Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-24

DRAM A AND N OV E l.
A Return to Promoter Rewards Is the
Need of the Dny-Rosh Hash
Omah Observed.

in the past several years assembled
in the Temple yesterdas morning for
the annual New Year OF Rosh Hash
onah services, conducted by Dr., Eph-
RAIN Frisch. The impressive ritual
was enhanced by a fire rendition OF
the traditional music OF she able Tenn
pie choir.
The stores of Jewish business men
We're generally closed during the day
No few non-Jews we've present at the
services,
The subject OF Dr.. t'risch's sermon
was "The Eternal Realities. He call
ed attention to many disintegrating
elements in the Life OF today which
are making 5nroads on Our most
cherished ideals and institutions I'M
der the guise of legitimate agencies.
The theater, he said which generally
considered is useful fol ce for educa-
ton and amusement, is exhibiting in
ertain of it's phases a daring affront-
cry in dealing with morals. Sensuous-
ness and grossness are displayed by
it and the pity Of the sitnat on is that
we have learned to tolerate these and
even to like them.
"ln the realm of literature, said
the minister, Especially in the case
of the novel, insidious attacks are be-
ing made against our most scared re-
lations Novels like David Graham
Phillips THE Hungry Heart" advise
women who are ROT happily mated to
be faithless to tbeir husband Adult
cry is openly encouraged and. of
course, divorce is easily tolerated. Lii
the region Of art, under the cloak Of
esrec ally by the = laas2 school, so
mech SO that t!,t annual exhibits a,
tire salons and even Our respected
art museums embarrass the specta
tor. Tie City. with It's iegalized sec
tons where vice prevails, also acts as
a deTnolarizin.. i1rce il present day
life. And lastly, the moneyfrenZy
leads many men into shady transact
ions and skillful evasions not alone OF
bad laws, but even of the best laws.
.'These disintegrating factors con-
tinued the speaker "haye wrought ha-
voc with our richest virtues and bas-
ic institutions. Adultery and divorce
are on the alarming increase, a condi-
ton to which our own city has not
been stranger. The very yitals of fam
and integrity are on the verge of col
lapse. o. couIsc, this Generalization
is rampant only among the small ma
iority. The masses remain at heart
sound. But let it not be thought that
the public at large is unaffected. See
ing these wreGg-doars rewarded by
scccess and popularity the people at
Large are beginn ng to lose faith in
The old virtues and rewards.
Here the speaker charged the pub
lie not to lose confidence in the old
standards The popularity and the
success of the evil-doing minority, he
said, We're but glittering and moment
ary satisfactiOns. They have no per.
manent value because they are MOI
in consonance. with the Laws of God
which are the only abiding realities.
To bring back the reign OF the eter'
nal realities Rabbi Frisch ma .ntain-
ed that there would have to be. .
change of emphasi on what constl-
tute the valaaes of lie. Instead o.
immediate reward the school, the
church, the press, the home and the
otter educational agencies wild have
to stress the remote rewards. In the
place of material, payable prizes they
VIII have TO point out the greater i'm
pontance OF the intangible. spiritual
faI-aWay rewards.
Now this emphasis, ne continued
is distinctly Hebraic as opposed to
the Pagan emphasis given vogue by
the Greeks and Romans. The Hebraie
point OF view is superior because it is
concerned with t inner. whereas the
Pagan lauds the external. the form
, the bodily"