Page Six Mark. Twain Letters T,HE JEWISH NEWS Here His Messages Tell Praise For Hebrew Infant Asylum • High Death-Rate Among the Children on Blackwell's Island Before Turn of Century, Caused Him to Ask That Christians Be Taken to Jewish Institution Kay Elected By Congress MARK TWAIN way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually en- ables one to accept and believe the impossible: for instance, your statement that the death-rate of the slaughter-house on Black- well's Island called the Infant's "House" is 900 in the thousand! In God's name why do they not bury those poor little creatures as soon as they are received in that hospital hell and so save them some part of their suffer- ings? During the past three days we have been standing aghast at the death rate in the British con- centration camps in South Africa —250 in the thousand (children, mainly)—and now you come with this death-rate, which makes that one look wholesome, healthy and robust! What, do they feed our little concentrados on, in that Blackwell's Island Cemetery? Prussic acid and exposure? Can anything else account for such a death-rate?—a death-rate which exceeds the death-rate of any war that was ever fought, of any famine or any pestilence that has ever visited the earth,- and can even laugh to scorn the death- - rate of the supremest of all -his- torical. death-rates, that of the monumental disaster of the Black Hole of Calcutta! "And now you tell me—in con- trast with this devilish showing —that the death-rate in your He,- brew Infant Asylum is only 40 in the thousand! Oh, be good, be kind, be .generous—take our little Christians in there, and save them from the bitter misery and temporal damnation of - govern- mental Christian charity! • Oh, save their lives, and send them missionarying to China to spread our darling "civilization," which we think so much of. - When we are drunk." The Correction The second letter, with the cor- rection, reads: "My Dear Sir: "If you use my yesterday's let- Eve Shapen To Give Piano Recital Saturday Eve Shapen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shapen. of Phila- delphia Ave., a cousin of the late Mischa Levitzki, will be' present- ed in a piano recital this Sat- urday evening, at the McGregoi. Library Auditorium, Highland Park. Miss Shapen, whose recital is being sponsored by Ethel Gold- man Mendelson of the Music Forum, will be assisted by Miss Eugenia Stasze\vski, violinist Of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. ter, please erase the last two words (when drunk). Also ,please erase the inverted commas which enclose the word Civilization, (havingt unquoted, thus: Civil- ization.) "With these coarsenesses ex- punged the letter will be decent enough." Feinberg Heads Committee The Mark Twain Exhibit, spon- sored by the Friends of the De- troit Public Library, was ar- ranged by a committee under the chairmanship of Charles Fein- berg. The Exhibit includes copies of Mark Twain works translated into Hebrew, including a copy of the translation of "The Prince and the Pauper" by the late A. D. Markson of the faculty of the United Hebrew Schools, and He- brew edition of "Tom Sawyer." Continuing until May 31, the exhibit had the encouragement of Mrs. Ossip (Clara Clemens) Gabrilowitsch, who sent minia- tures of her parents to the ex- hibit from California. "Concerning the Jews" The exhibit includes the essays of Mark Twain among which is his "Concerning the Jews," writ- ten for Harper's in 1898, in which the eminent American humorist wrote: "If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute 1 per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebul-. lous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the milky way. Prop- erly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. His con- tributions , to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music; finance, medicine, ab- struse learning, are also away out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then fffded to dream stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman fol- lowed, made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held the torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now, what he always was, ex- hibiting no decadence, no in- firmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his en- ergies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains." Dr. Leo M. Franklin, a mem- ber of the Detroit Library Corn- Mission, was recently elected a member of the International Mark Twain Society. . Perfects "Safety Pin" Device Samitiel Goldberg's Invention Prevents Loosening of Bolts Detroit Chapter of AJC In the Aircraft Engine buildinitoldberg's device can be used Hears Annual Report By of the Ford Motor Co. Rouge thousands of times. Re-elected President plant, more than 2,000 feet of Given Promotion The Detroit Ch ter of the The Mark Twain Exhibit at the Detroit Public Library American Jewish origress, at its features an autographed letter by Mark Twain, written Dec. annual meeting held May 4, re- 17, 1901, to Jules Hart, commenting on a benefiLperformance in behalf of the Hebrew Infant Asylum. There is a follow- up' letter, under the same date, with a correction to the first. Both letters were written from Riverdale on the Hudson. In the first letter, Mark Twain< made a scathing indictment of the high death rate in another infant home, and the second let- ter asks that certain changes be made if the first is used for pub- lication. The First Letter The first letter to Mr.' Hart' reads: "Dear Sir: When politics enter into municipal government, noth- ing resulting therefrom in the Friday, May 12, 1944 wire and hundreds ; of cotter pins are saved daily by use of a wire "safety pin" device which pre- vents loosening of engine mount bolts from vibration when the 2000-horsepower Pratt & Whit- ney aircraft engines are "on test." The "safety pin" device, for- merly used to tag engines and for other purposes, was worked out by Samuel Goldberg of 1555 Lawrence Ave., a division fore- man who has been an employe of the Ford Motor Co. for 27 years. As temporary cotter pins, Mr. Chajes' Composition To Be Performed in N.•. Church. Thurs. LEON KAY elected Leon Kay president. Other officers elected were: Morris Lieberman, Rabbi Leon Fram, Abe Kasle and Mrs. Mor- ris - Mendelson, vice-presidents; Nathan Linden, treasurer; Sam- uel Lichtenstein, financial secre- tary; David Sheraga and Miss Eve Neidelman, recording secre- taries; Mrs. S. Lichtenstein and Miss Bertha Heller, correspond- ing secretaries. Members of Board Members, of the board of di- rectors chosen at this meeting in- clude the following: Morris Mohr, Saul R. Levin, Morris Schaver, Jack Schreier, E. Franzblau, H. M. Kaminer, Morris Stein, Philip Slomovitz, Dr. Clarissa Fineman, Mrs. David' Sheraga, Rabbi J. S. Sperka, Morris Mendelson and Rabbi Isaac Stollman. The presi- dent of the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress will alsci serve on the board. In his annual report, Mir. Kay outlined Jewish Congress activ- ities in Detroit during the past year and told of the efforts in deg' lease of the Jewish position made by the American and World Jew- ish Congresses. Outline Achievements Mrs. Mendelson, who reported as chairman of the nominating committee, also gave a report in behalf of the organizational and legislative committees, outlined the achievements during the year in the 'field of pubdic rela- tions and told of the distribution of large quantities of literature to offset discrimination. • A report on Yiddish organiza- tional activities was given by Mr. Karniner. Mr. Linden presented the fi- nancial report and Mrs. Lichten- stein reported for the telephone squad. The American Guild of Organ- ists announces that (the 142nd Psalm, a cantata for soli, mixed voices and organ, by Julius Chajes, will be performed at the annual concert in St. Barthole- mew Church of New York City next Thursday evening. Dr. M-. K. Williams, music director of St. Bartholemew, will conduct. Hugh Porter will play the organ, and the combined choirs of five Episcopalean churches, 4-lumber- ing 160 voices, will perform Mr. Chgjes' composition. The first presentation of this work, given at the Temple of Re- ligion during the New York World's Fair in 1939, was con- ducted by Hugh Ross of the New York Schola Contarum. Since then it has been heard in more than 50 synagogues, churches, and concert halls. Mr. Chajes is director of Music at Temple Beth El and the Jew- ish Community Center here. PERCY FAITH TO CONDUCT KOSTELANETZ PROGRAM Delivery Gparanfeed Sunday's "The Pause that Re- freshes on the Air" (CBS, 4:30 EWT) changes to summer dress. Percy Faith, brilliant young maestro from Canada, takes over the podiUm from Andre Kos- telanetz who, until fall, will de- vote his musical talents exclu- sively to war activities. Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan Opera so= prano, becomes the regular solo- ist and the general format of the program will be of lighter nature for the warmer months. MICHIGAN'S LARGEST FLORSHEIM. 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