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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, December 15, 1944
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in poverty, she awaits the flour "somewhere there must be a de- You know that it is not my fault,
with as much longing as we do cision on such a matter, and if for I am only a stick of wood."
"But I haven't a crumb of
Messiah. But what can I do? • you will come over to see me
By S. B. KOMAIKO
a in my house," said Zlata,
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For I am only a stick. If I Saturday after I have my nap, bread
sorrowful voice.
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k
t
hat
hat
I
can
o
see
w
w
I
would—
The mill is busily buzzing.
Berel, half-frightened, as he
"Oh, but. The satisfied do not
Brrrrr-trdtrd-tssssss
—
sudden-
find
concerning
this
query.
Have
believe the hungry," sadly said
Berel, the miller, runs busily picked up the broom to sweep ly the stones started to grind, you got the weekly dues?"
up the scattered grains to the
Berel felt around a few min- Berel, with a shake of his head.
to and fro, not kniwing what to bin.
against each other. The corn
"But what can I do?"
do first. The country gentle-
pulled out from his bosom
"What's that?" yelled Daniel, had all been ground and new utes,
"You will not be able to bake
a large woolen stocking, in which
man's corn is almost ground, and the owner, aroused and angered. corn was to be poured in.
anyway now, it is pretty nearly
soon it will be time to pour new "Zlata, schmata, what sort of
Berel rose as swiftly as an ar- there were a few kopikes, and
corn into the bin, but he is at business is that? Do what you're row. A thought flits across his with the greatest satisfaction gave Sabbath," said Berel, comforting
her.
a loss to know whose corn he told to do, and let that be mind. "I will pour Zlata's corn them to Sholom.
"Well, you are almost right,
The Talmud - Torah teacher
shall next pour in. Simcha, the enough. If Zlata needs bread she into the bin next, and what will
my friend, but I would at least
flour dealer, sent word that his can buy it, and that's all there's happen will happen." He takes wished him a "Gut Shabbath," bake
a couple of 'Platzkers'."
corn should be ground as soon to it. Pretty soon you will dic- hold of Zlata's corn, but stops and left very hurriedly.
"Zlata, I have a plan," whis-
After him there entered a tall,
as possible, and the matter is not tate to me as to whom I shall and drops it.
pers Berel merrily. "But you
to be discussed with him, for if choose for my daughter. Did you
Brrrr-trdtrd-tssssss go the mill- thin, haggard woman, her face must not say a word to anybody.
pale
and
her
eyes
deep
set.
This
Simcha should by chance be ever hear of the like?"
stones as they rub and rate
You see, where there is Torah
was Zlata, the widow.
made angry, Berel will lose his
Angered, he ran away from against each other.
"Good morning to you, Reb there is Sense. Where there is
job, his standing, and then what the window, but presently re-
Like a wild geast in the great-
a will there is a way."
can he do—take a sack on his turned.
est anger, Berel grabs Simcha's Berel! I suppose my corn is be-
"Who knows what it is," mut-
ing ground. After much plead-
back and begin to beg?
sack
of
corn
and
hurls
it
into
"Berel," he said, "remember
tered Zlata.
"Oh, if I could only get off that this is Friday evening; I the bin with such force that the ing I got the loan of Joseph the
"I will take a few handfuls of
my hands first Zlata the widow's am going to bathe,, and when I sick bursts. "Curses upon their butcher's cart in order to haul flour from that sack near the
the
flour
home.
Tell
me,
Reb
corn—" he scratches his head return I want to find Simcha's hearts!" he storms. "In Schule,
wheel, and when your corn is
despondently and angrily— "only corn ground and in a sack ready in the city, everywhere, all over, Berel, will I have to wait very ground I will pay it back; that
long
yet?"
even in the mill, they are to be
yesterday she told me that if to load into the wagon."
Berel, with his head bowed will be borrowing the flour."
she needed a piece of bread even
Daniel goes away and Berel made favorites. Curses . upon down, did not answer.
"Well, let it be thus," said
for medicine, she could not find it sits down for a while near the them. Why, why need we poor
"Ali, I see, Reb Berel; you also Zlata, thankfully. "Can I help
in her house. But what shall I bin. The corn is diminishing and devils live. All week I am as
do? I am no more than a wood- diminishing, and Berel thinks to white as a ghost; the dust chokes are beginning to carry your head myself ?"
high. You are too proud to ans-
Zlata holds her sack as Berel
en rod."
himself : "Simcha needs the flour me night and day; weeks after
"Berel," suddenly called the so badly for what reason? Has weeks pass away and I do not wer . . ."
pours in the flour from the other
"I have nothing to answer,"
owner of the mill, through a he no bread in the house? Are see my wife and children. When
sack.
small window, "as soon as the there not enough sacks piled on she sometimes brings me food said the miller with a sigh. "Your
"Berel! Berel! Hey there.
measure of corn is ground you his shelves from the floor to the I don't even get a minute to corn has not been touched. Per-
shall change the stones and nn- ceiling? Would it not be a speak to her. Daniel swallows haps we will grind it Monday.
See THIEVES—Page 13
mediately pour in Simcha's. Do favor to Ziata to grind her corn us with his look—and what is the
end?
When
sometimes
I
want
to
you hear?"
"And Zlata's corn?" asked first? The poor widow, alone, do a poor woman a favor, they
will not let me do it. Curses on
them. I am only a stick, and
rather than such a life . . ."
"Berel, good morning! What,
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WITH BIGOTRY AND HATRED
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for the school, succeeded in al-
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er, but within him there was
still a tempest of fury.
"I am very glad that you came
at this time," said Berel to Sho-
lom, at the same time pointing
to a sack of flour for him to sit
down on, on which Berel had
spread a clean sack. "You know,
Sholom, that I ' am an ordinary
blunt man, with no good educa-
tion, but you understand that it
is not my fault. I was left an
orphan at eight and . . ."
"Yes, I understand; what is
there to guess about?" broke in
Sholom,. "you evidently want
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