Friday, December 24,' 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLI

Page Twenty

Mendelssohn Pays
Homaot to a San

At L. A. Sanatorium

Anecdotes Are Told,
Humorous and Bitter

By ELIYE NATIIANS
(A World News Service Feature)
FAMILY AFFAIR: When still
a boy Felix Mendelssohn, the
famous composer. wrote the mu-
sic for a few miniature operas,
the most successful Of which
was The Two Pedagogues."
The audience acclaitywd the
music of the youngster. And as
the people filed out Stadtrath
Mendelssohn, his father, remark-
ed with pride: "Formerly, I was
the son of my father; now I am
the father of my son."
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IN "I'LL TELL the World":
In his Jewish World (Minneapo-
This patient at the Los Angeles Sanatorium has plenty of time
lis) coldmn Louis Greene tells
to read during her convalescence. Since she is bed-ridden, books
this story:
are brought to her periodically. The hospital is in the midst of
"The boys in our family all
a $7,215,000 expansion program. In Detroit, the Business Men's
had to go out and sell papers
Group is seek* 5150,000 for the institution. To contribute,
to earn a few pennies. And we
contact Nathan R. Epstein, president.
didn't do it for fresh air or rec-
reation—the pennies were need-
phone Arthur Lourie, Israeli con- Jewish farmer, who was born
ed.
and raised on the land he work-
sul-general
in the same city.
A "Life in These United
The two diplomats found some ed, was surprised to find the
States" item, written by my late
elders of the county driving into
younger brother about an actual difficUlty in understanding each
his farmyard.
incident at our dinner table, was other, until finally the Para-
The spokesman for the elders
sold by his widow shortly after guayan asked: ''Redt ihr Yid-
his death to Reader's Digest for dish?" . . . and after that their
$250. It was only half a page international problems were
GRE
doubtlessly solved.—"Chronicler"
long, but it packed a wallop.
in
the
"London
Jewish
Chroni-
"The occasion was Isadore's
first day in business as a news- cle."
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boy. He had trudged around all
WHEN THE CORRUPT Czar-
afternoon selling papers, which
ist regime began to feel the
in those days were only a penny
wrath of the Russians, it tried
a piece. So the boy made half a
to divert the people's anger into
cent a copy.
"Isadore earned only five cents other channels. It organized the
that first day. The rest of us 'notorious pogroms against Jews
very thoughtlessly taunted him in western Russia and against
about it. 'Look—a measly nickel Armenians and other minority
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he brings home.' He's out all groups in the Far East.
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During
one
of
these
periods,
a
day—and the result—five cop-
pers.' It went on for several
minutes — until little Isadore
GREETINGS
burst into tears.
"Mother sternly silenced all of
us. Then she did a remarkable
thing. She went to the cupboard
and brought out a loaf of bread.
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'This bread,' she said slow-
ly, as she sliced it and distribut-
ed pieces around the table, 'cost
five cents at Zeesman's Bakery.
Isadore's nickel bought this
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bread. He was the breadwinner
for all of us today.'
"The tears vanished, and one
could just see him swell with
pride. And the rest of us look-
ed toward him with new re-
spect, too."
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THE CHAMPIONS of Yiddish
will be encouraged by a story
4
which has just reached me. The
6219 Second Blvd.
Paraguayan consul-general in
New York had occasion to tele-

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said to their host in a most apol-
ogetic and shamefaced manner
the following: "As you know.
pogroms are now taking place all
over the Czarist empire. Jewish
homes are broken into, property
is destroyed, and'we are sorry
to say, many of your people are
killed: _
"As you also know, Czar's of-
ficials keep their eyes open and
take notes of all . those things.
But nothing of this sort has hap-
pened in our neighborhood. We
are in a dilemma. Government
officials may' show up and we
will have nothing to show. This
may not look well in the eyes
of the officials.
"Well, here we are. We know
each other. We have grown to-
gether. We have nothing against
you, and you have nothing
against us. We can't think of de-
stroying your house or of harm-
ing you, your wife, or your chil-
dren. And yet, we, the elders.
feel that something must be
done for the sake of our whole
community. So we agreed
amongst ourselves that we should
break the windows in your house
—just the windows (and that
with your approval), so that

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way they should see that we
have done something. . . ."
And so the windows were
broken in the house of the good
friend of the elders of the coun-
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