Bnai Zion Order
to Dedicate Four
Projects in Israel

MONTICELLO, N.Y. (JTA) —
Bnai Zion, the American Zionist
fraternal order, will dedicate four
new projects in Israel later, this
month, Dr. Harris Levine, presi-
dent of the Bnai Zion Foundation,
reported at the 57th annual con-
vention.
The projects will bring to 40 the
health, welfare and recreational
institutions established by the
order in Israel, Dr. Levine told the
400 delegates. The new projects
are a Maccabi center in Ashdod, a
recreational center at Kfar Bnai
Zion, a boy scout building in Tel
Aviv and an addition to the Herz-
liah Medical Clinic of the Kupat
Cholim (medical branch) of the
General Zionists.
Dr. Levine also reported that
the foundation had entered into an
arrangement with Israel's social
welfare ministry to establish an
institute for mentally retarded
persons in Rosh Haayin, a commu-
nity adjacent to Petacth Tikvah,
for care of 432 retarded patients.
Bnai Zion will seek now to raise
funds for dormitory buildings and
other. facilities, he said, having al-
ready raised $440,000 for this pur-
pose.

He reported also that Bnai
Zion has joined with the Zionist
Organization of America, the
Farband, Pioneer Women and
the Labor Zionist Organization
to form a corporate entity to es-
tablish day schools in various
parts of the United States.

President Edward Shari said, in
his annual message, that greater
emphasis would be placed on the
American affairs program of Bnai
Zion.
S h a r f was unanimously re-
elected to a third term as national
president of Bnai Zion.

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Story of Samuel Clemens-Mark Twain: History-Biography, Legend-Stereotype

"Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain"
by Justin Kaplan, published by
Simon and Schuster, is biography
at its best.
Here is a volume replete with
historic facts, with details about
the itinerant printer who had many
deals, who could be a practical
joker, whose family life was in-
itself an apt subject for literary
evaluation—the story of the man
whose fame eventually became
worldwide, whose contributions to
literature lifted his name skyward.
The biographer had done an
immense amount of research to
attain his goal in this biography.
Justin Kaplan, who studied at
Harvard, still lives in Cam-
bridge, with his wife, Anne Ber-
nays, the novelist, and their
three daughters. He is now work-
ing on a biography of Lincoln
Steffens.
"Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain"
has so many qualities that it would
be difficult to select any that stand
out above the others. All are a
combination of excellent writing
and good judgement in the selec-
tion of biographical material. The
title of the book is perhaps best
defined in this paragraph describ-
ing the welcome he received upon
his return to this country after his
European domicile:
"His life had become history and
biography, legend and stereotype,
expressing the values and achieve-
ments of his country and his cen-
tury. He had become a hero of the
American experience, and when
he came home in 1900 he was
given a hero's welcome and led a
hero's public life. Meanwhile, im-
patiently living out in London his
last year. of 'this everlasting exile,'
Clemens looked back on history,
and against the perspective of
time his bitterness faded momen-
tarily and he, remembered only the
fulfillments. 'The 20th century is
a stranger to me,' he wrote in his
notebook. 'I wish it well, but my
heart is all for my own century.
I took 65 years of it, just on a risk,
but if I had known as much about
it as I know now I would have
taken the whole of it.' "
His business ventures, his
bankruptcy, the return to pros-
perity, the glory he received in
getting an Oxford honorary
degree, his printing investments,
his habits—as a heavy smoker
especially his love for Olivia
(Livy) comprise many of the
scores of fascinating elements in
a rich life.
There is much about the daugh-
ters, including Clara who married
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, but nothing
except mention about the latter.

Herman Wise Writes
About Gabrilowitsch

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Recollections of the career of
Ossip Gabrilowitsch as director of
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
are incorporated in an article, "I
Remember Gabrilowit•ch," by Her-
man Wise, in the June issue of
DAC News. Wise was the music
editor of the Detroit Free Press
during Gabrilowitsch's entire ca-
reer in Detroit and was intimately
acquainted with the world famous
pianist and conductor. The article
was written on the occasion of the
approaching 30th anniversary of
Gabrilowitsch's death which oc-
curred in September 1936.

An account is given of Clemens'
Holy Land visit. Kaplan records
it in part as follows:
"Faced with the reality of latter-
day Palestine seen through dust
and heat and not through the eyes
of guidebook authors who said
they wept when they entered Jeru-
salem, his drawling, anecdotal re-
porting became laconic, epithetic.
The Arabs, he said, were 'igno-
rant, depraved, superstitious,
dirty, lousy, thieving vagabonds'
who lived in caves, holes and nasty
mud cabins along with lice, fleas,
horses and jackasses amidst a
shabby landscape of rocks and
camel dung. What Palest in e
needed was a coat of paint . . . By

the time he reached Jerusalem his
last vestiges of religious sentiment
were gone—even the most pious
travelers, he noted, had become a
little glassy-eyed—and he became
openly derisive. He shed mock
tears over Adam for missing the
telegraph, the locomotive, the
steamboat, the Paris Exposition,
and even the Flood. Moses took 40
years to lead the children of
Israel from Egypt to the Promised
Land; the overland stage would
have done it in 36 hours. The Jor-
dan was just a creek, the Dead
Sea a fraud, and in comparison
with Lake Tahoe, the sea of Galilee
looked like any ordinary city
reservoir and was just about as
big; still, an Arab boatman, to
take a party sailing on its hallowed
waters, demanded $8 — `Do you
wonder not that Christ walked?'
The man who/is' Bullard (Rev. Bul-
lard of W a y l a n d, Mass.) had
hoped to save now amused him-
self with a fantasy about the boy-
hood of Christ: in front of the
house with the sign 'J. Christ &
Son, Carpenters and Builders':
`Recall Infant Christ's pranks on
his school-mates — striking boys
dead — withering their hands —
burning the dyer's cloth, etc.' By
an ironical twist which delighted
him, the Quaker City became a
refugee ship for pilgrims fleeing
the Holy Land, for it left Jaffa for
Alexandria carrying to its regular
passengers 40 peculiar waifs, part
of a band of 160 Maine farmers
who had been led to Palestine by
a man named Adams to await the
Second Advent. Prophet Adams,
Clemens said, had been drunk
since September 1866; the crops
they raised all went for taxes; and
as for the rumor that they prac-
ticed free love, it was probably
baseless, Clemens declared after
looking at the ladies—opportunity
perhaps, but no incentive. His own
goodbye to the Holy Land, that
howling wilderness instead of a
garden, was a savage joke: 'No
Second Advent—Christ been here
once, will never come again.' "
This was written in the mid-
1860s.
His friendships and enmities
are part of the enchanting story
of a rich life. And the descrip-
tion of the progress made in the
printing industry will delight
and prove informative.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens took
a deep interest in the Dreyfus
case. As reported in the Kaplan
biography:
"In Vienna at the end of 1897
he planned a book about the Drey-
fus Affair. As he told Chatto and
Windus (publishers), the book
would show 'the French backside'
as well as justice triumphant (he
expected Dreyfus to be -vindicated
momentarily). As an offshoot of
his interest in the Dreyfus Affair
he wrote an admiring article on
the Jews—`a marvelous race,' he
told Twichell (Rev. Joseph), 'by
long odds the most marvelous that
the world has produced, I suppose.'
When (Emile) Zola published
`J'accuse' in January 1898, Clem-
ens was quoted in the American
press as declaring, 'Such cowards,
hyprocrites and flatterers as the
members of military and ecclesias-
tic courts the world could produce
by the million every year. But it
takes five centuries to produce a
Joan of Arc or a Zola.' On Sept.
19, 1899, Dreyfus was released
from prison, pardoned but still not
vindicated. Five days later, at the
suggestion of Frauvon Kopf, Clem-
ens asked Chatto, who was to use
Zola as an intermediary if neces-
sary, to pass along a constructive
suggestion: to 'get Madame Drey-
fus to consider the idea of entrust-
ing to Mr. (Heinrick) Kellgren
the restoration of Captain Dreyfus'
health, and Clemens enclosed an
elaborate letter of testimonial to
go to her in the south of France."
(Kellgren was among those who
converted Clemens to osteopathy).
Kaplan's biography contains
many of Clemens' definitions on a
multitude of matters. There are
many anecdotes.
(Sample: "At a dinner party
in 1960 he remarked about the

seen, meant 'safe water.' For him
the two words had a glorious ring.
They soon became known to chil-
dren and adults all over the
world."
Mark Twain the printer, the
editor, the humorist, the author of
stories of great charm—the man of
the Mississippi — that's the story
told by Kane. It's a remarkal-'
fine tale and it is part of the 6
firming folklore that makes Samt.
Clemens-Mark Twain one of the
greatest heroes in American
history.
P. S.

estrangement between (Presi-
dent) Taft and Theodore Roose-
velt, 'I thought Taft was Roose-
velt's miscarriage preserved in
alcohol'.").
There is no doubt that Justin
Kaplan's "Mr. Clemens and Mark
Twain" will prove a great attrac-
tion and a noteworthy addition to
biographical literature. The sub-
ject is ideal for fascination, the
biographer skillfully took advan-
tage of the remarkable character
he delineated remarkably well.

* * *

Mark Twain's Story
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If all the women and children
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