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Mr. Zilch Prefers Jewish Way
JEWISH CHEONICLIE
In Israeli Post
of Celebrating the New Year
By ALFRED SEGAL
OF New Year, I remember distinctly a certain New
" Year morning—that is to say, the morning of Jan. 1, 1933. A
discreet citizen who knows when he has had enough of celebrat-
ing, I had gone to bed at midnight. I was deep in dreams that
contained no poetic significance at all. Probably I was dreaming
my favorite dream: Time and
again I have found myself down-
well call Mr. Zilch. Mr. Zilch
town without my shoes on and,
is in the dry cleaning business,
at the moment
or maybe he has a shoe cobbling
of most devas-
shop, or, then again, he may be
tat i n g embar-
a big industrialist, a doctor or
rassment, I
a window-cleaner or a colum-
wake up, thank
nist.
God.
As the Jewish year 5709 ap-
That morn-
proaches, Mr. Zilch gets con-
ing I was
scious of religious feelings -. Re- I. L. KENEN of New York,
awakened by a
ligion hasn't been any too heavy former executive secretary of
crash as of the
on Mr. Zilch's mind and heart the American Jewish Confer-
whole world
all through the past year, which ence, who is director of infor-
colla psing. I
is to say that Mr. Zilch is like mation for Israel's mission to
was happy to Al Segal
the United States.
And that the world hadn't fallen most people.
Not that he has been an irre-
apart. (It was 12 years before
the inauguration of the atomic ligious person with no thought cobbler, a dry cleaner or a col-
age—an innocent time when rea- of God and duty. He has been umnist? What's he here for/
son, had I been in a condition decent in all the ethical require- And what's to be done with his
40 consult reason, should have ments of his Jewish upbringing. life to justify his being here?
He has tried to be just in his
told me that the world would
Mr. Zilch becomes a philoso-
dealings and to be kind. Ile likes pher for the moment of the New
stand intact.)
I looked at the clock; it was to say that's about as much as Year 5709. He closes his cob-
3 a.m. I heard loud voices on any religion can - require of a bler's shop or leaves off win-
the main highway around the man, made as he is of common dow-cleaning; the 'suits in his
corner from the quiet street on clay and weak.
dry cleaning place can wait; the
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which I lived.
office of his industry knows him
. Hastily I dressed and shortly TURNS PHILOSOPHER
not, he puts his column away.
NOW AS THE year 5709 rolls Mr. Zilch goes to talk it over
was in the street, looking upon
a scene which has made me a around, Mr. Zilch isn't calling with God.
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careful, sober driver ever since. up the hotel to make reserva-
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tions for a party. It seems he STATELY PERSON
TOO MUCH REJOICING
belongs to a peculiar people who
YOU MIGHT say he looks like
AN AUTOMOBILE lay on its regard a new year as a moment a grand individual as he repairs
top, wheels up. Underneath one for solemn pausing and looking toward the Synagogue, under his
of our younger citizens was pin- around and looking inwardly.
arm the book from which he
ned. Weaving drunkenly, this
It's a new year and what's he will speak to God this New
way and that, at high speed, he going to do about it? In what Year day. • . . A gentleman of
had gone head-on into a street has he failed in the year just stately dignity on his way to
car.
ending and what is he going to speak to God about the way of
It developed later that he had make of the year to come?
his life.
been celebrating the advent of
What's this life anyway? Is it
He will be saying: "My God,
the year 1933 in the grill room just window-cleaning, or being the soul which thou hast given
of one of the hotels and had re- a big manufacturer, or a shoe unto me came pure from Thee.
joiced too fully, you might say.
There had been a big crowd
around the tables at the hotel
GREETINGS
and all had publicly acknowl-
edged in song that they were all
good fellows together.
I mention the deplorable in-
Plumbing & Heating Contractors
cident of 15 years ago because
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Rosh Hashonah is at hand and
because I like much better the
Jewish way of celebrating new
GREETINGS
yea! s.
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ject that I am making too much
of a saintly personage of Mr. circulated during the first week
of the new currency issue. The
Zilch who, after all, is an ordi- pounds issued so far are covered
nary fellow.
by old Palestine currency board
But give the man credit, any- notes and foreign currency.
way, for being civilized—a pe-
culiar individual in the human
kind. He stops everything for a
day to look into himself, to dis-
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Brown
cover what ails his character
and what he can do to deserve
living.
and Family of the
To say the least, Mr. Zilch is
an interesting human being on
Rosh Hashonah. He observes his
New Year in conference with
God.
Morris Bedding Co.
Wish to extend their Best
Wishes for a
Happy New Year
I wish him bright vision to de-
tect all his faults and sharp
ears to hear what God says
to him and wisdom and honesty
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Rosh Hashonah Greetings . • •
TRUCKING INC.
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General Offices
2940 Myrtle Street
Detroit, Mich.
TA. 5-2530
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
and Best Wishes to All
The WILSHIRE
Apartment hotel
ALBERT
KANE
L. C. MAUZY
and Associates
two weeks since the new Israeli
currency was issued, according
to the second report published by
STUDIES HIMSELF
WITH THESE words Mr. the Anglo-Palestine Bank.
The new figure represents an
Zilch speaks to God on the New
increase of
Year day. Some people may ob- ($16,000,000) 4,000,000 pounds
over the amount
ELECTRIC CONTRACTORS
632 Scotfen
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Rosh Hashonah
Greetings
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RADDEN'S ELECTRIC CO.
Greetings
13113 Dexter
Thou hast created it . , . Lord enough to do something about
of all the worlds! Many of our it in the coming year.
works are in vain and our days
It really makes no sense to be
pass away like a shadow.
a philosopher on Rosh Hashonah
"Our life would be altogether and the same old fool the rest of
vanity, were it not for the soul the year.
which, fashioned in Thine image.
gives us assurance of a higher
destiny ... Help us, 0 our God, Israel Steps Up Output
to banish from our hearts all of Its New Currency
pride and vainglory, all confi-
TEL AVIV ('LOA) — About
dence in worldly possessions, all
self-sufficient leaning upon our $41,200,000 in Israeli pounds were
put into circulation in the first
own reason."
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MUSKOVITZ & PERSHIN
SUDDEN FEELING
LET US CONSIDER, at this
season, one whom we may as
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