eDentonlEmsn 'AGE TWO SINCERE GOOD WISIIES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR September 3, 1937 New Year's Greetings from Grand Rapids I Believe in Intermarriage HAYES BODY CORP. Racial Mixture Is a Blessing A. A. ANDERSON, Pres. By KLAUS MANN GRAND RAPIDS, MICA, ThIs article from the pen of one of Vorope's outetandInu writere—s eon of Thome. Mann, the Nobel Prize winner—whi •roune much ribeow,lon. The purity of the Jeakh me. has for eenturim been one Of Ilse nuoot debated topire In our hirtorr. While Weyour not urea with the rrumente of a young Mann, we feel that hie honeotly eet forth, to be pohilehwl. present them herewith without further comoteut. (Copyright, 1937, seven Arm b'eature Syndicate/ SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR IDEAL SEATING CO. WILLIAM A. GEDRIS, Pres. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Reliable Cartage Co. JOHN VANDERJAGT, Pres. Exclusive Haulers for THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO. 609 WATSON, S. W. DIAL 9-6141 GRAND RAPIDS, 611C11. • R07416113 ■ nel THE LEGAL CHRONICLE SINCEREST 110811 HASHONAH'GREETINGS CRESTON BATTERY SERVICE LYLE A. DORNAN One Stop Sinclair Service—Willard Batteries WHEN YOUR CAR WON'T START CALL US 2116 PLAINFIELD, N. E. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Phone 7.1380 SINCEREST ROSH IIASIIONAII GREETINGS BUDDE DRY CLEANERS 979 CHERRY, S. E. Phone 9.4238 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SINCEREST ROSII HASIIONAII GREETINGS TED BOOTH INC. WESTERN MICHIGAN PACKARD DISTRIBUTORS 245 JEFFERSON, S. E. GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. Phone 8.1589 SINCEREST ROSH IIASIIONAII GREETINGS The idea that human beings —that positive intellectual ab- should be bred as, say, horses are normality—marked with physio- bred has always repelled me; it logical failings and deficiencies! is, in the deepest sense of the F r o in the blind Homer to words, impious, sacrilegious and Nietzsche with his torments of profane. The cult that has lat- migraine (a malady to which he terly arisen about the concept of confesses he owes his best work), "race" includes a large portion from Socrates, ugly to the point of unmitigated materialism, Dar- of deformity, to the deaf Beet- winism, outmoded 19th-century hoven—what an array of phYsi- philosophy—and the worst of it rally defective, afflicted, disabled is that in this racial cult material- beings! The Catholic Church ism is combined with mystic su- knows very well why it rejects perstition and all sorts of irra- and fights the new experiments tional and obscure elements. This in sterilization. The plan of crea- mixture of a misunderstood tion is mysterious. We cannot pseudo-"science" and a fantastic correct, we cannot improve it by aggressive belief in the miracu- preventing the propagation of im- lous (the belief in the miraculous perfect types. mission of the "blonds." as the Calls Inbreeding Dangerous chosen people, to bring salvation This by way of preamble. I to the world) is far from fruit- ful, far from holding promise for expressly emphasize my view that the future; it is, instead, ex- this entire racial problem is not tremely unpleasant and danger- to be overestimated in order to be able to add that, in my opin- ous. is but one efundamental The overestimation of "blood" ion, there . racial questions: derives from alienation from the principles i Is beneficial. to spiritual. Can a noble, physically formulate it briefly and simply. It and mentally superior human be- is when races are mixed that the ing be "bred?" To me it seems probabilities are greatest for the that such a man is rather to be production of fine specimens of produced by training, that the in- humankind. tellecual nutriment offered the Pure-blooded types endowed growing boy and the environment in which he grows up constitute with charm and fine qualities do, of course, exist. But they hardly more decisive factors than the composition of his blood. And represent the rule. Racial purity usually signifies inbreeding; and when we come to genius—that amazing exception, that entirely this is most dangerous, as is ex- unpredictable and totally inex- emplified by certain aristocrats plicable phenomenon: Can this be for whom the very process of produced as we produce a pedi- hang is almost too much, or by greed dog or a fine orchid? It is peasants in isolated regions where more likely that genius will dis- a few families intermarry re- appear if human fumbling inter- peatedly among themselves. Many feres with the processes of crea- idiots are produced thus—de- tion; if all who suffer from any formed beings, but not of the physical abnormality—the crip- type of genius. It is paradoxical—and para- pled or the deaf, the epileptics or the nIcoholics, the blind or the doxically characteristic—that this neurasthenics—a h o u l d be dep- cry for "racial purity" and "un- rived of their powers of reproduc- mixed blood" today rises no pene- tion. If this course is taken be- tratingly from Germany, land of cause physiological abnormalities cross-breeding and racial mix- are considered hereditary, the ture par excellence. The land probability of the appearance of which to this very "impurity," to genius is vastly diminished. For this compositeness of racial blend how frequently do we find genius owes its richness in great men. Racial mixture provides the greatest probability for th e emergence of a productive and ROSII MAISIONAII GREETINGS highly qualified type of man. Per- sons of mixed blood, furthermore, AUTO•ELECTRIC CO. often possess physical beauty as GLEN E. MARTIN well. Nietzsche, who understood biological values, advised the in- 343 LA GRAVE, S, E, termarriage of the old Prussian DIAL 8.3753 nobility with Jews. Not a bad GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. idea. The blend of the Jewish with the Germanic unquestion- ably has excellent chances, bio- logically speaking. NMI IIASIIONAII GREETINGS A Personal Example I should like to cite a personal MATT HEYNS example. FOOD STORES The ancient Lubeck patrician family from which my father 7 LOCATIONS TO sprang was biologically superan- SERVE YOU nuated, exhausted, decadent—as GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. the reader can see in his great novel "Verfall Einer Familie." THE WONDER BAR IRVEN A. HAGEN, Prop. Grand Rapids Finest Dine and Dance— Air Conditioned • Fine Foods • Fine Liquors SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. SINCEREST ROSII HASHONAll GREETINGS NORGE & R. C. A. 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Why Jews Wear Praying Shawl in the Synagogue The use of the praying shawl or Talith, as it is known in Ito. brew, is in obedience to the follow- ing Biblical injunction: "Speak unto the children of Is- rael and bid them that they make them fringes in the border of their garments, throughout their gen- erations, and that they put upon the fringe of their borders a cord of blue; and it shall be unto you for a fringe that you may look upon it and remember all the corn- mandments of the Lord and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which ye go astray." (Numb. 15:38, 39). Another passage supposed to enjoin the use of the Talith is: "Thou shalt make for thyself fringes upon the four corners, of your garments with which thou coverest thyself." (Deut. 22:12). Sincere Good Wishes for a Ilappy and Joyous New Year Sincere Good Wishes for a Ilappy and Joyous New Year GREENHOE'S HOME for FUNERALS 207 FULTON E. Telephone 8-1494 GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. 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GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. BEST WISIIES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2307 DIVISION, S. A. E. 11ANSON, General Mgr. GAYLORD NELSON, Secretary COUNTY SURVEYOR Wonder why the New York Staatszeitung and Herold hasn't protested against the publication in Der Angriff of a violent anti- Semitic article, which was falsely identified as a reprint from the Staatszeitung. Solomon Segall, president of Scophony, Ltd., a British firm which owns patents to a revolu- tionary television device, is the son of Rabbi Jakob Meier Segalo- vitch, Orthodox chief rabbi of Brussels. Michigan Union Life Association BEST WISIIES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PICK UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE GEORGE E. BODINE, 'Prop. Phone 9.3583 The six-cornered star generally seen on the faced.? of the Jewish synagogue is variously known as the Star of David, David's Shield and the Mogen David. This Hexi- gram formed by the combination of two equi-lateral triangles is universally recognied as a sym- bol of Judaism. The star with the word "Zion" in the cen- ter is the symbol of the World Zionist movement; it was also adopted in 1873 as the symbol of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Many believe that the Mogen David, like the Mezuzah, is a sym- bol of the protective powers ex- ercised by God in behalf of the Jew. Thus the star appears over the door of the synagogue as does the Mezuzah over the door of Jewish homes. Not by any of its names was the star mentioned in Biblical or Talmudic literature, this because of the Jewish view of God which permits no images of Him and was and still is op- posed to the acceptance of any symbols. Its use was first noted in a Jewish tombstone at Tarentum, southern Italy, which may date as early as the Third Century of the common era; the earliest men- tion of it in Jewish literature was in the 12th Century. The sym- bol probably did not originate with rabbinism, the official domi- nant Judaism for more than 2,000 Years, but was probably derived by the Cabal from the Templars. 10 LOGAN, S. W. Phone 8-6688 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. B. W. GREENHOE—Funeral Director LEONARD BUILDING 4050 MARKET, N. W. The Star of David C. EVANS JOHNSON, Pres. SINCEREST ROSH HASHONAll GREETINGS MANUFACTURERS SUPPLY CO. Creative talent would hardly have been produced by house of Mann had there 'not taken place a vi- talizing injection of exotic blood. My paternal grandmother, who came from Brazil. was half Cre- ole — and for II einr ich and Thomas Mann their mixed blood became not only a biological stimulant but the central spiritual problem of their youth, the prob- lem of Tonio Kroeger and the problem of Ileinrich Mann's "Zwischen den Rassen." I believe, however, that this biological re- vitalization would have been lost had my father chosen his wife among the young ladies of the old families of Lubeck, Ilamburg or Bremen. I may be permitted to voice the suspicion that in such a case we—his children—would have turned out to be horribly boring, thin-blooded, untalented creatures. This, of course, is a hypothesis impossible to prove. But I feel instinctively that the life-giving effect of the admixture of Creole blood, to which Ger- man literature and world litera- ture owe two great authors, had spent itself in a single generation. Fortunately my father chose not the daughter of some Ilanseatic patrician but the wondcrful woman who is my mother and the mother of my five brothers and sisters. Her father, the mathema- tician and art collector Geheim- rat Alfred Pringsheim, is of Jew- ish descent, though himself no longer a Jew; my grandmother, Frau IIedwig Pringsheim-Dohm, is of mixed blood, partly Jewish and partly that of a Prussian pastor's family. We six children therefore do represent a mixture of many kinds of blood. I am content; more than that, I am grateful for it. The complicated composition of my "racial" mixture has never been a problem for me. I have always found it to my liking. It has never caused me any suffer- ing—and especially not today, when every ass spouts "racial philosophy." Doubtless there are good and poor racial strains among human beings. But it by no means fol- lows that the racially pure are always the finest people or that those of mixed blood are neces- sarily inferior. Nature loves to make daring experiments. She may take a special joy in produc- ing new strength when two old, exhausted streams of blood come together. Two families—or, to take the larger view, two races— seem to have reached the end. They unite—and behold, a new beginning has been made! Re- generation cannot arise from an inflexible, presumptuous principle of self-sufficiency; it is, instead, born of the adventures of strange meetings, the adventure of love. SINCERE GOOD WISIIES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR ROSH HASHONAII 9-3385 134 GRANDVILLE, S. W. GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES T. L. OSBERGER GRAND RAPIDS, 611C11. GRAND RAPIDS, MICII. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR Sincere Good Wishes for a Happy and Joyous New Year BEST WISHES FOR A IIAPPY NEW YEAR ROSH IIASIIONAII GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES BRECKEN'S ICE CREAM & DAIRY Anderson Vulcanizing and Tire Service EDGAR S. KIEFER TANNING CO. GRAND RAPIDS SCALES CO. HOWARD D. BRECKEN 1950 EASTERN S. E. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR JOSEPH P. LYNCH SALES CO. 130 LEWIS ST. Phone 9.9783 GRAND RAPIDS, If ICIL ANDREW J. 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