perhaps, no reason why Jes
Jews throughout the world did not weak- they give us new courage to continue our
-
a good idea or not, we wish dawn, it witnessed a spectacle as sie Sampter should have veered
Between
the
years
1881
and
hope that some would advance to
en under the weight of barbarism and efforts to rebuild our traditional sanctu-
you to know that the Thera- strange as tee deluge, as beautiful from the agnostic, assimilated
1887
numerous
attempts
at
Jew-
the status of farm owners. This
vandalism.
aries.
peutae, members of an ancient as a dream of the fairies. But background of her childhood and
But the danger is not yet over. It is still
An example of the type of encourage- ish farm colonization were made again was a new departure. No Jewish ascetic sect, ate this t he city that rubbed its eyes and youth. She, alone, can tell us at
In
various
parts
of
the
United
what point in her life and through
specialized farm employment
upon us. Arab gangsterism continues to ment which is given us occasionally is to
Passover food on the Feast of crowed with delight soon saw
medium she beheld the
threaten the highways and byways of Pal- be found in a recent Issue of the Relief States. Undertaken In haste, poor- agency had existed up to that Weeks. On the night of She- self in the throes of impending what
greater truth of the spiritual over
planned, inadequately support- time. It was not until 1916 that
estine. The mandatory power remains in- Society Magazine, organ of the Relief ly
the
rational
and the mystic beau-
ed, most of them wee unsuccess- New York state established a vuoth—a very holy night among disaster. Telegraph and telephone ty and potency
of folk memories.
different to these dangers. It becomes Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of ful. To provide guidance and di- farm
employment service in the the Therapeutae—they would wires were down. The road to
necessary for us to present an united Jew- Latter-Day Saints, published in Salt Lake rection for future agricultural ef- Department of Labor. In 1918 a partake of unleavened bread Jaffa was obliterated alongside As Intentella,
soar, moo:um with ire.
the son'
compare, with
ish front in order that the gangsters, on City, Utah. From this magazine we re- fort. the Baron de Hirsch Fund restricted federal farm service di- then spend the entire night, steep precipices. A food short-
meth!, tim.
was established in 1891. Since the vision was inaugurated, and only
So mut the depth of WW 1 t•• 1 1•1 "
age
was
felt
almost
Immediately.
the one hand, may realize that we shall print the following poem:
rise
fund also had other functions, it In 1933 was the present farm until sunrise, in prayer and In the narrow alleys and streets
Above mugs thought, concePtIole and
not yield to the threats of vandals; and
was soon found desirable to set placement service set up as a divi- song .. . During the Middle of the Old City, a terror-stricken
desire.
The Gathering
that the mandatory power may know that
up an exclusively agricultural sion of the United States Employ. Ages, in many a Jewish home, population found itself imprison.
My
first recollection of Jessie
By
Theodore
E.
Curtis
agency, with the result that the ment Service. The society's em-
the sentiments of the Jewish people
ed behind doors blocked by six
up thy gates, 0 Zion! From afar
Jewish Agricultural Society was ployment department has to date it was customary to eat the feet of snow. Heading the res- Sampter is of two brilliant eyes
throughout the world are wholeheartedly Lift
"Sinai
cake"
on
this
festival.
Thy children come rejoicing as of old.
founded in 1900. During the years made 18,089 placements In 32
cuers who brought food and com- illumined as from within, peering
back of the efforts of the Zionist move- Thy light rekindles, like a guiding star,
that have since elapsed many states.
The "Sinai cake" was a fritter fort through first story windows
from a startlingly emaciated body.
ment.
To light them from the darkness to the fold.
changes hove taken place In the The society established what was made like a ladder, with seven into the beleaguered town, was
agricultural world and great ad- in a sense the first "farmers' rungs to symbolize the "'seven very frail creature. one who a She was teaching a group of col-
- In order to present such a front it is In thee all racial prejudice shall cease;
In thee the hearts of many nations blend;
vances have been made in ninny bank" In America. The early Jew-
should have studiously avoided ex- lege students the fundamentals of
necessary that as many Jews as can pos- Thine
is the fountain of eternal peace
directions. With these changes and fell farmer was an unknown quan- heavens which God rent at the posure and effort But she was Zionism. Her long thin fingers
sibly be reached should be induced to buy
Where Israel's troubled pilgrimage shall end.
t hese advances, the two societies. tity. The credit so necessary to
giving of the Torah to mani- at the head of the marchers to would cut the air, on the style of
though serving a small single farming as to industry, was not fest that there is no Cod but the post of duty. Her name was a
a Shekel and in that way pay the tax they
modernistic painting. There was
group, have ever kept in step, and available to him. Indeed, 40 years
Jessie Sampter.
owe to their people. A large Shekel-buy- Thy light Is like a flaming diadem,
• s •
fire In her words and depth in her
And many land, have turned their hearts to thee. Indeed have in some procedures ago all farm credit was scarce. He" . . . We learn also that
ing force will serve to indicate to the world To Zion, and to old Jerusalem,
many
•
Jewish
housewife
of
been ahead of the times.
A second mortgage farm loan was
Jessie E. Sampter was born in thought. It was more than a class.
at large that an united Jewish community
They conic like rivers rolling to the sea.
Early effort was made to pro- Practically unknown except when those days would make, for this New York a good half century It was a school and its disciples
stands ready to support its historic claims From every quarter of the spacious earth,
vide the Jewish immigrant, long back as part of the purchase con- holiday, a long loaf with four ago, into ■ milieu of assimila- are among Hadas.sah's leaders to-
From every land beneath the starry dome,
divorced from the soil, with the sideration. It took the deepest of heads .. .
tion, headed full speed toward
to Palestine. It is not the limited Jewish
out the ancient darkness and the dearth
opportunity to obtain an agricul- depressions in American history
c omplete escape from Jewish life. day. Her "Guide to Zionism" be -
community of 410,000 in the Land of Is- From
The children of the promise gather home.
tural education. Within one year to bring forth a system of federal WELL, OF ALL THINGS
The father was a disciple of In- came the foundation of the splen-
rael that is concerned over the fate of Is-
after its creation, the Baron de second mortgage loans, known as
Out In Morocco, around Min- gersoll and Felix Adler; the did text book, "Modern Pales-
The encouraging element in this poetic Hirsch Fund established the Baron land bank commissioner loans. as ch[ time—before the afternoon daughter, for a short time at tine," published by Hadassah un-
rael. The entire Jewish people is involved
de
Hirsch
Agricultural
School
at
least, • Unitarian. Completely
an emergency and yet temporary
in the aspiration for the upbuilding of the interpretation of the re-gathering of Jews
Woodbine, N. J. This was the first measure. At its very inception in service has begun—the follow- negative as to Jewish value, Mies der her editorship. Much of the
Jewish National Home. Therefore, Jews in their ancient homeland is that it does school
In America to give second- 1900, 33 years before land bank ing amazing sight can. be seen Sampter'a home had, nevertheless, high pedagogic quality and com-
are obligated to align themselves with the not attempt to play the missionary or to ary agricultural instructions. The commissioner loans came into ex- on Shevuoth: Certain verses are a cultured and intellectual at- pleteness of these volumes comes
active forces for Palestine's reconstruction. inject the Christian ideology in the Zion- school functioned for 25 years.
istence, the Jewish Agricultural read, each Individual taking one mosphere that left a permanent from the fact that Jessie Sampter
First "Farmers' Bank"
Society addressed itself to the task verse, and the individual who impress on her life. She was a herself had to travel the same
ist idea. It is a straightforward rejoicing
Every Jew must buy a Shekel!
In 1908 the Jewish Agricultural of supplying credit against junior
delicate and sensitive child and road as ber pupils toward the full
Every Shekel-holder is a defender of because "the children of the promise gath- Society
set op a farm employment liens. and during the course of reads the last verse—well, what was fortunate to be born and understanding of the Zionist
er home." Therefore it is all the more sin- department to train city-bred Jew- the intmosing years has granted do you think happens to him? d in an environment of movement It was Henrietta Szold
Jewry's noblest aspirations!
who showed her the way which
cerely welcomed and appreciated.
ish youth for farerwork, in the
truism :`CAN TO LAST PAGE
(MIAMI TORSI TO PRIT PACTS) thought, culture and travel.
Buy a Shekel(
(1511AAR TIIRN TO KART PARE)
Fruitful Labor
.
■.!
Old Wine in a New Bottle