Friday, °debit. 1, 15411 DETROIT 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 • • 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. • careful, sober driver ever since. up the hotel to make reserva- • a • 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 2955 W. DAVISON TO 8-8870 Rosh Hashonah is at hand and because I like much better the Jewish way of celebrating new GREETINGS yea! s. • • • S PEAKING • • TY 4-6430 Appraisers • Engineers Industrial Surveyors A recognized authority Since I916 Registered Appraisers— U. S. District Court 823 PENOBSCOT BLDG. CAdillac 6654 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 VI. 2-1010 Rosh Hashonah Greetings . • • TRUCKING INC. , 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 • • • 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." • MUSKOVITZ & PERSHIN SUDDEN FEELING LET US CONSIDER, at this season, one whom we may as Page Twenty-pewee Collingwood at Third Wishing Our New Era Potato Chip Co. Friends and Patrons 5801 Grandy a WA 1.2700 Happy New Year New Year's Greetings Finest Tasting Beer in America E&B All Grain Beer Wrigley's Super Markets 22 Stores to Serve You